Bamford staked Pierceson Coody at 35/1, pointing out that the 25-year-old sits 110th in the FedEx Fall standings and can grab a full 2026 card by cracking the top-100—huge motivation in a final-event field. Coody is top-five in Bamford’s recent Strokes Gained form table after seven Korn Ferry top-10s and PGA Tour podiums at the 3M Open and Bank of Utah Championship. He owns Sea Island reps from his amateur days, is a three-time KFT winner who ‘knows how to close,’ and just posted 22nd in hurricane-gust conditions at Bermuda, signalling both coastal aptitude and resilience. Bamford believes those ingredients, plus the maiden-friendly history of this event, make Coody live for an outright breakthrough.