The tournament is decided here every year, making the Cognizant Classic one of the more entertaining stops of the Florida Swing. Jordan Spieth will debut in the Cognizant Classic this week, hoping to get more reps in before the bulk of the major season kicks off at Augusta National in April.

McDonald loves the value of Davis Thompson at +4000 (risk $100 to win $4,000) this week. Thompson sits inside the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking, joining 15 other golfers inside the top 50 in this week's field. He has made the cut in five of his first six events of the season and is coming off his best showing of the campaign.

The Cognizant is not a PGA Tour signature event, which meant a smaller purse and fewer top-50 players in the field. Russell Henley at No. 17 and Shane Lowry at 18 were the top-ran