Travelers Championship 2025 DFS Picks: Predictions, Values & Projections

From the treachery that was Oakmont, over to a nice birdie-fest at TPC River Highlands, we're headed to Cromwell, CT for the 2025 Travelers Championship. In it's 2nd season as a signature event, this may be one of the strongest fields we've seen in an event this year. No surprise there given the golfers are competing for their share of $20,000,000 and 700 FedExCup points.

Let’s dive in!

Travelers Championship 2025: Daily Fantasy Golf Picks & Projections

The People’s Championship, as it is lovingly referred to, is upon us. The 2nd most attended event of the PGA Tour, behind only the WM Phoenix Open, this event has been a mainstay on tour for over 70 years, and this iteration will be the 41st at TPC River Highlands. This event has become a bit of a birdie fest in recent years, but it is also known for it’s high number of playoff finishes, where the winner has had to be determined past 72 holes in 6 of the last 13 playing's. In its second year as a signature event, we see even higher stakes than we typically do at this event. With the course record set just two years ago by Keegan Bradley with a tournament score of 257 (23 under par), will this course be even more scoreable this year?

TPC River Highlands: Course Breakdown This Week

TPC River Highlands has all the makings of your typical Pete Dye course. Playing just over 6,800 yards at a par 70, the Pete Dye archetype is felt throughout. It’s a short, positional course that places an emphasis on accuracy, game around the green, and with the flat stick. With hazards aplenty and thick, penal rough we can understand why this course can be difficult for some. Additionally, water protects multiple greens, requiring even more accurate approach shots.

TPC River Highlands compares heavily to a few courses we see on tour. Notable, we see similarities with Colonial Country Club where the average green size and rough length are identical, and TPC Deere Run where the length, positional play, and bent grass greens offer very similar results. Comp Course History will take a much heavier weight in the model this week, as this style of play often carries high levels of correlation between events.

When looking at the breakdown of the course, a few things stand out. Perhaps most notably is the concentration of holes that we see in the 400-450 yard bucket for the Par 4’s. With 7 of the Par 4s falling in that range, it should be no surprise that the longest only plays 481 yards and the shortest will play essentially the same length as one of the Par 3s did at Oakmont at just 296 yards. With this in mind, and given that the PGA Tour average drive is right around 300 yards, we should see an increased number of approach shots between the 100-150 yard numbers. Additionally, given the positional play of the course and the overall landscape of recent events on tour, we will put a larger emphasis on SG:Off-The-Tee as opposed to Total Driving or Good Drives Gained. 

With this type of event as well as the birdie-fest nature of this course, we’re going to focus more heavily on double bogey or worse avoidance more than our standard bogey avoidance. There are plenty of holes where one dropped shot won’t kill a players chances, because there are so many chances to make this up. Birdie or Better Percentage will take a front and center stage as a result, given the need to be able to score.

Some top players in key stats this week:

Approach 100-150: Collin Morikawa, Sepp Straka, Justin Thomas, Russell Henley, Corey Conners, Keegan Bradley, Ryan Fox, Brian Harman, Shane Lowry, and Sam Burns.

Birdie or Better Gained: Scottie Scheffler, Sepp Straka, Max Greyserman, Stephan Jaeger, Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay, Cam Davis, Luke Clanton, Hideki Matsuyama, and Tony Finau.

SG: OTT: Scottie Scheffler, Shane Lowry, Sepp Straka, Patrick Cantlay, Viktor Hovland, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Bud Cauley, Keegan Bradley, and Aaron Rai.

Travelers Championship 2025 Field: Golf DFS

This will perhaps be the strongest field we’ve seen in 2025 thus far. Only 4 players in the field are not in the OWGR top 100, but even these players are nothing to shake a stick at. These 4 are Adam Hadwin, Rickie Fowler, Brian Campbell, and Luke Clanton. This field is unsurprisingly headlined by the entire top 10 of the OWGR, with Scottie Scheffler opening as the betting favorite for this event and defending champion. Many other former champions are in this field as well with Keegan Bradley (who owns the course record), Xander Schauffele, Harris English, and Jordan Spieth teeing it up. While Scottie is the clear favorite here, I am of the opinion that lineups can be built in many different ways this week given the depth of talent in this field. This is the type of event that any player can win, it’s just a matter of putting your game together for 72 holes.

