Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel - The Open Championship DFSR is proud to bring you, Chris Durell. He'll be bringing weekly PGA picks, analysis, and breakdowns to help you cash on DraftKings. As every week in DFS PGA changes with the course setup, field of players and weather, Chris will be providing a range of different picks for cash games as well as upside plays for tournaments. If you have any questions to lineup lock you can reach him a variety of ways. Leave your question/comment below in the comments section, find him in the DFSR Chat room or hit him up on Twitter(@Jager_Bombs9). Chris is also currently providing his DFS PGA cheatsheet for FREE while it is still in BETA mode. You can also grab a copy of the Salary/DK Points/Ownership Trends Sheet HERE.   The Open Championship   Good morning from Royal Birkdale, it is officially Open week! #TheOpen pic.twitter.com/Bcb76wpDMQ — The Open (@TheOpen) July 16, 2017     That's right folks. The season's third Major Championship has arrived and will return to the historic Royal Birkdale Golf Club for the tenth time in its history. The Birkdale Golf Club itself dates back to 1889 when it was formed. Royal Birkdale Golf Club hosted its first OPEN in 1954 with the winner, Peter Thomson, becoming a legend in these parts. He picked five OPEN titles in all, two of which came here. The first and the last.  The most recent winner of the OPEN here at Royal Birkdale is Padraig Harrington who hoisted the Claret Jug back in 2008 with a winning score of +3. That is only the second time since 1999 the winning score has come in above par. The wind was the major factor in 2008 as it howled around 20-25 mph all week with some huge gusts. The course is a links setup and the wind itself can affect scoring by multiple shots and is the number one defense. The second defense system is something we don't often see on links courses with narrow flat fairways. The extremely penal rough is also present which is going to put a huge amount of weight not only on Strokes Gained Off the Tee but with emphasis on Driving Accuracy.  There are some risk/reward holes(Hole # 5 comes to mind) where longer hitters can cut some of the doglegs but the penalty is huge for missing so we can expect a ton of "placement" drives this week. Proof of this is the news that Phil Mickelson will not be using a driver this week, rather turning to his trusty 3-wood that he used to win the 2013 OPEN at Muirfield. He has instead opted...

Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel - John Deere Classic DFSR is proud to bring you, Chris Durell. He'll be bringing weekly PGA picks, analysis, and breakdowns to help you cash on DraftKings. As every week in DFS PGA changes with the course setup, field of players and weather, Chris will be providing a range of different picks for cash games as well as upside plays for tournaments. If you have any questions to lineup lock you can reach him a variety of ways. Leave your question/comment below in the comments section, find him in the DFSR Chat room or hit him up on Twitter(@Jager_Bombs9). Chris is also currently providing his DFS PGA cheatsheet for FREE while it is still in BETA mode. You can also grab a copy of the Salary/DK Points/Ownership Trends Sheet HERE.   John Deere Classic Welcome back for another week in daily fantasy golf. This week the PGA Tour travels to the TPC Deere Run for the 2017 John Deere Classic. Right off the top we have one of the weakest fields of the year as most of the big names have traveled to the Scottish Open in preparation for the Open Championship next week. That leaves us with just one player who sits inside the Top 20 in the Official World Golf Rankings(Daniel Berger-20th) and just seven of the Top 50 players. This doesn't mean it's a bad week for DFS, especially considering the tournaments on DraftKings are far more inviting than those of the Scottish Open despite the difference in field strength. The TPC Deere Run course is always set up to favor scoring as it consistently ranks as one of the easiest courses on Tour with an average winning score of -21 over the past five years. Looking over the course, driving distance is much less of a factor this week with emphasis on placement of the drives to get a clean look at the large greens. This has me looking closely at Strokes Gained Off the Tee and Driving Accuracy. Then I will be looking even closer at Strokes Gained Approach as this is where the tournament will be won and lost. It will be important to not only get it on the greens but to get it close to the pin(Proximity) for better chances at birdies in this WEB.com Tour scoring fest. Par 4 and 5 scoring are factored with Par 4 slightly ahead as right around 50% of the total birdies for each of the last three JD Classic's have come from the Par 4 holes. Even though there are only three Par 5's, scoring on them will be important to keep up with the field as at...

 Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel - The Greenbrier Classic DFSR is proud to bring you, Chris Durell. He'll be bringing weekly PGA picks, analysis, and breakdowns to help you cash on DraftKings. As every week in DFS PGA changes with the course setup, field of players and weather, Chris will be providing a range of different picks for cash games as well as upside plays for tournaments. If you have any questions to lineup lock you can reach him a variety of ways. Leave your question/comment below in the comments section, find him in the DFSR Chat room or hit him up on Twitter(@Jager_Bombs9). Chris is also currently providing his DFS PGA cheatsheet for FREE while it is still in BETA mode. You can also grab a copy of the Salary/DK Points/Ownership Trends Sheet HERE.   The Greenbrier Classic Welcome back for another week of daily fantasy golf and a huge Happy July 4th to all my friends and followers in the United States of America. This week the PGA Tour heads to West Virginia for the Greenbrier Classic. The tournament was canceled in 2016 after flooding destroyed the Old White TPC. It was completely overhauled during the last calendar year and reports are it is looking as beautiful as ever. Looking at the course overview on PGATour.com, the fairways are lined with trees but appear to be very generous and should see somewhere around a 70% average in greens hit for the week. This is going to allow us to weigh driving distance a little higher this week but I will still be concentrating on Strokes Gained Approach for my top stat. I will also be looking closely at the Future of Fantasy's Golfanac to pick out some players who perform well on Par 70 courses and Bentgrass Greens. Let's quickly take a look at the course stats, past winners & scores, and my top stats and then jump into the picks for the week.   The Course The Old White TPC - White sulfur springs, WV Par 70 - 7,287 Yards Greens - Bentgrass **Click to Enlarge**   Past Five Winners 2016 - Cancelled Event 2015 - Danny Lee (-13) 2014 - Angel Cabrera (-16) 2013 - Jonas Blixt (-13) 2012 - Ted Potter Jr. (-16)   The Stats & Fantasy Approach My Key Stats: Strokes Gained Approach Strokes Gained Off the Tee/Driving Distance Par 4 Scoring Birdie or Better %   Top Current Form Targets David Lingmerth World Golf Ranking (#93) Vegas Odds (20/1) Draftkings ($10,000) FanDuel ($7,600) Looking at the five tourney average finish, there is no one hotter in the field than Lingmerth. He is coming off a T5 at TPC Potomac and has not finished...

Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel - Quicken Loans National DFSR is proud to bring you, Chris Durell. He'll be bringing weekly PGA picks, analysis, and breakdowns to help you cash on DraftKings. As every week in DFS PGA changes with the course setup, field of players and weather, Chris will be providing a range of different picks for cash games as well as upside plays for tournaments. If you have any questions to lineup lock you can reach him a variety of ways. Leave your question/comment below in the comments section, find him in the DFSR Chat room or hit him up on Twitter(@Jager_Bombs9). Chris is also currently providing his DFS PGA cheatsheet for FREE while it is still in BETA mode. You can also grab a copy of the Salary/DK Points/Ownership Trends Sheet HERE.   Quicken Loans National Welcome back for another week of daily fantasy golf. It was a disappointing at the Travelers, from a DFS standpoint, as I completely faded Spieth and was almost all in on Rory. FAIL! Seriously, if you have followed me or been reading my articles all season you probably think I am crazy and, well, you're right. I have mentioned Spieth in my article in almost every one of his starts.....Until this past week. While it was frustrating from a DFS perspective it was awesome to watch my favorite golfer go wire to wire and then somewhat hit a walk-off bunker hole out to take the trophy. The nice thing about daily fantasy golf is that after analyzing the mistakes and taking notes after a bad week we can put it behind us and move on to the next tournament. Let's jump in. This week the PGA Tour travels to Potomac, Maryland for the 2017 Quicken Loans National. The tournament has shifted to a new location for this year's event after spending seven of the last 10 years at Congressional Country Club. The newly renovated TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm will play host this time around and it proves to be a nice test for the 120 player field. It played host to a regular PGA Tour event(Booz Allen Classic) up until 2006 when it dropped from the schedule after many of the big names failed to show up after the course was heavily criticized for it's less than satisfactory playing conditions. In 2009, it was completely re-designed with every hole seeing a transformation. Becuase of this, I will be treating it like a brand new course and not factoring course history whatsoever this week. For a deciding factor between two players, I will glance at the event history and see how players have performed at the QL National in...

Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel - Travelers Championship DFSR is proud to bring you, Chris Durell. He'll be bringing weekly PGA picks, analysis, and breakdowns to help you cash on DraftKings. As every week in DFS PGA changes with the course setup, field of players and weather, Chris will be providing a range of different picks for cash games as well as upside plays for tournaments. If you have any questions to lineup lock you can reach him a variety of ways. Leave your question/comment below in the comments section, find him in the DFSR Chat room or hit him up on Twitter(@Jager_Bombs9). Chris is also currently providing his DFS PGA cheatsheet for FREE while it is still in BETA mode. You can also grab a copy of the Salary/DK Points/Ownership Trends Sheet HERE.   Travelers Championship After some record-breaking scores were posted at the U.S. Open, most players will be looking ahead to the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in just four weeks. That, however, doesn't leave us with a weak field this week as the Tour heads to TPC River Highlands for the Travelers Championship. Three of the world's Top 10 golfers(Mcilroy #3, Day #4, Spieth #6) and 15 of the Top 50 are in action this week. The course is also a complete 180 degree flip from last week as TPC River Highlands is close to 1,000 yards shorter in length and is a Par 70 setup with just two Par 5's and 12 Par 4 holes. While we seen just a couple trees at Erin Hills, the fairways are lined with them this week with "normal" PGA Tour bunkers protecting landing spots and the greens.  Water comes into play on the 13th hole as it lines the right-hand side and also holes 15, 16, and 17 surround a big lake. Over the years we have seen players go about attacking the course in different ways which doesn't limit our field to distance or accuracy. Bubba Watson in his two wins crushed the field off the tee and was just average or slightly better in other areas. Russell Knox, last season, used his accuracy and putting to take home the hardware. The biggest I am looking at this week as you will see below in my top stats is Strokes Gained: Off the Tee + Approach and Par 4 Scoring. For cash games, I will be looking closely at the sub $10K range to build my core and then stay more with a balanced approach. For tournaments, I will be looking to build around a core the same core for the most part but also using some contrarian plays that could be lower owned...

Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel - 117th U.S. Open DFSR is proud to bring you, Chris Durell. He'll be bringing weekly PGA picks, analysis, and breakdowns to help you cash on DraftKings. As every week in DFS PGA changes with the course setup, field of players and weather, Chris will be providing a range of different picks for cash games as well as upside plays for tournaments. If you have any questions to lineup lock you can reach him a variety of ways. Leave your question/comment below in the comments section, find him in the DFSR Chat room or hit him up on Twitter(@Jager_Bombs9). Chris is also currently providing his DFS PGA cheatsheet for FREE while it is still in BETA mode. You can also grab a copy of the Salary/DK Points/Ownership Trends Sheet HERE.   117th U.S. Open The time has come once again for the USGA's version of Mission Impossible, the U.S. Open. This year the event will be held at Erin Hills for the first time in the course's history(Opened in 2006). It is a minimalist designed course that uses the rolling prairie, fescue, and natural sand to create a unique challenge for the golfers. It is somewhat a links course in that it has very few trees on site and the scoring is very dependant on the wind as it is the #1 defense system. From the tee box, golfers are going to like the very wide fairways here but many of the tee shots are going to present a challenge being blind and protected by the natural and near impossible bunkers. Spray the ball too far offline and golfers are going to have to deal with fescue that, in certain spots, will be 3-4 feet high making it an extreme challenge just to get the ball back in play. While Kevin Na was maybe a little over dramatic about the playing conditions, it was still pretty entertaining. Check it out. Whether you agree with Na or not, that heavy fescue is going to make or break a lot of players chances of hoisting the trophy this week. To be perfectly honest, I don't think that the fescue is even close to the biggest challenge this week if you can believe it. The bunkers are going to test even the best sand players as it will be almost impossible to find a flat lie or stance in these natural hazards. Then, as I mentioned above, golfers will have to deal with the wind which could easily sway the winning score by 5+ shots. Currently, the forecast is showing 7-10 mph winds with gusts of 10-20 at times. I will be monitoring closely and...