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The PGA TOUR heads to Texas for this week’s Houston Open. The host course is Memorial Park, which has played its role for three years now. We are just two events away from the Masters, so golfers are hoping to find their game just in time for the season’s first major.    Weather was all […]

Weather has played a frequent role this season on the PGA Tour. It seems that rain follows them around wherever they go to soften the course before the Tour shows up. This week, that rain is scheduled to hit during the Valspar Championship.    As of Wednesday morning, the Thursday forecast looks relatively calm, but […]

Turning our attention toward TPC Sawgrass this week, we ready for 2024 Players Championship. This is the flagship PGA Tour event, and it features the deepest non-major field we see all season.  With so many talented players in the field, there is plenty of paths to lineup-building this week. Let’s talk through some of my […]

Taking on Bay Hill this week for Arnie’s Invite, this course and event in general has a lot of prestige. Tiger Woods won here eight times over the course of his career, showing that elite tee-to-green play gets rewarded here.  Tiger was known for being relatively conservative in his play style but efficient when he […]

PGA National is famed for hosting the 2020 DFS Open, but it also runs a PGA Tour event. Formerly known as the Honda Classic, they’ve shifted to something that really rolls right off the tongue. It’s the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches.  Situated just 10 miles from Jupiter, this is a home game for […]

The PGA Tour heads to Vidanta Villarta this week for the third hosting of the Mexico Open.  Historically this has been a bomber’s paradise, but will that be the case this week, having the event moved up two months to late February instead of late April? Players are already saying the wind direction and softness […]

Tiger Woods returns this week to host and play in the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club. This is one of the rare courses that Tiger has failed to conquer over the course of his career. Given that fact, and his lack of competitive reps, I would expect this to be a “shake off the […]

Mutli-course season is officially over, as the PGA Tour takes on TPC Scottsdale this week for the WM Phoenix Open.  This is a unique event that really brings out the crazies in large quantities. There are also a ton of hazards and risk-reward shots that put an emphasis on ball-striking. The result is an event […]

Filling in for reigning Fantasy Golf Writer of the Year Alex Blickle, I’ll do my best to provide enough spice for these Pebble Beach Pro-Am DFS hot takes. I’ve teamed up with Alex this week to provide some game theory thoughts that could just lead us down the route of shipping some GPPs.    There […]

The PGA Tour stays in California for another week, heading to the Monterrey Peninsula for this week’s AT&T Pro-Am. In typical coastal clambake fashion, we have wet terrain ahead of this week’s event at the iconic host venue, Pebble Beach Golf Links. Soft conditions are common at the event so perhaps we should nudge up […]

The California Swing continues this week, as the PGA Tour heads to La Jolla for the Farmers Insurance Open. They will utilize the North Course and South Course at Torrey Pines before trimming the field over the weekend with the remaining golfers getting two more rounds with the beastly South Course.  There is plenty of […]

The American Express is more than just a credit card. As we delve into the first leg of the California Swing, PGA West sets the scene for a three-course challenge at this week’s AmEx. Let’s explore the key stats and possible DFS targets.    Core Targets Alex Noren The Swede stayed Stateside this fall, playing […]

The PGA Tour’s Aloha Swing kicks on as Waialae Country Club readies for wind, rain and the Sony Open.  The field expands from 59 to 144 golfers this week, which means we get some cut sweats. First things first, we need to glance at the weather.    The current forecast calls for 10 to 15 […]

It’s the start of a new PGA Tour season this week at the Sentry. With gear updates, style changes and the residue of holiday inactivity, it’s easy to get caught up in the narratives. However, let’s focus on the essentials when assembling a winning DFS team for Week 1 on DraftKings or FanDuel. While recent […]

DraftKings is featuring the inaugural Grant Thornton Invitational as their one and only golf DFS event this week. It’s a mixed team event featuring 16 two-person teams comprising of one PGA golfer and one LPGA golfer. A few years ago, DK wouldn’t have bothered touching an event like this with various scoring formats, but now […]

Tiger Woods and 19 of his friends will take on Albany in the Bahamas at this week’s Hero World Challenge. It’s a tiny field with no cutline to consider. With that small of a field, it puts a premium on game theory because jamming in the six “best” picks will lead to an extra-large helping […]

