Sleeper Picks: Fantasy golf advice for the RBC Canadian 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 U.S. Open in this week’s edition of the Power Rankings. For more fantasy, check out Rookie Ranking, Qualifiers and Reshuffle. RELATED: Play Pick ‘Em Live 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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The PGA TOUR is once again giving fans the opportunity to immerse themselves in the coverage of one of its premiere tournaments. Three holes of this week’s Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide will be broadcast in virtual and augmented reality. PGA TOUR fans can watch coverage of Muirfield Village’s par-4 14th and par-3 16th holes in virtual reality. The iconic par-3 12th will be available to watch in augmented reality on the PGA TOUR’s new AR app, PGA TOUR AR. The virtual reality coverage of Nos. 14 and 16 will be available on five different platforms: • The PGA TOUR’s Twitter account, @PGATOUR • Periscope broadcast via @PGATOUR • The PGA TOUR mobile app • Google Daydream via PGA TOUR VR Live app • Samsung Gear VR via PGA TOUR VR Live app This will be the third time this year that fans can experience this groundbreaking way to watch the action. Two of the TOUR’s most famous par-3s, the 16th hole at the Waste Management Phoenix Open and 17th at THE PLAYERS Championship, also were broadcast in virtual reality, as was TPC Sawgrass’ drivable par-4 12th hole. The Memorial Tournament will be the third time the TOUR’s virtual reality content also can be watched using a cardboard headset, allowing even more fans to enjoy this cutting-edge technology. The VR broadcast also can be watched on Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR or Google Daydream. While the competition will be broadcast with 180 degrees of viewing angles, the TOUR also will show brand elements in the full 360 degrees. This week’s brand elements will come from Nationwide, the Memorial’s presenting sponsor. The VR content will be captured by three different cameras on each of the aforementioned holes, broadcasting the action from the tee, the fairway and the green. The audio and picture-in-picture broadcast will come from PGA TOUR LIVE, giving fans a totally different angle on the competition. The PGA TOUR’s AR hole coverage debuted at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard. The launch of the PGA TOUR AR app marked the first time live sports data was integrated into ARKit, Apple’s exclusive AR platform. It allows users of the PGA TOUR AR app to see physical characteristics of the golf course that were previously unseen on the broadcast. Augmented reality will allow fans to get a view that was once available only to fans on site. The TOUR is planning to add more holes from other tournaments throughout the year, but it has confirmed that East Lake Golf Club’s par-5 finishing hole will be showcased in AR at the TOUR Championship. The PGA TOUR LIVE broadcast of the Memorial Tournament, as well as the virtual and augmented reality features, will allow fans to engage with the broadcast from Muirfield Village in exciting new ways. It’s just like being there. HOW TO WATCH – VIRTUAL REALITY   Step-by-step on the PGA TOUR mobile App 1. Download the PGA TOUR app from the App Store or the Google Play Store. 2. Open the app and follow the prompts for camera/location/etc. 3. Click the hamburger menu in the top right. 4. Select either Leaderboard (if live) or Video (if not live). 5. If Leaderboard is selected, a red banner will appear with a VR icon on the right. Tap on the VR icon, then tap a video to watch. Choose Cardboard or Panoramic. If Cardboard, load phone into Cardboard device and use the Gaze Controls by focusing the cursor/dot on the desired menu object. If Panoramic, pan phone or swipe left/right to see content. 6. If Video is selected, a VR tab will appear at the top of the screen. Click Live VR (if live – notated by red color) or click On Demand VR (notated by blue color). Tap on a video to watch. If Cardboard, load phone into Cardboard device and use the Gaze Controls by focusing the cursor/dot on the desired menu object. If Panoramic, pan phone or swipe left/right to see content. HOW TO GET THE APP – AUGMENTED REALITY Step-by-step on how to download the PGA TOUR App 1. Open the App Store on your iPhone or iPad by tapping on the App Store icon 2. Type “PGA TOUR AR” into the search bar and tap on the blue “Search” button in the keyboard. 