Both the PGA and European Tours took last week off due to the Ryder Cup, where Team USA won by a 19-9 margin over Team Europe. That is the largest margin of victory for either side since the event went to a USA vs. Europe format in 1979. There were few bright spots for the European side at Whistling Straits last weekend, but Sergio Garcia was one of them as he went 3-1-0 for the weekend and formed a formidable partnership with fellow Spaniard and World No. 1 Jon Rahm. Garcia (20/1) is the lone Ryder Cup participant from either team to be teeing it up this week in Mississippi for the Sanderson Farms Championship, but he does so as the event’s defending champion.

Sam Burns (16/1), from nearby Shreveport, La., made his PGA Tour debut in this very event back in 2017 and this week’s shortest price finished T-3 here in 2018. Much has been made of the victorious U.S. Ryder Cup team being the youngest and arguably most talented in recent memory. It will be difficult to crack that lineup of 12 players for the 2023 event in Rome. Burns and Will Zalatoris (18/1) are two talented 25-year-olds that will certainly be striving for it. Zalatoris no longer needs to concern himself with becoming an official member of the PGA Tour and can focus solely on just earning his first PGA Tour victory. Sungjae Im (18/1) lost in a playoff here to Sebastian Munoz (50/1) back in 2019. Corey Conners (18/1) also finished runner-up here in 2018. Here are a few picks worth making at the Sanderson Farms Championship:

Pereira earned the “battlefield promotion” to the PGA Tour earlier this summer posting both his second and third Korn Ferry Tour wins in June. He has hit the ground running already on the big tour with three top-six finishes in seven starts.

The Canadian recently graduated from the Korn Ferry Tour to the PGA Tour. He is the biggest hitter in this field leading for both Driving Distance and Strokes Gained: Off The Tee.

Kirk is a previous champion of this event having won the 2011 Viking Classic at Annandale. He also has some success on this course having finished runner-up in 2016.

Wallace could go well here with the drop down in field quality class.

Over the last six months, Wallace is top 20 in Good Drives Gained, GIRs Gained, Par-4 Scoring, and Par 5 Scoring.

Another Canadian could fit the bill here. Sloan was part of that six-way playoff last month in the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield. Sedgefield has proven to be a relatively strong correlation here over the years. Aside from that runner-up, he also finished T-6 at the Barracuda Championship and can go low at birdie-fest type of events.

Sigg is another recent graduate to the PGA Tour. He won the Albertson’s Boise Open last month to lock up his card. He finished a respectable 30th in his PGA Tour debut at Silverado but should like the return to Bermuda greens.

Buckley is a recent graduate to the PGA Tour via the Korn Ferry Tour Finals where he posted a seventh in the Albertsons Boise Open and a fourth in the United Leasing Tour Championship.