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Rocket Classic 2026 — the receipts on all four picks

One place from four at the Rocket Classic. Patrick Cantlay finished tied 8th, the other three missed the frame, and the week cost £20 to a flat £10 each-way stake. Here is the whole card.

By Doug Dinwiddie. Founder of ProPlace. Former DP World Tour caddie.

One of our four flagged players placed. Patrick Cantlay finished tied 8th; the other three missed the frame. To a flat £10 each-way stake, the week returned minus £20. We publish every card this way, the wins and the weeks that sting, because a record only means anything if the misses are in it too.

What we flagged, and how it finished

PlayerFlagged pre-playFinishResult
Patrick CantlayProPlace pickT8Placed
J.J. SpaunValue pick50thMissed
Ben GriffinProPlace pickMissed cutMissed
Si Woo KimProPlace pick42ndMissed

Every selection above was logged before the first tee shot, timestamped, with no edits after the fact. Net result: one place from four, minus £20 to a flat £10 each-way stake.

Why Cantlay stood up

Cantlay was the pick the model liked most on course fit and recent approach form, and he delivered the one top finish of the week. That is how the place side of an each-way card is meant to work: you do not need the winner every time, you need players who contend.

Why we still show you the misses

Spaun, Griffin and Kim did not fire. Three misses in a week is part of golf, and pretending otherwise would make the record worthless. The point of ProPlace is not a highlight reel. It is the whole card, published before play, settled in public.

Where this week sits in the record

Since going live in April 2026, ProPlace has logged 26 tournaments and 102 selections, every win and every miss, returning +£1,351 to a flat £10 each-way stake (+66% ROI). Rocket Classic is one of the weeks that did not go our way, and it is already inside that number.

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