this week<\/a> would eliminate any stress, or need for that matter, for using his final two sponsor\u2019s exemptions. Making the cut in five of six starts in 2026, he almost won the Puerto Rico Open (third), and he cashed T9 two weeks ago at ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic. Playing him without Scheffler would cash +225.<\/p>\nTop 20 (including ties) \u2013 Same Game Parlay \u2013 Austin Eckroat and Kevin Roy (+1100)<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s gamble. Without a Top 30 or Top 40 market this week, I am adding another Top 20 play. Eckroat, a two-time winner on TOUR, enters this week on a streak of three consecutive paydays inside the Top 20. He earned a share of 10th place at the Valero Texas Open and followed with a T6 paired with Davis Thompson at the Zurich Classic. Returning to his own ball at Myrtle Beach, he cashed T19. He signed for 70 or better in his previous 17 rounds on TOUR. He ranks 13th in SG: Approach in 2026. Roy has not missed the weekend in his eight previous events and enters the week from a career-best tying finish of solo third in South Carolina. Roy quietly ranks 34th SG: Total, highlighted by his excellent short game and ability to make birdies.<\/p>\n
Top South African \u2013 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (+116)<\/p>\n
Bezuidenhout enters this week with nine paydays of T39 or better in 2026, and he has not missed a cut in his last six events. Fending off the 2025 runner-up, Erik van Rooyen (+335), big-hitting big man Christo Lamprecht (+415), and Garrick Higgo (+245), who arrives with a new caddie on the bag, is the challenge. Van Rooyen missed eight consecutive cuts to start the year but owns four consecutive paydays, the best being T38 in Myrtle Beach. Higgo, who found the weekend in just 5 of 13 events in 2026, has one payday inside the top 50. Lamprecht is batting .400 (four made cuts in 10 starts), highlighted by T48 at WM Phoenix Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"13H AGO 4 Min Read Golfbet News *:not(style){overflow:hidden;position:absolute;top:0px;right:0px;bottom:0px;left:0px;display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webkit-justify-content:center;justify-content:center;-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;width:100%;height:100%;}.css-17ygvlf>img,.css-17ygvlf>video{object-fit:cover;}.css-17ygvlf::before{height:0px;content:””;display:block;padding-bottom:56.25%;}]]> Running with Rick: Three players from three betting tiers who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-683211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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