Lindeque identified Sam Stevens as the prototypical $7,400 flyer for builds that start with both Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler. Renaissance Club is "driver heavy," and Stevens averages 308 yards off the tee while gaining 0.55 strokes OTT per round over his last six events. His form is quietly trending—three top-30s in that stretch—and Byron likes how Stevens handled cross-winds on similar setups at Puerto Rico and the Texas Open. If conditions stay firm, Stevens can lean on the driver-wedge combo that produced a solo second at Torrey earlier in the season. Projected ownership under 5 percent makes him a leverage piece in 150-max GPPs; Byron will also punch a top-20 bet if books hang 5-1 or better.

Byron Lindeque urged gamers not to overreact to Aldrich Potgieter’s recent mid-round withdrawal. The 19-year-old South African generates 190 mph ball speed and should be able to carry every pot bunker that tightens Renaissance Club’s fairways—exactly the strategy Min Woo Lee rode to victory. Lindeque compared the Scottish setup to Australia’s sandbelt, where Potgieter logged multiple amateur wins, noting that firm, windy coastal turf is the youngster’s comfort zone. With most of the industry spooked by the WD, Byron expects single-digit ownership at $7,000 and sees true top-5 upside if the driver cooperates. He will fire Potgieter in GPP stacks with Rory or Scottie and dabble in each-way outrights at 100-1 or longer.

Byron Lindeque called Luke List the perfect "flop-lag" option at $7,200 after the big hitter disappointed chalky backers during the Midwest swing. List still ranks top-10 on Tour in strokes gained off-the-tee over the last 24 rounds, and Byron expects him to unleash driver on nearly every par 4 because Renaissance Club’s fairway pot bunkers sit 300-plus yards out. List can simply fly them, widening the landing areas for his prodigious carry distance. The putter remains brutal—he has lost strokes on the greens in six straight starts—but Lindeque thinks the slower, flatter fescue surfaces can create positive variance and hide the weakness, similar to how List spiked for his 2024 Puerto Rico win. With ownership projections in the mid-single digits and top-10 outright odds drifting beyond 70-1, Byron is willing to gamble on List’s ceiling in large-field GPPs and sprinkle tiny outright/top-20 bets as well.

Byron Lindeque labeled Sepp Straka an "easy-course specialist." If Renaissance Club is projected to play soft and surrender scores around −20, Straka’s wedge-and-putter combo makes him one of Byron’s favorite $8K options. Straka excels when he can bomb driver, stuff short irons, and lean on a streaky flat stick—exactly the formula that propelled his 59 at the John Deere last season. Conversely, if wind pushes winning score toward −12 and demands creative scrambling, Byron will fade Straka entirely, citing the Austrian’s tendency to "skull chips across Scottish landscapes." Lindeque’s action plan: monitor weather; fire on Straka in birdie-fest builds, pivot elsewhere if conditions toughen.

Byron Lindeque argued that Tommy Fleetwood makes a cleaner cash-game starting point than Collin Morikawa this week. Fleetwood has rattled off rock-solid finishes all season and carries zero equipment changes, caddie swaps, or recent missed cuts—"just clean-cut, baby." Byron acknowledged the emotional let-down of Fleetwood’s heartbreaking near-miss three weeks ago but trusts the Englishman’s mental fortitude after multiple bounce-backs in his career. At $9,900, Fleetwood offers elite ball-striking stability and a no-nonsense short game, giving him what Byron calls "the stereotypical high-floor profile you want in double-ups." If listeners do not fully trust Morikawa’s new Billy Foster experiment, Fleetwood is the DFS safety valve in the upper-9K range.

Byron Lindeque said he is fading Xander Schauffele in his main DFS builds even at the discounted $10,100 salary. Schauffele has produced just one top-10 finish all season – eighth at the Masters – and has yet to sniff a top-5, which Byron views as disqualifying ceiling for a five-figure price tag. Rory and Scottie are projected to soak up roughly 60 percent combined ownership, with Fleetwood and Morikawa grabbing another 30 percent, leaving Schauffele around 12 percent and perhaps as low as 8 percent. While Byron acknowledged that sub-10 percent exposure on an elite talent can be a game-theory smash in large GPPs, he will only click Xander if the projection dips below that threshold; otherwise he prefers Rory at $11.4K or Fleetwood in the same range. Until Schauffele shows something better than a lone Augusta top-10, Byron believes the opportunity cost is too high.

Byron Lindeque laid –125 on Justin Thomas NOT to finish inside the Top-20 at the Genesis Scottish Open. Lindeque pointed out that Thomas has never solved Renaissance Club, logging finishes of 60th, 62nd, and a missed cut in his three appearances despite generally excelling in windy conditions elsewhere. The lack of Scottish Open success mirrors Thomas’s middling Open Championship resume, so Byron is willing to pay moderate juice to fade him in what he views as a clear course-fit mismatch.

