Brooks Koepka shattered the thin veneer of golf etiquette, flashing a look of disdain for click-clacking Bryson DeChambeau that he didn’t even pretend to hide.
How it works: Each week, our experts from PGATOUR.COM will make their selections in PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf. Each lineup consists of four starters and two bench players that can be rotated after each round. Adding to the challenge is that every golfer can be used only three times per each of four Segments. The first fantasy golf game to utilize live ShotLink data, PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf allows you to see scores update live during competition. Aside from the experts below, Fantasy Insider Rob Bolton breaks down the field at this year’s Charles Schwab Challenge in this week’s edition of the Power Rankings. For more fantasy, check out Rookie Watch, Qualifiers and Reshuffle. THINK YOU’RE BETTER THAN OUR EXPERTS? The PGA TOUR Experts league is once again open to the public. You can play our free fantasy game and see how you measure up against our experts below. Joining the league is simple. Just click here to sign up or log in. Once you create your team, click the “Leagues” tab and search for “PGA TOUR Experts.” After that? Pick your players and start talking smack. Want to represent the fans against our experts? SEASON SEGMENT
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The TOUR leaves Kiawah Island, and so does Phil Mickelson with his sixth major title. The TOUR travels from the historic 2021 PGA Championship to the storied Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, for the Charles Schwab Challenge. The course will play as a par 70, measuring 7,209 and will be putt on bentgrass greens. There are 121 players in the field, and the standard top 65 and ties make the cut. The Charles Schwab Challenge was the first tournament back after the COVID-19 shut down last season. Daniel Berger (+1800, $10,000) is your defending champion. STRATEGY The field moves back to its usual field size of 121 golfers after seeing its most robust group of 156 golfers in 2020, with every player on TOUR looking to get back to action post-COVID-19 shut down. The slimmer field will host some of the best golfers in the world like Justin Thomas (+1000, $11,000), Jordan Spieth (+850, $11,200), Tony Finau (+1600, $9,600), Justin Rose (+3300, $8,900), Collin Morikawa (+1400, $10,500), Abraham Ancer (+1400, $9700) and Patrick Reed (+1800, $10,300). With close to 54% or more of players potentially making the weekend, this week should result in one of the highest percentages of lineups having all six golfers make the cut. Colonial Country Club has been one of the longest-tenured courses on the PGA TOUR, with this being its 76th season hosting a tournament. Colonial isn’t known for playing difficult like the Ocean Course, but it’s been ranked inside the top-10 in difficulty scoring relative to par over the past few years. Like last week, the winds can cause havoc at Colonial. The tournaments held in 2012, 2014 and 2019 all recorded either higher than average or severe wind conditions, with the winning score averaging around 12-under. We’ve seen close to 20% of rounds over the previous four years register very windy conditions. The fairways are tight and tree-lined, making any wayward tee shots challenging to recover from if the golfers find trouble. The greens are below average in size, measuring 5,000 square feet, but the average greens in regulation (GIR) hit here is close to the TOUR average. Initially, we would think that smaller greens result in a smaller percentage of GIR, but it doesn’t. Over the previous five years, the highest distribution of approach shots has come from 125 to 175 yards, which are relatively easy scoring opportunities for these guys. Similar to other traditional layouts on TOUR, like Pete Dye’s Harbour Town Golf Links and TPC Sawgrass, Strokes Gained: Approach-the-Green will be the predominant statistic that will lead to success. DraftKings scoring will need to come from a massive amount of birdies, with one of the lowest eagle rates on TOUR. Also, with nine par 4s measuring under 450 yards, rostering golfers who rank high in shorter par 4s should take precedent over golfers who aren’t succeeding on these holes. This classical course layout lends itself to all types of golfers. Kevin Na (+6600; $8,400) can win with an impeccable short game, while Rose can do it with tremendous ball-striking, shooting 20-under, gaining 10.2 strokes with his irons, and four strokes Off-the-Tee. GOLFERS TO CONSIDER Joaquin Niemann (+2500 to Win, $9,300 on DraftKings) When we’re back on bentgrass, we should be backing the Chilean sensation, who ranks 20th in approach over the previous 24 rounds. Niemann has only lost