2026 Travelers Championship betting and PGA Tour DFS picks: Current form, course fit and horses for courses
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2026 Travelers Championship betting and PGA Tour DFS picks: Current form, course fit and horses for courses

DORAL, FLORIDA - MAY 03: Cameron Young holds Cadillac Championship trophy during the final round of the Cadillac Championship 2026 at Trump National Doral Miami on May 3, 2026 in Doral, Florida. (Photo by Michael Pimentel/ISI Photos/ISI Photos via Getty Images)


Each week, including this week's 2026 Travelers Championship, Golf News Net offers PGA Tour betting picks and daily fantasy sports (DFS) lineups using our proprietary model, which is weighted toward longer-term performance.

Let's look at the top 10 players in this week's PGA Tour model.

2026 Travelers Championship rankings: Top 10

POS PLAYER PTS DK PRICE ODDS
1 Scheffler, Scottie 2.837 13800 420
2 Fleetwood, Tommy 1.745 10300 1900
3 Aberg, Ludvig 1.371 9800 2000
4 Schauffele, Xander 1.331 10200 1600
5 Henley, Russell 1.325 9000 4000
6 Cantlay, Patrick 1.324 8900 3500
7 Reitan, Kristoffer 1.307 7200 6000
8 Fitzpatrick, Alex 1.269 7700 2000
9 Rai, Aaron 1.083 8000 6600
10 Thomas, Justin 1.073 9100 3300

You can find this week's model right here, with full access for GNN members.

However, we don't just use our model when making these picks. We also need to look at current form, course fits and horses for courses. This data can and should help inform our decision making, including validating things we see in the model. If everything lines up, then a player can become an auto-play. If only some parts of the equation suggest a player will perform well this week, then we may look more tepidly at investing in a player.

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2026 Travelers Championship history and current PGA Tour finish trends

Finish Trends

Recent PGA Tour Trends

We start by looking at the recent past, back at players who have finished inside the top 15 in the last five individual PGA Tour events. This week, we're including players in the PGA Tour fields this week.

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  • Burns, Sam - 2 - T-4 Memorial, 2nd US Open
  • Clark, Wyndham - 2 - WIN The Nelson, 3rd Memorial, WIN US Open
  • Cole, Eric - 2 - P-2 Colonial, T-8 Memorial
  • Fleetwood, Tommy - 3 - T-4 Memorial, T-11 RBC Canadian Open, T-11 US Open
  • Gerard, Ryan - 2 - T-10 Colonial, P-2 Memorial
  • Kim, Si Woo - 2 - 2nd The Nelson, T-10 Memorial
  • Rose, Justin - 2 - T-12 Memorial, T-11 US Open
  • Scheffler, Scottie - 3 - 3rd The Nelson, T-12 Memorial, T-4 US Open
  • Spaun, J.J. - 2 - T-6 Colonial, T-12 Memorial

Event Finish History

We like to look for potential horses for courses with most PGA Tour events, particularly those with regular host courses. We're typically looking at players who finished in the top 15 at the Travelers Championship in the last five years, keeping in mind that we've only had one year at this venue in a tournament that moves around.

Course Fits

A player is a course fit -- or a potential course fit, at least -- if their Strokes Gained breakout when they finish in the top 25 is similar to the average for top-25 finishers at this week's Travelers Championship.

Here's our breakdown:

Putting: 28%
Tee to Green: 72%
Off the Tee: 18%
Approach: 38%
Around the Green: 16%

Our fits include:

Brian Harman
Tommy Fleetwood
Keegan Bradley
Patrick Cantlay
Justin Rose
Nick Taylor

Find course fits using our member-only tool which shows this week's course numbers relative to the field.

I've also created a new listing which helps you find correlated courses by looking at the course fit breakdown for each recurring host course on the PGA Tour.

Good luck this week!

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