Byron Lindeque explained that Aldrich Potgieter is a course-fit specialist who should be played exclusively on longer, more demanding tracks. Since switching equipment, Potgieter is generating roughly 190 mph of driver ball speed, but that power is wasted on "driver-wedge" birdie-fests like most Korn Ferry stops. Lindeque added that Potgieter himself prefers venues akin to Torrey Pines and Nedbank, where length matters and the field faces long-iron approaches instead of flip wedges. DFS and betting investors should therefore ignore Potgieter at short par-70s but circle him the moment the schedule turns to a 7,400-plus yard setup with penal rough and firm greens.

Byron Lindeque said he is "all-in" on Thriston Lawrence for the upcoming links stretch that begins with the Genesis Scottish Open. Lindeque walked more than 25 holes with Lawrence at the John Deere, noting that every time he left – naturally right before Lawrence’s eagle on the par-5 17th – the South African’s ball-striking looked sharp even if the scorecard did not cooperate. More importantly, Lindeque spoke with Lawrence’s girlfriend, who is extremely confident in his form specifically for firm, windy coastal setups. Lawrence grew up on similar turf in South Africa and owns multiple DP World Tour wins on links-style venues. Lindeque believes the tighter fairways and creative around-the-green demands at Renaissance Club will accentuate his strengths, while softer Midwestern birdie-fests mask them. He plans to roster Lawrence heavily in DFS GPPs and sprinkle outrights/top-20 bets before the market catches up.

Byron Lindeque highlighted Jacob Bridgeman at $7,500 as his favorite GPP flier. Bridgman owns a 12 percent top-five finish rate despite the bargain salary and is one of the field’s best putters on Bentgrass. Lindeque’s upside model ranks him 8th overall—25 spots higher than his DraftKings price—thanks to that spike-putting profile. Though the ball-striking can disappear and lead to missed cuts, Bridgman’s putter has carried him to high finishes on leaderboards that included elite names like Justin Thomas. Byron is happy to roster him in roughly 10 percent of lineups, knowing even one Sunday putting heater could vault Bridgman into the optimal lineup at minuscule ownership.

Byron Lindeque closed his card by re-upping on Matthew McCarty at 80-1 (he was 150-1 the prior week before finishing 18th). McCarty sits fourth in Byron’s custom model, ranks top-10 in strokes gained during ‘easy scoring’ events, and has landed 19th, 4th and 15th at the Rocket, Canadian and Byron Nelson—three easiest setups on the recent schedule. A three-time Korn Ferry Tour winner who claimed the inaugural Black Desert Championship, McCarty has shown he can seal the deal when his iron game pops. Byron admits the floor is low but in a soft-green birdie fest prefers McCarty’s ceiling over safer cut-makers.

Byron Lindeque highlighted Brian Campbell as his favorite sub-$6,500 dart, noting the former Illinois standout checks far more boxes than his price suggests. Campbell ranks 1st in the field in SG-Putting on Bentgrass over the last 36 rounds, 5th in strokes gained on ‘Easy’ courses, 19th in driving accuracy and top-5 in wedge proximity from 150-200 yards. Lindeque’s custom model shows Campbell 55 spots higher than his DraftKings salary slot, calling him ‘super dangerous’ whenever birdie chances are plentiful. At just $6,400 and likely sub-2 % ownership, Byron believes Campbell can be the salary-saver that unlocks double-stud builds while still offering realistic top-25 equity if the putter cooperates.

Byron Lindeque called Lucas Glover the best chalk you can eat in the $9K range. Glover grades top-three in this field for approach play from 150-100 yards and for strokes-gained off the tee on short courses—two buckets that dominate TPC Deere Run. Byron noted that Glover’s tee-to-green prowess virtually guarantees a made cut even if the putter is cold, providing a high cash-game floor and plenty of birdie looks if the Bentgrass blade cooperates. He is willing to accept the popularity and find differentiation elsewhere, arguing that fading Glover’s elite ball-striking safety in order to get cute is a mistake on a course where bogeys are ‘death.’

Byron Lindeque warned that Davis Thompson’s projected 20 %-plus ownership is fool’s gold for DFS. While Thompson’s ball-striking has been ‘sensational,’ he has gained strokes with the putter in only one of his last nine tournaments and sits 153rd in this field in SG-Putting. Lindeque pointed out that Thompson arrived at last year’s Deere on a short-game hot streak before finishing T-2, but that safety net is gone now. On a track where the cut was –5 last summer, Lindeque prefers to dodge a chalky player whose flat-stick variance trends hard toward negative and instead target lower-owned putters who can convert the requisite birdies.

