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PGA DFS
2022 Fortinet Championship Round 4 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Round 4 is always a challenge – how much does baseline talent matter vs finishing position bonus equity? Do we get different at the top or by fading values in contention?  Of course, the answers vary week to week, and this week is perhaps tougher than most since there’s more uncertainty surrounding the new Tour […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 LIV Golf Chicago Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Cam Smith successfully played the role of chaser on day two of LIV Golf Chicago and now he’ll have a bullseye on his back for the final round.    There are seven golfers within five shots of his lead so he certainly can’t waltz to the finish line, he’ll have to earn this win.  As […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
2022 Fortinet Championship Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Round 3 Showdown is where things start to get tricky in terms of balancing a player’s play through two rounds with their baseline talent level and expectation coming into the event. We don’t want to overweight just two rounds of golf, but we also can’t ignore their current form or comfort level with the golf […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 LIV Golf Chicago Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
The cream is (mostly) rising to the top again at this week’s LIV event. For as much variance as there is in one-round golf, and 54 holes versus 72, they have to be pleased about the recent leaderboards that are heavily littered with big names.    Will the cream continue to rise? That is to […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
2022 Fortinet Championship Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
A fog delay hampered the wind splits on day one of the Fortinet Championship but even with a delayed start, the morning wave saw favorable conditions.    Let’s see how the weather looks for day two:    There are some heavy gusts possible in the afternoon. We can’t rule out another morning fog delay but […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
2022 Fortinet Championship Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
The PGA Tour is back in action this week as the new season kicks off in Napa. Let’s take a look at the DFS showdown slate for the first round of the Fortinet Championship Thursday.   As we always do with all showdown slates, let’s take a look at the weather.  The morning looks a bit […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
LIV Chicago DFS Core Plays
DraftKings has decided to roll out full-slate (all three rounds) contests for this week’s LIV Chicago event. This will be the first time since this tour’s creation that DraftKings has posted such events so I will break down some of my favorite targets below – from core GPP plays down to potential upside/value golfers dwelling in […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Hot Takes for the 2022 Fortinet Championship
Welcome back, PGA Tour golf! With so much uncertainty throughout the KFT graduates, there’s plenty of room for Hot Takes at The Fortinet Championship. Regardless of the event, PGA DFS is all about weighing the risks and rewards of players in relation to their ownership projections. Often, you have to feel like you’re on an […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
PGA PrizePicks for the Fortinet 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 Fortinet Championship.   PrizePicks has birdie matchups, fairways […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA Bets
2022 Fortinet Championship Masters Best Bets
Below, I will be highlighting free bets for the Fortinet Championship from outside of the outright markets. Hitting winners is fun, but there are plenty of other ways (with less variance) to bet on golf and win some money. If you would like to read about my outright wager for the PGA Tour Championship, you […]
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FTN Staff
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PGA DFS
The Core and More: DFS Notes for the 2022 Fortinet Championship
The PGA Tour season kicks off this week in Napa on a familiar layout, the North Course at Silverado Resort and Spa.  The field includes a lot of fresh faces but only a few look like worthwhile options. Let’s dive into the names that are pinging my radar this week.    Core Targets Cam Davis […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Course Fit and Stats: Fortinet Championship
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 — like this week’s Fortinet 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 […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA Bets
2022 Fortinet Championship Betting Preview
The 2022-23 PGA Tour season kicks off in California, with the Fortinet Championship hosted by the Silverado Resort and Spa. Another familiar course for the Tour, Silverado has played host since 2015 and should be a familiar scene for many teeing it up.   This will also be the first PGA Tour event in which […]
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FTN Staff
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PGA DFS
8 under $8,000: Cheap DFS plays for the 2022 Fortinet Championship
Every week, like at this week’s Fortinet 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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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS
Course Notes and Quotes: Silverado Resort and Spa
A fresh PGA TOUR season kicks off this week in Napa. The length of the offseason varies by player, as some didn’t make the Playoffs, some had to fight in the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, while some stayed busy overseas.   It’s great to have a full-field PGA TOUR event back on the calendar, so […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
The Core and More: DFS Notes for the 2022 BMW PGA Championship
With the PGA Tour resting another week, the spotlight is squarely on the DP World Tour’s flagship event this week at Wentworth Club. It’s the BMW PGA Championship which attracts the strongest field, year after year, of any DP World Tour event.  With a strong field and the prize pools juiced on DraftKings, I had […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
