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PGA DraftKings and FanDuel DFS Primer: RBC Heritage (2023)

PGA DraftKings and FanDuel DFS Primer: RBC Heritage (2023)

After watching Jon Rahm win his first Green Jacket at The Masters this past weekend, the PGA Tour will head eastward to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina at the newly designated RBC Heritage event. Harbour Town Golf Links has been a consistent stop on the Tour for decades, however, it is new to being a designated event, which draws more top players due to more FedExCup points and a bigger purse. Designed by legendary golf architect, Pete Dye, with assistance from golfing icon, Jack Nicklaus, Harbour Town has been a frequent destination for golfers and vacationers alike over the decades.

Last year at the RBC Heritage, Jordan Spieth won a playoff matchup over Patrick Cantlay, which required a -13-under-par effort to reach the winning podium. Both players are exceptional with their irons, which is emphasized at a course like Harbour Town, where the greens are some of the smallest on the PGA Tour. Narrow fairways are flanked by rows of trees, elongated and circular sand bunkers abound, and several water hazards tend to pop up, particularly on the four par 3 holes. Putting takes a back seat at this event, especially when comparing the Bermudagrass surfaces at Harbour Town to the slick Bentgrass at Augusta National. Despite donning his first Green Jacket and mounting a comeback over Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm enters RBC Heritage as a co-betting favorite at +850 alongside Scottie Scheffler. Few pieces of his game can be scrutinized, so he should fare well here, despite recording a T33 finish in his only previous appearance.

My recommended DFS plays last week had mixed results. Xander Schauffele logged a T10 finish, Justin Rose finished T16, while Cameron Smith (T34) and Jason Day (T39) fell outside of T25 finishes with disappointing performances across the final two rounds. Corey Conners, fresh off of his second career outright win at Valero, missed the cut, while the outright betting favorite, Rory McIlroy, joined him with a final scorecard of +5.

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