![]() ![]() Make sure whoever you’re starting for DFS or betting has a solid enough all-around game to take advantage of the gains they’re making tee to green.Ģ023 Outlook: As of writing, there are winds expected to reach over 20 mph on Friday, with gusts building as the day progresses. We’ve had some long-shot winners at Copperhead before (Burns was 80-1 in 2021) but no one that outlandish in terms of overall talent. Great long iron play is essential, and a credible off-the-tee game is a must, but as Sam Burns has proven the last two seasons, the winners at Valspar need to be well-rounded and capable of either excelling around the greens or with the putter. With water prevalent and placement being such a big factor, there is little doubt we need a player capable of a great all-around effort on the stat sheet. This almost always means more missed greens in regulation than normal as well, and we often see GIR% at this event trend 5-10% lower than the PGA TOUR average. Long iron approaches this week will be plentiful, with the two most popular approach baskets being between 175-200 yards and 200+ yards. The course itself isn’t brutally long, but it does play longer than its yardage due to both the doglegs and thicker rough. ![]() Placement off the tee on the par 5s and longer Par 4s is crucial as the parkland setting has several doglegs built into the course design, which means that getting too wild off the tee will force layups and take away birdie chances. Birdies can be had on the par 5s, but the majority of them are anything but pushovers and require three good shots to even sniff a birdie putt. Scoring conditions have softened a touch over the past two seasons, and we’ve seen players start to figure out these new Bermuda greens (mainly Sam Burns).Ĭopperhead is unique in that it’s a par 71 but features five (yes, five) par 3s and four par 5s. Three of the last eight years have featured winning scores in the single-digit range, and in 2019 it played as the sixth-toughest course on TOUR, with a scoring average of 71.968. While the design of the course didn’t change much (if at all), the changes seemingly toughened up an already hard track. The other thing to note this week is that the course underwent huge renovations of greens, fairways and some bunkers after 2015. It underwent a date change in 2007, and this venue has tended to play tougher since then hence looking at course history before 2007 isn’t super useful. The Course Copperhead Course, Innisbrook Golf Resort-Palm Harbour, FloridaĬopperhead has hosted this event since its inception in 2000. Set your DraftKings fantasy golf lineups here: PGA TOUR $1M Pitch + Putt ![]() Like most regular PGA stops, the cut will take place after Friday’s round, and the top-65 and ties will play the weekend. Some young players in the field to keep an eye on include Ahskay Bhatia, Cole Hammer and top amateur Ludvig Averg, who had a solid T24 showing in his first PGA start of 2023, finishing T24. The field maxes out at 144 players this week, and there could certainly be some more withdraws as the week goes on. Justin Thomas and 2015 Valspar winner Jordan Spieth are both in the field-as of writing-and there are currently nine of the world’s top 50 golfers set to tee things up this week. The placement on the schedule (after two big events in a row) means that we don’t have a ton of elite players in the field, but with Augusta on the horizon, some have decided to use this as one of their final warmup events. The Copperhead Course is one of the best venues on the schedule as it offers the players a fair but tough test with plenty of longer par 3s and winding par 5s that ensure the scoring never gets too out of hand. The Valspar Championship remains one of the more underrated stops on the PGA TOUR. The Cheat Sheet provides DraftKings fantasy golf players with course info, player history and the most noteworthy trends of the week to help them with their roster selections. ![]()
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