PGA DFS Core Plays: RBC Canadian Open
Top-ranked DFS player, Notorious, breaks down his favorite PGA DFS picks at various price ranges on DraftKings and FanDuel for the RBC Canadian Open. Whom should you be building your lineups around? Find out below!
The Memorial Tournament never seems to disappoint, and occasionally, we get a random winner. J.T. Poston joins the likes of David Lingmerth and William McGirt as super long-shot winners at Muirfield Village. My week could have been a lot better had Jordan Spieth not imploded on Friday, but sometimes the breaks don’t go your way.
It’s hard to believe, but the U.S. Open is next week. Many golfers spent their Monday at the U.S. Open qualifiers, trying to punch their ticket to the third major of the year. Some of them are in the field this week at the RBC Canadian Open, so it will be interesting to see if fatigue sets in.
Editor’s Note: For more tournament notes, recent form, and course notes for the RBC Canadian Open, check out this week’s PGA DFS First Look.
We have a full field teeing it up this week at TPC Toronto. This event has historically changed venues each year, but golfers will play the North Course at TPC Toronto for the second straight year. This is a par 70 that measures 7,369 yards. This is certainly a long par 70 by PGA TOUR standards, but it didn’t play difficult in 2025. Ryan Fox won with a score of -18, and 35 golfers in total finished with a score of -10 or better. I will note that this week’s forecast calls for heavy wind, so the course could play more difficult than it did last year.
We don’t see many driver-heavy par-70 courses on TOUR, but golfers hit driver on 81% of their non-par 3 tee shots here last year, which is well above the TOUR average. The fairways here are wide (35-37 yards), and while the course only has two par 5s, there are still plenty of long holes on the property. Good drivers of the ball will certainly have an advantage this week. That’s not to say that this is a bomber’s course though, as accuracy is still important. The Greens in Regulation rate was 30% higher from the fairway than it was from the rough last year.
The greens at TPC Toronto are average in size (6,500 square feet) and feature a mix of bentgrass and poa annua. They were fairly easy to hit last year (72%), but the wind in the forecast could make them tougher to hit in this year’s edition of the event. If that’s the case, scrambling will become more important. The scrambling success rate here was fairly low in 2025, so targeting good scramblers could be an interesting angle to take. Ultimately, I’m looking for strong tee-to-green golfers. With only one year of course history, I’m not factoring that into my model this week.
Top PGA DFS Picks on DraftKings & FanDuel for the RBC Canadian Open
Core Plays
Sam Burns
Noto Rating: 4 / Cash Rating: 5 / GPP Rating: 4
DraftKings: $10,100 / pOWN%: 16%
FanDuel: $11,700 / pOWN%: 18%
Event History L5 Years: 2, 10, MC, 4
Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee: 35
Strokes Gained: Approach: 26
Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green: 63
Strokes Gained: Putting: 1
I’m usually on Team Tommy or Team Fitzy, but I actually like Burns as my favorite golfer this week. He’s been in contention several times this year and is one good Sunday away from claiming another win on TOUR. He’s been the best putter in the world for quite some time now, and he’s become a more consistent ball striker this season. He has routinely gained strokes off the tee, and he has gotten better with his approach play in each time frame (over the last 12 months, 6 months, and 3 months). I’m not putting much stock into course history this week, but it certainly doesn’t hurt that he finished runner-up at this course last year.
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