Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel – The CJ Cup @ Nine Bridges
Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel - The CJ Cup @ Nine Bridges DFSR is proud to bring you, Chris Durell. He'll be bringing weekly PGA picks, analysis, and breakdowns to help you cash on DraftKings and FanDuel. 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 providing his DFS PGA Weekly cheatsheet and Season-Long Trends Sheet at absolutely no cost. The CJ Cup @ Nine Bridges Welcome back daily fantasy golf fans. It is a big week for the PGA Tour as it visits Korea for the very first time for the CJ Cup @ Nine Bridges. That means we will be throwing course history out the window this week and concentrating solely on players who fit the stats model and current form model on the cheatsheet. Speaking of the stats model, it will be pretty tough to narrow down specifically what will be the biggest impact so I am going pretty straightforward with the model this week. Strokes Gained: Ball Striking is always at the top of the list and with the course looking fairly tough with tons of sand and some tough greens, I will also be looking at Strokes Gained: Around the Green and Bogey Avoidance to go along with Birdie or Better %. With all that said, let's jump in and take a look at some of the top picks for this week. The Course The Club at Nine Bridges - Jeju Island, KOR Par 72 - 7,196 Yards **Click to check out the Hole by Hole Breakdown at PGATour.com** Top Stats in the Model Strokes Gained: Ball Striking(Off the Tee+ Approach) Strokes Gained: Around the Green Bogey Avoidance Birdie or Better % Par 5 Scoring Top Current Form Targets Paul Casey World Golf Ranking (#14) Vegas Odds (9/1) Draftkings ($11,600) FanDuel ($9,700) Casey topped the current form section last week and it paid if you rostered him. It didn't look good early as he opened with a 77 but he bounced back in a big way with a 63 on Friday, 69 on Saturday, and capped off the weekend with a final round 65 to finish with yet another Top 10 and 102 DraftKings points. Dating back to last season(not that long ago), he has finished Top 10 in seven of his last 11...
Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel – CIMB Classic
Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel - CIMB 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 and FanDuel. 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 providing his DFS PGA Weekly cheatsheet and Season-Long Trends Sheet at absolutely no cost. CIMB Classic Welcome back for another week of daily fantasy golf as the Fall Season continues. This week 78 players travel to Malaysia for a no-cut event at TPC Kuala Lumpur. This will be the fifth time the course has hosted this event and two players have dominated the trophy ceremonies. FedEx Cup Champion, Justin Thomas, returns as the defending champ in each of the last two years with Ryan Moore taking down back to back wins here in 2015 and 2014. Before moving on, let's take a look at the top of the leaderboard over the past four years: As you can see we are likely in for a birdie fest as evidenced by the scores shown above, especially over the past two years. This puts Birdie or Better % right up near the top of the key stats this week and with fairly generous fairways I will also be weighing Strokes Approach heavily as well. Let's take a quick look at the Top 5 golfers in both of those stats over the last 12 rounds overall using the tools over at Fantasy National Golf Club. Let's take a look at the course information and then jump right into the picks. The Course TPC Kuala Lumpur - Kuala, MAS Par 72 - 7,005 Yards **Click to check out the Course Breakdown from PGATour.com** Top Stats in the Model Strokes Gained: Approach Birdie or Better % Par 5 Scoring Strokes Gained: Off the Tee Top Course History Targets Justin Thomas World Golf Ranking (#4) Vegas Odds (4/1) Draftkings ($12,300) FanDuel ($10,500) There is absolutely no argument with Thomas topping the course history list. He has played here twice in his young career, winning twice with a combined score of -49. He returns with top form as well coming off a runner-up at the TOUR Championship which netted him the FedEx Cup to go along with Player of the Year honors in a season...
Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel – Safeway Open
Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel - Safeway 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 and FanDuel. 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 providing his DFS PGA Weekly cheatsheet and Season-Long Trends Sheet at absolutely no cost. Safeway Open The Course Silverado Resort & Spa(North) - Napa, CA Par 72 - 7,203 Yards **Click to see PGATour.com Course Overview** Top Stats in the Model Strokes Gained: Off the Tee(20%) Strokes Gained: Approach(30%) Birdie or Better %(30%) Par 4 Scoring(20%) Top Course History Targets Kevin Na World Golf Ranking (#66) Vegas Odds (28/1) Draftkings ($9,400) FanDuel ($7,800) It is very likely Na will be the highest owned golfer this week(leads FanShare tags with 15) but he has everything going for him, starting with the course history. He has played here in back to back year finishing 2nd and 7th and in those eight rounds, ranks 3rd overall in DraftKings points(via Fantasy National Golf Club). He finished last season strong making it all the way to the BMW Championship and had two Top 6 finishes in his final four events with 7th most DraftKings points per tournament(in the field) over his last five events. He also crushes it statistically ranking 1st in the field in Strokes Gained: Approach, 5th in Par 4 Scoring and 12th in Birdie or Better %. He is a safe play in all formats, especially on FanDuel where he is under $8K to start the season. Brendan Steele World Golf Ranking (#59) Vegas Odds (28/1) Draftkings ($9,000) FanDuel ($8,600) Pictured above are Brendan Steele's stat rankings over the last 12 rounds at Silverado Resort & Spa(via Fantasy National Golf Club) and they are very impressive. He is top 10 in every area besides SG: ARG and has improved here each year he has played Silverado. He has finished T21, T17, and with a final round 65 last season, won the event. He did tail off at the end of the season missing four of his final seven cuts with just one Top 25 but can use a track he is comfortable with to reboot in a big way. Steele also shows up in my stats model this week as he...
Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel – TOUR Championship
Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel - TOUR 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 and FanDuel. 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 providing his DFS PGA Weekly cheatsheet and Season-Long Trends Sheet at absolutely no cost. TOUR Championship The Course East Lake Golf Club - Atlanta, GA Par 70 - 7,385 Yards Greens - Bermuda Previous Winners of the Tour Championship 2016 - Rory McIlroy(-12) 2015 - Jordan Spieth(-9) 2014 - Bil Horschel(-11) 2013 - Henrik Stenson(-13) 2012 - Brandt Snedeker(-10) 2011 - Bill Haas(-8) 2010 - Jim Furyk(-8) Top Stats in the Model Strokes Gained: Off the Tee(30%) Strokes Gained: Approach(20%) Par 4 Scoring(20%) Birdie or Better %(15%) Strokes Gained: Around the Green(10%) Strokes Gained: Putting(5%) The long regular season will wrap up this week as the final 30 players in the FedEx Cup standings head to the Tour Championship for a chance at multiple trophies and a ton of cash. That's right, one golfer will walk away with the FedEx Cup Trophy and a cool $10,000,000 to add to his bank account. There are a ton of scenarios for the 30 golfers to win the FedEx Cup this week but if you are one of the Top 5 in the standings you need to do just one thing. Win! Each of the top 5 golfers controls their own destiny. Looking at recent trends, every golfer to win the Tour Championship has won the FedEx Cup in each of the last seven years. The last time a FedEx Cup winner didn't win the Tour Championship was Tiger Woods back in 2009 who saw Phil Mickelson win the final tournament. Speaking of Tiger and Phil, this has been circulating all week and it makes me laugh every time. By 2002, even Phil was sick of hearing about all Tiger's wins. pic.twitter.com/K3lw5LZlOi — Skratch (@Skratch) September 16, 2016 For fantasy, I looked closely at the previous winners going back to 2010 and Rory Mcilroy(2016), Billy Horschel(2014), and Henrik Stenson(2013) are the only golfers with multiple wins in the playoffs of their Championship seasons. While you would think that current form would be key to winning the year-end event, it...
Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel – BMW Championship
Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel - BMW 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 and FanDuel. 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 providing his DFS PGA Weekly cheatsheet and Season-Long Trends Sheet at absolutely no cost. We're back. #BMWChamps pic.twitter.com/hKVmdOCZRg — BMW Championship (@BMWchamps) September 11, 2017 That's right, the BMW Championship returns this week as the field is now down to 70 with only the Top 30 moving on to East Lake next week for the Tour Championship. The tournament has alternated venues for six straight years and this year it will be held at Conway Farms Golf Club. The course has hosted this event twice, with Jason Day winning back in 2015(-22) and Zach Johnson(-16) winning in 2013. As you can see by the previous winning scores here, it should be a birdie fest. This has me weighing Birdie or Better % right behind Strokes Gained Ball Striking(OTT+APP). I also adjusted the course history on my sheet to only weigh the results from 2015 and 2013 and due to a smaller sample size spread out over five years, that weight is much lower than usual. I will be concentrating a lot more on my key stats and fantasy scoring over the last five tournaments. I will also be using the tools at Fantasy National Golf Club to help sort through the stats over the last 12, 24, and 36 rounds. Another feature I have been using a lot lately is the breakdown of the Par 3's, 4's, and 5's over a selected amount of rounds. The example below is Par 5 Efficiency over the last 12 rounds and looking to further to the right you can see those ranks by distance of the holes(this week all three Par 5's between 550-600 yards). From a fantasy perspective, we can take a few more shots this week with a stars and scrubs strategy seeing as there is no cut this week. All 70 players will get four rounds of golf so a rough start doesn't necessarily translate to "week over on Friday syndrome". I will be personally lowering my exposure to the big tournaments this week due to the...
Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel – Dell Technologies Championship
Daily Fantasy PGA Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel - Dell Technologies 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 and FanDuel. 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 providing his DFS PGA Weekly cheatsheet and Season-Long Trends Sheet to help you become a better player. The weekly sheet has DraftKings and FanDuel salaries, odds, Official World Golf rankings, tons of stats, current form, tournament history, and much more. The trends sheet takes a closer look at DraftKings points, salaries, and ownership by tournament. Get yours today. Dell Technologies Championship What a start to the 2017 FedEx Cup Playoffs. Jordan Spieth entered the final round with a three stroke lead but had the #1 player in the world, Dustin Johnson, breathing down his neck. Through five holes on the opening nine, Spieth even extended his lead to five strokes with two early birdies but gave three strokes back before making the turn while DJ picked up a Birdie on hole nine. The back nine is where things got interesting as DJ made Birdies on hole #10, #13, and #15 while Spieth made Birdies on holes #13 and #14. They entered the 18th hole tied at -13 and when DJ missed the fairway and was forced to layup, it appeared that Spieth would go on to win. Not so fast! Spieth made his par while DJ was left with a fast 17-foot putt to force a playoff. He ended up draining it and on the first playoff hole, DJ made no mistake off the tee this time bombing a drive 340 yards followed by an on-point wedge shot that gave him a 3-foot birdie for the win. Words don't do it justice so check out the highlights from the final round before we dig into this week's event. This week the top 100(96 in the field) in the FedEx Cup standings move on to TPC Boston for the second leg of the Playoffs. We had no course history to go off last week and while the tournament name and sponsor has changed this week, the location has not. TPC Boston has been the host of this event since 2003 so we can get back to weighing the course...