The last four winners of the RBC Heritage have gone off at odds of between 6.86/1 and 50.049/1 and now that it's a Signature Event, the more fancied players may start to dominate. Historically, however, this has been a good event for long-shots.
Stewart Cink was a well-backed 120.0119/1 chance in 2021 and there were three long-shot winners in-a-row prior to that.
Wesley Bryan went off at 200.0199/1 in 2017, Satoshi Kodaira was a 500.0499/1 chance in 2018, and very few picked out C.T Pan 12 months later when he was victorious at 460.0459/1.
I managed to back Brian Harman at 120.0119/1 on Monday but the Harbour Town specialist has finished seventh, 12th and third in each of the last three editions. I'm not surprised that he's been backed into a double-figure price.
I wouldn't put anyone off backing him at around the 80/181.00 mark that he trades at now but, even though Harman's shortened up, I've still got four selections...
RBC Heritage bet #1- J.T Poston @ 110.0109/1
With course form figures reading 6-8-MC-3-MC-5-11, the three time PGA Tour winner, J.T Poston, is just as obvious a fancy as Harman.
As highlighted in the preview, Harbour Town is quite a unique and intricate layout and course form stands up very well there.
Poston hasn't been in sparkling form in 2026 but he improved his score every day when finishing 21st in Texas two weeks ago. The fact that he missed the US Masters last week for the first time in four years may provide extra motivation in an event he clearly enjoys.
The 32-year-old Sea Island native had form figures reading MC-MC-MC-33-33 when he won his third title at the Shriners Children Open two years ago so he can find form out of the blue and I can see why he's shortened up from the high of 150.0149/1 that he traded at on Monday.
Back J.T Poston (2.5 Us)
Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1
RBC Heritage bet #2- Nico Echavarria @ 500.0499/1
The first of my three huge outside fancies is the recent Cognizant Classic winner, Nico Echavarria.
The Colombian missed the cut here on debut back in 2023 but he was in a strange run of form at the time.
He'd gotten off the mark on the PGA Tour in impressive fashion at the Puerto Rico Open in early March after a run of four missed cuts in-a-row and he missed his next two cuts after the win too.
He'd finished a respectable 28th in the Texas Open after that but his weekend off here two weeks later was followed by a 66th place finish in the Mexico Open and 12 straight missed cuts so I'm more than happy to ignore his debut performance.
With a win in Puerto Rico, a 14th in the Corales Puntacana Championship, a playoff defeat at the Sony Open in Hawaii, and a second and a fourth placed finish in the RSM Classic just around the corner from Hilton Head, he has form at the correct correlating venues and should take to the track.
He missed the cut in the US Masters last week but, as highlighted in the preview, that's often a positive for this event.
Nico Echavarria (0.5 U)
Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1
RBC Heritage bet #3- Sami Valimaki @ 500.0499/1
Another man to miss out on weekend employment at the US Masters is Sami Valimaki, who was lining up at Augusta for the first time last week.
The 32-year-old hasn't impressed since he became the first Finn to win on the PGA Tour at the RSM Classic in the final event of 2025. But prior to last week's missed cut, he'd finished 14th in the Texas Open, where he'd ranked fourth for Driving Accuracy, 15th for Greens In Regulation and 11th for Scrambling, suggesting he could be close to a return to form.
He has the neat and tidy game for the venue as last year's 18th on debut confirms.
Back Sami Valimaki (0.5U)
Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1
RBC Heritage bet #4 -Ricky Castillo @ 710.0709/1
Sitting in 134th place in the FedEx Cup Standings, after a run of four straight missed cuts, Ricky Castillo needed to finish in a three-way tie for second or better in the final event of the year - the RSM Classic - back in November to get inside the top-100 in the FedEx Cup standings to retain his full status on the PGA Tour.
It looked like he may have pulled it off when he shot 62 on Sunday. As it transpired, he ended the week in solo third when Maverick McNealy holed a birdie putt on the 72nd hole from 30 feet to bump him down to solo third and to 102 in the Standings. The highly talented 24-year-old, however, has taken full advantage of his conditional status in what is only his second season on the PGA Tour.
Castillo has made the cut in all eight starts this year and after a top-five finish in the Cognizant Classic at the start of March, he calmly converted a one-stroke 54-hole lead in the Puerto Rico Open to win his first title.
This is Castillo's first visit to Harbour Town but his high finish at the RSM Classic in the neighbouring state, and his victory in Puerto Rico, suggest the venue may suit him and he's simply too big to ignore for such an impressive young talent.
Back Ricky Castillo (0.5U)
Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1