Kristoffer Ventura vs. Taylor Pendrith

Taylor Pendrith has real scar tissue at Detroit Golf Club worth remembering: he finished runner-up here back in 2022, tied with Patrick Cantlay and Cameron Young, and that kind of finish doesn't happen by accident on this course. He comes in off a missed cut at last week's 3M Open, and sitting 82nd in the FedEx Cup with the regular season winding down gives him every reason to treat this week with urgency rather than coast through it. Kristoffer Ventura is a solid ball-striker, but he doesn't carry the same specific history at a course reshaped for this final playing, and a motivated veteran who's already proven he can contend here is worth the shot and a half he's getting. Detroit's rebuilt greens and tightened bunkering demand the kind of shot-making Pendrith has already shown he owns on this piece of turf, even in a down season. Back Pendrith with the number.