Value Report: Procore Championship

As recent as the PGA Tour season came to an end, it still did feel like we had a decent gap in the schedule before jumping into the fall swing! Last time we were together, the scenes from Tommy Fleetwood’s first win were epic at the Tour Championship, but the nature of the FedEx Cup Playoffs’ no-cut events put a bit of a twist on our traditional golf DFS. Now we, for the rest of the fall schedule, will have full fields with a cut structure, and it kicks off in wine country at the Procore Championship! We’ll have a start-and-stop go at it in September with the U.S. Ryder Cup team getting their warm-up in prior to battling the Euros at Bethpage in two weeks. But once that is completed, we’ll have a pretty good go at it for both October and November. Golf just doesn’t sleep, and the DFS contests still stay voluminous even with football back in action!

The fall swing had been recreated recently with the alterations in status across the PGA Tour. This meant that players who were outside of the top 70 have not guaranteed their 2026 playing status yet and will battle it out for spots 70-100 in the FedEx Cup standings throughout the fall events. This was a very crucial change and brings a lot of juice to these events, but it also means we no longer have the rookies getting early starts. Often we will have weaker overall fields that are still full of PGA Tour name value, as most of these players were at the bottom end of the 2025 events. However, for Procore specifically, we get quite a twist on what we are typically used to for the fall swing. The U.S. Ryder Cup team has 10 guys playing this week, with only Bryson DeChambeau and Xander Schauffele missing, and Scottie Scheffler has been priced up to $14,400, which matches his highest price ever from this year’s U.S. Open. The twist that week was the floor was $5,000, where this time around it’s $6,000 and the $6K range is looking incredibly bleak. It’s definitely thrown me in a bit of blender as I’m always the stars-and-scrubs guy, but with the lack of recent tournaments and dire options down low, it sets up for a very interesting GPP slate. This is probably the best we’ve seen Scheffler priced, and it likely puts him at some of the lowest ownership we will have for him because of who you must roster alongside Scottie. What makes it even harder, too, is Silverado Resort is a super vanilla course, not really benefiting a skill set either, so it leaves us really hunting on the bottom end. But even in those balanced starts, there are still a handful of options who stand out below $7,500, so let’s dive right in!

Cameron Champ, $7,400 – Who else but frequent flyer Cameron Champ kicks off the fall swing for us, as he picked up his second PGA Tour victory in Napa in 2020 but has struggled in each visit since. What I’ve always loved about Champ’s game is he has crazy tail outcomes, and they’ve often been quite predictive by lead-in form and course history. He may miss about every cut in the middle, but when he’s starting to show signs of life and heads to a course he’s had success at, that’s when Champ is on my radar. An elevated price helps keep ownership away too despite five top-30 finishes in his last six events. He’s done so with his vintage off-the-tee success through distance, but he has had a career year with accuracy too, which gets him to another tier off the tee. Any sort of life with the irons has been extremely welcomed because Champ typically is positive on the greens, and his putting can be a huge weapon when clicking. I think some of the rust has come off from being in fringe contention a couple of times to close the year, so I would be confident he can battle at the top of the leaderboard.