The PGA TOUR gives players one more chance to tune up for next week’s PGA Championship, the second major championship of the season. Since it’s a Signature Event, this week’s event has some of the biggest names playing for a hefty purse just outside of Philadelphia. Since Quail Hollow Club is hosting next week’s major, the Wissahickon Course of the Philadelphia Cricket Club will host this week’s event. Since the PGA TOUR has never stopped at this track before, it creates a lot of uncertainty and excitement for this week’s tournament. Be sure to consider all the different ways to play as you fill out your betting card on DraftKings Sportsbook. One way I enjoy finding the “sweet spot” that balances risk and reward in my golf best bets each week is by digging up some winners in the “3-ball” tournament matchups each week.
The format of 3-ball picks is simple to understand—three golfers are placed in a group and you select the winner for the tournament. You can find the five trios for this week in the tournament groups section of the Truist Championship 2025 page.
After going 3-for-3 at the RBC Heritage, I had another 3-for-3 week at last week’s THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson. I love including 3-balls in my golf best bets because they typically offer positive odds but don’t require a pick out of a huge group.
We don’t have course history to consider, so we’ll lean more heavily on course fit and recent form for this week’s three golf best bets from the seven tournament trios available.
Corey Conners (+160)
Normally, I avoid taking the favorite in tournament trios, but I think Conners has much better form coming into this week as he faces Hideki Matsuyama (+175) and Sepp Straka (+180) in this international trio.
Matsuyama can go very low in a hurry as he proved earlier this season at The Sentry, but he missed the cut at THE PLAYERS and the Valero before finishing T-21 at the Masters. Since he passed on the RBC Heritage, he hasn’t played since the Masters, making his current form unknown at best and shaky at worst.
Straka did play the RBC Heritage and beat Conners in that event with a T-13 finish. He missed the cut at the Masters, though, and finished T-28 at the Valspar Championship.
Conners did fade a little at the RBC Heritage, finishing T-49. Some of that may have been due to a letdown from battling so hard at Augusta, where he was right in the mix until the final round and finished T-8. He also finished in the top 10 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, THE PLAYERS Championship and the Valspar Championship.
His excellent ball striking translates well to almost any layout, so he should be able to attack the Wissahickon Course and earn a win in this trio this week.
Sungjae Im (+175)
I would have expected Im to be the favorite in this threesome, but it’s Maverick McNealy (+165) with the shortest odds while Keegan Bradley (+180) has longer odds than Im.
Like Conners, Im has a well-balanced game with a focus on shot making. That style makes him a good “fit” for almost any course. He was scuffling for much of the year, but he really seemed to find his groove at the Masters, where he finished T-5 after a -3 in the Final Round. The following week Im stayed hot, going under 70 in four straight rounds at the RBC Heritage and finishing T-11. Last week at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson, he had three more rounds under 70 before tailing off on Sunday to finish T-33. That final-round fade may be why he’s not the favorite in this trio, but he’s still one of my golf best bets for this week over McNealy and Bradley.
McNealy is coming off a T-3 at the RBC Heritage and a T-3 at the Valero Texas Open sandwiched around a T-32 at the Masters. It’s easy to see why he’s the favorite, but he has missed some cuts and had some disappointing results this season as well.
Unlike Im, Bradley started the season hot but has trended the other direction. He finished T-47 at the Valero Texas Open and missed the cut at the Masters before bouncing back with a T-18 at the RBC Heritage. Bradley has had success on similar layouts in the past, so I don’t hate him as a sleeper play; he just tends to be much more volatile than Im, and in a tournament trio, I prefer the steadier option.
Shane Lowry (+185)
Speaking of steadier options, three very steady options go head-to-head in a great tournament trio featuring Lowry against Tommy Fleetwood (+160) and Russell Henley (+170). While all three are excellent, Lowry has enough upside and versatility that I’m taking him as my long shot of the week. I’m less confident of this pick than the other two listed in my golf best bets, but I love playing the longer odds for this matchup.
Lowry has been very steady this season with six top-20 finishes in his last seven events, including a T-12 with Rory McIlroy at the Zurich Classic two weeks ago. He also finished runner-up at another Signature Event earlier this season, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Overall, he has seven top-25 finishes in 10 events played in 2025.
Henley has also had plenty of high points, but he has also had a few inconsistent weeks. He won the Arnold Palmer Invitational, which was a Signature Event, and finished T-8 at the RBC Heritage, but he missed the cut at the Masters and finished T-30 at THE PLAYERS.
Fleetwood finished just ahead of Henley at the RBC Heritage and has turned in a string of strong results while still not getting his long-awaited PGA TOUR victory. Fleetwood has seven top-25 finishes in his last eight PGA TOUR events, but he did struggle at the Valero Texas Open, finishing T-62.
All three of these players are consistently excellent, but since both Henley and Fleetwood have had their slight issues lately and Lowry has the longest odds, he’s the third of my golf best bets from the tournament trios this week.
