DeChambeau shoots 59 in pro-am at Shriners Hospitals for Children Open

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 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open 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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Davis Thompson is making just his third start as a pro this week, and he’s making the most of it. Thompson, who is competing on a sponsor exemption, was 7 under par on his first 12 holes to share the early lead. Here’s 5 Things you need to know about the new pro. RELATED: Leaderboard 1. TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER: If Thompson’s name sounds familiar, you may remember him from as the amateur who took the early lead in last year’s U.S. Open. He played his first 12 holes at Winged Foot in 4 under par to sit alone atop the leaderboard. He signed for an impressive 69 in the first round but missed the cut by one after shooting 78 the next day. 2. ALL-AMERICAN: Thompson was a first-team All-American in 2020 and 2021 at the University of Georgia and turned pro last month as the second-ranked player in the inaugural PGA TOUR University ranking, behind only John Pak. Thompson also was a member of this year’s victorious U.S. Walker Cup team. Thompson is the quiet type who lets his clubs do the talking. “He’s not flashy, not very talkative. I just love the work ethic,” said Georgia head coach Chris Haack. I’ve had a lot of really good players, and he works as hard or harder than anybody I’ve ever had.” 3. CASHING CHECKS: Thompson made his pro debut three weeks ago at the Palmetto Championship at Congaree. He made the cut despite being 5 over on his first eight holes of the tournament. He closed his first round with four straight birdies to shoot 71, then shot 69 to make the cut. Weekend rounds of 71 and 70 left him in a tie for 35th place, which earned him $33,336.67. He also played in last week’s Travelers Championship, missing the cut after rounds of 73 and 68. Non-members can accept up to seven sponsor exemptions per season. This is Thompson’s third. 4. PRO PEDIGREE: Thompson is used to playing along side PGA TOUR pros. Fellow Georgia alums Harris English and Brendon Todd are among the guys he plays with at home in Sea Island, Georgia. World Golf Hall of Famer Davis Love III is another. Thompson’s father, Todd, is the tournament director of The RSM Classic at Sea Island (and is a former captain of the Georgia golf team himself). Davis twice played in The RSM Classic as an amateur, including a T23 finish in 2019. Nepotism didn’t lead to his spot in the field, however. He earned it. 5. JONESING FOR A VICTORY: Thompson earned his spots in The RSM with his success in the Jones Cup, a prestigious amateur event held at nearby Ocean Forest. Past winners include Justin Thomas, Patrick Reed, Corey Conners and Kyle Stanley. The winner receives an exemption into the RSM. Thompson lost a playoff to Akshay Bhatia in 2019 but earned the invitation after Bhatia turned pro. The next year, Thompson torched the Jones Cup field. He shot a tournament-record, 13-under 203 to win by nine shots.

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2022 The Honda Classic, Round 1 Scoring Conditions: Overall: +1.28 strokes per round Morning wave: +1.07 Afternoon wave: +1.49 Current cutline (top 65 and ties): 85 players at +1 or better (T65) Top 3 projected cutline probabilities: 1. 2 over par: 39.8% 2. 1 over par: 33.3% 3. 3 over par: 15.4% Top 10 win probabilities: 1. Daniel Berger (T2, -5, 25.1%) 2. Chris Kirk (T2, -5, 8.3%) 3. Billy Horschel (T10, -2, 3.4%) 4. Kurt Kitayama (1, -6, 3.2%) 5. Rory Sabbatini (T2, -5, 3.1%) 6. Brooks Koepka (T10, -2, 3.0%) 7. Cameron Young (T10, -2, 2.5%) 8. Ryan Palmer (T10, -2, 2.4%) 9. Matthias Schwab (T5, -3, 2.3%) 10. Jhonattan Vegas (T28, -1, 2.2%) NOTE: These reports are based off of 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 Genesis Invitational, 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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