The DP World Tour is kicking off their new season with two events. The Australian PGA Championship has the stronger of the DFS fields this week, but DraftKings chose the Joburg Open, so I will follow the DFS trail of money and break down that weak-field event at Houghton Golf Club.    Core Targets Thriston […]

The PGA Tour wraps up their 2023 campaign this week with a trip to Sea Island Golf Club. It’s the RSM Classic and it’s attracted a relatively strong field, at least compared to last week. It’s still lacking star power, but there are a lot of “semi stars” in the field this week, just no […]

The flood of pre-tournament WDs has subsided, so it’s time for us to dive into this week’s field at the Bermuda Championship. There are two more PGA DFS slates after this week before the December break. Let’s finish in style. Most golfers are fighting for their 2024 playing status in one way or another with […]

The FedEx Fall has three more events to go, with many golfers still fighting for their 2024 playing status. Let’s finish in style starting with this week’s World Wide Technology Championship at El Cardonal, a Tiger Woods design.    Core Targets J.J. Spaun There is a clear top three this week with Ludvig Aberg, Cam […]

The PGA Tour travels to Asia this week for the Zozo Championship in Japan.  For DFS purposes, we need to note that it’s a limited field of just 78 golfers, and all of them will be guaranteed four rounds of action unless they withdraw. Does that mean we need to punt the last spot or […]

It’s time to put on a funny hat and head to Vegas for this week’s Shriners Children’s Open.  The host course is TPC Summerlin, which has hosted here for more than a decade. So there is plenty of history to lean on, but we also want to sift through the baseline and course-fit stats to […]

The PGA Tour returns to action this week, and while many are focused on football, this is prime earning time for DFS golf.  This week’s event is the Sanderson Farms Championship, at the Country Club of Jackson. The field is headlined by Ludvig Aberg who is working off his Ryder Cup hangover by staying true […]

The United States will do battle with Europe, in Rome, at this week’s Ryder Cup. If you’ve read any previews for the event, you’re probably aware of Team USA’s poor record on foreign soil.  Will it be more of the same or will the new era of U.S. team golf have something else to say […]

The DP World Tour has kept us busy over the last few weeks, but it’s great to get some golf in the States again.  It’s a strange schedule spot with just this one event in Napa before a week off and then the Ryder Cup. Without much form to look at, I want to lean […]

The PGA Tour’s playoff finale is taking place this week in Atlanta with a small field of 30 golfers teeing it up at East Lake Golf Club for the Tour Championship.  This event has unique scoring with golfers assigned starting strokes according to their FedEx Cup standings. For DFS, that plays a key role as […]

The PGA Tour heads to Chicago to take on Olympia Fields Country Club. We last saw the course at the 2020 BMW Championship.  Only five golfers finished under-par that week as the wind whipped and the course was playing extremely firm and fast. We should expect softer conditions this week, but it should still be […]

This week’s BMW Championship features a limited field of just 50 golfers. They are the top-50 golfers this season, though, so all are capable of contending. Combine that with stretched-out pricing from DraftKings, and there needs to be a lot of focus on the salary cellar.  While I said anyone in the field is capable […]

The playoffs start this week with a limited-field event taking place at TPC Southwind.  There are just 70 golfers pegging it this week in Memphis and no-cut events always lead to more gamers gravitating to a stars-and-scrubs approach for DFS roster construction.    It’s certainly tempting to take those salary savings at the bottom when […]

The Wyndham Championship is the last event of the PGA Tour’s 2023 regular season. The FedEx Cup Playoffs begin next week in Memphis, which means three weeks of no-cut, small-field events. Enough looking ahead though, let’s go out with bang at the Wyndham.  Sedgefield Country Club is the host venue this week, and it’s a […]

The majors may be over for the PGA season, but there is still plenty of high-leverage golf to be played. With the FedEx Cup bubble moved from 120 down to 70 this year, a lot of golfers are now fighting for their spot in the playoffs, and some are fighting for their playing status.  That […]

The final major of the 2023 PGA campaign will take place this week at Royal Liverpool, also known as Hoylake.  This Open Championship is known for weather draws, so we will touch on that in the notes section. We will also take a look at the salary changes made by DraftKings for the event.    […]