Thomas wins PGA Championship for first major

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. Aside from the experts below, Fantasy Insider Rob Bolton breaks down the field at this year’s Valspar Championship in this week’s edition of the Power Rankings. For more fantasy, check out Rookie Ranking, 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 a team, click the “LEAGUES” tab. Then click on “FEATURED,” and then on the PGA TOUR Experts league that populates. SEASON SEGMENT

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Live leaderboard: FedEx Cup playoffs begin

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2019 Open Championship, End of Round 1. Course scoring averages: Overall: +1.98 strokes per round Morning wave: +2.28 Afternoon wave: +1.68 Current cutline: 71 players at +1 or better (T54th position) Top 3 most likely projected cutlines: 3 over par: 27% 4 over par: 24.2% 2 over par: 18.7% Top 10 win probabilities: Jon Rahm (T3, -3, 9.8%) Webb Simpson (T3, -3, 7.2%) Brooks Koepka (T3, -3, 6.6%) Justin Rose (T16, -2, 5.5%) Patrick Cantlay (T20, -1, 5.2%) Shane Lowry (2, -4, 5%) Tommy Fleetwood (T3, -3, 5%) Sergio Garcia (T3, -3, 4.1%) Tony Finau (T3, -3, 4%) Tyrrell Hatton (T3, -3, 2.6%) NOTE: These reports are based off the live predictive model run by @DataGolf. The model provides live “Make Cut�, “Top 20�, “Top 5�, and “Win� probabilities every 5 minutes from the opening tee shot to the final putt of every PGA TOUR event. Briefly, the model takes account of the current form of each golfer as well as the difficulty of their remaining holes, and probabilities are calculated from 20K simulations. To follow live finish probabilities throughout the remainder of the Open Championship, or to see how each golfer’s probabilities have evolved from the start of the event to the current time, click here for the model’s home page.

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