During our content throughout the week, Andy explained what he was hearing from the grounds about Rory’s mindset shifting at Augusta and how he could see a world where he plays well, despite past champions historically not playing so well after they won the previous year. Rishi took advantage of a low owned Rory in DFS as a leverage opportunity.

Ultimately, the formula to success at Harbour Town rests in understanding that this is an entirely different style of golf course from the driver-wedge affairs that we generally see week to week on the PGA Tour. On weeks like these, I am always most concerned with identifying players who consistently raise their baseline on other short, positional golf courses.

There are many other courses (Sedgefield, Waialae, TPC Sawgrass, Sea Island, Colonial, TPC River Highlands, etc.) that follow a similar blueprint, and Harbour Town is the most exaggerated version of this. These golf courses all provide little value in a driver-heavy approach based on their heavily doglegged nature, and all feature small greens where the emphasis falls squarely on middle-iron play, and surprisingly, around-the-green play has very high predictive value at this course, which features a surprisingly low greens in regulation percentage.

Unlike, say, TPC Sawgrass, Harbour Town is just simply a very difficult golf course to separate with the driver, which is actually quite similar to a TPC San Antonio and Innisbrook, and it’s even less driver-heavy than both of those courses. Each of the last five years, it has ranked top-10 in SG: OTT difficulty, and top-15 in SG: APP difficulty, so it’s sneakily one of the tougher APP courses on Tour as well.

Where players can really separate on this course is with their ARG play, as it always ranks in the top 10 easiest course on Tour to gain strokes ARG—Harbour Town is one of the most predictive ARG courses on Tour. Last year, it ranked 35th out of 40 courses in SG: Putting difficulty, although putting has not been all that predictive at this event in general, and it is a bit more of a spike approach course than it is a spike putting course.

For the rest of Andy’s course preview article, click here.

Last week at the Masters, I decided to use Scottie Scheffler at 6.8% ownership, who earned me $2.4 million, finishing solo second on the week. With Rahm and Bryson eating more of the ownership, I saw this as an opportunity to take Scheffler at lower ownership than usual, at a course where he can separate from the field the best compared to any other course we see all year.

We turn the page to the RBC Heritage for another signature event, with the winner receiving $3.6 million.

My OAD pick at the RBC Heritage is: Matt Fitzpatrick

Fitzy was a very popular pick to win the Masters last week for good reason  He won the Valspar, was runner-up to Cam Young at the Players, and ranks first in strokes gained tee-to-green over the last three months. Fitzy ranks 4th in distance from edge of the fairway, 2nd in good drive %, 5th in strokes gained on approach, and 3rd in scrambling on short grass. 

He won this event back in 2023 and used to vacation here with his family growing up! have been on the Fitzy train all year and the train doesn’t stop in Hilton Head.

I don’t believe there will be a player this week that gets steamed and takes a ton of ownership, so take whoever you like. If I had Xander available, I would probably take him. I was between Fitzy and Russell Henley due to Henley spiking on approach last week and this course is a great course fit that rewards accuracy, middle iron play, and elite short game. If you want to get different, I believe Ludvig is a sneaky pick, but I would rather save him for a better course fit like the Memorial.

2026 OAD Total: $6.185,922

Josh Segal

Three Masters Thoughts

Even though Cam Young didn’t get it done for me betting wise, I enjoyed the Masters as a whole. As always, the tournament provided some great moments and storylines. Here are some of my thoughts from this years Masters:

How many major championships will Rory win when its all said and done?

Rory becomes the fourth player of all time to win back to back green jackets, joining the elite group of Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo, and Jack Nicklaus. He said all week that his mindset has been as he feels freed up after getting the monkey off his back winning the career grand slam last year.

I don’t believe Rory had his best stuff, especially with the driver as the broadcast pounded the narrative that he couldn’t hit a fairway all week, yet he still won. Unfortunately, we were robbed of a playoff with Scottie Scheffler. I still don’t know how Scottie’s putt on 17 didn’t fall, but that's besides the point. 

Similar to last year after Rory won, people are asking what's the over/under on Rory’s major championships he wins when it's all said and done?

Rory is certainly course proof. He is one of or if not the best driver of the golf ball in professional golf, an elite long iron player, and showed that he can rely on his crafty short game and putter to win a major championship. Rory is currently 36 years old, and even if he were to ever lose some distance off the tee, he is so consistent in all other parts of his game that his golf game will age well. 

Rory has six major championships to his name, which is tied with Phil Mickelson. I am sure that Rory is motivated to pass Phil on the all time major championship list, and he will be looking forward to Phil joining him at this champions dinner in the future as he missed it this year. 

I would set Rory’s over under at 8.5. He can definitely add another green jacket to his closet and will always be a great course fit at PGA Championship and US Open venues as they reward driving distance. 

I believe his career arc could be similar to Tom Brady. Brady won three Super Bowls early in his career, didn’t win one again for decade, and then won four in seven years. 

Rory won three majors in four years: 2011 US Open, 2012 PGA Championship, 2014 PGA Championship and Open Championship. 

