Geoff Ulrich runs through the Truist Championship course info, player history, and noteworthy betting trends to help DraftKings Fantasy Golf roster selections.
The Cheat Sheet provides DraftKings fantasy golf players with course info, player history, and the most noteworthy trends of the week to help them with their roster selections.
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The Truist Championship (formerly the Wells Fargo Championship) is a signature PGA TOUR Event that features 70-72 golfers. This event is held at Quail Hollow Country Club in 2026 after relinquishing hosting duties in 2025, so it could host the PGA Championship next week.
Scottie Scheffler is taking this week off after finishing second again at the Cadillac Championship, his third runner-up finish in a row. However, Masters champion Rory McIlroy will be playing in his final tune-up before the year’s second major, as will last week’s winner Cameron Young, and last year’s Truist Championship winner Sepp Straka. McIlroy has owned Quail Hollow for most of his career (four career wins), so he will no doubt be looking forward to getting back at it.
The rest of the field includes names like Justin Thomas, Ludvig Aberg, and Patrick Cantlay, who is still looking for his first win on the PGA TOUR in over two years. This week’s event does not have a cut line, so the entire field will get to play in all four rounds, which makes this an interesting week for DFS lineup building and certainly raises the upside of stars and scrubs builds.
Par: 71, 7,626
Greens: Bermuda overseeded with Perennial Ryegrass
Design: George Cobb (Tom Fazio redesign 2014/2016)
Course Record: Rory McIlroy (61; 2010 Wells Fargo)
The overall yardage of Quail now spans well over 7,600 yards, and the par remains at 71, making it one of the longest venues in play on the PGA TOUR. For last year’s event, the already hard-to-play 16th hole, one of the toughest par 4s on the PGA TOUR, added a new back tee that can add 20 yards to the hole. Otherwise, the venue remains the same as it was in 2017 when it was last renovated.
Quail Hollow is a traditional par-71 with just three par-5s, but its length really plays out in the par-4s, eight of which span well over 450 yards. The course begins with one of the toughest holes on the course—the par-4 first—that plays as a dogleg par 4 at over 500 yards. It also ends with one of the toughest finishing stretches on the PGA TOUR (the Green Mile), where players are tested with two monster par 4s and a long par 3 guarded by water.
Quail is essentially a classic tree-lined course that challenges golfers with tough driving holes and doglegs throughout, but still adds in the odd scoring hole here and there to make things fair. It’s also a massive piece of property and has above-average greens and long winding fairways that still require good accuracy off the tee as they are guarded by fairway bunkers, heavy tree lines, rough, and water hazards. In 2018, it played as the fifth-toughest venue on the PGA TOUR, playing to a 72.132 scoring average. In 2019, it played as the eighth-toughest venue with a 71.762 average score. In terms of profile, it’s very similar to what we see at Copperhead CC (host of the Valspar) and also profiles well with Riviera, where there is always a big emphasis on great tee-to-green play. 2019 Wells Fargo winner Max Homa (who also has a win at Riviera and a top-10 at the Valspar) provides a good link to all three courses.
From a profile perspective, this venue has tended to favor good drivers of the ball (and longer hitters), who can get the ball up high with their long irons, and that theme has been even more evident since the renovations. Of the past eight winners at Quail Hollow, none have ranked worse than 36th in Driving Distance for the week—Thomas ranked first in Driving Distance at the 2017 PGA Championship, as did 2024 winner of the Wells Fargo (played at Quail), Rory McIlroy. Winners have tended to gain nearly as many strokes off the tee as they do on approach, with good, long-to-mid iron play being another key factor.
To go along with driving distance, players with good height on their approaches and irons (Apex Height) have been able to conquer this expansive course better than most. McIlroy is almost always inside the top 20 in Apex Height, while other past winners at Quail Hollow, like Rickie Fowler, Wyndham Clark, and even James Hahn from back in 2016, have also excelled in this stat.
2026 Weather Outlook: Quail Hollow is looking like a tale of two halves for the Truist Championship this year. The early days of the week, including Wednesday and Thursday, will be the toughest, with heavy rain and a high risk of thunderstorms likely causing delays in Round 1. By the weekend, the weather clears up but turns cooler, with highs of just 70F on Sunday. It’s really hard to say what Thursday will be like at this point, but early starters could be in a less-than-ideal stop-and-start situation if there is rain and thunderstorms. I’d likely want later starters on Day 1 if possible.
