The RSM Classic 2025 Tips: Dave Tindall’s each-way picks

• 33/134.00 Vince Whaley is a Georgia native in nice kind

• 45/146.00 Seamus Power has incentive and appears near a giant week

• 50/151.00 Max McGreevy likes this time of 12 months and may have a free hit

Introduction to The RSM Classic

The last leg of the seven-tournament FedEx Cup Fall Series takes us to a well-known venue: Sea Island in Georgia.

At any time of 12 months, you may spot many elite golfers roaming within the wild as a lot have determined to make St Simons Island their place of residence.

The focus of PGA Tour gamers is elevated considerably this week because the occasion hosts the season nearer. It will resolve which gamers make the highest 100 and safe their standing for 2026.

The discipline contains loads of these both simply in or simply out.

Those who have not wrapped up exemptions embrace Ryo Hisatsune (95), Thorbjorn Olesen (96), Danny Walker (97), Takumi Kanaya (99), Matt Wallace (102), Beau Hossler (103), Isaiah Salinda (104), David Lipsky (105), Victor Perez (108), Patrick Fishburn (109) and Pierceson Coody (110).

Further up the rankings are gamers hoping to be a part of the Aon Next 10 (51st to sixtieth) who achieve entry to the first two Signature Events of 2026: the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and The Genesis Invitational.

Those participating who shall be a part of that last push are: Chris Kirk (54), Rico Hoey (57), Jake Knapp (59), Nico Echavarria (62), Patrick Rodgers (63), Joe Highsmith (65), Stephan Jaeger (66), Adam Schenk (67), Mackenzie Hughes (69) and Steven Fisk (70).

This is likely one of the PGA Tour’s two-course tournments.

The quick, par 70 Seaside Course phases three of the 4 rounds whereas The Plantation, a par 72, shares internet hosting duties over the primary two days.

Maverick McNealy took the title final 12 months and continued a latest pattern of winners right here having little or no course kind.

The Californian had finishes of 58-MC-53 in his three earlier visits whereas the three champions earlier than that had equally offputting event kind: Ludvig Aberg (MC), Adam Svensson (MC-MC-MC), Talor Gooch (MC-23-MC-MC).

McNealy had posted seventeenth and sixth in his different two November begins in 2024 and present kind has been a a lot better information. Aberg (2023) got here in with figures of 10-13-2-10-1-4 whereas Gooch (2021) was additionally in good nick.

If taking a look at present kind, few within the discipline can match Vince Whaley’s latest run. ‘Recent’ most likely undersells him as he is been churning out the great outcomes for months.

Whaley posted third place within the Sanderson Farms Championship on his second begin of the Fall Series and matched that end with one other high three finally week’s Bermuda Championship.

His quick recreation regarded significantly tidy within the robust winds at Port Royal (4th Scrambling, ninth Putting Average) and that was Whaley’s third high 4 in his final 10 begins.

Whaley went to Georgia Tech and now lives in Atlanta so tournaments in Georgia are residence video games.

Asked if he had many household and associates watching him final 12 months, he mentioned: “I’ve got so many people. This is my wife’s family’s first time coming to a golf tournament so they’re all down here. My family’s down here. Rented a house, everyone’s staying together. It’s been a lot of fun.”

It took him a short while to hit his straps on this event (65-MC-63 in his first three visits) however within the final two years he is actually discovered a option to rating.

In 2023 a 3rd spherical 64 helped him end thirteenth and final 12 months, with that huge entourage in tow, he improved to eighth, going one decrease on Saturday with a 63.

Hopefully these short-game abilities (he is thirty eighth for SG: Around The Green and thirty fourth for SG: Putting) stand him in good stead.

They ought to do. The final 5 winners right here had SG: Putting rankings for the week of twelfth, 4th, 1st, sixth, ninth. 

Back Whaley at 33/134.00 (1/5 Odds, 8 Places).

It’s been a sensational week for the Republic of Ireland soccer group after they first beat Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal after which produced a dramatic end in Hungary to win their last group recreation and qualify for the World Cup playoffs.