3. When the PGA TOUR AR app appears in the search results, tap on the “GET” button 4. Once the app has finished downloading, tap the app icon to launch the app 5. When the app opens, a series of screens and dialog boxes will appear. When the dialog boxes pop up, tap “OK” to allow the PGA TOUR AR app to access your camera and location HOW TO USE THE APP – AUGMENTED REALITY 1. After allowing the PGA TOUR AR app to access your camera and location, a screen that explains how to interact with the hole models will appear. Tap on the blue “CONTINUE” button at the bottom of the screen. 2. Find a flat, horizontal surface to view the hole models in the app. 3. When the blue box appears, tap the screen to lock the blue box in place on the horizontal surface. The hole models will appear in the area marked by the blue box. To choose a new area for the hole models, tap the white circular arrow in the top right corner to restart the surface detection process. 4. A hole model selection slider menu will appear. To view the available holes, swipe your finger left or right. When you find a hole model you want to view, tap the white arrow on the hole model. 5. Once the hole model has finished downloading, it will appear in full color. Tap the hole to place it on the horizontal surface. 6. When the hole model loads, tap the arrow on the “SELECTED PLAYERS” navigation on the bottom left side of the screen. Tap the name of the players you want to view. Their shot trails will appear on the hole model. To turn off a player’s shot trails, tap on the player in the “SELECTED PLAYERS” area of the screen. The model will default to Round 1 but another round may be selected by tapping on the round number. 7. To view a different hole model, simply tap on “Hole Selector” in the top left corner of the screen and choose a new hole model to view. Some holes have unique changes in elevation and the hole models allow you to see them more clearly. 8. If an app rating dialog box pops up, feel free to give it 5 stars.

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AUSTIN, Texas - Billy Horschel vowed he wouldn't let it happen again. He was sick of match play getting the best of him when deep down he knew it was a format made for him. This time it would be different. To get to how Billy Horschel won the 2021 World Golf Championships - Dell Technologies Match Play, (which he did by beating Scottie Scheffler 2 and 1 in Sunday's final at Austin Country Club), we first must go back to how he lost it on his previous tries. RELATED: Final scoring, bracket | What’s in Horschel’s bag? In 2014, when the tournament was a straight elimination format, Horschel had destroyed the higher seeded Jamie Donaldson 6 and 5 in his first-round match and was cruising against Jason Day in the second round. He was 3-up at the turn and Day had just sent his drive on the 10th into a cactus, forcing an unplayable penalty while Horschel sat in the fairway. About five minutes later, after three-putting from 40-feet, Horschel had halved the hole. A previously dejected Day sparked up and forged a comeback - forcing a playoff before winning on the 22nd hole. Day would go on to win the tournament. At Harding Park in San Francisco a year later, with the new group format, Horschel made light work of Brandt Snedeker and Jason Dufner over the first two days setting up a winner-take-all showdown with Rory McIlroy. He had a chance to win from 12-feet on the 18th hole ... but you guessed it. He missed. "I was 2-up against Rory with two to play. Rory drained like a 45-footer on 17 (we checked – it was 26-feet, 4-inches) and birdied 18 and then he won two holes later. So that was an opportunity lost there," Horschel recalled. McIlroy went on to win the tournament. In 2019 - now at Austin Country Club - Horschel opened group play against Jordan Spieth. Like Scheffler, Spieth is a Texan who played at the University of Texas in Austin. He was a clear crowd favorite. But when Horschel birdied four of the first six holes to set up a 3-up lead they were pretty quiet. He lost the lead three holes later but managed to rebound to be 2-up with three to play. Then he bogeyed 16 and 19 to tie the match. Still, come Friday, he knew a win against Kevin Na would keep him alive and the pair were square with four to play. He lost three straight holes. Na didn't win the tournament, but he did get to the final eight. "I’ve had my opportunities. I just didn’t finish off matches. So to be able to do that this week - it makes this win sweeter," Horschel grinned. So what was the change? What was the vow that allowed this Billy Horschel to get out of his group with Collin