At the Emirates Golf Club, the profile that we are primarily looking for is an elite driver of the golf ball. Someone who could finish in the top five in strokes gained off the tee on a course that rewards length and has narrow fairways with thick enough rough. A good secondary skill to have is iron play, predominantly from 150-225 yards as 14 of the 18 holes feature an approach from this range. Good Bermuda putting is helpful, but in general short game and putting have less

A slight change this week. When possible, I will try and get the course breakdown out on the Monday for the odds drop, with a summary of the players that I like coming later in the week. This week we have the first Rolex series event (the DPWT version of the signature events) of the year with the Dubai Desert Classic at long time host Emirates Golf Club. This will be the 5th time the Dubai Desert Classic has been apart of the Roles series. Despite being a Rolex series event,

Former Winners   2025: Sepp Straka (-25) (DG: 50) over Justin Thomas (-23) Scoring Average Stadium Course: -0.58 Nicklaus: -3.74 LQ: -3.41 Winner Odds: Straka (60/1) 2024: Nick Dunlap (-29) (DG: 221) over Christiaan Bezuidenhout (-28) Scoring Average Stadium Course: -2.86 Nicklaus: -3.92 LQ: -4.1 Winner Odds: Dunlap (380/1) 2023: Jon Rahm (-27) (DG: 2) over Davis Thompson (-26) Scoring Average Stadium Course: -2.74 Nicklaus: -3.28 LQ: -2.42 Winner Odds: Rahm (+650) 2022: Huds

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Course Breakdown The DPWT begins 2026 with a four-week Middle Eastern swing starting with the Dubai Invitational. The Dubai Invitational has a limited field of only 60 players, with a Pro-Am component across the first three days. The past few years this has been rotating with the Team Cup that Europe uses as preparation in Ryder Cup years, so we only have one recent renewal from the start of 2024. That event had one of the best Sundays of the year, with McIlroy and Fleetwood

Former Winners   2025: Nick Taylor (-16) (DG rank: 176) over Nico Echavarria (-16) Scoring Average: -1.32 Odds: Taylor (110/1) 2024: Grayson Murray (-17) (DG rank: 258) over Keegan Bradley, Byeong Hun An (-17) Scoring Average: -1.31 Odds: Murray (400/1) 2023: Si Woo Kim (-18) (DG rank: 75) over Hayden Buckley (-17) Scoring Average: -1.34 Odds: Kim (50/1) 2022: Hideki Matsuyama (-23) (DG rank: 20) over Russell Henley (-23) Scoring Average: -2.08 Odds: Matsuyama (18/1) 2021: Ke

For Week 18 of the NFL season, we put together some of our favorite bets on what tends to be a bit of a wacky day. And we had so much fun doing it, we decided to keep it rolling through the playoffs. Hopefully we helped you win some money last week; let's boost those bankrolls one more time before golf season starts! Andy Lack Panthers/Rams OVER 46 Rishi Loungani Jaguars ML : The Jaguars have a lot of outs to winning this game at home. They've won 8 in a row and now face an a

Editor's Note : Week 18 is the last week of the NFL's regular season, and it usually brings chaos to the betting and DFS markets. Some teams are jockeying for playoff position or division titles; others are hoping to lock up the No. 1 overall pick. Some are resting players ahead of the playoffs; some are just looking to start the offseason. But just like in the PGA Fall Swing, with chaos and uncertainty comes opportunity. If you look hard enough, there's incredible value in t

Robert MacIntyre ADP 17.9  - Since he has committed to the American Express, I have been hammering him in a ton of drafts. I may have missed out on ADP but you can definitely adapt on the fly if you like him as much as I do in light of this news. He is also going to play at RBC. Taylor Pendrith ADP 18.7 - Pendrith got booted from the Masters qualification via top 50 OWGR by year’s end. He will have to play a lot of golf to make up for it. I am seeing scenarios where you get a

The last event of the year is a low-key affair at the La Reserve Golf Links at the Heritage Golf Club in Mauritius. This is the second time La Reserve has hosted, after co-course designer Louis Oosthuizen won at his own course at the end of 2023. The course is a 7,357 yard par 72, with five par threes and five par fives, and we have Paspalum on all the playing surfaces. There are expected to be showers throughout the week, so the course will likely be softer and slower than i

