Golf Top Plays: Truist Championship

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 ($12,000 DK, $13,000 FD) – Even after Scottie Scheffler’s runaway victory at last week’s Byron Nelson, it’s tough to dispute that McIlroy has been the best golfer on the planet to start the 2025 campaign, and now in a signature event without Scheffler, McIlroy is the class of the field once again. While Philadelphia Cricket Club will provide a new test for the Tour, we can still make some assumptions on which types of skill sets will be desirable here. Regardless of how it ultimately plays out, McIlroy should have plenty of advantages over his peers, ranking first in this field over the last 12 months in Data Golf’s True Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee, 11th on Approach, eighth Around the Green, and ninth in Putting.