2026 Cadillac Championship PicksPat Mayo takes a deep dive into tournament and player stats with the Rabbit Hole Tool from Betsperts Golf making his early 2026 Cadillac Championship Picks, highlighting stats that matter inside the model, and previewing the course.

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I’m not necessarily opposed to seeing some of the top players skip some signature events. Seeing the exact same fields square off eight times a year really limited the impact of Majors and THE PLAYERS. But I know the whole point of these is to get the best players on the course together as much as possible, so seeing Rory McIlroy, Matt Fitzpatrick, Xander Schauffele, Robert MacIntyre, and Ludvig Aberg take a bye week probably isn’t something the TOUR wanted. Well, maybe they’re happy Fitz is taking the week off to give someone else a chance.

This is the PGA Tour’s fault, though. Some will make the case they aren’t playing because it’s at TRUMP DORAL, but those people are just making lazy arguments for clicks. The real reason is this abhorrent scheduling. Going Masters/Heritage (sig)/Zurich/Cadillac (sig)/Truist (sig)/PGA Championship simply means the very top end players don’t want to wear themselves out before a Major. Don’t expect to see Scottie Scheffler and a slew of others from the field this week at Quail Hollow in seven days time either.

In 2016, 14 of the top 16 finishers gained ground on the Par 3’s

2016 Scott: Played #15 at -2 for the week, was +1 on the other Par 3’s

--> 1 under 400 yards (345), 9 over 400 yards (3 over 470)

Driver usage sits at 60.2% for this course (PGA: 68.9%) because the accuracy shrinks (drive accuracy here is 52%, PGA: 60.5%)

2016 Scott: 2 front-9 double bogeys on Sunday (both Par 4’s)

In 2016, the top-3 Par 5 scorers for the week finished 1-2-3 on the final leaderboard (Scott, Watson, and McIlroy)

2016 Scott: Birdied all 4 on Sunday after settling for par on 3 of 4 Saturday

2016: Adam Scott (+1200, T-3rd favorite) beats Bubba Watson by 1 stroke

Scott was the top approach golfer of the week, 7 of the top 9 finishers picked up over 3 strokes on approach for the week

9 of the top 10 finishers gained Prox150-175 (Scott was 3rd best in this range for the week)

2015: Dustin Johnson (+2000, T-5th favorite) beats JB Holmes by 1 stroke

Johnson was 5 behind Holmes entering Sunday (shoots a 69 to Holmes’ 75)

The top 6 finishers all gained in distance with 3 of them losing fairways to the field

2014: Patrick Reed (+8000) beats Bubba Watson and Jamie Donaldson by 1 stroke

14 of the top 15 finishers gained strokes putting (6 of the top 8 gained putting from 25+ feet)

(Tee times were very bunched in the past with late morning tee times, so there hasn’t been anything close to an even split golfer wise in terms of AM opportunities)