The PGA Tour travels Atlanta, Georgia this week for the Tour Championship. This will be the final tournament for the FedEx Cup Playoffs. The top 30 golfers in the FedEx Cup standings will tee it up for a chance to take home the richest prize in sports, $18 Million!!! I should be exciting watching the golfers play for that much money.
Here is the recent form and course history for each golfer this week: Tour Champ History and Form
2023 – 2024 FANTASY GOLF SCHEDULE
Before I get into the picks for this week, I want to update you on what to expect for the next PGA Tour Season.
The 2023 – 2024 PGA Tour Schedule starts September 14th with the Fortinet Championship. That tournament will have one of the worst fields of the year. I am going to take the time to focus on Fantasy Football that week, so I will not be posting a DFS article for that tournament. I will be out of town the week of the Ryder Cup, so I will not be able to post picks for that tournament as well. The next tournament I will write a DFS Golf article for will be the Sanderson’s Farms Championship on October 5th. I will continue to post articles for the Shriners Children’s Open (Oct 12th), the ZOZO Championship (Oct 19th), the World Wide Technologies Championship (Nov 2nd), Bermuda Championship (Nov 9th) and the RSM Classic (Nov 16th). The picks will be back to normal in January for the Sentry Tournament of Champions.
I will also be hosting my Fantasy Golf League on pgatour.com. I will post a link to the league in the DFS Golf Forum and I will send a Tweet to join the league once the new season begins.
Thank you for following my picks this year and I cannot wait for the new season to begin, but we still have one more tournament left so let’s get to the Tour Championship…
Course Breakdowns
East Lake Golf Club plays as 7,350-yard par 70. The course plays long. Seven of the par 4s play 450 or more, so length off the tee is going to be important. The fairways are narrow. Last year on 50% of the golfers put their tee shots in the shot grass. If any of the golfers can find a way to be long and accurate off the tee, they will have a huge advantage.
The greens are average size and have Bermuda grass. Over the last two seasons the greens have been pretty easy for the golfers to read. These greens ranked 3rd easiest on tour over the last two seasons and allowed few 3-puts. So if golfers can hit Greens in Regulation, they should make a lot of birdies. If golfers miss the greens, the rough is so heavy; it will cause a lot of golfers to have a lot of bogies. I still expect a lot of low scores like last week at the BMW Championship.
Click here to see the course: East Lake Golf Club
KEY STATS FOR TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP
– Strokes Gained Off the Tee
– Shots Gained Approach
– Par 4 Scoring 450 – 500 Yards
– Strokes Gained Putting-Bermuda
– Birdie or Better %
TOP 30 GOLFERS
* The rankings this week do not incorporate the strokes the golfers will start the tournament with. They are simply the golfers I project will score the best this week.
TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP STRATEGY
DraftKings has a unique scoring system this week (FanDuel has the same scoring system) to match up with the FedEX Cup scoring system for PGA Tour Championship playoffs. Golfers are ranked by the place in the FedEX Cup standings and are award shots based on their ranking. This is huge this week and we must take it into consideration. Here are the rankings and the points each golfer will start the tournament with this week….
Fading some of the golfers high on the leaderboard could prove prudent when filling out rosters. The golfers will be starting with their “finishing” position points on DraftKings, but as we’ve seen in the previous two years, those points can go away fast if or when the leaders are no longer where they started. The top of the leaderboard golfers only come in with their starting points, not the birdies or better points they usually get on the path to their victory.
DraftKings has had this format for four seasons now and every year the same strategy wins. You must select three golfers who are high-priced (and have the winner in your lineup) and pair them with three of the cheap golfers. The winner scores 30 DK Points and second-place scores 20 DK Points. The points after second-place are only separated by a few points. You are going to need those extra 10 points for winning the tournament and a few golfers priced below $6K who can score well this week.
CORE GOLFERS FOR TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP
DRAFTKINGS CASH CONTEST
* I am not going to be playing many Cash Contests this week because you almost have to build a “stars and scrubs lineup” for this tournament and that is not the best strategy for Cash Contests. I plan to swing for the fences with my stars and scrubs lineups and play more Tournament Contests this week.
*I will play this lineup in a Tournament Contest. My Cash Contest lineups have been preforming well in the Tournaments for the last month.
DRAFTKINGS TOURNAMENT CONTEST LINEUP
Here are my lineups for Multi-Entry Tournament Contest: (FantasyRacingTips Lineups)
FANDUEL CASH CONTEST LINEUP
FANDUEL TOURNAMENT CONTEST LINEUP
PGATOUR.COM FANTASY PICKS
* * This is the last tournament in segment four. There is no reason to save your golfers this week. Simply use the best golfers in your lineup for the Tour Championship.
FANTASY GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP ONE & DONE PICK: LUCAS GLOVER (TOUR CHAMP.)
Players in Fantasy Golf Championship One & Done so far: Hideki Matsuyama (WD), Sam Burns (52ND), Denny McCarthy (MC), Cameron Young (MC), Dustin Johnson (MC), Matthew Fitzpatrick (MC), Russell Henley (35th), Rickie Fowler (Win), Scottie Scheffler (4TH), Brooks Koepka (17th), Justin Rose (8th), Patrick Cantlay (30TH) (Memorial), Tommy Fleetwood (MC), Jon Rahm (50th), Adam Scott (8th), Viktor Hovland (43rd), Tony Finau (Win), Sungjae Im (7TH), Jordan Spieth (4th), Si Woo Kim (39th), Tyrrell Hatton (60th), Adam Hadwin (MC), Rory McIlroy (MC), Will Zalatoris (53rd), Matt Kuchar (MC), Tony Finau (20), Xander Schauffele (10th), Seamus Power (15th), Max Homa (1st), Brian Harman (MC), and Corey Conners (12th)
SEASON LONG ONE & DONE PICK: VIKTOR HOVLAND (TOUR CHAMP.)
Players Used This Season in One & Done: Hideki Matsuyama (WD), Sam Burns (52ND), J.T. Poston (7th), Sepp Straka (MC), Collin Morikawa (MC), Matthew Fitzpatrick (MC), Emiliano Grillo (MC), Rickie Fowler (Win), Scottie Scheffler (4), Dustin Johnson (10th), Justin Rose (8TH), Patrick Cantlay (30TH), Tommy Fleetwood (MC), Brooks Koepka (Win), K-H Lee (50th), Cameron Young (59th), Tony Finau (Win), Keith Mitchell (6th), Tom Kim (MC), Brooks Koepka (2nd), Matt Kuchar (3rd), Wyndham Clark (6th), Adam Hadwin (MC), Rory McIlroy (MC), Will Zallatoris (53rd), Sungjae Im (42nd), Max Homa (2), Xander Schauffele (10th), Jordan Spieth (63rd), Jon Rahm (7th), Taylor Montgomery (5th), Russell Henley (32nd), Seamus Power (25th), Brian Harman (2nd), Maverick McNealy (27th), Emiliano Grillo (42nd), Nick Hardy (28th), Terrell Hatton (13TH) Christian Bezuidenhout (29th), Cameron Davis (37th), Denny McCarthy (39th), Brendon Steele (MC)
BEST BETS FOR TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP
VIKTOR HOVLAND (5-1)
MAX HOMA (28-1)
XANDER SCHAUFFELE (28-1)
MATTHEW FITZPATRICK (40-1)
RUSSELL HENLEY (60-1)
Good Luck This Week!!!!
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