Fantasy Golf Picks: DraftKings + FanDuel PGA DFS Plays

The biggest prize in PGA DFS takes a break for just one more week, and there are still massive amounts of money to be won, including $200,000 to first place for the Valero Texas Open. This article will go through four distinct pricing categories and talk specifically about ownership among them. This will cover some of the best against-the-grain fantasy golf picks in each range for DraftKings and FanDuel.

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Fantasy Golf Picks: Awesemo’s Top 10 Projected Players

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Fantasy Golf Picks for the Valero Texas Open

PGA DFS Picks: $9,000 and Above

10 Golfers
Total ownership of around 200%

With Dustin Johnson dropping out, this range is down to 10 golfers, and his ownership seems to have been spread throughout this range. Only Matt Kuchar projects under 10% this week, while Brendan Steele gets close to that number. Every other golfer, though, should get north of 15%. It will be about fading the right ones and stacking the others to create the difference this week. Chalk hitting is inevitable in a field like this, so it’s about playing the right chalk.

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With not much to go against the grain with, a little Steele and Kuchar here makes sense, even pairing them together in some places where building very conservative lineups. Check out a couple of other leverage plays using Awesemo’s Top Golfers Tool.

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PGA DFS Picks: Nos. 11-32 Priced Golfers ($8,900-$7,500)

23 Golfers
Total ownership 185%

As much chalk as there is in the price section above, there really isn’t any down below $9,000. Chris Kirk and Sam Burns are trending towards being two of the more popular plays in the range, but neither should get much higher than 20%. Charles Howell III joins a couple of others in the $8,000 range that will be owned just over 10%, including Zach Johnson, Keegan Bradley, Lanto Griffin and Cameron Davis. Harold Varner is on a good stretch of golf and will also creep into the 10% range, and the same goes for Branden Grace. Then there should be plenty of options to get golfers under 10%. A couple of names that are piquing interest this week include Gary Woodland, Aaron Wise, Phil Mickelson and Byeong Hun An.

Of the names mentioned above, Kirk is projected to score 70.9 points and has the highest projection of any player in this range. Check out the rest of the projections here.

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PGA DFS Picks: The Rest ($7,400 and Below)

104 golfers
Total ownership 222%

A week removed from some of their best finishes of the year, Denny McCarthy and Jhonattan Vegas are leading this group in terms of ownership projections. Also in the mix will be John Huh, Sepp Straka, Doug Ghim, Adam Long and Matthew NeSmith. All of them will approach 10% this week. The next batch of golfers will get somewhere between 5 and 10%, including Lucas Glover, Adam Long, Tom Hoge, Russell Knox, Harry Higgs, Sam Ryder and Patton Kizzire. Still, plenty of other golfers will come in under 5% owned this week are of interest, including Roger Sloan, who projects to score 61 points this week.

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Kevin Chappell
Greyson Sigg
Adam Schenk
Tom Lewis
Roger Sloan
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Bronson Burgoon

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Jason Rouslin

Jason established his roots in the littlest state that could...Rhode Island. But after 29 years of bitter cold, and only being able to play golf 4 months a year, upended those roots and moved to Florida. Now four years later, Jason is a husband to Sarah and father of two boys, James & Myles. A dog and more specifically Lab lover (Bella), he dedicates his time to serve as the lead of PGA content at Awesemo.com. In the time he is not diving into the PGA stats and covering this week's current tournament, you can find him researching and trading stocks, on the golf course, at Disney World, on a hike, or somewhere in between. Want to chat? Have a question about Golf/Stocks or anything else? Hop on twitter and give him a message @dfsgolfer23. You can also contact Jason by emailing [email protected].