Value Report: RBC Heritage

Whew, what a Masters! For what seemed like a potential snooze fest with Rory McIlroy’s six-stroke lead at the end of Friday, it turned out to be one of my favorite Sundays in recent memory with a handful of potential winners on the back nine. But despite giving the field a few cracks at it, Rory showed off his brilliance at Augusta National, and the experience he has there really thrived on that back nine. With the early injury concerns and the middling results compared to expectations so far in 2026, Rory had likely the lowest ownership we will ever get from him at this tournament. I construed his mentality of him saying he’d get to enjoy himself this year as more of a way of dismissing him, but the result was a pressure-free approach and the best headspace he’s been in at Augusta National in his career. It would have been incredible to see Justin Rose get his first green jacket or Cameron Young to put a stamp on his elevation, but each had their own doing, and that comfort Rory now has on these grounds will be incredible to watch over the next decade.

It was a brutal time for the Value Report to have one of the worst outings of the year. In reality, too, the low end of the $7K range and just about every player, bar Hao-Tong Li, failed to score well on the week, which led to balanced rosters thriving. A lot were rounded out by Jake Knapp and Sam Burns, who were both priced at $7,400 and had their ownership held in decent check, even for the People’s Golfer. The two who did steam quite noticeably were Jacob Bridgeman and Adam Scott, who were well above the expectations I set out for this article. I was impressed though early on by Bridgeman’s debut before his Sunday backpedal, while Scott continued his heater of a tee-to-green game. The real winner of the bunch was Keegan Bradley, who recorded his career-best Masters finish that was littered with birdies and resulted in a T13 finish in DraftKings scoring on the week. He was the lowest owned, too, of the crew and was very much a piece that could have won GPPs, which was rewarding on the level of detail brought in to research his course fit. The other side of digging into the weeds was the missed cut by Michael Kim, who was likely too big a stretch, given his play in 2026, to make noise. Nicolai Hojgaard was incredibly disappointing, as his form was ripe for the taking and I was quite happy with where his ownership landed, so a missed cut on the number was tough.