*2025–Scottie Scheffler -11 (PGA Championship over Harris English -6)
*2024—Rory McIlroy -17 (over Xander Schauffele -12)
*2023—Wyndham Clark -19 (over Xander Schauffele -15)
**2022—Max Homa -8 (over three players -6)
*2021—Rory McIlroy -10 (over Abraham Ancer -9)
*Played at Quail Hollow.
**Played at TPC Potomac.
Odds to win are one factor to consider when picking players, but not the only one, so be careful not to put too much weight on them. This section is going to detail a few of the players who have the best fantasy value compared to their DraftKings Sportsbook odds of winning this week.
Comparables:
Comparables:
Harris English +4700 and $8,200
Jake Knapp +4300 and $8,000
Sepp Straka +4200 and $8,100
All odds provided by DraftKings Sportsbook are subject to change.
Big Field Punt plays:
Patrick Rodgers ($6,400): Rodgers has had some success at Quail Hollow in the past, including a runner-up finish over a decade ago. As a longer driver and solid lag putter, his game does set up well. I’d expect him to bounce back and potentially even beat the T16 he posted at RBC two starts ago.
Sungjae Im ($6,300): Im’s generally a consistent driver and likes these sorts of longer layouts. His run at the Valspar on the similarly constructed Copperhead makes him a play I’d be willing to punt on this week in bigger field DFS lineups.
Core Plays:
Ludvig Aberg ($9,600): With no Scheffler in the field and some other names getting very pricey after hot runs, taking this sub-10k price on Aberg looks ideal. The big hitter has the exact sort of distance and higher ball flight that has favored past winners of this week’s event.
Kurt Kitayama ($7,800): Kitayama is such a great driver of the ball that it’s hard to see him not liking this venue over the long term. Considering he’s now posted two top 10s in a row, this sub-8k salary makes him a nice value for DFS.
1. Cameron Young ($10,100; win-T25-T3): Young comes in off his second win of the year at Doral. The big-hitting American has hit his peak potential in 2026 and looks like a player who has to be dealt with by anyone looking to win one of the year’s final three majors.
2. Matthew Fitzpatrick ($9,200; win-win): Fitzpatrick has won both his last two starts (RBC and Zurich). He’ll be looking for a nice tune-up this week before the year’s second major.
3. Rory McIlroy ($10,000; win-T46): McIlroy is teeing things up for the first time since he won his sixth major at Augusta in April. It’s hard to say what his expectations are for this week, but as someone who has won at Quail on multiple occasions, he’s more likely to be in the mix on Sunday than not.
4. Rickie Fowler ($9,000; T8-T9): Fowler has played some good golf this spring. He’s coming in off two straight top 10 finishes and will be at a course in Quail Hollow he’s won at before.
5. Adam Scott ($8,900; T4-T24): Scott had a brilliant final round at Doral last week that vaulted him into a top-five position. The Aussie has looked great at various points of the season and seems poised to book some sort of late-career win soon.
I’ll roll with Patrick Cantlay as the man to side with in the 9k range this week. The American showcased some great tee-to-green play at Augusta after a rough start, which vaulted him into a T12 finish at the first major. He then backed that up with a top-10 finish at one of his favorite stops in Hilton Head, where he finished T7 and was one of the leaders in strokes gained tee to green and around the green stats, but had a lousy week on the green, where he lost over 4.0 strokes putting.
Cantlay hasn’t had a ton of success around Quail Hollow, but did finish T21 here in 2023, and posted a T7 at the Valspar Championship last month at Copperhead, a very similar-built Par 71 that correlates to Quail in a lot of ways. He’ll also have some good memories from the Presidents Cup that was played at Quail in 2022, where he went 3-0-1. For DFS, I doubt he’ll be overly popular given some of the names below him who played well last week, making him a nice pivot play and player I’d be fine building around to get some leverage on the popular plays in this range.
For betting, the +3100 outright odds on him on DraftKings Sportsbook also make him a nice mid-range add at this year’s event, at a venue that has seen some longer odds players win in the past.
Stevens continues to play some heady golf. He posted a T5 in Texas before a solid Masters debut, where he finished T24, and bounced back from a poor RBC start with a T18 on a venue that likely carried a little more water than he liked last week in Florida.
Overall, the American seems to be finding a lot of consistency in his game, which should help around a venue like Quail Hollow. Stevens again gained multiple strokes off the tee last week in Florida and should be rewarded for that effort around Quail Hollow, where solid drivers typically rise to the top. His putter has been solid for some time now as well, so if he can find a little better shot-making with his irons this week, a top 10 may not even be out of the question.
Overall, I like him for DFS as a lower-priced value, and for betting, laddering him through the top 10 to top 20 markets on DraftKings Sportsbook makes plenty of sense.
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