Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – RBC Heritage

The 2019 RBC Heritage Fantasy Sleeper Report

What more can be written about Tiger Woods that hasn’t already been declared in the past 24 hours?

He’s on the back page of the newspapers for all the right reasons again, and just four weeks shy of the PGA Championship at Bethpage Black – where he’s won before – the Big Cat might be eyeing that sixteenth major that would put him two shy of Jack Nicklaus.

Tiger will be putting his feet up this week, but many of his Augusta combatants will take to the tee at the Harbour Town Links on South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island for this week’s RBC Heritage.

C.T. Pan of Taiwan hits a shot from the sand on the 13th hole during…

C.T. Pan of Taiwan hits a shot from the sand on the 13th hole during the final round of the 2018 RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on April 15, 2018 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

Assuming there aren’t any withdrawals later in the week, the likes of Dustin Johnson, Xander Schauffele and Matt Kuchar will also be in town. And, perhaps most surprisingly, will be Francesco Molinari, who is surely feeling a bit down in the dumps following his Masters meltdown.

With the Zurich Classic filling the schedules next week, it would be easy for those players to take this week off and enjoy an extended vacation ahead of the hectic summer months. So, don’t be surprised if there are some below-par performances or even early WDs from the big guns in South Carolina.

That’s why we’ve picked a roster of sleepers who are motivated to succeed in some way, and they will need to be at their best to tackle this Pete Dye assignment.

Harbour Town is located on the coast, and the wind can get pretty hairy in these parts as it blows in from the Atlantic. No problem, you might think, but you’ve not seen how small these Bermuda greens are; a Dye trademark.

It makes approach play a bit of a nightmare, and judging by the weather this week it could be a real grind. Again, keep a look out for the big guns who don’t fancy the job.

There’s minimal trouble off the tee, but you want to be approaching these greens from the fairway ideally. So it’s accurate driving, precision approached or comfortability scrambling/chipping around the greens, and finally a sure hand with the putter always helps when the wind is up.

With all of this in mind, who makes our sleeper roster for the RBC Heritage?

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RBC Heritage Fantasy Sleeper Report

Charles Howell III – Vegas Odds 50/1 – We nominated the RSM Classic as a potential correlating event to the RBC Heritage, and so by that token we must back the champion there who remains in form some months later.

We’re happy to ignore Masters form for the most part too, but Charles Howell III fired two rounds in the 60s there and that adds further fuel to the fire that he can go well this week.

Check out CHIII’s form since winning the RSM Classic: nine strokeplay events played, no cuts missed, two top-10s, four top-20s and no finish worse than T35.

But can he win, that’s the big question!? Look, Chucky is a hard player to get over the line, we know that, but to get a classy operator like this at odds of 50/1 at a layout that suits means we have to give him a whirl.

Sungjae Im – Vegas Odds 50/1 – This talented young Korean appears to be closing in on his maiden PGA TOUR title, and a layout like Harbour Town might just be the likely destination for it.

Raised on the Nine Bridges course on Jeju Island, Im will be comfortable on tight coastal tracks, and he has shown a real comfort in the wind and on Bermuda in his debut season on the Tour.

He’s another player who would like to gatecrash the majors or qualify for the FedEx Cup play-offs, so there will be no foot off the gas from this star in the making: just more top quality golf and, hopefully, a first PGA TOUR win to go with his pair of victories on the Web.com Tour last season.

Russell Knox – Vegas Odds 55/1 – As a renowned fan of Pete Dye layouts, Russell Knox is on the shortlist this week.

He won the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands, one of Dye’s famous layouts, and his record here – 11-2-18-9 within his last five visits – confirms the Scot is comfortable at Harbour Town too.

Strong winds won’t concern a former Irish Open champion and French Open runner up, and the timeline of Knox’s highest grossing performances is like a who’s who of resort-based, Par 70/71 golf.

There have been little flourishes of form lately (T14 at Pebble Beach, T24 at Valspar) and you wonder if something more substantial is just around the corner for a man who would have been watching the Masters enviously from home.

Luke Donald – Vegas Odds 60/1 – If you have each way betting in your state, did you know that you would have cashed in seven of Luke Donald’s last ten visits to Harbour Town Links?

It’s an incredible record, and proof positive that, here at least, course form does count for plenty.

There is the theory that you can flog a dead horse, but Donald showed plenty of signs of life at the Valspar Championship where his short game in particular looked top draw.

A missed cut at the Texas Open will put some off, but the Englishman as always likely to be outmuscled there, and a return to more refined fare this week gives hope that Donald’s renaissance can continue.

Patton Kizzire – Vegas Odds 80/1 – There were three rounds under par from Patton Kizzire at Augusta, and that hints heavily that he’s found something in his game at last.

That’s interesting, because the RBC Heritage is a tournament that’s definitely in his crosshairs.

He’s a former winner of the Sony Open and OHL Classic after all, which are both played at tight, fiddly layouts often battered by high winds, and having set up home in Georgia he should feel at home this week.

One swallow doesn’t make a summer, so maybe we shouldn’t read too much into his Augusta renaissance, but he is after all a more prolific winner than many above him in the betting.

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Sleeper Report Predictions This Season (2018-2019)

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