Fantasy Golf Picks, Odds, and Predictions – 2025 Procore Championship

Fantasy Golf Picks, Odds, and Predictions for the 2025 Procore Championship

2025 Procore Championship Fantasy Preview

Seven FedEx Cup Fall events now separate the also-rans of the PGA TOUR from opportunity or disaster – play well, and invites to Signature Events next year could be earned.

Play badly, and it’s off to the Korn Ferry Tour you go.

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It’s easy to forget the guys that finished below 50 in the FedEx Cup standings, especially those without the protection of career wins – these are the players that rarely capture the headlines or move the needle.

But there can be some fascinating stories that unfold in this remaining passage of the season. Last year, J.J. Spaun was barely in the top 100 at this point… now, he’s a major champion set to make his Ryder Cup debut. Golf is a sport governed by the smallest of margins at its elite end.

Elite is a word that can be used to describe this first FedEx Cup Fall event, the Procore Championship. It isn’t normally associated with such a phrase, it should be said, but the vast majority of Team America’s Ryder Cup team will use the tournament as a tune up for the biennial blockbuster happening later this month.

So it’s away we go with Scottie and co in Napa.

Last Week’s Fantasy Results

The PGA TOUR has been on hiatus since the TOUR Championship, so no event took place last week, but happily we’re back in action this week as the FedEx Cup Fall season kicks off with the Procore Championship.

The 2025 Procore Championship Field

It might be fair to describe the Procore Championship field as ‘unusual’: world number one Scottie Scheffler set to rub shoulders with world number 941, Harrison Endycott.

There’s eleven players from within the top 25 of the OWGR – and ten of them are part of America’s Ryder Cup team. Scottie will be joined by Russell Henley, Justin Thomas, J.J. Spaun, Collin Morikawa, Harris English, Ben Griffin, Cam Young, Patrick Cantlay, and Sam Burns in Napa.

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World number 19 Maverick McNealy is also in town, as are the likes of Akshay Bhatia and Max Greyserman. They don’t have to play, given their FedEx Cup Cup performances, but want to – perhaps that is telling about their motivation levels.

There’s a deep well of talent in this field, which suggests that reigning champion Patton Kizzire – who will look to defend his title here – will have his work cut out.

This Week’s Course Preview

The home of world-leading wines, Napa also plays host to some stellar golf courses too.

The North Course at Silverado Country Club is up there with the best of them. It’s a short Par 72 that’s been around on the PGA TOUR since 1968; the location, and Johnny Miller’s design, keeping the players coming back for more for the best part of six decades.

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Winning scores here have ranged from -14 to -21 over the past decade or so, which perhaps helps to explain the variable nature of the North Course as a challenge – we’re in California, on Poa Annua greens, and so the conditions will largely dictate the scoring… although, of course, we have a stronger field for the Procore Championship than normal in 2025.

In many ways, this is the standard Par 72 track, where the four Par 5s are by far and away the easiest holes on the course – the 538-yard fifth saw almost as many eagles as bogeys last year.

The fairways are on the thin side and tough to hold, but that doesn’t seem to matter given how agreeable the rough is – Patton Kizzire continued a long trend of Procore winners who had low Driving Accuracy numbers but a high GIR count when triumphing here in 2024.

You would categorize the North Course as ‘easy’, although there’s holes on which the players must mind their work. The ninth is a tough Par 4 with a challenging drive and green complex; 37 birdies in 2024, compared to 110 bogeys or worse, telling the tale.

The trio of Par 3s at two, seven, and eleven also averaged over par last year, so hitting good approaches in the 175-225 range will be key to keeping bogey off the card there.

And don’t turn off the TV coverage until the very end. The eighteenth hole is a risk-and-reward Par 5 measuring 575 yards… will the leader, or their challengers, take on the green in two?

Weather Forecast for Napa, CA

A freaky weather forecast might have been enough to leave the Ryder Cup participants questioning the sensibility of their choice to tee it up in Napa.

But, as it stands, things look set fair for the week ahead.

There’s the possibility of a few spots of rain on Wednesday, but for the tournament itself we’re expecting a mix of sunshine and cloud, with temperatures in the range of 75-80 degrees.

