Valspar Championship

[Bamford]

The Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida is a brute of a par 71. Techical, tight off the tee and tree-lined, this isn't your standard Florida golf course. Elevated tees, relatively small green complexes and plenty of dogleg holes featuring water. Bogeys and doubles abound. Copperhead also traditionally plays firm as well, and as we know on the PGA Tour, give players non-receptive greens and scoring goes high. The field this year looks strong enough. No Tiger or Rose from 12 months ago, but Dustin Johnson, Jason Day and Jon Rahm add the Valspar to their schedule in 2019, alongside the likes of Simpson, Garcia and last week's hero Jim Furyk.

With strong breeze forecast Thursday and Friday, look for grinders this week, who can course manage and scramble. I'm on Glover 40/1, Kisner 50/1, Snedeker 66/1 and Harman 150/1.