The final stop on the PGA Tour before breaking for the Holiday season takes place this week in St. Simons Island, Georgia, when the expanded field competes in The RSM Classic. A total of 156 players will reach the cut line playing across two courses at Sea Island Golf Club with the survivors playing the final two rounds on the more familiar Seaside layout. Although some of the world’s top players are skipping the event, there is plenty of intrigue on the betting lines.
At +750 and the highest ranked player in the field, Tour Championship winner Webb Simpson opened as the betting favorite at BookMaker.eu. There is a significant drop in the odds to second favorite Cameron Champ, who opened at +1725. Defending champion Austin Cook is further down the odds list at +2850.
Odds to Win The RSM Classic at BookMaker.eu
Webb Simpson + 750
Cameron Champ +1725
J.J. Spaun +1825
C.T. Pan +2225
Russell Henley +2555
Kevin Kisner +2805
Lucas Glover +2850
Austin Cook +2850
Chesson Hadley +3050
Joaquin Niemann +3605
Zach Johnson +3625
Luke List +3800
Harold Varner III +4000
Jim Furyk +4505
Chris Kirk +4505
Charles Howell III +4505
Sam Ryder +4505
Denny Mccarthy +4575
Peter Uihlein +5000
Sungjae Im +5000
Jamie Lovemark +5555
Bud Cauley +5555
Bill Haas +5850
Richy Werenski +5905
Anders Albertson +6000
Stewart Cink +6475
Whee Kim +6500
Brian Harman +6575
Michael Thompson +6825
Ryan Armour +6875
Patrick Rodgers +7000
Brian Gay +7350
Keith Mitchell +7350
Brice Garnett +7425
Padraig Harrington +7425
Bronson Burgoon +7425
Kramer Hickok +8450
Nick Watney +8750
Jason Dufner +9000
Graeme McDowell +9400
Kevin Streelman +9400
Kelly Kraft +10000
Aaron Baddeley +10000
Patton Kizzire +10000
Roberto Castro +10000
Hudson Swafford +10000
Andrew Landry +10000
Adam Schenk +10000
Ben Silverman +10000
Ted Potter Jr. +10000
Odds Analysis
Webb Simpson + 750
Clearly the class of the field it’s hard not to take a good look at Simpson. The odds are long but winning is always better than the alternative. He’s a southern guy and the layout is to his liking. Not a particularly big hitter, Simpson does most of his damage on approach and around the greens, ranking as one of the best on Tour last season. In his first start since claiming the Tour Championship in September, Simpson shot -13 at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open a few weeks ago to grab a share of 15th. He’s also the highest ranked player in the field at No. 20.
Cameron Champ +1725
You wouldn’t think this course is suited for Champ’s distance-off-the-tee game, but he’s playing so well right now he’s just hard to ignore on any course he plays. He’s hit more fairways than the field in six of nine starts and his short game is simply overlooked by his towering drives. Champ is having a great start to the season with a win at the Sanderson Farms Championship and a top-10 at El Cameleon last week. He’s familiar with the layout having played the SEC Championships here while attending Texas A&M.
Kevin Kisner +2805
Recent form be damned, this is an event where Kisner has had success and his game fits the mold for how to win at Seaside. The task is to hit fairways and greens, and Kisner does that with regularity. He ranked 30th in fairways and 13th in strokes gained on the green last Tour season. He’s from this neck of the woods and he’s talked glowingly about Sea Island in the past. Why not, he won here two years ago with a -21 and he has two other top-5s and a T20. Not too bad.
Harold Varner III +4000
A longshot with plenty of value, Varner enters on a bit of a hot streak. He blew up in the second round of the Sanderson Farms Championship, missing the cut after a 79, but he’s responded in a big way. Getting back in the saddle the following week, he went under par all four days for a T15 at the Shriners and carded a pair of 65s along with a 68 and 69 to claim a T6 in Mexico last week. Varner has been solid around the greens and his putter is steady, giving him a chance to make up strokes.
Course: Seaside Island Golf Course – 7,005-yards, Par-70
Those surviving the cut will play the weekend on the Seaside course. The distance of Seaside is relatively short at just over 7,000 yards when stretched out with few hazards along the fairways. That makes hitting fairways and greens more important than distance off the tees. Two of the past three winners scored in the -20s so the layout isn’t the most difficult. The greens are larger than most with an emphasis on short iron approach shots and strong putting.
TV Coverage: Golf Channel
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