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If you thought that last week was easy, good. This week ain’t. No, I didn’t have Max Homa at the Wells Fargo Championship. No one did. Seriously. Zero gamers in PGA TOUR Fantasy One & Done selected him. However, Justin Rose, Paul Casey, Rickie Fowler and Sergio Garcia all finished inside the top five and two-time champ Rory McIlroy checked in at T8. Save Homa’s storybook achievement, it was chalk central in the Queen City. Perhaps one day Trinity Forest will boast a comparable Who’s Who of go-to talent in our format. Until then, we default to logical analysis, sound reasoning and, of course, the spinning dartboard. Rarely does a first-time defending champion who was a rookie when he prevailed deserve attention in fantasy circles, but Aaron Wise defies conventional, ahem, wisdom. Obviously, no one has better course history, but he’s also arriving with solid form in tow. Still, I’m advising him as a tail of a tandem in two-man games. No need to lead. If you need to swing from your heels and Brooks Koepka is burning a hole in your chinos, then I’m not going to stop ya. Just remember that he’s defending two of the remaining three majors and he plays his best in them. He’s available to me and I didn’t think twice at pulling the trigger, but I’m the pacesetter. His offense will be a dandy defense later. Marc Leishman sits atop my Power Rankings and he’s also on my board, but I’m leaving only for my lineup in PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf. While the Aussie has lifted into the category of the consistently strong, his core value is a reliability to stay hot. If I could use Charles Howell III again, I wouldn’t hesitate. Alas, I’m left with merely endorsing him emphatically if you still possess the pleasure. He connected four sub-70s here en route to a T9 last year and projects to do the same this week. He’s done nothing to suggest that his comfort level dipping deep into red numbers has been adversely affected. Scott Piercy is beside CH3 in terms of my confidence in this format. He’s been fantastic all season and you already know how much he loves to go low. I already invested confidently in his title defense at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans (T13). Sungjae Im leads the PGA TOUR in rounds under par and he’s performed well on all kinds of tests. If lightning is to strike twice for rookies at Trinity Forest, he’s most likely to be raising the 1-iron overhead. (He’s yet another who I’ve already exhausted.) Holster Hideki Matsuyama, Jordan Spieth, Henrik Stenson and Patrick Reed. There’s too much random to the madness this week. I was torn between Keith Mitchell and Rory Sabbatini, a couple of guys who should present as complementary pieces in two-man formats and not the primary or the only selection, such as in our game. However, both strut in with momentum and success at Trinity Forest last year. In fact, if both are available to you in your two-man league, there’s your ticket. Thomas Pieters, Seamus Power and Scottie Scheffler are calculated fliers for two-man teams as well. FUTURE POSSIBILITIES NOTE: Select golfers committed to the tournament are listed alphabetically. Future tournaments are sorted chronologically and reflect previous success on the courses on which the tournaments will be held in 2018-19. The numerical values in parentheses represent the order of relative confidence of where to use each golfer if multiple sites are listed (e.g. 1 for strongest, 2 for next-strongest and so on). To present weighted confidence in real time, numerical values will not change all season no matter how many tournament remain listed for each golfer. All are pending golfer commitment. Daniel Berger … Travelers (1) Rafa Cabrera Bello … Wyndham (4) Branden Grace … Byron Nelson (5); U.S. Open (4) Bill Haas … Charles Schwab (2); Wyndham (6) Brian Harman … Charles Schwab (1); Travelers (5); John Deere (4) Brooks Koepka … PGA Championship (2; defending); Charles Schwab (6); U.S. Open (1; two-time defending); Open Championship (8) Martin Laird … Barracuda (2) Marc Leishman … Byron Nelson (6); Memorial (4); Travelers (3); Open Championship (8) Hideki Matsuyama … PGA Championship (13); Memorial (8); U.S. Open (14); Wyndham (7); TOUR Championship (5) Ryan Moore … Memorial (11); Travelers (6); John Deere (8); Wyndham (2); TOUR Championship (9) Kevin Na … Charles Schwab (3); Wyndham (5) Ryan Palmer … Charles Schwab (4) Scott Piercy … Canadian (7; last winner at Hamilton in 2012) Patrick Reed … PGA Championship (4); U.S. Open (3); Travelers (7) Jordan Spieth … PGA Championship (7); Charles Schwab (5); Memorial (13); U.S. Open (4); Travelers (9); Open Championship (6); TOUR Championship (8) Henrik Stenson … PGA Championship (4); Open Championship (6); Wyndham (8); TOUR Championship (7) Jimmy Walker … Byron Nelson (6)

