The RSM Classic Tips: Dave Tindall's picks from 33/1 to 50/1

• 35/136.00 Eric Cole has course and current form

• 33/134.00 Ben Griffin is a Sea Island resident and was eighth last year

• 50/151.00 Greyson Sigg has numerous local connections

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Brief history of the RSM Classic

The idea that you never follow a super-low round with another one was kyboshed by Ludvig Aberg in this event last year.

The Swede shot a third-round 61 to hold a one-shot lead going into the final 18 holes and then added another to secure a four-shot win.

His total of 29-under was a record and unusally low given that 19-under had been enough to win four of the previous five editions.

He's the favourite to defend but this is Aberg's first start since the Tour Championship after knee surgery so that has to temper expectations.

This is the final event of the seven-tournament FedEx Cup Fall Series which means there's a right old scrap this week to secure a place in the top 125 and win a card for next season.

Sea Island in Georgia is the regular host and this is one of the Tour's two-course tournments.

The short, par 70 Seaside Course stages three of the four while The Plantation, a par 72, shares hosting duties over the first two days.

Looking at past winners, their current form looks rather patchy on first glance.

And yet look again and 10 of the last 11 champions had posted at least one 26th or better in their previous three starts. Five of those 10 had recorded a top 10 in that time.

Course form is perhaps less important. Take the last three winners: Aberg (MC), Adam Svensson (MC-MC-MC), Talor Gooch (MC-23-MC-MC).

That said, Robert Streb, who lifted the silveware in 2020, was winning here for the second time.

Eric Cole @ 35/136.00

Eric Cole has a good finish in one of his latest three starts so that's a box ticked.

In fact, he has two: 16th in the Sanderson Farms Championship and sixth last time out at the ZOZO Championship.

Cole grabbed the 50th and final spot in the FedEx Cup standings prior to the Fall Series so he's already in the big events next season.

That gives him focus now to try and get his first PGA Tour win and this appears an ideal place to have another good shot at it.

The 36-year-old so nearly grabbed the 'W' at the 2023 Honda Classic - he lost a playoff to Chris Kirk - and that's relevant here as PGA National has correlated well with this event.

Both, of course, are played on Bermuda surfaces and Florida-based Cole also shone in this event last year.

Building on a 39th on debut, he fired rounds of 64-66-61-67 to take third place.

With putting important, it's certainly worth mentioning that Cole ranked 1st for Putting Average here 12 months ago having also performed well on them the year before.

Cole continues to show up well when the greens are Bermuda and his last three events on such a surface show seventh at the Wyndham, 18th at St Jude and 16th at the Sanderson Farms.

After playing in the last group with Aberg in 2023, Cole will perhaps have extra determination to get it done this time.

He played one nine-hole stretch in 28 last year and once shot a 58 in practice at Abacoa Golf Club in Florida so hopefully he can get on a roll again and do us a favour at 35/136.00.

Ben Griffin @ 33/134.00

This has been a really good event for first-time winners and another knocking loudly at the door hoping it will spring open is Ben Griffin.

It's been well documented how his golf career looked to be behind him when he fell out of love with the game and became a mortgage loan officer in 2021.

But he found a way back, pulling into a golf course on the way to work one day which sparked a chain of events that led him back to the PGA Tour.

He's twice finished runner-up in the last 13 months, posting second at last October's Sanderson Farms Championship and again at the Canadian Open in June.

Griffin has continued to play well with five top 25s in his last eight starts which puts him on a different level to most of this week's rivals in terms of consistency.

That includes seventh at the Wyndham Championship and 11th at the Black Desert Championship while last week he took eighth at the Bermuda Championship.

Talking of eighth place, that's what he managed here last year after a 9-under 61 in round four.

That added to 29th the year before when he opened with a 63.

It's no surprise he can go low here as this quote from last month's Sanderson Farms Championship explains.

"Really going back to childhood I wasn't that good on Bermuda, but I feel like in college and coming out into the professional game, I felt like we played a lot of Bermuda, so I felt like I needed to get good at it, and I credit a lot of that to Sea Island Golf Club where I belong, practicing there on Bermuda.

"I've gotten a lot better on that type of surface, and I feel like on Tour every time there's Bermudagrass I play really well."

It's a good thought to have in his head and the top 10s at the Sanderson Farms and Bermuda Championship back it up.

"For me, a comfortable golf course, both of them, and yeah, I'm excited to be in the mix because I feel like I have a really good chance at this," Griffin said after round two last year.

He's certainly dropped enough hints, both vocal and results-wise, to suggest this is his time.

Greyson Sigg @ 50/151.00

If playing the local angle, Greyson Sigg comes onto the radar as he has the full house: born in Georgia, went to the University of Georgia and now lives on Sea Island.

In fact, check his PGA Tour bio and it adds: Wife, Katie, is the daughter of UGA men's golf coach, Chris Haack (did he add the second 'a' when taking the role?).

Living here doesn't automatically equate to a good performance but Sigg has certainly revelled in home comforts.

In 2022 he closed with a 64 to make the top 15 and last year he improved to eighth after a 64 and three 66s. Despite missing the cut he also set out with a 64 in 2021.

Without an awful lot of fanfare he's also been one of the real beneficiaries of the Fall Series.

He went into it on the back of six straight missed cuts but immediately changes his fortunes around with fourth at the Procore Championship.

The good play continued with 11th at the Black Desert Championship and the 29-year-old has since added 23rd in Las Vegas and ninth in last week's Bermuda Championship.

Looking at round scores, he's shot in the 60s in each of his last 12 laps and that fine play sees him safe at 104th in the FedEx Cup standings.

With the pressure off, hopefully he can have a good tilt at this and figures of 1st and 4th for Greens In Regulation in his latest two starts show he's striking his irons like a potential winner.

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