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PGA Best Bets & Predictions: 2025 Travelers Championship (16-25 Overall, +2.60 Units)

• Sepp Straka: Top 20 (+115)
• Brian Harman: Top 10 (+550) 
• Travelers Championship One and Done Picks: 
  • Sepp Straka (High End)
  • Ryan Gerard (Low End)

GOLF DFS PICKS THIS WEEK: Top Tier

Viktor Hovland ($9,000 DraftKings/$11,000 FanDuel)

Hovland continues his resurgence in 2025. This past weekend at the U.S. Open he showed off his ball-striking in a major way, gaining nearly 8 strokes over the four days on approach. His accuracy off the tee has improved steadily, and he just had perhaps his best event of his career around the green at Oakmont. He’s had success at the Travelers before, with a T20 and T11 finish in his last 3 starts here, and he’s had success on courses such as TPC Deere Run and Colonial as well. He’s going to be a fun option this week.

Collin Morikawa ($10,200 DraftKings/$11,600 FanDuel)

If Hovland had a great week as a ball-striker, then Morikawa had a legendary one. Collin continues to be extremely accurate off the tee, an elite ball striker, and has shown upside around the green at times this year as well. He’s got multiple T5 finishes at comp courses, and he’s got the exact type of skill set that should thrive here. He came T13 last year, and I see no reason he cannot improve on that.

Justin Thomas ($9,300 DraftKings/$11,200 FanDuel)

JT has been struggling, there’s no doubt about that. After his win at RBC Heritage that he followed up with a T2nd at the Truist, he’s missed cuts in both majors this year since and looks a bit lost. That said, no one else in this field not named Rory or Scottie has the upside of JT. He remains one of the best scorers on tour, and when he’s on, he's one of the best ball-strikers and drivers. His short game is otherworldly at times, and if he can put it together, he can improve on his T5 finish from last year

GOLF DFS PICKS THIS WEEK: MID-TIER

Sepp Straka ($9,200 DraftKings/$10,900 FanDuel)

Straka has earned his reputation as a bit of a short course merchant by myself and others, but this is a week where that can pay off. He is as accurate as they come, a solid ball-striker and putter, who just struggles with wedges in his hands. If he can use the other parts of his game to put himself in spots where wedges aren’t needed, I could see him running away with this one. He’s played well here, and won at comp courses as well.

Jordan Spieth ($8,200 DraftKings/$10,000 FanDuel)

Spieth has shown this year that he has what it takes to win here. He’s had elite weeks with every part of his game. His driver is back to being a weapon, just had his best ball-striking event in nearly 2 years, and continues to be elite around the greens and solid on them. He’s won here in 2017, and won 3 other times on our top comp courses. I will say, he has not played well here since his win, but he’s playing much better golf over the last 6 months than he was for most of that stretch of starts.

Keegan Bradley ($8,500 DraftKings/$10,700 FanDuel)

Captain America at the People’s Championship, what’s not to love? The current scoring record holder here, it should be no surprise that he finds his way into the article. He’s been one of the best drivers in 2025, had shown great ball-striking and wedge game, and has had good weeks with the putter as well. His comp course history is nothing to shake a stick at either. He’s going to put himself in contention this week if he keeps playing the way he has, and he’s going to be very, very fun to root for

GOLF DFS PICKS THIS WEEK: VALUE TIER

Brian Harman ($7,200 DraftKings/$8,700 FanDuel)

Harman’s recent form leaves a lot to be desired. That said, we cannot ignore the course history here. In his last 7 starts here, he’s missed just one cut while finishing T9th or better in the other 6. He’s won in 2025, so it’s clear he can still put it together for 4 days. If there’s an event for him to do it at, it’s going to be one he’s consistently shined at.

Akshay Bhatia ($7,400 DraftKings/$8,900 FanDuel)

Akshay has had an up and down season, but has shown the upside needed to pull out a win. He’s remained accurate with the driver, and showed some elite length as well at Oakmont. His ball-striking remains elite, and his putter can be elite as well. The wedges are a concerning weakness, but he’s shown that he can be solid with these as well. He debuted here last year with a T5 finish, and has had a ton of success on comp courses as well. He’s not one I can ignore at this price.

Luke Clanton ($7,400 DraftKings/$8,700 FanDuel)

Clanton was built for this type of course. He’s extremely accurate with the driver, can putt and wedge with the best of them, and is a very solid ball-striker as well. He burst onto the scene at one of our comp courses, and he should be in a great spot to succeed in this field. He’s a very cheap play here, which makes me love him even more, as there’s usually no one this cheap with this much upside.

Player Pool

• FanDuel
• DraftKings

$ Tier	G
High	Scottie Scheffler $13,300
	Rory McIlroy $11,500
	Collin Morikawa $10,200
	Patrick Cantlay $9,800
	Ludvig Aberg $9,600
Medium	Justin Thomas $9,300
	Sepp Straka $9,200
	Russell Henley $8,800
	Keegan Bradley $8,500
	Jordan Spieth $8,200
	Ben Griffin $8,100
Low	Akshay Bhatia $7,400
	Ryan Gerard $6,700
	Luke Clanton $7,400
	Brian Harman $7,200
	Jason Day $7,000