2022 LIV Golf Invitational Boston Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
LIV Boston Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy Whether you’re a fan or not, DraftKings is offering up large contests for LIV Golf – all in the showdown format – and they present great opportunity for users.  Like PGA Showdown, there is a lot of overreactions to one round and perhaps even more so with […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS
2022 LIV Golf Invitational Boston Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Regardless of how you feel about LIV Golf and the players committed to it, the showdown contests on DraftKings will run and present an opportunity to make big money. As more and more big-name golfers join LIV, we also get stronger fields full of players we know well and have plenty of data on.   […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 LIV Golf Invitational Boston Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
The PGA Tour is taking a breather before kicking off a new season. That gives LIV Golf a prime slot on the schedule this week as they head to the Boston area for the fourth LIV Golf event. For DFS, that means three showdown contests, which begin Friday.    Most weeks I start with a […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
2022 Tour Championship Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Round 3 PGA DFS Showdown is where things start to get tricky in terms of balancing a player’s play through two rounds with their baseline talent level and expectation coming into the event. We don’t want to overweight just two rounds of golf, but we also can’t ignore their current form or comfort level with […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 Tour Championship Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Scottie Scheffler has opened up a commanding five-stroke lead as we head into the second round of the Tour Championship. The leaderboard behind Scheffler is bunched up, with a dozen other golfers at 6-under or better. Those scores include the starting strokes for this format, though, and that’s not exactly what we’re interested in. Matt […]
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Matt Jones
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Hot Takes for the 2022 Tour Championship
And so the PGA regular season comes to a close, with the anticlimactic Tour Championship. Without a reliable course fit model to work with, we’ll have to get creative with how we create an edge this week.   Regardless of the event, PGA DFS is all about weighing the risks and rewards of players in relation […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 Tour Championship Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
We’ve reached the finale of the PGA Tour season as the last 30 golfers standing tee off for the Tour Championship Thursday. East Lake is a par-70 course that plays right around 7,300 yards. It’s right outside of Atlanta. I can guarantee with absolute certainty that there won’t be any wave advantage because, well, there […]
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Matt Jones
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PGA DFS
PGA PrizePicks for the Tour 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 Tour Championship.   PrizePicks has birdie matchups, fairways […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS
8 under $8,000: Cheap DFS plays for the 2022 Tour Championship
Every week — like this week at the Tour 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 […]
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Kyle Murray
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PGA DFS
The Core and More: DFS Notes for the 2022 Tour Championship
The PGA season comes to an end this week at East Lake in Atlanta. The field for the Tour Championship is small, at just 30 golfers to start the week, and Will Zalatoris has withdrawn to make it just 29 golfers teeing it up at the season finale.    For DFS purposes I would put an […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Course Fit and Stats: The Tour Championship
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 — like this week’s Tour 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 […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA Bets
2022 Tour Championship Betting Preview
We’ve made it — the final tournament of the 2021-22 PGA Tour season. Ignore the fact that next season starts up in two weeks, as for now the culmination of a long and, at times arduous, season is upon us. The top 30 golfers in the FedEx standings aim for the “ultimate prize” with a […]
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FTN Staff
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PGA DFS
Course Notes and Quotes: East Lake
The PGA TOUR season comes to an end this week at the TOUR Championship. There is lots of big golf news ready to drop in the next week or two, but we are still focused on the DFS element this week in Atlanta.   Course Notes – East Lake Off the Tee: The course is extremely […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
2022 BMW Championship Round 4 Showdown Picks and Strategy
* Link to Round 4 Showdown Ownership, SD Ratings, & GPP Ratings *  It’s a stacked leaderboard, giving us a ton of strong chalk and no value plays with an easy path to significant finish position bonuses. Consequently, I think our best path is to differentiate with salary-saving plays.     Ownership & Ratings Notes There […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 BMW Championship Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
* Link to Round 3 Showdown Ownership, SD Ratings, & GPP Ratings *  Course Fit Model Through two rounds, the picture has become more clear of what type of player we should be looking for. We want three things: Distance off the tee Strong iron play Solid putter That’s the recipe for success, so let’s see […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 BMW Championship Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
We saw a wide range of scores on day one at the BMW Championship. Wilmington Country Club proved to be a tough test but also yielded some low scores for those piping drivers in the fairway.         Let’s take a look at the weather for Friday:      The wind will shift directions […]
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Josh Culp