The PGA Tour will travel to Blaine, Minnesota this week for the 3M Open. NASCAR is off for the next two weeks, so I am taking some time off too. I will post the picks for the 3M Open below, but it will be an abbreviated article this week. I will have a better breakdown for the Olympics Golf Tournament next week and for the FedEx Playoff events in August.
COURSE BREAKDOWN
TPC Twin Cities will be the course this week. It is a par 72 which plays 7,164 yards in length. Minnesota is the “Land of Lakes” so of course there are a lot of water hazards. But these are not normal golfers teeing it up this week. Most of the golfers should be able to use their length off-the-tee to take the water out of play.
The greens should be easy to hit and they do not have too much slope. TPC Twin Cities has Bentgrass greens with normal PGA Tour speeds. The ball typically roles true on this type of surface so I would expect more golfers to be able to sink long birdie putts then what we had last week.
Click here to see the course: TPC Twin Cities
3M OPEN KEY STATS
– Stroke Gained Approach
– Strokes Gained Tee-to-Green
– Par 4 Scoring 400 – 450 Yards
– Birdie or Better %
3M OPEN STRATEGY
My strategy for Cash Contests is to always select the safest golfers in the field who offer some upside. There are not many of those types of golfers entered in the 3M Open this week. It is going to be a tough tournament to build a Cash Contest lineup. If you get 6/6 through the cut, you will likely double your entry fee. I will build my lineup around the golfers who are in good form, have made a lot of cuts in a row and have some course history. That means I will be fading the $10K golfers in Cash Contest lineups.
The strategy for Tournament Contest will be to diversify my lineups. The golfers priced over $10K are clearly the class of the field, but each year we see these golfers return from overseas and lay an egg in the 3M Open. I will have some exposure to these golfers, but my focus will be from the mid-$9K through the mid-$7K price range. I think that is where your winner will come from Sunday.
DRAFTKINGS CASH CONTEST
DRAFTKINGS TOURNAMENT CONTEST LINEUP
FANDUEL CASH CONTEST LINEUP
FANDUEL TOURNAMENT CONTEST LINEUP
PGATOUR.COM FANTASY PICKS
* This is the seventh tournament in Segment 3. This is the toughest segment to navigate. We had two signature events, the third major (U.S. Open), and we still have the Open Championship and the three FedEx Playoff events. The Top golfers in the world will be playing a lot over the summer, so we need to save some of our top golfers for the playoffs. This is a good tournament to take a chance with a few golfers from the LIV Tour.
FANTASY GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP ONE & DONE PICK: CAM DAVIS (3M OPEN)
Players in Fantasy Golf Championship One & Done so far: Bryson DeChambeau (MC), Min Woo Lee (73rd), Sungjae Im (12th), Cameron Young (6th), Ludvig Arberg (27th), Xander Schauffele (7th), Viktor Hovland (15th), Rory McIlroy (4th), Colin Morikawa (3rd), Books Koepka (26th), Wyndham Clark (47th), Tom Hoge (41st), Matthew Fitzpatrick (28th), Jon Rahm (45th), Hideki Matsuyama (7th), Will Zalatoris (74th), Maverick McNealy (45th), Justin Thomas (MC), Scottie Scheffler (Won), Russell Henley (41st), Tony Finau (13TH), Sahith Theegala (37th), Sam Burns (3rd), Max Homa (66th), Jason Day (MC), Taylor Montgomery (61st), Corey Conners (57th)
SEASON-LONG ONE & DONE PICK: TONY FINAU (3M OPEN)
One & Done picks used so far this season: Tommy Fleetwood (MC), Robert McIntyre (Win), Sepp Straka (61st), Taylor Pendrith (72nd), Brian Harman (9TH), Hideki Matsuyama (6th), Byeong Hun An (22nd), Rory McIlroy (4th), Colin Morikawa (3rd), Bryson DeChambeau (2nd), Max Homa (8th), K.H. Lee (59th), Adam Hadwin (10TH), Patrick Cantlay (3rd), Jon Rahm (45th), Corey Conners (25th), Keith Mitchell (MC), Sam Burns (MC), Shane Lowry (19th), Matthew Fitzpatrick (MC), Eric Cole (MC), Nicolai Hojgaard (52nd), Adam Scott (19th), J.T. Poston (MC), Jordan Spieth (39th), Keegan Bradley (43rd), Andrew Putnam (47th), Russell Henley (4th), Sungae Im (5th), Alex Noran (Won), Beau Hossler (15TH), Min Woo Lee (6th), Adam Schenk (MC), Eric Cole (35TH), Sahith Theegala (Won)
3M OPEN BEST BETS
CAM DAVIS (33-1)
TOM HOGE (33-1)
SAM STEVENS (50-1)
AUSTIN ECKROAT (70-1)
Good Luck This Week!!!!
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