Dan Rapaport admits he got something ‘dead wrong’ about the Truist Championship after tournament finishes

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The Truist Championship finished on Sunday after a really successful week at Philadelphia Cricket Club.

Following the final round Dan Rapaport held his hands up and admitted that he got something badly wrong about the Truist Championship.

Sepp Straka was victorious in the end, after he got the better of Shane Lowry on the final day at Philadelphia Cricket Club.

Lowry was disconsolate after losing out to Straka at the Truist Championship, after three-putting the final green to essentially hand the trophy to the Austrian.

For the viewer, it was really refreshing to see a PGA Tour event played at an old-school golf course.

There was a 95-yard par-three and most of the par fours weren’t 490-yards or more, like they are at the majority of PGA Tour stops these days.

McIlroy said he planned to overpower Philadelphia Cricket Club with his driver before the tournament began, but that game-plan didn’t work out how he hoped it would.

Philadelphia Cricket Club certainly held its own, and the winning score of 16-under-par proved that the A. W. Tillinghast gem is far from a redundant product of a bygone era.

Dan Rapaport admits he got something wrong about the Truist Championship

Well-renowned golf writer and podcast host Dan Rapaport was at Philadelphia Cricket Club throughout the week, reporting and commentating on the Signature Event.

Before the week began, Rapaport had predicted that the winning score would be ‘a million under’.

However, he was proven very wrong indeed, as Philadelphia Cricket Club stood up to the test against the best players in the world.

Rapaport took to his X account after the tournament finished and admitted that his initial prediction about the golf course was ‘dead wrong’.

Rapaport wasn’t alone in predicting a low-scoring week in all fairness to him.

And just because the golf course is short by tour standards, it doesn’t mean that it was easy to navigate.

The overwhelming consensus from the players in the field was that they absolutely loved Philadelphia Cricket Club.

How Philadelphia Cricket Club stacks up against the longest and shortest courses on tour

At just over 7,100 yards, Philly Cricket Club is the seventh shortest golf course on the PGA Tour schedule in 2025.

And there are 31 golf courses that are longer than the A. W. Tillinghast masterpiece.

So how does that compare to some of the longest tracks on the rota?

Here are the five longest golf courses used by the PGA Tour this season:

Making a golf course challenging isn’t all about length.

The likes of Harbour Town Golf Links, Pebble Beach and The Renaissance Club in Scotland are more than challenging enough for the pros, due to clever course design.

However, it does seem like golf course architecture is heading down a route whereby it’s very much considered the longer, the better.

The annoying thing is that majority of golf fans don’t agree with the notion.