2025 Valspar Championship Course Preview

The PGA Tour heads to Tampa this week for the final stop in a four-week Florida swing. While I don't think that the Valspar Championship is the best Florida event, it might be the most underrated. The field strength has been up and down over the years amid multiple scheduling changes. While most of the best players in the world are now in full-on Masters mode, we'll still get one more look at Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood, Sam Burns, Shane Lowry, Viktor Hovland, and Daniel Berger, among others, before Augusta. The Copperhead Course at Innisbrook has very little in common with Augusta National stylistically or agronomically, yet the Larry Packard design demands precision long-iron play and features a low greens-in-regulation percentage.