All of my PGA DFS picks and content is geared toward providing information that will help you with all your DraftKings and FanDuel daily fantasy golf and wagering decisions in the best way possible. This is the last of my week-long written material for the Genesis Invitational, and now it’s FREE!
I am primarily a GPP PGA DFS player and enjoy making 50 to 150 to 300 to 450 lineups, so the allocations I give out are likely not exact, but they are my target for the mass-entry GPPs. And so, if this is your first time reading it, let’s go over what you can find in it.
Article Index
- Key/Legend
- Last week recap
- TV schedule and weather update
- My entire player pool
- Notes on the chalkiest players
Key/Legend
The following sections define who will play and what recommended allocation you should play them at:
- Core: We will start with these golfers in every lineup. At least two from my core will be in every one of the lineups.
- PFs: We all have our guys, and these are mine. They will be in the player pool at a minimum of 20%. I have seven, and they are quite common: Tiger Woods, Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Brian Harman, Collin Morikawa, Brian Stuard and, at times, Bryson DeChambeau.
- Chalk Zone: These golfers are expected to be the most popular golfers of the week. They are supposed to be widely owned, and so, in a massive GPP, a winning lineup likely won’t have more than one of the guys listed in this area.
- Alternates: On the PGA Tour, alternates are lucky to get in the field each week. However, it happens all the time due to injuries. In this section, we’ll identify a few lineup alternates that can help fill a lineup and still provide some decent upside.
- Recommended Allocation: The percentage of time said golfer should be in your lineups, or at least what we are advocating.
- Projected Ownership: The percentage that the field will have said golfer in their lineups.
- Variance: The difference between Recommended Allocation and Projected Ownership. A favorable variance gives you leverage.
Last Week’s Recap
If you like to follow along in possible sweats, then Jordan Spieth and Patrick Cantlay certainly gave us that chance last week and enough heart palpitations to last me a month. With 150 Cantlay/Spieth lines (in just the $5), I had a ton of chances heading into Sunday. But 150 Spieth/Cantlay lines meant basically no Daniel Berger, and given the fact that he made 4 eagles on the week, there wasn’t any catching him. I needed one of my guys to win. They didn’t. Still, I had a profitable week despite having very little of the winner. All of my big-dollar lineups cashed except for my Sunday Showdown lineup — which had all the guys I was fading on Sunday and basically came in last, even with Berger. Overall, it was a small loss for the week when you include Showdown contests, but it was nice to see the DraftKings week-long stuff get on the positive side.
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Genesis Invitational PGA DFS Picks
Viewing (Sweat) Schedule
Featured Groups is back at it this week, as PGA Tour Live will feature the following groups over the first two days:
- Patrick Cantlay/Collin Morikawa/Jon Rahm
- Dustin Johnson/Adam Scott/Bubba Watson
- Bryson DeChambeau/Rory McIlroy/Cameron Champ
- Xander Schauffele/Justin Thomas/Brooks Koepka
Weather
Temperatures may not be all that warm, but there won’t be any wind or rain to contend with this week. It will be mid-60s the first two days before climbing into the 70s by the weekend.
Fantasy Golf Favorites for the Genesis Invitational
All my guys are here, and my top three even leave a good salary dispersion. Collin Morikawa and Spieth are low owned this week, so I don’t mind playing the chalkier Patrick Cantlay with then. Plus, Cantlay and Morikawa are paired up the first two rounds on featured groups.
PGA DFS Picks for the Genesis
Invitational
Total Player Pool: 50
Week-Long DFS Contests
DraftKings
- 1 $555 Signature hole
- 2 $200 Driver
- 300+ GPP lineups, 150 of them being Spieth/Cantlay in the $5
FanDuel
- 1 $444
- 150 GPP lineups
Core Golfers
Justin Thomas ($10,700 DraftKings/$11,700 FanDuel)
All of the best players in the world have a chance to win every time they tee it up. That should go without saying. So when I see a couple of them (like Thomas) as the lowest owned and not the highest priced, it’s easy to get the type of leverage I like. So I’ll get Thomas in about 20 to 25% of my GPPs, and I will also play him in the $200 single-entry with the ownership of less than 10% expected there. I’ll also get overweight on both Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau this week.
Viktor Hovland ($8,700/$10,700)
Sometimes the price just makes sense, and chalk is chalk for a reason. Both Cantlay and Hovland fit that bill for me this week, and I’ll get my leverage through Thomas, Morikawa, Spieth and the cheaper guys.
Will Zalatoris ($8,300/$9,700)
With the way the salary was distributed last week, I ended up not getting as much of Zalatoris as I had thought I would. Then his ownership kind of ballooned, and he let those people down. Now $1,600 cheaper on a better fit and with a third of the ownership, this sounds like a good buy-low spot. In this range it’s either Scottie Scheffler or Zalatoris at $200 cheaper and a third of the ownership. I’ll have a bit more Zalatoris because of that.
Sergio Garcia ($7,700/$9,800)
I had first written down Carlos Ortiz, but it looks like he’s going to be the highest mid-owned chalk, so I won’t have as much leverage against the field as I do with Garcia or Abraham Ancer, both projected about 4 to 5% lower than Ortiz. Garcia has been so good off the tee this year, and I think he’ll really be able to use that to his advantage this week.
Gambles of the week ($7,000 and Below)
Chez Reavie/Doug Ghim ($7,000 DraftKings/$8,300 FanDuel)
I see absolutely no reason to come off of these two, as they showed me everything I needed to see last week, including good Sunday finishes. Reavie also had two top-10s here in the last three years, and Ghim’s newfound consistency through his bag should bode well. I like pairing these guys up together in aggressive builds.
Doc Redman ($6,600/$7,800)
I can’t believe Redman missed the cut a couple of weeks ago out in Phoenix, but he did because of his putter. That’s going to flip this week at a course at which he had good history as an amateur.
Chalk Zone Key
This is how I’m allocating my shares to the expected chalk of the week. For this article, anyone projected over 10% for this week’s Genesis Invitational will be considered chalk. In order by salary:
O = Overweight
E = Equal Weight
U = Underweight
- Dustin Johnson (U)
- Rory McIlroy (O)
- Jon Rahm (E)
- Bryson DeChambeau (O)
- Xander Schauffele (U)
- Tony Finau (E to U)
- Adam Scott (E to O)
- Joaquin Niemann (E)
- Scottie Scheffler (E)
- Carlos Ortiz (E to O)
- Cameron Tringale (U)
- Cameron Davis (E)
PGA DFS Fringe Players for DraftKings & FanDuel
* Likely to be in a higher-dollar lineup and 10-20% in GPPs
- Brooks Koepka
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Bubba Watson
- Marc Leishman
- Max Homa
- Matthew Wolff
- Jason Kokrak
- Abraham Ancer
- Gary Woodland
- Sam Burns
- Wyndham Clark
PGA DFS Alternates (5-15% GPPs)
- Kevin Na
- Russell Henley
- Si Woo Kim
- Francesco Molinari
- Lanto Griffin
- Brian Harman
- J.T. Poston
- Maverick McNealy
- Adam Hadwin
- Mark Hubbard
- Robby Shelton
PGA DFS Holes in One (1-5% GPPs)
- Adam Long
- Brian Stuard
- Jim Furyk
- Scott Piercy
- Peter Malnati
- Stewart Cink
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