Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2025 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

2025 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Fantasy Sleeper Report

There may be an asterisk against the 2025 Farmers Insurance Open, but you’ll never take Harris English’s win away from him.

The PGA TOUR’s bizarre decision to announce that the Genesis Invitational will be played at Torrey Pines in a few weeks, with a prize pool of $20 million, saw a stack of the best players in the Farmers field mysteriously withdraw with ‘flu’.

And with the likes of Ludvig Aberg struggling with illness while playing on, this was not a vintage edition of the Farmers.

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But even so, it took some winning in tough conditions on Torrey Pines’ vaunted South Course, and English – who gutsed out 12 consecutive pars on Sunday despite seemingly getting the yips off the tee – showed his class and determination in winning by a single stroke from Sam Stevens.

It was English’s fifth PGA TOUR title and his first in three-and-a-half years, securing him a spot at The Masters and the Signature Events in 2025.

Speaking of… it’s over to Pebble Beach we go for the AT&T sponsored tournament bearing its name. 

Those iconic Links will host one of the opening two rounds and then exclusively at the weekend, with 80 invited pros and their amateur partners also playing one of their other opening rounds at Spyglass Hill.

The two courses are visually different – Pebble Beach is so aesthetically-pleasing with its holes flanking the Pacific Ocean, while Spyglass Hill is a short, tree-lined almost parklands track that plays, on average these days, around a shot harder than PB.

Both are laid with Poa Annua greens, which is one of the most interesting points of difference, because these bumpy, grainy surfaces are certainly not every player’s cup of tea. Any players we back this week have to have that level of comfort on the unusual greens.

There’s no cut, and so all 80 invited players will compete over 72 holes… the weather forecast is benign, with low winds and cool temperatures, so there should be no repeat of last year’s fiasco.

Heavy rain and dangerous winds brought the 2024 edition of the AT&T Pebble Beach juddering to a halt after 54 holes, with no more play possible after 54 holes – not that Wyndham Clark cared, given that he was declared the champion a day early.

Clark returns to defend his title this week, while there’s also a return for two players that have been missing so far in 2025: Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth have recovered suitably from their respective surgeries to take up their places in the field.

Throw into the mix a stack of OWGR top-10 stars – McIlroy, Morikawa, Matsuyama, Aberg, Hovland, and Cantlay – and you have a recipe for a supreme tournament played (mostly) at one of the most prestigious courses on the planet.

But can a long odds pick cause a surprise? With Scheffler returning to competitive golf after a lengthy absence, and Rory playing his first Stateside tournament in quite some time, the field surely has a chance of overcoming the favorites.

And so here’s our sleeper shortlist for the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach.

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Wyndham Clark – 50/1 – When you consider his skillset, there’s some golf courses at which Wyndham Clark can thrive, and others where he can’t.

Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill are interesting paramours for the U.S. Open, because they take driver out of his hand. And that means that Clark gets to hit more fairways than normal, which in turn enables his world-class wedge game to thrive.

Very much an elite putter – remember his monumental +3.58 gain on the field at Pebble Beach in his title run, Clark has all the tools to thrive once more. His recent form has been a mixed bag, but expect better things at a layout that forces him to put down that leaky driver.

Taylor Pendrith – 50/1 – After toughing it out at the Farmers Insurance Open, Taylor Pendrith was rewarded with a T7 finish.

The Canadian played supremely well from tee-to-green in tough conditions, gaining +2.86 on the field in this regard, and but for a poor week on the greens (-0.76, the only player in the top 14 of the leaderboard to be in the negative) cost him a shot at the title.

But Pendrith does have previous on Poa and gained +1.55 on the greens on Sunday, which suggests he has found a little rhythm and confidence with the flatstick.

T7 in this event in 2023, Pendrith’s quality with wedge in hand should set up plenty of birdie looks this week… let’s hope he putts well enough to take them.

Maverick McNealy – 60/1 – A winner of the somewhat correlating RSM Classic just four starts ago, Maverick McNealy has to be of interest this week.

He’s twice recorded top-five finishes in this event, which comes as no surprise given his excellent with wedge in hand, plus his reliability when putting on Poa Annua greens.

The Californian made considerable approach play gains on the field at the Farmers, for the third time in his last four starts, and it was a rare off-week on the greens that cost him a more eye-catching finish on the leaderboard there.

But it’s very rare indeed that McNealy putts poorly two weeks in a row… especially when Poa Annua is the surface of choice. He gained +0.63 on the field putting here in 2024.

Nick Taylor – 75/1 – So far, 2025 has been rather kind to Nick Taylor.

The Sony Open champion also produced some stellar numbers at the American Express, where he finished T12, and so it must be such a joy for him to hit the heights again after a tawdry 2024 campaign. 

You wonder if he’ll parlay his recent uptick in form into another strong showing this week; an event he won in 2020 and where he has another top-ten and two top-20s on his record.

The manner in which Taylor saw off Scottie Scheffler and co to win the 2024 Phoenix Open, in a raucous atmosphere, suggests that the Canadian is made of the right stuff to win at Signature Event level.

J.J. Spaun – 80/1 – Whether such things can be trusted to repeat themselves remains to be seen, but there’s something about the greens at Pebble Beach that brings the best out of J.J. Spaun.

In 2022, he produced his best putting performance of the season in this event. He skipped it in 2023, but last year… lo and behold, the +1.10 Spaun gained on the field putting was his tied-best performance of 2024.

It’s relevant because you sense that Spaun’s accurate ball-striking can only take him so far, but when he rolls the rock right, there’s clear possibilities – T3 at the Sony Open in January testament to that.

He fired a round of 66 on the Saturday at Pebble Beach 12 months ago, too.

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