And the wind doesn’t look as though it will be particularly ferocious, with predictions of 8-12mph in the offing.

NAPA WEATHER

Last Years Results

For many players in the Procore Championship field, it has been weeks since they played a competitive round.

There could be ring rust then, but the break can be a fantastic time to iron out any flaws in their game.

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You sense that’s what happened to Patton Kizzire, who didn’t even qualify for the FedEx Cup play-offs in 2024 after missing cuts at four of the last seven events of the regular season.

But he bounded back to form, in a big way, at the Procore Championship, where he had asserted control by the halfway stage – leading by one shot after rounds of 65 and 66 – before opening up a four-shot cushion with just a round to play.

Would he show any nerves on Sunday? Not exactly, as Kizzire made par at the opening four holes before dunking an eagle at that easy Par 5 fifth to confirm his advantage.

In the end, he won by five shots – locking up his playing privileges while landing a third PGA TOUR; his first in five-and-a-half years.

Where to Play Fantasy Golf for this Week’s the 2025 Procore Championship

With a full-field event back on the calendar, the Procore Championship offers more opportunity to differentiate lineups than last week’s limited-field shootout. That means sharper roster construction and contest selection can go a long way toward finding an edge.

• PGA TOUR $300k Sand Trap: This flagship contest draws more than 14,000 entries with a total prize pool of $300,000. The top 2,800 lineups make the cut for payouts, and there’s a life-changing $100,000 sitting up top for first place.

This Week’s Fantasy Notes for the 2025 Procore Championship

It really is difficult to pin down a profile of the North Course, where players miss the fairways with remarkable regularity.

But as mentioned, there’s little rough to speak of, so hitting irons and wedges from the longer grass is, ultimately, where the title will be won or lost.

Putting well on Poa Annua is helpful, of course, while reliability around the greens has also been a useful skill.

Some of the tighter driving lines and trees mean that bombers don’t have it all their own way at Silverado, and for every Cameron Champ and Stewart Cink in the winner’s enclosure here, there’s a Ryan Moore, a Kevin Na, and a Brandt Snedeker as runners-up that remind you that length isn’t everything.

For fans of correlating courses, two of the best are Waialae and Sea Island, home of the Sony Open and RSM Classic respectively. Fire up leaderboards from those tournaments side-by-side with the Procore Championship and you’ll see exactly what we mean. 

Top 5 Picks/Odds to Win the 2025 Procore Championship  

Top Tier Pick # 1

J.J. Spaun

There’s a joke amongst golf handicappers, bettors, and DFS gamers that you spend hours analyzing an event to come to the conclusion that Scottie Scheffler will win it.

He may prevail this week, of course, but he doesn’t have any real familiarity with the North Course at Silverado, and is Scottie more vulnerable at layouts where there’s no penalty for missing the fairway?

Indeed, the elite in this Procore Championship field generally make their money via accurate ball-striking, so in conditions where hitting wedges from the rough and making putts on Poa are the key, does the balance of favor swing in the direction of the rest of the field?

Only time will tell, but by selecting J.J. Spaun, we’re getting an elite operator who also has plenty of comfortability on the North Course.

After finishing T9 here in 2020 and T11 in 2023, Spaun entered last year’s edition as a 28/1 chance with the sportsbooks. Since then, he’s won the U.S. Open and lost in a playoff at the PLAYERS Championship, so he returns to Napa better than ever.

Even in last year’s T26 at the Procore Championship, Spaun fired a round of 65, so this is a layout he clearly enjoys.

Key Stats:

• SG: Approach – 7th
• Scoring Average (adjusted) – 7th
• SG: Tee-to-Green – 9th

Top Tier Pick #2

Harris English 

Perhaps one of the factors that will separate the field this week is putting on Poa Greens.

That’s not to everybody’s tastes, as we know, but the margins of finding players that are comfortable on these bumpy, unpredictable surfaces could be key – which is where Harris English comes in.

He boasts a fine record on the surface, with his win at the Farmers Insurance Open earlier this year coming with a +2.00 SG: Putting gain on the field on Poa. His T9 finish at Silverado in 2022 was also bolstered by a positive putting performance.

