Despite two majors, a World Golf Championship and a pair of beefed-up FedExCup Playoffs events scattered among the first 12 tournaments in Segment 4, the board illustrating the highest ownership percentages for the BMW Championship is covered in chalk. Only Patrick Cantlay at No. 9 starts the week outside the top 17 in the FedExCup standings. He’s 41st in points. (The top 21 in every edition of the Playoffs has advanced. The format since 2015 is the third iteration.) The dispersion qualifies as empirical data to characterize the depth on the PGA TOUR. While gamers are influenced by factors such as momentum, course history and course fit, there’s so much value to go around in a six-man format like PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf presented by SERVPRO that we’ve been able to sustain strength during the most challenging segment of the season. PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf presented by SERVPRO NOTE: Rob’s Rating refers to where our Fantasy Insider slotted a golfer in his Power Rankings (“PR”) and other preview material. Owned Rank Player Percentage Rob’s Rating 1st Justin Thomas 59.0% PR1 2nd Jon Rahm 49.5% PR7 3rd Paul Casey 42.6% PR5 4th Dustin Johnson (defending champion) 38.9% PR3 5th Jordan Spieth 34.9% PR2 6th Hideki Matsuyama 28.9% PR4 7th Justin Rose 25.8% PR9 8th Rickie Fowler 24.0% PR6 9th Patrick Cantlay 23.5% PR14 10th Brooks Koepka 22.9% PR17 Golfers in the Power Rankings and outside the top 10 in most owned Power Ranking Player Owned Rank Percentage 8 Patrick Reed 18th 12.8% 10 Henrik Stenson 16th 14.7% 11 Marc Leishman 11th 22.4% 12 Jason Day 13th 22.0% 13 Rory McIlroy 12th 22.3% 15 Matt Kuchar 14th 18.3% 16 Daniel Berger 21st 8.3% 18 Zach Johnson 26th 4.1% 19 Kevin Na 31st 2.0% 20 Bill Haas 47th 0.9% Wild Card Louis Oosthuizen 19th 11.1% Other notables Owned Rank Player Percentage 15th Sergio Garcia 17.2% 17th Phil Mickelson 12.9% 22nd Charley Hoffman 8.2% 24th Jason Dufner 7.0% 25th Keegan Bradley 4.4% 37th Charl Schwartzel 1.2% PGA TOUR Fantasy One & Done presented by SERVPRO We gamers can be as disloyal as golf is fickle. In the results-based business of fantasy sports, the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately component varies more than any other, so our reaction to it is almost always directly proportional. This explains the support for Marc Leishman at No. 2 among One & Doners at the BMW Championship, he placed solo third at the Dell Technologies Championship. If you’ve submitted a pick for all of the first 38 events, latching onto a proven talent like that this late is akin to capturing a nugget when panning for gold. If you’re not convinced that his performance at TPC Boston persuaded probably all of his investors in its afterglow, consider that he missed the cut at THE NORTHERN TRUST and finished T39 in his only appearance at Conway Farms four years ago. Because the TOUR Championship concludes the season, next week’s final installment of ownership percentages will be the most compelling, but of the notables outside this week’s top 10 and projected to advance, only Justin Rose and Rickie Fowler spring off the screen as horses at East Lake. This is to say that, on average, gamers are playing aggressively for the now. Since the majority are in pursuit, that approach is spot on. Owned Rank Player Percentage 1st Dustin Johnson (defending champion) 7.9% 2nd Marc Leishman 7.7% 3rd Justin Thomas 7.3% 4th Jason Day 6.6% 5th Paul Casey 5.8% 6th Jordan Spieth 5.0% 7th Jon Rahm 4.6% 8th Patrick Cantlay 4.4% 9th Henrik Stenson 4.3% 10th Hideki Matsuyama 3.9% Other notables Owned Rank Player Percentage 13th Justin Rose 2.6% 15th Rickie Fowler 2.3% 16th Brooks Koepka 2.2% 17th Patrick Reed 2.1% 18th Rory McIlroy 1.8% 19th Charley Hoffman 1.6% 20th Matt Kuchar 1.6% T21 Zach Johnson 1.3% 26th  Phil Mickelson 1.1%
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