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Truth be told, Ben An figured “Jokerâ€� would probably win the Oscar for Best Picture on Sunday night. After all, a non-English-language film like “Parasiteâ€� had never claimed the top prize at the Academy Awards. But as the Korean film kept racking up those coveted gold statuettes, An and his wife Jamie, who were watching the telecast from their Orlando home, got more and more excited. Best Original Screenplay came first. Then, Best International Feature Film. When Boog Joon-ho beat out the legendary Martin Scorsese and the quirky Quentin Tarantino, among others, for Best Director, An pulled out his phone to take pictures of the winner on the TV screen, which he gleefully posted on his Instagram account. “Chills,â€� the 28-year-old from Seoul wrote. Related: TOUR pros: My first time with Tiger | Tiny Westlake’s big impact | Special week for APGA Tour After Joaquin Phoenix picked up the Oscar for Best Actor and Renee Zellweger won for Best Actress, it was time for Best Picture. An was beyond thrilled when “Parasiteâ€� made history. “I thought maybe, but …â€� the former U.S. Amateur champ posted with another screen shot, this time of the film’s entire entourage celebrating on the Dolby Theater stage, adding “#doyouknowparasiteâ€� at the bottom. The magnitude of the movie’s win – heralded with the headline “Can you believe that ‘Parasite’ won the Academy best picture?â€� in South Korea’s largest newspaper — was not lost on An. “I think it’s a big step forward because no one has, no one’s done this before,â€� An said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. “And that’s why we were so high in Korea and we’re so surprised about this. It’s like, it’s like winning a major; it was the first Asian to win a major — that kind of feeling.â€� Sungjae Im, who is from Jeju, South Korea, is in Los Angeles this week to play in The Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club, located about 20 miles from the theater where the Academy Awards was held. Like An, he’s seen the movie, which he called “very creative.â€� “The plot is about one family conning another wealthier family to survive and it’s brilliant,â€� Im said through a translator on Tuesday. “It’s very different from other movies I’ve watched.â€� The 21-year-old Im, who, like An, was one of Ernie Els’ picks for the International Team at last year’s Presidents Cup, says the film’s success on Sunday night was “phenomenal. “As a Korean-language movie, it must’ve been so difficult to win all those awards, but for them to win four is absolutely amazing,â€� he says. “It made me really proud to be Korean.â€� While he says “Parasiteâ€� is his new favorite movie, An says his taste in film generally runs more toward those in the Marvel universe. He was a big “Batmanâ€� fan as a kid, and more recently has enjoyed the “Iron Manâ€� series. But An was drawn toward “Parasite,â€� which he has seen twice – first on his computer and again on the plane heading to Australia to join Im at their Presidents Cup debut. Central to the satire on class discrimination in the movie are the two very different Korean families and how their lives intertwine. “I’d say it gives you a lot of things to think about because it’s strong,â€� he says. “This is mostly talking about the rich and poor and tells you about how they made it. It’s hard to describe. It’s a very well-made movie because every scene means something. “And I tried to look at it online because when you, watch it for a first time, you don’t get 100 percent of what a director is trying to tell you. So, I tried to search it online to see what all the scenes mean, and what the picture says. … “I’ve totally spent probably equal times to the movie time, like online, just finding out what they all mean all together.â€� But as much as he enjoyed following the success of “Parasiteâ€� – from the Cannes Film Festival, where it was the first Korean film to win the top prize, the Palme d’Or, to Sunday’s Oscars — don’t expect An to join the staff of Rotten Tomatoes anytime soon. “My job is to play golf, not be a critic,â€� he says with a chuckle.

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