strokes with his irons in one tournament out of his past 11 and has played well on shorter courses like Colonial, finishing fifth at the RBC Heritage in 2020 and second at this year’s Sony Open at Waialae CC. Chris Kirk (+6600 to Win, $7,600 on DraftKings) Kirk is just 10 spots behind Niemann at 30th in Strokes Gained: Approach-the-Green over the same timeframe but ranks the highest out of anyone in the field in Par 4 efficiency from 400 to 450 yards over the previous 24 rounds. On courses at or below 7,200 yards, Kirk ranks 27th in putting and eighth in birdies gained over his last two dozen rounds. Like Niemann, Kirk has been great on these shorter, classical courses, finishing seventh at the RBC Heritage and second at the Sony Open this year. Refer a friend and get $20 DK Dollars! Head to the DraftKings Playbook Promo page for more details! Set your DraftKings fantasy golf lineups here: PGA TOUR $750K Flop Shot [$200K to 1st] Put your knowledge to the test. Sign up for DraftKings and experience the game inside the game. All views expressed are my own. I am an employee of DraftKings and am ineligible to play in public DFS or DKSB contests. 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Scott Piercy (+15000) … Age 42; 10th appearance. As of nightfall on Monday, he was inside the bubble to qualify for the U.S. Open at the Dallas sectional, but he still had two-thirds of his second round to finish. (Weather suspended play until Tuesday morning. Ten spots will be filled when all hopefuls complete 36 holes.) Even if he doesn’t snatch one of the berths into the major, Colonial will provide a soft landing for the veteran. Since 2013, he’s 6-for-7 with a pair of top 20s. He’s also not too far detached from a T11 at the Wells Fargo Championship earlier this month where he led the field in par breakers and par-5 scoring. C.T. Pan (+8000) … Age 29; fifth appearance. Not surprisingly, the diminutive and decorated product of the University of Washington has settled into a horse for courses to define his career mold, so a T18 at Quail Hollow three weeks ago steps forward differently than, say, a T20 at Riviera in February and a T3 at PGA National in March. The latter two align with his profile as a gritty competitor on tough tracks, while the former is a relative bonus because of its length. That said, it’s his most recent top 25 in a season that has yielded five of them. He’s also recorded a pair of Colonial with a T20 in 2018 and a T3 in 2019. Brian Stuard (+20000) … Age 38; eighth appearance. The winner of the last Zurich Classic of New Orleans that was an individual competition (in 2016) always seems to be lurking, and that’s a hearty compliment as he’s survived 159 cuts in 274 PGA TOUR starts. He logged six of those paydays at Colonial, two of which going for a top 25. As one of the shortest members off the tee, this is a week that he circles before he, well, circles the prey, if you will. Currently third in fairways hit and 16th in proximity. He’s also a couple of clicks better than the TOUR average in scrambling and bogey avoidance, so numerous ingredients are present for something special at anytime. Camilo Villegas (+10000) … Age 39; sixth appearance. Despite his experience at Colonial, he hasn’t had much to show for it. The more recent of two paydays was a T26 in 2013. Instead, this is all about momentum. Since securing conditional status via his Major Medical Extension with a T8 at The Honda Classic, the Colombian has gone on to record another trio of top 25s. The most recent was a T11 at the Valspar Championship where he led the field in connecting for par breakers on half of his 38 greens in regulation. Joseph Bramlett (+12500) … Age 33; first appearance. As he continues to stalk his first FedExCup Playoffs in his third season, he’s closer to the target at 143rd in points thanks to a career-best T7 at the nearby AT&T Byron Nelson just two weeks ago. At TPC Craig Ranch, he fulfilled his reputation as a long-hitting ball-striker in ranking seventh in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green, but he also finished 25th in Strokes Gained: Putting for the week, signifying a vast departure from that usual weakness. Hitting small greens at Colonial is a premium and he’s 34th on TOUR in GIR. Odds were sourced on Tuesday, May 25 at 5 a.m. ET. For live odds visit betmgm. NOTE: Sleeper is a relative term, so Rob uses unofficial criteria to determine who qualifies. Each of the following usually is determined to be ineligible for this weekly staple: Winners of the tournament on the current host course; winners in the same season; recent major champions; top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking; recent participants of team competitions.
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