Let’s hope Irishman Seamus Power is buzzing after that injury-time winner in Budapest and that he takes a leaf out of hat-trick hero Troy Parrott’s books by developing huge when it issues most.

Unlike the striker, who scored the profitable purpose six minutes into added time, Power hasn’t been ending issues off regardless of some encouraging play.

In all 5 occasions he is performed within the Fall Series, his worst spherical has come on Sunday. That’s clearly compromised his finishes.

Looking at his final two occasions, Power took eleventh in Bermuda and twenty seventh on the WWT in Mexico after sitting eighth and sixteenth respectively after 54 holes.

And within the Procore and the Sanderson Farms, Saturday positions of twenty fifth and twenty ninth turned to finishes of forty seventh and forty eighth.

But certainly the Sunday stutters will not final perpetually and this have to be probability for him to make a title problem.

Power has loads of kind by the ocean on shorter tracks – a win in Bermuda, thirds at Waialae and El Camaleon, a fifth and seventh on the Corales Puntacana are examples.

As for this particular occasion, he was fourth in 2021 and fifth in 2022, ending with laps of 68 and 66. 

Conditions had been powerful in Bermuda however Power stumbled badly on the finish with 4 bogeys in his last 5 holes and that meant he missed an awesome probability to safe his Tour card.

He’s down at 129th now however nonetheless sees an open door. He informed the Irish press final week: “I do have faith, sure. I’ve performed nicely in Georgia a number of instances. Just seeing my recreation sort of entering into the suitable path I believe is probably the most encouraging factor.

“I really feel like my body’s healthy again and finding like my swing and my comfort level again. Seeing some putts go in last week was very encouraging. It’s always been the strength of my game and really like all year and the back end of last year it wasn’t, which is kind of unusual for me. But I finally found something in it.”

Back the two-time PGA Tour winner at 45s.

Max McGreevy has a distinct story to inform after leaping to the security of 89th within the FedEx Fall standings with a 3rd place in Bermuda final week.

That got here as no nice shock as he is now completed within the high dozen in three of his final 4 occasions: Bermuda, Bank of Utah Championship (eleventh) and Japan Open (twelfth).

He performed the Japan Open after ending a good thirty third within the co-sanctioned Baycurrent Classic in Yokohama however the Japanese connection would not finish there as a result of final November he received the distinguished Dunlop Phoenix Tournament.

That prestigious Japan Tour occasion has beforehand been received by Tiger Woods, Seve Ballesteros, Tom Watson, Ernie Els, Lee Westwood, David Duval, Padraig Harrington, Hideki Matsuyama and Brooks Koepka.

McGreevy captured it final 12 months by a hefty 4 pictures from Matsuyama, Akshay Bhatia and Shaun Norris.

He may have been defending the title this week so maybe feels a bit of compromised. But that will solely make him extra decided to play nicely right here.

The 30-year-old has missed the minimize on his final two visits to Sea Island (2022 and 2023) however did put up sixteenth on debut in 2021 after taking pictures 4 rounds within the 60s.

We’re not hanging our hats on track/event kind this week however it’s good to know he has a constructive reminiscence right here.

It’s additionally price a observe that his final begin in Georgia resulted in a 3rd place on the Korn Ferry’s Club Car Championship in 2024, a event the place he completed runner-up in 2021.  

McGreevy is placing a lot better of late (within the high 20 for Putting Average in three of his final 4 begins) and no-one hit extra greens in regulation than him in Bermuda final week.

After three wins on the Korn Ferry, two of these in 2024, he seems to be able to take the subsequent step.

Speaking in Bermuda final week he mentioned: “I’ve been lucky sufficient to be across the lead quite a bit in my life and sort of shut a pair out.

“If things start maybe going sideways a little bit, it’s just something that I can fall back on and say, you know what, I had some mishaps this time I won or something like that. All it takes is a couple good shots, a couple good mental thoughts to kind of get you back going in the right direction.”

Take McGreevy at 50s (8 Places).

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