RBC Heritage 22 Heavy Petting

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If golf research were sexual...you'd be rounding 2nd base after this.

Welcome to the lovely Hilton Head Island for the RBC Heritage. Yuppity doo da...yuppity eh!Here are a few key things to know that may not have been covered on the podcast enough. Keep these in mind when narrowing down your bets and/or player pool.

• Harbour Town has one of the lowest average driving distance numbers on the PGA TOUR since 2015. Being long helps as you can possibly carry some of the trouble on certain holes, and you can certainly have shorter clubs as you club down off the tee. But, we'll still see the bombers club down.

• Harbour Town also boasts one of the lowest GIR% averages on the PGA TOUR since 2015. Greens will be missed. It's not hard to get up and down unless you miss in the water or a handful of these weird Pete Dye bunkers. But this puts an even greater emphasis on incoming iron form

• The number of shots from 175 to 200 yards here are considerably higher than the average PGA TOUR event.

• DataGolf curated strokes gained data at The Masters. Your top players in the field this week that led the field in SG: APP last week at Augusta: Na, Smith, Higgs, Schwartzel, JT, Morikawa, Kisner, DJ, Horschel, and Cantlay

• Harbour Town is about artistry and not brute strength. Sooooo many player quotes through the years cite working the ball both ways, working it high, low, etc. Mentions of requiring a lot of thought around the place based on run outs, hazards, and angles into the greens. Set your lineups, look over your betting tickets...and make sure you've got some guys in there that can "paint pictures" on the course.

• All of the par 3s are lengthy even by TOUR standards. 190 to 200+ on all of them. Again...mid to long iron prowess will be essential

• DataGolf ranks SG Metrics VS a player's expectation based on course fit. It's interesting because it can reveal cheaper/long shot players that tend to level up at a certain course. Here are the Top 10 for Harbour Town (Min 12 rds): Bryan, Noren, Spaun, Donald, Cantlay, Pan, Frittelli, Grillo, Lowry, & Grace

• The bottom 10 would be (Min 12 rds): Watney, Kang, Reavie, Lahiri, Streb, Hahn, DJ, Hughes, Fowler, Clark & Taylor

1. Strokes gained T2G leaders from last year's Heritage: 1. Cink 2. Morikawa 3. Henley 4. Grillo 5. Simpson 6. Conners 7. Kirk 8. Lowry 9. HV3 10. Berger 

2. Rounds gained % putting leaders on bermuda grass (that also rank top 100 in ball striking): 1.McCarthy 2. Smith 3. Fitz 4. Kiz 5. Hadwin 6. Hatton 7. Kuch 8. Harman 9. Straka 10. Griffin

3. Strokes gained T2G leaders in the last 3 calendar months: 1. JT 2. Kirk 3. Niemann 4. Hadwin 5. Fitz 6. Henley 7. Conners 8. Lowry 9. List 10. Hoge

4. On courses <7200 yards, average to difficult scoring, & bermuda grass, your top 10 in total strokes gained are: 1. Simpson 2. DJ 3. Kuch 4. Im 5. Noren 6. Fleetwood 7. Grillo 8. McCarthy 9. Lowry 10. Henley

5. Top 10 JUST strokes gained ball striking on courses <7200 yards, average to difficult to hit fairways, & average to difficult scoring: 1. Grillo 2. JT 3. Conners 4. DJ 5. Simpson 6. Kokrak 7. Berger 8. Im 9. Niemann 10. Cantlay

6. Top 10 in birdies or better gained the last 50 rounds: 1. Smith 2. JT 3. Henley 4. Young 5. DJ 6. Cantlay 7. McNealy 8. Simpson 9. Lee 10. HV3

7. Historical GIR's gained @ Harbour Town (min 8 rds): 1. Kokrak 2. Garnett 3. Cink 4. Conners 5. DJ 6. NeSmith 7. Furyk 8. Horschel 9. Hadwin 10. Morikawa 

8. Top 10 in GIR's gained the last 12 rounds: 1.Wise 2. Tringale 3. Spaun 4. Smalley 5. Taylor 6. Fleetwood 7. Lowry 8. Conners 9. Horschel 10. Lashley

9. Top 10 in proximity from the 2 main approach shot buckets (150-175 & 175-200): 1. JT 2. Hoge 3. Svensson 4. Morikawa 5. Lowry 6. EVR 7. Grillo 8. Norlander 9. Glover 10. Straka

10. Top 10 projected points per salary dollar (good values): 1.Fitz 2. Hadwin 3. Hoge 4. Munoz 5. Cantlay 6. Lowry 7. Spaun 8. McNealy 9. Kirk 10. Henley

Check out the H2H Matchups video EVEN IF YOU DON'T bet H2H's.DB breaks down some key matchups for some chalky players in DFS and what they may tell us about whether or not we should pivot.Don't sleep on the H2H video...