Morikawa, J.T. Poston and Max Homa (via a playoff) and then past Kevin Streelman, Tommy Fleetwood (via a playoff) and Victor Perez before taking out Scheffler? "There were certain times that I’ve been too focused on trying to play my opponent instead of the course," Horschel explained. "When he’s in trouble you’re just like, hey, I just want to hit the green and make a par and you wind up not hitting a great golf shot." The passive mindset wasn't working for him. And so the vow was simple. First, play the course not the man. Second, if the moment came, be smart but keep the foot down. Third, move on from mistakes quickly. These came to life in the championship match. Holding a 2-up lead coming down the par-5 12th Horschel watched Scheffler's second shot find water. So he took the smart, yet conservative play of laying up. Then, when it came time for his wedge, Horschel smelled blood in said water - and took dead aim going for the kill. It was the right mindset - but wrong execution - as the ball bounded past the pin and into a bunker that he wouldn't get up and down from. Scheffler though did not take advantage. Rather than dwell on the negative Horschel moved on. "You have to understand that it’s going to be a roller coaster. You’re going to have ups and downs, you’re going to have swings in matches where you think you’re going to win a hole and you wind up tying or losing a hole," Horschel adds. "But you have to understand that the next hole’s a new opportunity to win a hole and improve your standing. So I’ve got the mentality that I’m never down, I’m never out, until you tell me I can’t play anymore. That’s a perfect mentality for match play. I’m a bulldog. I fight hard. I never give up, and I always think I can win. I always think there’s a way I can get the job done." As Scheffler tried to find a way to cut into his lead, Horschel held firm and even when he once again overcooked a wedge on the 16th, knowing a birdie would end the match, he shook it off and chipped brilliantly to preserve his lead. A hole later and the 2014 FedExCup champion was a six-time PGA TOUR winner. It turns out a spring vacation with family last week - where he left his clubs at home - went a long way to allowing him to stay in the correct mindset. "Mentally it was the key. I needed it. I needed a little mental reboot and that’s what I got," he said of the trip. "We went back to where I grew up in Melbourne, spent time with my cousin and her kids and my aunt and uncle and we had my boat down there and just spent time in the water, fishing, tubing, just water every day. "I don’t think we’ve been on a family vacation ever that didn’t have clubs involved. So everyone had a great time, and I’m sure there will be more of this after seeing the success I’ve had this week." The victory moved Horschel within reach of another FedExCup title as he flew up to seventh in the season long standings and back into the top 20 in the world (at 17th) for the first time since July 2015. He was as low as 98th in July 2018 but now feels he's where he belongs and has desires to climb to greater heights. "I’ve always felt I had the talent to compete with the best players day-in and day-out. I think the difference between me and maybe a Dustin Johnson or Rory McIlroy or Justin Thomas is just the consistency day-in and day-out," Horschel said. "My goals are lofty. If I could get to double digit wins and those be four majors and THE PLAYERS … I’ve always felt like I want to be one of those guys who have won a Grand Slam. I think I only have one top-5 in a major, so obviously I sound ridiculous saying this, but I think I have that talent, I know I have that talent, I just haven’t played well enough and done what I needed to do." Horschel is also fully aware it is a Ryder Cup year. "If you looked at some of the other formats, how I played in team events, what I’ve done at Zurich (winning with Scott Piercy in 2018). I’ve had success there. I’ve had success playing at QBE Shootout. So I feel like I’m a really good partner to pair up with a lot of people. "I feel like I should have been on Ryder Cup teams before but that’s my fault because I haven’t done what I needed to do to take care of that. But maybe this year is the year. It’s always been one of my priorities. If I do happen to make a Ryder Cup team in my career, I’ll be happy." For now - Cup team or not - he's plenty happy. And the first chance for a leg of that grand slam comes at Augusta National in less than two weeks' time. Don't count him out.

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