DFS Strategy and Picks – 2022 RBC Heritage

Harbour Town is a course where finesse and shot-making are prioritized over length and power. Distance is pretty much irrelevant. This takes away one of the advantages of some of the top-tier players, like Dustin Johnson, who has elite power and length. It’s a course that should level the playing field and mitigate any distinct advantage from bombers. Evidence of this is the surprise longshot winners over the years who are shorter, more positional hitters—Satoshi Kodaira, CT Pan, Wesley Bryan. It is the main reason I am mostly fading the very top-tier this week of players $10.0K and above and am instead dropping down to the second-tier to start most of my lineups. With so much value in the $7.5-$7.9K range, I love builds with three $9K and three $7K players. In that top-tier, Collin Morikawa and Cam Smith, and to a lesser extent, Justin Thomas, will be the only three I will play at all. I will mix and match them with my other best plays but will be under-exposed compared to their ownership.