Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2025 Butterfield Bermuda Championship

Butterfield Bermuda Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

With a final round of 63, to cap a tournament record low score of -29, it’s fair to say that Ben Griffin timed his run to the World Wide Technology Championship title to perfection.

The Ryder Cup sprinkled a little stardust on the tournament, alongside Team U.S.A. colleague J.J. Spaun, and will return home from Mexico with a third PGA TOUR title for 2025 – equalling a record of the likes of Scottie Scheffler and David Duval, who won their first three PGA TOUR trophies in the space of a year.

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Griffin needed something of a helping hand from the likes of Carson Young and Garrick Higgo, who made mistakes in low scoring conditions on Sunday, but even so ten birdies in a round is elite – a switch to the TaylorMade Spider Tour X mallet putter seemingly making all the difference as he rolled home some long range looks.

He will go and put his feet up now before getting married next month. It’s a nice time to be Ben Griffin.

Maybe it’s not such a nice time to be a player in and around the 100 bubble in the FedEx standings. Finish inside the 100 and playing privileges are secured for 2026. Finish outside, and with no exemptions, the future looks rather less cheery.

So it’s a battle to stay afloat on the PGA TOUR at the Bermuda Championship, the penultimate FedEx Fall series event, and it may just be a battle to stay upright given the beastly weather forecast.

It may not come to pass, but the early predictions are suggesting that 27mph winds could buffet the Royal Port Golf Club over the weekend… could look compiling a winning score in that.

Maybe the changeable weather in Bermuda has contributed to the shock wins here over the years, as Lucas Herbert’s sole PGA TOUR triumph in 2021 has since been followed by Camilo Villegas’ surprise victory in 2023, plus Rafael Campos’ win here 12 months ago as a 300/1 no hoper.

In truth, the Puerto Rican mastered the conditions at Royal Port better than anyone, and he summed up why this tournament is so important: beyond PGA TOUR card survival, there’s also a two-year winners’ exemption and an invitation to The Masters up for grabs.

So, in its own way, the Bermuda Championship can transform careers, so it will be fascinating to see who prevails this week in the harshest of conditions.

It’s a weak field event, with only two players – Michael Brennan and Sam Stevens – from inside the world’s top 50. Generally, this is a field made up of players desperate for an invite to some Signature Events next year… or to keep their PGA TOUR careers alive.

Subsequently, it feels wide open. Could we have another long odds winner like Campos this week? Here’s five options that could get over the line in our 2025 Bermuda Championship sleeper shortlist: 

Takumi Kanaya – 50/1 – Without wanting to overplay it, the weather conditions suggest this could be one of these weeks in which hitting fairways and scrambling well, keeping bogey and worse off the card, will be key.

Which brings to mind Takumi Kanaya, who excels in both of those departments, and who has a tremendous performance ceiling.

The Japanese ace headed home in September and won a tour event in his homeland, while on the PGA TOUR some mediocrity has been supported by finishes of T4, T5, and T7 in the Baycurrent Classic, Byron Nelson, and 3M Open.

So, while he’s an inconsistent sort, Kanaya does have that ability to pop with big performances… hopefully he’ll be well placed to cope with the wind this week.

Carson Young – 66/1 – Young looked every inch the potential winner of the WWT Championship last week, just running out of gas on the back nine on Sunday.

An accurate type that’s comfortable in the breeze, Young should feel at home in Bermuda. Much of his best work has come outside of America, with Mexico and Panama serving Young particularly well, so a trip to Bermuda will be of no concern.

T19 at the RBC Heritage in 2023 was instructive of Young’s ability to thrive in windy coastal conditions. He finished tied with Tyrrell Hatton – another noted wind player – there, and just one shot adrift of Tommy Fleetwood and Jon Rahm.

Any repeat of that performance level this week, in such poor company, and Young can go close again. 

Jackson Suber – 70/1 – It’s been a strange rookie season from Jackson Suber.

At times, he’s look elite with iron and wedge in hand, and elite while yielding the flatstick too. But he hasn’t always brought those two elements together in the same week – T6 at the Sont Open and Rocket Classic the rare examples.

But Suber is heating up nicely again, with T11 at the WWT Championship last week following T15 at the Bank of Utah. Having shot 63 on Sunday, tying with Griffin for the day’s low round, he heads to Bermuda full of confidence.

Ryo Hisatsune – 90/1 – With four PGA TOUR top-ten finishes this season, Ryo Hisatsune has a high-performance ceiling that could well be rewarded in weak company this week.

Amongst those turns, the Japanese player finished T4 at the Valspar Championship and T5 at the Texas Open, which suggests he is more than comfortable in a breeze.

That notion is backed up the fact that he won the 2023 Open de France at the exposed Le Golf National, beating noted Links purveyors like Tom Kim and Billy Horschel along the way.

Jeremy Paul – 120/1 – A player’s can be defined by simply heading to an event when the timing is right.

Jeremy Paul may just benefit from that logic, as the former winner by the coast in the Bahamas, who delivered his seasonal best at the correlating Corales Puntacana (T2) in April, heads to Bermuda this week.

Solo sixteenth at the WWT Championship last week, where he hit 96.4% of fairways and 87.5% of GIR, suggests Paul’s game is in fine working order. And he will surely feel that he can contend again in conditions he favors against such low-grade opposition.

Want more of this week’s fantasy predictions? Check out our full fantasy preview for the Butterfield Bermuda Championship here.

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