As Joel Dahmen continues to try to plod his way back into the upper echelon of the PGA Tour, he now heads to the East Coast with a set of irons and a putter that have mirrored each other through the first three starts of this season. However, that hasn't been to his benefit, as his last outing at the WM Phoenix Open saw him lose over two strokes putting and over two and a half strokes on approach. He's back in action this week at PGA National, where his best finish is T32 in four appearances. As a GPP play, Dahmen is always a lower-priced option with the ability to sprout up on any leaderboard. The difficulty is pinpointing where it will happen. When it happens, it's usually on the back of his ironplay. Given the rough shape it's been in, this isn't the place to hope he figures it out.

What started as a decent opening to the season for Daniel Berger has taken a turn for the worse in recent weeks. After beginning with top-10 and 20 finishes in two of the first three starts, the 32-year-old finished nearly dead last at Pebble Beach and missed the cut last week at Riviera. The ball striking has remained fairly consistent, but he's bled strokes on and around the green, losing an average of -1.32 strokes between the two metrics over his last three starts. Berger has had a nice run at PGA National over his last few appearances, with T4 finishes in 2020 and 2022. The ball striking is good enough to give him a chance, but the putting and short game slump make him a hard sell right now.

Davis Thompson is struggling some to start 2026. The American golfer has no Top 25 results in three events. Worse, he took time off after winding up over par at the WM Phoenix Open. For a tournament that features a lot of birdies, that does not bode well for tougher events like the Cognizant Classic. Thompson has won once in his career and that was in 2024 (John Deere Classic). Since then, the golfer has dropped outside the Top 100 again in the world rankings. Overall strokes lost to putting in 2026 is now -1.104 (162nd). The end of 2025 looked pretty bright for Thompson after four Top 25 results over his final five events. Heading to Florida, that hope seems to have been dashed as Thompson has been a DFS albatross.

Tom Kim has made all five cuts in 2026. The South Korean golfer seems to have one or two rounds that go awry in every tournament so far this year. Kim did climb up the leaderboard at The Genesis Invitational with a Saturday 67 only to follow it up with a 71. That placed the golfer outside the Top 25 yet again. One of the main culprits was putting. He lost 0.92 strokes and his putts per round is 29.6 over the first two rounds. That is troubling. Kim has not won in three seasons now and with periodic putting issues, he may have troubles this week in Florida. The Cognizant Classic at Palm Beaches often features challenging pin placements. Kim's lack of birdies suggests avoiding him in DFS formats.