Byron Lindeque wants to post a peer-to-peer ‘NOT Top-20’ ticket on Jason Day, expecting to grab plus-money because most users will chase the Aussie’s name value. Lindeque cited three risk factors: Day’s chronic back issues make a mid-event WD an ever-present landmine; his best gains this season have come from short-game heroics rather than iron play, a profile that rarely wins birdie fests; and his strokes-gained scoring average plummets on tracks rated ‘Easy,’ where he ranks just 53rd in the field compared to 7th on ‘Hard.’ Byron said he’d lay up to –200 on NOT Top-10 and will float a smaller, juicier number on NOT Top-20 hoping someone bites.

Byron Lindeque took a speculative 60-1 shot on Nicolas Echavarria, arguing that the Colombian is the type of two-time tour winner who only needs the occasional putting spike to close. Echavarria ranked sixth in approach last week and historically out-dueled Justin Thomas on the way to a ZOZO win, proving he can summon elite irons. TPC Deere Run’s lack of length neutralizes his main weakness (distance) while rewarding the short-game heater he flashed over the weekend in Detroit. Byron views him as a classic volatility play: low model exposure but dangerous whenever the irons cooperate.

Byron Lindeque sprinkled Lucas Glover at 40-1, noting the 2021 champion still grades second in the field with wedges and third in driving on short courses. Glover finished ninth at the Travelers—a signature-event comp course—and owns a win plus two additional top-10s in his last four John Deere starts. Bentgrass is his only mildly positive putting surface; Byron thinks ‘slightly above average’ flat-stick weeks are all Glover needs when the ball-striking is elite. Hidden upside: Glover is apparently staying in the crowded trophy house, giving him the same quirky narrative tailwind that hit three straight years.

Byron Lindeque punched a 33-1 outright on J.T. Poston, emphasizing the tournament’s tendency to crown multi-time winners and the fact that Poston is bunking again in the ‘trophy house’ that produced the last three champs. Poston’s approach play is finally trending up—something he lacked in recent Deere appearances—and he consistently gains strokes both around the green and on Bentgrass greens here. Lindeque added comp-course evidence: Poston ranks sixth in strokes-gained at River Highlands, Harbour Town and TPC Summerlin, all short positional layouts. If the irons stay positive, Byron trusts Poston’s elite putter to handle a projected Sunday birdie barrage.

Byron Lindeque echoed Kenny’s enthusiasm for Kevin Roy but funneled it into a top-20 bet, noting sportsbooks are still dealing +320 despite Roy finishing inside the top-20 in 43% of his recent starts. The 15 strokes he has picked up on approach over the last three tournaments are the best three-week iron run in the entire John Deere field. Roy’s best PGA Tour finishes have all come on easy setups—8th Rocket Mortgage, 18th Canada, 15th Byron Nelson—exact profile TPC Deere Run rewards. With putting variance often deciding placement bets, Lindeque believes Roy merely needs an average week with the flat stick to cash the top-20 ticket.

Byron Lindeque doubled down on Thriston Lawrence, grabbing 81-1 outright (five places) and adding a top-10 at +700 and top-20 at +320. Lindeque stressed that Lawrence was never priced below $8k on the DP World Tour in 2024, underscoring how talented bookmakers think he is overseas. He reminded listeners that Lawrence finished runner-up at last year’s Open Championship and owns six worldwide wins, so his current T8-T12-T4 run suggests the form is coming together on U.S. soil. Ball-striking surged last week, and Bentgrass is his favorite putting surface. Lindeque called him a “world-class talent” who simply needs one American comfort week to pay off a full ladder ticket.

Byron Lindeque recommended grabbing the 150-to-1 futures number on Aldrich Potgieter to win the 2025 Masters with an each-way to 12 places. Lindeque gushed over Potgieter’s "raw, un-teach-able" power—averaging 190-mph driver ball speed—and noted that Augusta National rewards high-speed, high-apex drives more than almost any major venue. He pointed out that the South African now has two full PGA Tour seasons locked up after his win, giving him time to refine his short game before April. With bookmakers slow to adjust to his breakthrough and the Masters typically limiting the field to 90-ish players, Lindeque views a top-8 or top-12 place payout as realistic value even if the youngster does not yet have the touch to slip on a green jacket.

Byron Lindeque called Steven Fisk at $6,900 his favorite salary-saver, noting the DraftKings price underrates a player who sits 21st in strokes gained on easy courses, 13th off-the-tee on tracks longer than 7,200 yards, and 16th in a Detroit-specific weighted approach bucket focused on 100-150-yard wedges. Fisk is also 17th in par-5 scoring and grades well out of the rough, an overlooked skill given Detroit’s bluegrass. Recent form isn’t empty either—made cuts at the RBC Canadian (T43) and Charles Schwab (T66) are solid for a 6K flier. Because DraftKings lists him as only the 70th-priciest golfer, Lindeque sees a 20-spot value gap and wants heavy GPP exposure before the crowd catches on.