English will have a spring in his step now he’s made the Ryder Cup team, and it wouldn’t be a surprise if he delivers an elite performance here to go with such a lofty status.

Key Stats:

• Scoring Average (adjusted) – 11th
• SG: Putting – 18th
• Scrambling – 23rd

Mid-Tier Pick #1

Akshay Bhatia

Back in September 2020, Akshay Bhatia was just a teenager when he was invited to play in the Procore Championship.

He had missed the cut in all six of his prior PGA TOUR invitations, but this time he seemingly came from nowhere to finish T9 at Silverado.

So even though he missed the cut here in 2023, there’s a suspicion that this course will suit Bhatia down to the ground: a Californian comfortable on Poa Annua, he also has more than a mere touch of class in the wedge and short iron range.

Even though he was never close to Ryder Cup selection, you fancy, Bhatia made it all the way to the TOUR Championship and finished in the top half of the field – he’s very much knocking on the door of the elite.

Key Stats:

• Birdie Average – 10th
• SG: Approach – 11th
• SG: Putting – 33rd

Mid-Tier Pick #2

David Lipsky

Having finished second here last year, there’s no mystery to David Lipsky’s affinity with the North Course at Silverado.

In fact, having opened up with rounds of 65 and 67 here 12 months ago, he might have expected to be clear at the halfway stage – Kizzire’s early brilliance putting pay to that.

Lipsky comes back to Napa with the converging trend of having finished T3 in two of his last five starts, which came at the 3M Open and John Deere Classic – the latter just one shot behind the leaders.

Blessed with some real quality in the wedge and short iron range, Lipsky will be hoping to replicate his excellence at Silverado from 12 months ago.

Key Stats:

• Scrambling – 32nd
• Par 5 Birdie or Better Leaders – 34th
• SG: Approach – 36th

Low-Tier Pick

Patrick Fishburn 

For the most part, 2025 has been a year to forget for Patrick Fishburn, who has only shown glimpses of his true talent.

But since mid-summer, he has started to drive the ball better and make more putts; unsurprisingly, Fishburn’s form has improved in conjunction with that.

Within his last five starts, he’s posted top-tens in the Wyndham Championship and ISCO Championship, as well as T18 at the John Deere Classic, so Fishburn’s game is tracking nicely.

What’s more, he’s played well at the correlating Sony Open and RSM Classic, as well as a solo third turn at Silverado on debut last year.

Key Stats:

• Greens in Regulation – 8th
• SG: Putting – 56th
• Birdie Average – 58th

Sleeper Pick for the 2025 Procore Championship

Mark Hubbard 

It’s somewhat ironic that Mark Hubbard produced his best approach play performance in months last time out at the Wyndham Championship, and then had to sit and watch the FedEx Cup playoffs at home.

He’ll be chomping at the bit to get back involved then; and especially so at a venue he knows so well. A regular at Silverado, a missed cut in 2024 at the venue came after a formline of 17-21-16-MC-13 here… that’s pretty consistent at a track that seems governed by volatility.

A solid PGA TOUR grinder, Hubbard has posted six PGA TOUR top-20s so far in 2025; three of which were at T7 or better. So this is a sleeper pick with upside.

Key Stats:

• Birdie Average – 33rd
• SG: Putting – 52nd
• Proximity to Hole – 53rd

Alternative Sleeper Pick for the 2025 Procore Championship

Paul Peterson 

It’s fitting that as 2024 became 2025, Paul Peterson played well at our two correlating events: T25 at the RSM Classic followed by T10 at the Sony Open.

And then, well, not a lot really, but maybe that’s not a surprise. Peterson is painfully short off the tee, and the other elements of his game have to be so good for him to really compete.

But when they are, the American really does have plenty of quality. He finished solo second at the ISCO Championship, one shot behind the winner, in July, and while that event is evidently at a much lower grade than this, it just offers a snapshot of what Peterson is capable of.

Can he harness his excellent wedge play into something memorable in Napa this week?

Key Stats:

• Proximity to Hole – 11th
• SG: Putting – 19th
• Birdie Average – 51st

This Week’s Sample Fantasy Lineup

Note: Sample lineups provided as examples only.  Be sure to mix-and-match to best fit individual contests.

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