PGA DFS GPP Breakdown: Truist Championship
Long-time grinder, stlcardinals84, breaks down his top PGA DFS picks in various price ranges for this week’s tournament. Which golfers should you be targeting to try and take down the big DFS tournaments? Find out below!
Howdy, PGA DFS grinders! Another week brings us another event in the golf world, and this might as well be a brand new tournament. The old “Wells Fargo Championship” at Quail Hollow has changed courses and sponsors this season.
Quail Hollow will eventually return to be the host of this spot on the calendar, but the tournament is moving to Philadelphia this year as Quail Hollow prepares to host next week’s 2025 PGA Championship. Truist is now the title sponsor, so instead of the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow, we have the Truist Championship at some place none of us have heard about before this week.
Despite the changes, this spot on the calendar marks the return of the “elevated” events that brings with it a very strong field of golfers and big money to the top finishers. It is a bit strange to have an elevated event the week before a major, but that is what we have here, as 72 golfers will compete for a share of $20,000,000 in prize money. Hopefully, we can win some big money in DFS as well!
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You can completely disregard any past history at this event with Quail Hollow being out of the mix this year. In fact, we will get the first PGA TOUR event ever to be held in Philadelphia. The Wissahickon Course at The Philadelphia Cricket Club will be the host this year, and that’s far too much verbiage for me to repeat within the article. I’ll just call it “Wissahickon” moving forward.
We do not have a lot of data on this course that was renovated less than a decade ago. It did host a Champions Tour event a few years back, and not a single golfer finished the week under par. That is just one data point, but it serves the purpose to show us that it will likely not be a birdie fest despite being a shorter par 70 track. There are almost 120 bunkers on the course, the greens are going to run fast, and the greens are also very small and slopey. I am not sure if “slopey” is an acceptable word, but I am going to keep it in here. You guys know what it means, and the editors better not remove it. The greens are slopey.
Maybe it’s slopy? I’m second guessing myself. That’s what I get for threatening the editors.
In any case, this will be a tough course with its small, slop(e)y greens. Emphasis will certainly be placed on tee to green play here, with accuracy seeming to be of primary importance over distance off the tee. I will give par 4 scoring a boost on a layout with 12 par 4 holes, and scrambling will also likely come into play quite a bit given the nature of the greens. I’m excited to see what Wissahickon brings for a winning score for the best golfers on the PGA TOUR.
Let’s dive in to find some GPP gems for this week!
PGA DFS Picks: DraftKings GPP Breakdown for the Truist Championship
Rory McIlroy
DraftKings: $12,000
FanDuel: $13,000
Many DFS players might have a first thought to avoid McIlroy because of a “Masters hangover” for the green jacket winner. However, it has now been almost a month since that win, and McIlroy has already played in an event since then, teaming up with Shane Lowry in New Orleans for the team event a few weeks ago. He then took a week off and should be ready to go for a signature event. His tee to green game is right there with Scottie Scheffler (and perhaps you could even argue better than Scheffler prior to Scheffler’s dominant win last week), and McIlroy will surely be a quick learner on a new course. A no cut event is more amenable to stars and scrubs builds, and McIlroy is not as expensive as Scheffler was last week. Don’t overthink it; he’s the favorite for a reason.
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