Golf Top Plays: RBC Canadian Open

Editor’s Note: We may not write up every player we consider to be a top play. Be sure to consult the chart at the bottom of the page. This article will update to reflect any injury or weather news.

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Below you will find the players we consider the best for the slate. These do NOT account for ownership, but they do account for salary. In other words, Jon Rahm could be our No. 1 play in the high range… but he could also be a bad tournament play because he projects for 60% ownership in an extreme example.

This article is for cash games (contests in which roughly 50% of the field gets paid out, such as a head-to-head or double-up). For tournaments, our focus should be more on the projected ownership and projected ceiling columns in our projections table.

With that said, these are our Top Plays considering the following factors: median projection, lower volatility, upside, and value. They are listed in price descending order. At the bottom, you’ll find suggested rankings by site once salary is accounted for.

HIGH-PRICED

Rory McIlroy ($11,900 DK, $13,000 FD) – A new course in the PGA Tour rotation means less information to draw course-fit conclusions, making it more important to focus on golfers whose all-around game is capable of handling whatever TPC Toronto may throw at them. With Scottie Scheffler not in the field, there’s no better jumping-off point than McIlroy, who ranks first in this field over the last 12 months in Data Golf’s True Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green, ninth in SG: Approach, 12th Around-the-Green, and 13th Putting.