Byron Lindeque is "very much in" on Keith Mitchell for both DFS and top-20 wagers, arguing that Detroit Golf Club is tailor-made for Mitchell’s skill set even though his course history stinks. Mitchell ranks 6th in the field in strokes-gained off-the-tee over the past 24 rounds and is top-10 in birdies on par-5s—two stats that correlate strongly with past Rocket Mortgage leaderboards. Lindeque pointed out that Detroit is the Tour’s 12th least-sticky course for repeat success, so poor prior results matter far less. He used Lucas Glover’s breakout at River Highlands as an example of course-fit eventually winning out over history. With ownership projected under 8 % and odds of +280 for a top-20, Lindeque sees Mitchell as a high-leverage add to rosters built around popular chalk like Luke Clanton or Ben Griffin.

Byron Lindeque advised pivoting to Max Homa at just $9,000 on DraftKings instead of chasing Hideki Matsuyama. Lindeque’s split-stat database shows Hideki ranking dead last among all $9K-and-up golfers in birdie-or-better gained on easy tracks, while Homa sits inside the field’s top 10 thanks to eight positive putting weeks in his last nine starts. Detroit’s 80 % driver usage and sub-560-yard par-5s play directly into Homa’s mix of length and red-hot putter, yet early ownership projections have him in single digits because gamers are gravitating toward Cantlay, Griffin, and the “play Hideki when no one plays him” narrative. Lindeque called Homa a “pure leverage smash”—$500 cheaper than Matsuyama, comparable win equity, and a much friendlier course fit. He suggested building tournament cores around Homa and even sprinkling an outright at 28-1 before the number shortens if the forecasted calm conditions hold.

Byron Lindeque called Cameron Davis an auto-bet at +280 for a top-20, noting the Aussie has finished inside the top-20 in all four Rocket Mortgage starts, including his 2021 victory. Even in down form, Davis has been “the most profitable bet at Detroit” over the last six years, and Lindeque sees no reason books should be hanging nearly 3-to-1 on what amounts to a course-horse prop. With two reachable par-5s tailor-made for Davis’s high-launch driver and a second-shot layout that masks his shaky wedges, Lindeque expects another comfortable T20 and suggests loading the placement prop rather than chasing a repeat victory.

Byron Lindeque said Aldrich Potgieter is a must-add outright and DFS flier at 110-1 because Detroit Golf Club rewards raw length and minimizes chipping, a perfect recipe for the 19-year-old South African bomber. Lindeque noted Potgieter ranked top-5 in carry distance on the Korn Ferry circuit and will be able to “drive some of the short par-4s” this week, especially if Friday’s forecasted 20-30 mph tailwinds materialize. Potgieter already flashed upside with a 6th-place finish at Colonial, a tight, less-than-driver layout, proving his game is not one-dimensional. Over his last eight starts he owns two top-6 finishes mixed with five missed cuts, the boom-or-bust profile ideal for large-field GPPs and long-shot outrights. Lindeque summed it up: at triple-digit odds you are buying elite distance and spike potential on a course where bombers historically separate.

Lindeque plans to lay juice on Hideki Matsuyama NOT finishing top-10 via PlayProfitX’s yes/no market. Matsuyama has cracked the top-10 only 7% of his starts in the past year and ranks outside the top-30 in the model’s easy-course scoring and comp-course performance buckets. Lindeque is comfortable paying the premium because "no other books let you short the placement," and he has excess bankroll there after recent wins.

Lindeque loves Ben Griffin at +220 for a top-10. Griffin owns a 33% top-10 rate over the last 12 months—best in this field—and sits No. 1 in Lindeque’s "upside" rankings that weigh birdie-making and finish distribution. The North Carolinian also checks the comp-course boxes (TPC Craig Ranch, Scottsdale) and scores well on easy tracks. With sportsbooks still pricing him like a volatile mid-tier, Lindeque calls the +220 number "criminally soft."

Byron Lindeque is again playing Patrick Cantlay top-20, this time at −105. His placement tool has Cantlay inside the top-20 in 55% of starts, translating to a calculated 22% expected edge at the posted price. Lindeque called Cantlay "auto-cash" last week as the Californian hovered between 10th and 20th throughout. While a plus-350 top-five is tempting, Lindeque prefers the steadier payout on a golfer who grades out elite in easy-course scoring and possesses previous top-five Rocket Mortgage finishes.