Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – The Truist Championship

The Truist Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

As the Kentucky Derby participants battled and fought for every inch in a highly competitive race that went down to the wire, Scottie Scheffler was prancing to victory at the CJ CUP Byron Nelson like a show pony.

Rounds of 61 and 63 saw Scheffler open up a handsome lead, and it seemed impossible that such a low-grade field would be able to catch him on home soil – this is a guy that finished T8 at the PGA Championship last year despite being arrested on the morning of the second round. 

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And so it proved. Erik van Rooyen’s -23 would have been good enough to win this event in years gone by, but not in 2025 – Scheffler’s total of -31, which could have been even lower but for a scuffed chip at 17 on Sunday, tied the lowest aggregate score on the PGA TOUR over the past 40 years.

Feeling suitably well prepared, the world number one will now head straight for the PGA Championship next year… opting to sit out this week’s Signature Event, the Truist Championship.

That’s a new name on the PGA TOUR, with Truist taking over the former sponsorship spot held by Wells Fargo. But it’s not off to Quail Hollow we go – the traditional host of this tournament welcomes the PGA Championship next week, and so a temporary, one year only host has been located for 2025.

The Wissahickon Course at the Philadelphia Cricket Club will step up to the plate. This 7,100 yard, Par 70 welcomed the U.S. Amateur four-balls last year, but otherwise doesn’t have much in the way of top-level hosting to call upon.

Unfortunately, that means that bettors are also somewhat in the dark this week, although the fact that A.W. Tillinghast was on design duty for the Wissahickon Course offers some clues.

Tillinghast is best known for his work in creating major-standard golf courses, with Bethpage Black, Winged Foot, and Baltusrol just some of the layouts on his resumé. It’s worth noting too that when Wissahickon hosted the Senior Players Championship in 2016, it recorded the highest scoring average in the tournament’s four-decades long history.

So, as a consequence, we’re expecting tough – but not too tough – conditions this week.

The venue will certainly have a field quality to match. Aside from Scheffler, every single eligible member of the OWGR top-20 will be teeing it up this week, including Rory McIlroy – he’s technically the defending champion too, having won the Wells Fargo last year – and a host of other big names looking to find their form ahead of the PGA Championship next week.

Others… well, they’ll be going full throttle for the win in Pennsylvania, such is the ‘eyes on the prize’ mentality of the modern golfer.

So who will get their hands on the trophy? The field is stacked at the top end, as you would expect from a Signature Event, but that’s not to say that some longshots can’t force their way into the reckoning either. 

In that spirit, here’s our 2025 Truist Championship sleeper shortlist.

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Keegan Bradley – 55/1 – There aren’t many players that can say they’ve won a PGA TOUR level event in Pennsylvania before, but Keegan Bradley is one of them.

He prevailed in the 2018 BMW Championship at Aronimink Country Club, so he’ll be feeling good vibes heading back to PA this week.

Even if that win counts for nothing, we’re still backing a guy in great form at a juicy price. Bradley’s tee-to-green game has been in exceptional form in recent months, and he’s finished no lower than T20 in each of his last three Signature Event appearances.

Justin Rose – 66/1 – The playoff defeat to McIlroy at The Masters was a reminder that Justin Rose can still mix it with the best in the business.

In fact, he tends to save his finest efforts when in elite company; strong showings in the Signature Events at Pebble Beach (T3) and Bay Hill (T8) in recent times evidence of that.

Rose was sat inside the top-ten at the halfway stage of the 2019 PGA Championship, held at Tillinghast’s Bethpage Black, so there’s a convergence of trends that suggests the Brit can go well once again this week.

Brian Harman – 66/1 – We don’t know this for certain, of course, but there could be a premium to finding the fairways at the Wissahickon Course this week.

Although the rough doesn’t appear to be up, there are some steep-sided runoffs flanking the fairways, while some of the greens are on the small side – approaching them from the short grass seems like a good idea.

Brian Harman, generally accurate off the tee, looks well primed to take advantage. The left-hander has been in fine form since the start of April, winning the Texas Open, finishing T36 in the wholly unsuitable Masters, and recording a fine display on his way to T3 at the RBC Heritage.

Matt Fitzpatrick – 100/1 – Has Matt Fitzpatrick turned a corner?

His tee-to-green work at the RBC Heritage, following a solid top-40 turn at The Masters, certainly hints as much – indeed, a strangely quiet week on the greens at Harbour Town, a rarity for the Brit, prevented him from finishing much higher up the leaderboard.

It’s rare that Fitzpatrick putts badly two events in a row, and so for 100/1 we’re getting a player starting to bubble up with confidence once more… and this is a major champion with multiple wins worldwide, lest we forget.

Lucas Glover – 100/1 – If it transpires that the Wissahickon Course is a layout that you have to pick and place your way around, Lucas Glover could be a fascinating dark horse at 100/1 this week.

He is exceptional when it comes to plotting his way around technical layouts, and even in his advancing years he’s been able to compete with the best at Pebble Beach and the PLAYERS this term, where he finished T3 in each.

Glover’s formline is often deceptive because he can’t compete at longer layouts, but at short, fiddly Par 70s in particular he still has the class to win – let’s hope he thrives on the tightness in store in Pennsylvania. 

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