Value Report: The RSM Classic

The Bermuda Classic with insane wind can produce absolute cinema in professional golf, and that is what we had on Sunday. The winner, Adam Schenk, who had entered the week putting with one hand, had to switch back to a two-hand grip just to hold his putter in place with the gusts. He looked nervy as ever, but also displayed some insane touch on the back nine, fighting through the winds that wreaked havoc on every single shot. I’m sure it was miserable to play in, but it is often when we find the PGA Tour players as relatable as ever, as so many were left confused about how to even attack the course. I’d absolutely love to see this event pull a star-studded field to see how some of the best in the world can handle it!

From a DFS standpoint, it was a frustrating one, but not on results; more so on the process. It’s very difficult on a coastal course like that to be able to pinpoint how the wind will affect each side of the draw, especially with a constant forecast we had. But what played out was a massive split, where the wind died down slightly on Thursday afternoon and became so much more attackable. The clear play on a slate like this was not to try and be correct about which side would get the better end of things, but to mix in stacks on both sides for when the situation arose, like it did, you’d be prepped. Worst case, it’s equal on both and you just have a bit more concentrated builds with players in similar lineups, but that risk is worth taking on in an event like this. A definite lesson to note for the future.

It was a disgusting week in multiple ways for the Value Report, as our best finisher was T46, but I’m more upset with Justin Lower coming in at the ownership level he did. It made a ton of trendy sense for a player with his recent form and coastal success to pop the levels at which he did, but those are the type of players I hope to weed out when writing this article. Not that I wasn’t good with decent Lower exposure even up to these levels, but I’m here to hopefully find more diamonds in the rough, which was what the other four were ownership-wise. Each of them made the cut, but there really wasn’t much noise out of any of them outside of Jeremy Paul in contention early on. Antoine Rozner did have a pop in Round 2, as well as the amateur Tyler Watts impressing in waves, but there was nothing too big to write home about.

We flip to the final event of the 2025 PGA Tour season at The RSM Classic, which has historically been a sneaky awesome event. Sea Island can have its fair share of weather impact, but it’s more or less a precision type of course that really opens the floodgates on players who can win here. There have been a few short odds winners like Maverick McNealy and Ludvig Aberg, but they’ve been matched by a Robert Streb and a Tyler Duncan, who you’d be hard-pressed to see go toe to toe at a big ballpark. This is it too for status for 2026, and with the top-100 bubble being quite tight with talent, we are set to end the year with a bang on Sea Island!