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PGA DFS
2022 Scottish Open Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
The weather cooperated as expected on Day 1 of this year’s Scottish Open. Any non-Scottie Scheffler DFS lineups likely cashed if you gave the projections a hard look and avoided the afternoon wave.    Will there be another weather wave to target Friday?  This looks like a full day of what we just saw in […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
2022 Scottish Open Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Heading across the pond this week, weather was to be expected, and Scotland is living up to its reputation.    Let’s check out the wind forecast for Day 1:  There is an obvious draw bias here, with the early starters getting sub-10 MPH winds for much of their round, while the afternoon wave will get […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
8 under $8,000: Cheap DFS plays for the 2022 Scottish 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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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Hot Takes for the 2022 Scottish Open
The Scottish Open becoming a PGA Tour Event is incredibly exciting, as is the fact that we have a strong course fit model to leverage this week.   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 […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA Bets
2022 Open Championship Betting Picks and Favorites
The 2022 Open Championship is set to take place from July 14 through July 21 at The Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland.    The field is just about set, with perhaps two more golfers being added to the field depending on who wins the Scottish Open and Barbasol Championship the week prior.  2022 Open […]
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FTN Staff
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PGA DFS
PGA PrizePicks for the Scottish 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 Scottish Open.  PrizePicks has birdie matchups, fairways hit, […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS
The Core and More: DFS Notes for the 2022 Scottish Open
  The Core and More article is going to highlight my core targets and provide some other notes on this week’s Scottish Open DFS 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 A week in Scotland means […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Course Fit and Stats: 2022 Genesis Scottish 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 — like this week’s Genesis Scottish Open — provides its own unique challenge, which emphasizes certain areas of the game more than others. At this point, you’ll want to familiarize […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA Bets
2022 Scottish Open Betting Preview
The strategic alliance begins to take shape this week between the PGA and DP World Tours, as there’s coverage in Scotland for a co-sanctioned playing of the Scottish Open. Historically a DP World Tour event, the new partnership means this event is giving out points for both Tours and will have an extremely strong field […]
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FTN Staff
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PGA DFS
Course Notes and Quotes: The Renaissance Club
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 John Deere Classic Round 4 Showdown Picks & Strategy
As with most round 4 showdowns, the discussion must begin with finish-position bonus points and their importance to tomorrow’s round. In round 3, five golfers scored over 60 DK points and ten scored over 50. The birdie-fest nature of the John Deere Classic has two effects on the importance of finish-position bonus equity. First, the […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 John Deere Classic Round 3 Showdown Picks & Strategy
I can’t recall a showdown round where the SD Ratings and GPP Ratings pointed so specifically to a handful of guys. Prediction – there will be a number of similarly built lineups with FTN logos at the top of DK leaderboards tomorrow.     Ownership & Ratings Notes  The most notable take away from ownership projections […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 LIV Portland Round 3 Showdown Picks and Strategy
After two days of action in Portland we have Dustin Johnson and Carlos Ortiz tied at the top.  With Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen, and Patrick Reed also lurking, it’s starting to look like the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay.  When it comes to consistency rates on the West Coast, Carlos Ortiz ranks sixth in […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
2022 LIV Portland Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Round 2 Showdown — LIV Portland   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. In fact, the prize pools for Round 2 are even larger for LIV Portland than they are for the […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 John Deere Classic Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
As we expected to see, windy conditions muted the scoring environment a little on Thursday, except for Poston who ran wild. The field scoring average sat around even par for most of the day and approached half a stroke over par, by round’s end.  Let’s start with the weather for round two in order to […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Hot Takes for the 2022 John Deere Classic
The John Deere Classic is certainly not one of my favorite events, since I typically don’t like birdie-fests, but at least we have a unique Course Fit Model.   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 […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
8 under $8,000: Cheap DFS plays for the 2022 John Deere Classic
Every week — like this week at the John Deere 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. […]
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Kyle Murray
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PGA DFS
2022 John Deere Classic Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
The weeklong sweat is great for DFS golf but sometimes you want instant results. That is where showdown comes into play.  Looking at Round 1 for the John Deere Classic, we see some windy conditions on the docket.    This is still a TPC course with wide fairways so I’m not expecting these guys to […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
2022 LIV Portland Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
Unless you’ve been living under a rock by now you have probably heard of the LIV Golf Tour that has started up a new golf league and they have built an OK roster of players. You will recognize many names, perhaps remember a few of the random South Africans from majors or the DP World […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA DFS
The Core and More: DFS Notes for the 2022 John Deere Classic
The Core and More article is going to highlight my core DFS 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.  Let’s take a look at this week’s John Deere Classic.   Slate […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
PGA PrizePicks for the John Deere 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 different angles on how to play during the Travelers Championship.Bottom of Form PrizePicks […]
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Bryan DeCorte
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PGA Bets
2022 John Deere Classic Betting Preview
Normally set the week prior to the British Open, this year’s John Deere Classic will be two weeks before the year’s final major, with the field gathering in Silvis, Ill. TPC Deere Run will host the event, which it has been doing since 2000, providing plenty of data and past results to dig through. Following […]
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FTN Staff
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Course Fit and Stats: 2022 John Deere 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, like this week’s John Deere Classic, 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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PGA DFS
Course Notes and Quotes: TPC Deere Run
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 Travelers Championship Round 4 Showdown Picks & Strategy
The theme from Round 3 continues into Round 4 Showdown – the studs are miles ahead of everyone else. This time, it’s just Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele. Just like last night, this presents some key decisions we have to make right away from a roster-construction perspective.   Ownership & Ratings Notes Cantlay and Schauffele […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 Travelers Championship Round 3 Showdown Picks & Strategy
This Round 3 Showdown is different than most of late – for one thing, we had an excellent CF Model coming into the week, so there’s no need to dive into how the course is playing through two rounds.    However, the main reason this showdown is different than most is the incredible separation the studs […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 Travelers Championship Round 2 Showdown Picks and Strategy
TPC River Highlands showed about as much teeth as a minor league hockey player on Thursday. There were nine golfers that carded a 5-under or better, including  8-under performances from Rory McIlroy and JT Poston.      With no weather to speak of, we can go ahead and just play the best plays. Easy game!  […]
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Matt Jones
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PGA DFS
PGA DFS Hot Takes for the 2022 Travelers Championship
With the Travelers Championship comes one of the strongest Course Fit Models of the year. Clearly, this makes me happy: 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 island when it comes to […]
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Alex Blickle
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PGA DFS
2022 Travelers Championship Round 1 Showdown Picks and Strategy
We love a nice four-day sweat with weeklong PGA DFS contests like we get this week for the Travelers Championship. The only thing better, though, is the instant gratification of the showdown sweat.   We don’t have many issues to speak of with the weather. The gusts will calm down slightly as the day goes […]
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Matt Jones
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PGA DFS
8 under $8,000: Cheap DFS plays for the 2022 Travelers Championship
Every week, like in this week’s Travelers Championship, 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 […]
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Kyle Murray
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PGA DFS
The Core and More: DFS Notes for the 2022 Travelers Championship
The Core and More article is going to highlight my core DFS targets and provide some other notes on the field for this week’s Travelers Championship 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 We have another full field […]
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Josh Culp
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PGA DFS
PGA PrizePicks for the Travelers 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 different angles on how to play during the Travelers Championship.   PrizePicks has […]
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Bryan DeCorte