The PGA Tour makes its way to Bermuda this week, where Brian Gay will look to defend the championship he won in a playoff in 2020.

Port Royal Golf Club is a 6,828-yard, Par 71 layout, featuring Bermudagrass greens. This is the third edition of the tournament, and the second time it will be the primary Tour stop for the week (it was previously an alternate event). The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones.

Ahead of the event, here’s a look at five golfers who offer value this week, with some attractive prices available across the board:

Russell Knox (+6000, DraftKings)

Course history will play a major part in my selection process this week, and few are superior to Russell Knox in that department. The 36-year-old ranks seventh in Strokes Gained: Total at Port Royal Golf Club thanks to finishes of 16th and 11th in his two starts at the course.

When evaluating Knox’ strengths as a golfer, it’s no surprise that he has played the course well. Port Royal Golf Club has the second most difficult fairways to hit on Tour (51.5%), and Knox has the perfect off the tee game to combat those tight fairways. He ranks fourth in the field in “Fairways Gained” and is one of the most accurate players on Tour. He isn’t the longest hitter, which has given him trouble with so many mammoth courses on Tour, but that won’t be an issue at Port Royal which is the second shortest course on Tour.

A further point in Knox’ favor this week is his ability to excel in windy conditions. With early weather predictions indicating winds of 20-25 mph over the weekend, backing a strong wind player may be a good idea. Knox is not just a capable wind player; he ranks as the third-best wind player in the field in his past 24 rounds.

With his superb skill set, it could be argued that Knox should have more than two PGA Tour victories, with the most recent coming in 2016 (Travelers Championship). The explanation for his relative lack of signature victories is that the Scotsman has had some real struggles with the putter throughout his career. With that being said, he should have a real chance to win if the winds pick up and the course plays a bit more difficult than expected.

Kiradech Aphibarnrat (+8000, DraftKings)

After a very difficult few years while recovering from injury, Kiradech Aphibarnrat is starting to show some signs of returning to form. When he is playing at his best, a coastal Bermuda track is the ideal spot for Kiradech as he has shown he is prone to strong performances on similar style courses. He finished 11th at this event last season despite being in pretty horrific form overall.

While his most recent PGA Tour starts have not been fruitful, the same cannot be said for his most recent start on the European Tour at the BMW PGA Championship back in September. The native of Thailand finished in second place just one shot behind winner Billy Horschel and had a real chance to win until the very last hole.

Two of Aphibarnrat’s biggest strengths are his ability to find the fairway and his ability to catch a hot putter on Bermudagrass. In his past five starts, he has gained 1.4 strokes per round on the field in “Fairways Gained” and gains an average of 0.65 strokes per round on Bermudagrass.

Although he is wildly inconsistent, when Aphibarnrat has it going in a particular week, he has shown that he can get himself into contention.

Brian Stuard (+9000, DraftKings)

As evidenced by his top spot in my model rankings this week, Brian Stuard is a perfect fit for Port Royal Golf Club. Shorter hitters who consistently find the fairway have had tremendous success at this course in the past, and I anticipate that ringing true once again in 2021.

In addition to being able to put it in the short grass off the tee, Stuard is also an excellent putter on Bermudagrass. The past two winners in Bermuda (Brendon Todd and Brian Gay) have both been excellent putters, and Stuard fits with that theme nicely. The 38-year-old ranks 12th in the field in Strokes Gained: Putting on Bermuda and can get scorching hot with the putter. In his most recent start on the surface, he gained 9.1 strokes putting at the Wyndham Championship.

Although he did come in 15th place at Wyndham in August, Stuard has missed four consecutive cuts in his following four starts leading to the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. In most weeks, that would be fairly concerning. However, we have seen in the past that golfers don’t necessarily need to come into this event in peak form. Last year, Brian Gay won the event coming off of five consecutive missed cuts. This week is more about course fit than recent form, and Brian Stuard fits the bill.

Kramer Hickok (+10000, DraftKings)

Many will remember Kramer Hickok’s epic eight-hole playoff with Harris English back in June at the Travelers Championship. Since that crushing defeat, Hickok has fallen out of form and missed three of his next five cuts. However, there is reason to believe that Port Royal Golf Club could be a course where he can figure it out.

At last year’s Bermuda Championship, Hickok finished in eighth place, which was the best finish of his career to that point. In retrospect, it makes a great deal of sense that the 29-year-old would play well at Port Royal. The course plays quite penal from the rough, and one of the biggest strengths of Kramer’s is his driving accuracy, as evidenced by his ranking of fifth in the field for fairways gained. Also, Bermudagrass has been far and away Hickok’s best-putting surface to this point in his career.

In his past 36 rounds, Hickok ranks 3rd in the field on courses that feature Bermudagrass and are under 7,200 yards. It also helps that the former Texas Longhorn ranks 9th in the field in Strokes Gained: Total in extremely windy conditions. His skill in that department could loom large this week as we are expected to get winds north of 20 mph.

With a win this week, Kramer Hickok may finally be able to have his name mentioned without someone attaching “Jordan Spieth’s former roommate” to it.

David Hearn (+10000, DraftKings)

As we saw last year with Brian Gay’s victory, Port Royal Golf Club is a course that certain golfers have played well in both previous editions regardless of current form. With back to back 8th place finishes at the event, David Hearn is absolutely one of those golfers. The 42-year-old has shown a propensity to play very well at coastal resort-style tracks. In addition to his two excellent showings in Bermuda, he has a 13th at Corales (Puntacana) and a 25th at the Puerto Rico Open.

Course form aside, Hearn is also a strong statistical fit as well. He is an excellent putter on Bermudagrass, ranking 20th in the field in that category. In his past 24 rounds, he also ranks 16th in Strokes Gained: Approach and 14th in Fairways Gained.

Hearn has been incredibly close to a PGA Tour victory, having lost in a playoff in both 2013 and 2015. If there was ever a place to get it done, Port Royal Golf Club would be an obvious fit.