The field isn’t top notch at the Valero Texas Open, but names like Jordan Spieth, Jim Furyk, Dustin Johnson, Matt Kuchar, Zach Johnson and Phil Mickelson will be gracing the field.

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The Course

At the Valero Texas Open, the TPC San Antonio Oaks Course layout has been the host since 2010, which only gives us five years of data.

That isn’t a large sample, but two main characteristics for a successful showing at the course have been assumed: accurate driving and a great short game.

But we don’t deal in assumptions here, and some have questioned the accuracy over length advantage in driving at TPC San Antonio anyway.

To find the answer within the 5-year sample, I recovered every player who finished in the top-10 at the Valero since the course change in 2010. This set of 46 different golfers would give us an idea what kind of player contends (and potentially wins) on Sunday at the Oaks Course.

There is some judgement involved, but on the distance vs. accuracy question, I found 19 from this group to be in the top third on the PGA Tour in driving distance, with 14 clocking in on the same regard for accuracy. Power has been proven to be more potent than accuracy in driving on the PGA Tour in general, so this result speaks to a pretty even split, with power advantaged a little.

Overall, general driving ability showed to be highly important in contending at the Oaks layout, as I considered 19 from this set to be top third on the Tour in overall driving (distance + accuracy + precision). The short game matched driving’s 19 players placed in the top third.

Putting actually had 17 top-third golfers, which marks it as a far more vital area than has been previously noted at TPC San Antonio.

Approach play only registered 10 top-third golfers, which marks it as the least effective facet of the game for contending at TPC San Antonio.

As for minutiae, it’s better for a player’s driving flaw to be missing a lot of fairways rather than missing a few of them by a lot. The rough at TPC San Antonio is nothing too scary, but the big misses bring the haunting trees and natural vegetation into play.

Six-man Roster

• Jim Furyk: $11,000
• Matt Kuchar: $10,300
• Jason Dufner: $8,400
• Scott Piercy: $6,500
• Pat Perez: $6,500
• Seung-Yul Noh: $6,300

Two types emerge at TPC San Antonio. There’s the player with excellent driving and short game. And there’s the all-around player, with the layout advantaging driving, short game and putting heavily.

Furyk is a mix of the two, as the 44-year-old is one of the best drivers and short game players on the planet, and is generally above average in every facet. His last two finishes at the Valero are 6th and 3rd, and he’s been on form the past month, if under the radar.

Kuchar and Perez are the all-around player mold. Kuchar has stalled with zero top-20s in his last three starts, but he rarely goes long without contending, and his T4 at the Valero in 2014 is an example of how he thrives at this time of year.

As for Perez, he’s not great at anything, but he’s above average in every facet, and his three consecutive top-25s at the Oak Course speak to his strong track record here.

Dufner has put together a thoroughly mediocre campaign in 2015 for a player of his caliber, with just one top-10 and three top-25s in seven starts. And he has no previous experience here. But this course is near perfect for him.

The 38-year-old is short off the tee, but incredibly accurate and unbelievably precise (top-15 in Distance from Edge of Fairway the last 5 years). And he’s secretly an elite short game player. This is an excellent track to get him back on point.

Piercy and Noh are my wildcards. The former is a long-hitter who is prone to big misses, and his best work is on courses where he can go low, which definitely doesn’t describe the Oaks Course. But his performance on and around the greens is nearly unmatched when he’s hot, and I’m taking a stab at that happening this week.

The latter is a bomber whose most positive feature at this point is his approach game. But his next big performance could come at any moment.

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Sleeper Team

• Seung-yul Noh: $6,300
• Martin Flores: $6,300
• Boo Weekley: $6,100
• Ken Duke: $5,800
• Chris Stroud: $5,800
• Derek Ernst: $5,100

A really poor bottom to this field, so my sleepers are the set just above the lowest group.

Flores has done remarkably well in this event with three consecutive top-25s, and possesses a great short game. Weekley’s driving is consistently top notch and, even with three missed cuts in his last four starts, a newly masterful short game gives the 41-year-old too tantalizing a combo for this course to overlook him.

Stroud is in the midst of a miserable season where he has made less than half his cuts and seen his putting plummet. I expect his normally excellent flatstick to return this week and combine with his near-elite short game and above-average driving.

I picked Duke on a whim, and Ernst is a product of course and recent play. He showed signs of life with a T17 at Valspar following seven missed cuts in eight events, and while no course will ever truly fit Ernst’s “great driving, but terrible at everything else” game, TPC San Antonio is the closest he’ll get with driving and short game (his second best feature) at a premium.

Bonus

Alternate Six-Man Roster

• Jordan Spieth: $14,000
• Harris English: $9,200
• Charles Howell III: $8,000
• Kevin Chappell: $6,600
• Boo Weekley: $6,100
• Derek Ernst: $5,100

I trust Spieth this week with his all-around game (admittedly best around and on the greens, though), but he’s just too expensive to be my true No. 1.

English has the dangerous trio of recent form and course fit, especially with his improved short game. Chappell may not have the first thing — four missed cuts in last five starts — but has the latter two at high levels.

Howell’s game is trending in the right direction toward Augusta and he is still hungry for that Masters invite.

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