As highlighted in my preview, the final six winners of the RSM Classic have been aged at 30 or beneath and 10 of the final 13 winners have been profitable for the primary time on the PGA Tour.
My first three picks tick each these containers.
Nearly all of winners right here are usually off form, however I am not satisfied in search of alternatives which are enjoying poorly is a sensible technique so all 4 of my alternatives have proven one thing not too long ago, though my first decide, Andrew Novak, hasn’t performed for 3 months.
After a improbable season, the 30-year-old St. Simons resident has had a well-deserved relaxation after he bought all the way in which to the Tour Championship at East Lake again in August.
His 12 months consists of victory within the Zurich Traditional pairs occasion, alongside the current World Vast Expertise Championship winner, Ben Griffin, and that was preceded by a 3rd within the Texas Open and a playoff defeat to Justin Thomas within the RBC Heritage at close by Hilton Head.
He began the 12 months with a third-place end within the Farmers Insurance coverage Open and this time final 12 months he completed runner-up on the Bermuda Championship, so uncovered coastal tracks seem to go well with him very properly.
His 13th within the Scottish Open and his sixth within the St Jude Championship are additionally notable performances.
Technically, he is already a PGA Tour winner after his success within the Zurich pairs however he can draw inspiration from his enjoying companion Griffin, who has gone on to win his first two particular person titles after their victory in April.
Novak has solely odd occasion kind figures that learn MC-26-MC-73-35-25, however he sat third after spherical one final 12 months, seven days after ending second in Bermuda, and he seems to be effectively price chancing at a triple determine value.
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From a present kind perspective, my second choice, Chandler Phillips, demonstrated his wellbeing as not too long ago as final week.
Sitting at 139th within the FedEx Cup Standings, the 28-year-old Texan wanted one thing particular to avoid wasting his card and he produced that final week, climbing as much as 92nd within the rankings with a solo second behind Adam Schenk within the Bermuda Championship.
With the highest 100 sustaining their PGA Tour enjoying privileges, Phillips now seems to be secure, no matter how he performs on this, however there’s each motive to imagine he can again up final week’s efforts and contend once more.
Taking part in with out the stress of making an attempt to maintain his card needs to be large plus, as is the truth that he completed 11th right here on debuts 12 months in the past.
Again Chandler Phillips (3Us)
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Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg gained his first PGA Tour title right here two years in the past and my third choice this week is one other massively promising European with a current victory within the bag – the 25-year-old Belgian, Adrien Dumont De Chassart.
Aberg had gained the Omega European Masters on the DP World Tour two months earlier than he gained right here, and Dumont De Chassart arrives having hacked up by seven strokes on the Korn Ferry Tour a month in the past.
His record-setting victory on the Compliance Options Championship, the place his profitable rating of 33-under 251 marked the bottom 72-hole rating relative to par in Korn Ferry Tour historical past, in addition to the 11-under 59 he posted on the Wichita Open in June, demonstrates his capacity to go super-low and he performed effectively on this occasion 12 months in the past on debut too.
Per week after ending third within the Bermuda Championship, Dumont De Chassart posted opening rounds of 64 and 68 to take a seat sixth at midway earlier than weekend knocks of 71 and 68 noticed him finish the week alongside my first choice, Novak, in a tie for twenty fifth.
Dumont De Chassart was solely 18th on the Korn Ferry Tour Championship final day out however that was only one week after his victory within the Compliance Options and he’d sat 53rd after a 75 in spherical one.
Together with his PGA Tour card secured after an important 12 months on the Korn Ferry Tour, he can chill out and revel in his second look right here.
That might be in stark distinction to final 12 months’s go to given he started the week in 142nd place within the FedEx Cup Standings, requiring a win to maintain his card.
Again Adrien Dumont De Chassart (3Us)
Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1
As already talked about, the youthful gamers and maidens are inclined to shine right here these days however I could not resist a small wager on the 43-year-old Colombian, Camilo Villegas, who has completed sixth and second right here beforehand.
Following his victory within the Bermuda Championship in 2023, his fifth on the PGA Tour, when a column choice at 160.0159/1, Villegas has been within the wilderness once more for a few years, however he caught the attention final week when completed inside the highest 10 in Bermuda.
After rounds of 71, 70 and 68, Villegas posted 67 on Sunday, the bottom spherical of the day, and he seems to be price chancing now he is proven one thing.
Villegas telegraphed his wellbeing with a second positioned end in Mexico the week earlier than his victory in Bermuda two years in the past and that wasn’t the primary time he’d gained after producing some much-improved kind.
He gained the BMW Championship and the Tour Championship back-to-back in 2008 after ending third within the Deutsche Financial institution Championship and he gained the Cognizant Traditional in 2010 after ending ninth within the Qatar Masters and third on the World Matchplay.
Again Camilo Villegas (1U)
Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1
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