We started a small discussion in the golf Discord channel this morning that sent me down a rabbit hole for some Inside Sports Network content during the golf offseason. Andy and Steve are full throttle with what I believe to be one of their best shows of the year: The Major Preview pods. It got me thinking about what I can provide the site in the time we are off until Sony. What did I spend my time doing last year? Drafting Best Ball teams in PGA. We are all about to get an i

The Alfred Dunhill Championship is taking a one year hiatus from its regular home of Leopard Creek and is instead at Royal Johannesburg this year. Royal Johannesburg is a 36-hole facility and last appeared on the DPWT as host of the Joberg Open from 2007 to 2017. But while that tournament used both courses with one round played on the shorter West course, this year’s event will only be played on the longer championship East course. The East course is a par 72 that measures 7,

The ‘other’ event this week, the Nedbank is still a great tournament in its own right and is colloquially known as ‘Africa’s major.’ Starting out as an extremely small field invitational, the Nedbank joined the DPWT in 2013 and increased in size to a 30 man field, and then again to the current field size of around 66 in 2016. It has at times been a part of the DPWT finals series and elevated Rolex series but has only been a regular DPWT event since last year, albeit still wit

BOOOOOTS. It’s Australian Open week at Royal Melbourne and that means there will be boots on the ground as I plan to attend on what is a sold out Sunday to see star attraction Rory McIlroy. But the other star attraction is the golf course itself. Royal Melbourne is a 36-hole facility, with the West course ranking up at number 7 in the latest Golf.com rankings, and the East course at 82. These courses span across four parcels of land, but the Australian Open will be played on

Course Breakdown As the PGA Tour season ends, the DPWT begins their new season down under with the Australian PGA. Royal Queensland is hosting for the fifth consecutive time, and the fourth time as part of the DPWT (the January 2022 Aus PGA was also played here). Queensland is the Florida of Australia, and in keeping with that this is a very flat, parkland, Bermuda (called Couch grass in Aus) golf course that runs along the river. As part of a major redesign nearly two decade

Weather Nothing really to see here. I’m expecting some absolutely pristine conditions and a scoring average that falls more in line with 2023 than 2024. Scoring Average: -2.0 Winning Score: -24   Core Michael Thorbjornsen, $10,200: I don’t love the ownership here, but Thor is a significantly stronger option than Harris English, and hopefully we get a redux of Ludvig’s breakthrough 2023 win. Thor has been circling the leaderboard all Fall swing with some incredible ball-striki

After a grandstand finish to the DPWT season, we have Matt Fitzpatrick as the Tour Championship winner, Rory McIlroy as the Race to Dubai winner, and our ten PGA Tour graduates with Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (RNP) knocking out Dan Brown. After starting the final round in a share of the lead, RNP had a shaky start with poor approaches on 3 and 4 leading to bogeys. A poor drive on 7 led to more trouble on the par 5, but he slam dunked his 4th shot for a miraculous birdie. Furth

For the final full field event of the Fall swing, the PGA Tour heads to Sea Island for the RSM Classic in St. Simons Island, Georgia. The event debuted in October of 2010, and since 2015, it has been played at both the Seaside and Plantation courses, featuring a full field. The RSM Classic generally attracts a solid field (relatively speaking), and this event will surely put together the most talented group of players we have seen this Fall swing. Much of the reason for this

Good Course Fits Nico Echavarria Pierceson Coody Vince Whaley Matt Kuchar Beau Hossler Greyson Sigg Andrew Putnam Justin Lower Adam Svensson David Lipsky Pivots 9 Svensson Schmid Brennan Wallace 8 Stevens Valimaki Clanton 7/6 Hodges Fishburn McGreevy Ryder Moore Phillips Suber Bramlett Rozner Montgomery Silverman Hisatsune Snedeker Pavon Manassero Paul Roster Max 2 7K’s Multiple 6K’s Play Nico/Rico/one more 9K together 2-3 in the 8K range (not Kuch) Opto rules to consider If

Weather This would mark our first official “obvious” wave edge of the Fall swing, but it certainly does not come without risk. A simple glance at the weather displays that PM/AM should be significantly advantaged, as Thursday AM looks borderline unplayable. I have made multiple swaps in my pool to get more exposure to the PM/AM wave, and currently 65% of my pool (13/20) are in the PM/AM wave. The only reason that I would not place more emphasis on the PM/AM wave are a number