Rob Bolton\u2019s Power Rankings Top Five<\/a> Same Game Parlay (+261)<\/p>\nThe 36-hole cut at Colonial Country Club peaked at 2-over par in the first tournament after Gil Hanse\u2019s renovation. The 2025 edition provided the lowest cut, even par. The top players enjoy when par is a meaningful score, and they don\u2019t need to make nine birdies a round to keep up. Colonial will test the entire bag this week, including the putter, on the Bentgrass greens. Lean on the best to advance.<\/p>\n
Since the post-2023 renovation, only three players have posted 10 under or better. Pre-renovation, the 2023 and 2022 editions did NOT produce a four-round total better than 271 (9 under). The course should be settled and softening, but that does not change the examination from tee to green. However, Mother Nature appears to be on the tee sheet this week. With locally heavy rainfall Tuesday night and forecast winds not reaching normal double-digit speeds, that is the formula for nudging scoring lower. Remember, only one guy needs to go low. Davis Riley posted 14 under in 2024 and won by five.<\/p>\n
Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler and Harry Hall (+1100)<\/p>\n
Thomas, who earned his first top 10 since March at THE PLAYERS Championship two weeks ago at the PGA Championship, rolls into town with momentum. He will take on a Gil Hanse redesign of a Perry Maxwell classic, just like he did when he won the PGA Championship in 2022 at Southern Hills outside Tulsa. Fowler snapped a run of three consecutive top-10 paydays after a final round of 75 at Aronimink knocked him down the leaderboard. Fowler cashed T6 in 2023 and T16 in 2025, which included a 64. Hall, a superb putter, makes his fourth start. His previous three starts included T6, MC, and T3 over the last three editions. Let\u2019s gamble.<\/p>\n
Tony Finau (+178) and Mark Hubbard (+310) \u2013 Same Game Parlay (+1000)<\/p>\n
Finau turned in his best performance of the season last week at TPC Craig Ranch. He arrives at Colonial with a career record of eight weekends from nine starts, with seven paydays of T29 or better. Hubbard, who held the 54-hole lead the week before the PGA Championship in Myrtle Beach, added four more rounds in the 60s last week for T31. Hubbard has never missed the cut in seven events at Colonial.<\/p>\n
Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Zach Bauchou – Same Game Parlay (+440)<\/p>\n
Bezuidenhout entered THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson on a run of six straight events where he made the cut. His 68-69 (5 under) last week in McKinney was not enough to qualify for the weekend, but hardly a warning sign either. Returning to Colonial this week, he will look to build on his previous four starts of T16, T17, T21, and T15 over the last four seasons. Bauchou, a former Oklahoma State Cowboy, cashed T28 or better in his last four starts on TOUR, including a season-best T6 at THE CJ CUP. He also owns 11 paydays from 13 starts on TOUR this season. For those who prefer higher stakes, this SGP for the Top 20 (including ties) pays +1440.<\/p>\n
The 2023 champion is on a streak of five straight made cuts at Colonial, including two before (T63, T8) his title and two on the newly renovated layout (64th, T16). The Argentine is making his 11th consecutive start in Fort Worth, and the only year he failed to qualify for the weekend was the 2020 tournament. After playing just once in April (MC; Valero Texas Open), he missed the cut twice in May before racking up four rounds of 70 or better last week at TPC Craig Ranch to turn the momentum. His biggest challenger this week, Nico Echavarria (+220), has not posted a top-30 result since winning the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches in late February.<\/p>\n
To Make the Cut \u2013 Underdogs \u2013 Same Game Parlay (+2570)<\/p>\n
Kevin Streelman (+114), Nick Hardy (+126), Charley Hoffman (+132) and Ben Martin (+138)<\/p>\n
From the field of 132 players, just 29 are at plus-money to qualify for the weekend. I\u2019ve chosen a quartet that would return a tasty payday. Streelman, who finished T9 as recently as 2023, also cashed T50 on his most recent visit in 2024. Making his 16th start, he knows how to move it around from tee to green. Hardy, in the field this week on a sponsor\u2019s exemption, has never missed the cut in three starts, including a career-best T11 in 2025. Hoffman, who made his first cut of the season last week at TPC Craig Ranch, cashed in 14 of 16 career visits. Martin has cashed seven times in seven previous appearances. Remember, DraftKings allows you to create your own parlays, so add or subtract as you see fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"12H AGO *: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: Longshots who can win Charles Schwab *:not(style)~*:not(style){margin-top:0.5rem;-webkit-margin-end:0px;margin-inline-end:0px;margin-bottom:0px;-webkit-margin-start:0px;margin-inline-start:0px;}]]> A Change Text Size Written…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-696927","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\/696927","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=696927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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