With Brady, it felt like he had two different careers in different eras of football. I believe it will be the same with Rory, and the sky is the limit for him to rise in the history books as one of the greatest golfers of all time.

Cam Young is still a big time player

After his prolific performance at the Ryder Cup, especially when he sunk that putt on 18 in Sunday singles to defeat Justin Rose, Cam Young has proved to the golf world that he is a big time player and is not afraid of the moment. When he stepped up to the tee on the island green and went right at the flag, leading him to then hitting a 375 yard piss missile on the 18th tee at this year's Players Championship, he reminded everyone he’s that dude.

Even though Cam Young didn’t end up receiving the green jacket Sunday night, he proved again that he is one of the best golfers in the world. 

He shot +4 in the first round, including having that score through his first seven holes, yet battled his way to the final group on Sunday after shooting a 65 in the 3rd round. He didn’t have his best stuff on Sunday, but he still showed great composure and didn’t shy away from the moment. 

I am quite bullish on Cam Young at the rest of the major championships this year because of the way he hits his driver off-the-tee. Cam is the 3rd ranked player in the world right now, and I truly believe he will win one of the next two major championships this year. As Tom & Marty’s and Chris Powers on Twitter say, it's the year of the catholic golfer.

If LIV could go back in time, would they change their schedule leading into the Masters?

One of the biggest storylines coming into the Masters was Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm. Both have won on LIV this season and were playing some of the best golf in the world. 

However, one of the biggest knocks against the LIV golfers was that they haven’t played since the middle of March in South Africa. 

Well, the LIV haters were right because outside of Tyrrell Hatton, the LIV players certainly disappointed. Bryson embarrassingly missed the cut after tripling the last hole on Friday to miss the cut and Jon Rahm underperformed, making the cut on the number and ultimately ending up finishing T38. 

Bryson and Rahm looked rusty and weren’t ready for the task at hand playing one of the toughest tests in golf. LIV has been ridiculed for the courses that have picked on the schedule because they aren’t quite challenging. How are you supposed to prepare for a major championship if you are playing simple Mickey Mouse courses?

I am not sure what CEO Scott O’Neil was thinking with the 2026 schedule. I am sure LIV is kicking themselves for putting their players in a bad position to be ready for Augusta. Maybe they aren’t because LIV is an unserious organization.

Players I am thinking about at the PGA Championship

We officially turn the page from the Masters to the PGA Championship in the 2026 major season. The PGA Championship this year will be hosted at Aronimink Golf Club, located in Newtown Square, PA. I grew up in Lower Merion, PA, which is roughly a 30 minute drive from the course. I have had this tournament circled on my calendar since it was announced that Aronimink is hosting this year’s PGA Championship. 

The Philadelphia region hasn’t hosted a major championship since the 2013 US Open at Merion. We were fortunate last year that since the PGA Championship was hosted at Quail Hollow, the Truist Championship needed a one-year temporary home, and they chose Philly Cricket Club. I went to the Truist Championship for a couple days last year. It was truly an amazing experience and I loved the energy that Philly fans brought. The Truist has made me even more excited for next month's major championship.

Last Sunday night post Masters we, ISN, have already been discussing some players that are great course fits and we can see playing well at Aronimink in our discord. Here are two names from the Masters that I believe can continue their stellar play at the second major championship on the calendar:

Russell Henley

Underdog Golf recently tweeted Russell Henley’s last seven major championship appearances, following his impressive T3 finish at last week's Masters:

What Henley has done at these major championships, besides winning, has been nothing short of astonishing. The majority of these major championship venues, specifically PGA Championship and US Open courses favor driving distance. Henley is one of the shortest hitters on tour, but one of the most accurate off-the-tee.

He has elite iron play and has a great short game to make up for his lack of distance. Specifically at Aronimink, his driving accuracy will be an advantage with anticipated thick rough and will face a ton of middle iron shots that suits his wheelhouse. 

Henley has been a top 10 player in the world over the last couple of years and deserves to finally break through and win a major championship. Next month in Philly will be one of his best chances, in my opinion, based on course fit.

Tyrrell Hatton

Go look up Hatton’s major championship history on DataGolf because it’s amazing. Since 2022, Hatton has missed one cut at a major championship and that was the 2025 Open Championship. 

Similarly to Henley, Hatton is coming off a T3 finish at the Masters last week. I wasn’t that high on Hatton coming into the week, as his LIV results have been subpar, but he showed up in a big way at Augusta. Hatton is becoming a guy where regardless of his lead-in form, he delivers on the biggest stages. 

Hatton is a great ball striker and has a sneaky short game to scramble well at these tough major championship tracks. I believe Aronimink will suit him well, but my good friend Devon in the discord believes that his best chance to win a major this year might be the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. 

Hatton is a player that can win a major championship and I believe will show up big time at Arnonimink. Now that I am thinking about it, it will be interesting to see how Hatton reacts to the Philadelphia crowds. Would love to see a moment where the crowd could get under Hatton’s skin.

Shoutout to a number of our subscribers who benefited from Rory’s win at the Masters in DFS. We had some subscribers who won big time money! Check out some of the lineups below: