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PGA PrizePicks for the Wyndham Championship
PrizePicks offers a different way to play fantasy sports than simply building a lineup of different golfers on a salary. There are different categories of props and matchups, which are not often offered anywhere else. I’m going to go through a few plays of mine for the Wyndham Championship.   PrizePicks has birdie matchups, fairways […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS Course Fit and Stats: The Wyndham Championship
Golf is the only sport in which the “arena” where the game is played changes dramatically from one event to another. Consequently, each tournament — like this week’s Wyndham Championship — provides its own unique challenge, which emphasizes certain areas of the game more than others. At this point, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with […]
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Alex Blickle
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Course Notes and Quotes: Sedgefield Country Club
Another PGA TOUR campaign is coming to a close, as they put a cap on the regular season this week at the Wyndham Championship. The host course is Sedgefield Country Club, a classical Donald Ross design that has been hosting this event since the 2008 edition. Let’s dive in and dissect the course in a […]
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Josh Culp
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2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic Round 4 Showdown Picks and Strategy
* Link to Round 4 Showdown Ownership, SD Ratings, & GPP Ratings *  The toughest round 4 showdown slates are the ones like this – where the top of the leaderboard is full of great players you can’t possibly jam all of into your lineup. To win, you have to nail the top, but doing so […]
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Alex Blickle
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2022 LIV Bedminster Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
LIV Bedminster Round 3 Showdown Picks  DraftKings is offering showdown slates for the LIV Bedminster event, and that’s what I’m here to break down. LIV events are small, 48-golfer fields, that take place over three rounds instead of the standard four. This is why there is only showdown being offered. Other than that, the scoring […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS
2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
* Link to Round 3 Showdown Ownership, SD Ratings, & GPP Ratings *  I’m still reeling from Gary Woodland’s lip-out to make the cut, ruining a 6/6. Nevertheless, we power through in hopes of hitting big in round 3.     Ownership & Ratings Notes Projecting ownership for round 3 is difficult since the field was […]
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Alex Blickle
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2022 LIV Bedminster Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
The first round is on the books over on the LIV Tour. Henrik Stenson and Patrick Reed sit atop the leaderboard after opening round 64s. They sit two strokes clear of Phachara Khongwatmai and the rest of the field thru 18 holes.  With no waves given the smaller field, there’s no weather advantages to be […]
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Matt Jones
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2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
We had a nice day to start things off at the Rocket Mortgage. The morning wave played about 1.25 strokes easier than the afternoon wave and Michael Thompson carded a 6-under for the second-best round of the day. As far as weather concerns go, things look a bit more equitable on Friday.  Tony Finau took […]
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Matt Jones
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8 under $8,000: Cheap DFS plays for the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic
Every week, like in this week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic, a crucial part of success in PGA DFS GPPs will be hitting on lower-rostered/lower-salary golfers. Golf is a unique DFS sport in that all the golfers have the same opportunity to score. There are no starters, bench players, role players, third-down backs, etc. The golfer who […]
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Kyle Murray
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PGA DFS Hot Takes for the Rocket Mortgage Classic
The theme of the week for me in DFS is that although the Rocket Mortgage Classic is a birdie-fest, its unique Course Fit Model has me excited for what’s to come. —  Regardless of the event, PGA DFS is all about weighing the risks and rewards of players in relation to their ownership projections. Often, you […]
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Alex Blickle
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2022 LIV Bedminster Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
DraftKings is offering showdown slates for the LIV Bedminster event, and that’s what I’m here to break down. LIV events are small, 48-golfer fields, that take place over three rounds instead of the standard four. This is why there is only showdown being offered. Other than that, the scoring will remain the same as PGA […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA PrizePicks for the Rocket Mortgage Classic
PrizePicks offers a different way to play fantasy sports than simply building a lineup of different golfers on a salary. There are different categories of props and matchups, which are not often offered anywhere else. I’m going to go through a few plays of mine for the Rocket Mortgage Classic.   PrizePicks has birdie matchups, […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
The PGA Tour’s Rocket Mortgage Classic tees off Thursday. We’re used to plenty of scoring at this track with tournament-winning scores at 18-under or better in all three years of this course hosting. If the forecast below holds up, there will be a wave advantage for your round 1 showdown contests.    I’d personally exclude […]
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Matt Jones
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The Core and More: DFS Notes for the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic
Detroit Golf Club returns to host this week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic. As the name suggests, we are in Detroit this week, hanging around the Midwest one more week before ending the PGA Tour’s regular season at the Wyndham Championship.    This should be a fun week for DFS, because the course creates a lot of […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS Course Fit and Stats: The Rocket Mortgage Classic
Golf is the only sport in which the “arena” in which the game is played changes dramatically from one event to another. Consequently, each tournament provides its own unique challenge, which emphasizes certain areas of the game more than others. At this point, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with the strokes gained statistics if you haven’t […]
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Alex Blickle
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Course Notes and Quotes: Detroit Golf Club
Welcome to this week’s edition of Notes and Quotes for PGA DFS! This week the tour is in Detroit for the Rocket Mortgage Classic. The idea of this article will be to highlight the important course details without all of the fluff. The goal is to get the ideas flowing and the research started down the […]
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Josh Culp
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2022 3M Open Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
* Link to Round 3 Showdown Ownership, SD Ratings, & GPP Ratings *  The 3M Open has been an exciting one through two rounds as TPC Twin Cities has lived up to the billing of one of the Tour’s better courses. We are a Scott Piercy collapse away from a great weekend!     Weather In […]
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Alex Blickle
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2022 3M Open Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
3M Open Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy The wind (and wind direction) played a big role in round one as TPC Twin Cities played as tough as we’ve ever seen it. Will that continue on day two?        The wind has all but disappeared on day two so we should see more […]
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Josh Culp
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8 under $8,000: Cheap DFS plays for the 2022 3M Open
Every week, a crucial part of success in PGA DFS GPPs will be hitting on lower-owned/lower-salary golfers. Golf is a unique DFS sport in that all the golfers have the same opportunity to score. There are no starters, bench players, role players, third-down backs, etc. The golfer who is $6,000 is guaranteed to play at […]
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Kyle Murray
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2022 3M Open Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Based on stereotypes, the wind was supposed to whip last week in Scotland, but it didn’t show up too much. Will that wind show up a week later as we head to the Midwest?    Let’s check out the wind forecast for Day 1:  This forecast doesn’t show any extreme gaps of windless golf but […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS Hot Takes for the 3M Open
While we’re coming down from the high of the 150th Open Championship to a weak field, there’s reason for excitement here. The 3M Open is hosted by TPC Twin Cities, which is probably one of the best courses on Tour. It also comes with a strong Course Fit Model despite just three years of data.    […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
The Core and More: DFS Notes for the 2022 3M Open
The Core and More article is going to highlight my core targets and provide some other notes on the field with names that might appeal to me. I will add in some stats and then punts to consider for top-heavy lineup builds.    Slate Notes I may have COVID, but I’m still excited for my […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
PGA PrizePicks for the 3M Open
PrizePicks offers a different way to play fantasy sports than simply building a lineup of different golfers on a salary. There are different categories of props and matchups, which are not often offered anywhere else. I’m going to go through a few plays of mine for the 3M Open.   PrizePicks has birdie matchups, fairways […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Course Fit and Stats: The 3M Open
Golf is the only sport in which the “arena” in which the game is played changes dramatically from one event to another. Consequently, each tournament provides its own unique challenge, which emphasizes certain areas of the game more than others. At this point, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with the strokes gained statistics if you haven’t […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
Course Notes and Quotes: TPC Twin Cities
Welcome to this week’s edition of Notes and Quotes!  The idea of this article will be to highlight the important course details without all of the fluff. The goal is to get the ideas flowing and the research started down the right path. Then, later in the week, I will return to highlight where my […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
2022 Open Championship Round 4 Showdown Picks and Strategy
* Link to Round 4 Ownership, SD Ratings, & GPP Ratings *        The Open has been disappointing for me thus far, in large part because St. Andrews has deviated significantly from the typical Open Championship Fit Model. The silver lining is we have one final round tomorrow to reverse the trend and turn The […]
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Alex Blickle
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2022 Open Championship Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
* Link to Round 3 Ownership, SD Ratings, & GPP Ratings *  There are two factors greatly impacting my approach for Round 3. The first is a major change to the course fit model (pivoting away from the Open Championship Model to a St Andrews Model built on these two rounds worth of data) and the second […]
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Alex Blickle
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2022 Open Championship Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
The first round is in the books at St. Andrews and we have some shocking names towards the top of the leaderboard. Guys like Robert Dinwiddie and Barclay Brown (yes, those are both real names) are in the Top 5 heading into Friday’s second round.    We’re looking at another tame weather day for the […]
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Matt Jones
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8 under $8,000: Cheap DFS plays for the 2022 Open Championship
Every week, like at this week’s Open Championship, a crucial part of success in PGA DFS GPPs will be hitting on lower-rostered/lower-salary golfers. Golf is a unique DFS sport in that all the golfers have the same opportunity to score. There are no starters, bench players, role players, third-down backs, etc. The golfer who is […]
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Kyle Murray
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PGA DFS
2022 Open Championship Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
The 150th Open Championship is set to tee off, and there are plenty of solid prize pools available for DFS showdown contests Thursday. With first-round showdown contests, we’re always going to rely on our baseline projections. You can find our projections within the optimizer to build your lineups and manage your exposures.    Before we get […]
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Matt Jones
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PGA DFS Hot Takes for the 2022 Open Championship
With great power comes great responsibility. The powerful Course Fit Model for the Open Championship is giving us a handful of players who project extremely well for their price and ownership, but we must responsibly pick our favorite contrarian options to pair with high-expectation/low-volatility players to maximize the EV of each lineup. In other words, we […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
The Core and More: DFS Notes for the 2022 Open Championship
The Core and More article is going to highlight my core DFS targets for this week’s Open Championship and provide some other notes on the field with names that might appeal to me. I will add in some stats and then punts to consider for top-heavy lineup builds.    Slate Notes The weather wave went […]
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Josh Culp