American Express – PGA DFS Picks: DraftkIngs + FanDuel Fantasy Golf

The sights and sounds of essentially the most stunning state within the U.S. at all times present us with an effective way to start out the yr. Now the PGA Tour heads to California for a couple of stops, beginning with the American Express. Sometimes throughout this time we see a few bizarre contests, which trigger us to make atypical PGA DFS picks on DraftKings and FanDuel, with three programs being enjoying and a number of pro-am occasions, however due to COVID the pro-am parts of the tournaments have been canceled. Now these tournaments will simply use two programs slightly than three.

The sort of format will truly be three out of our subsequent 4 tournaments: This week for the American Express performed at PGA West and PGA Nicklaus, subsequent week’s Farmers Insurance coverage Open performed at Torey Pines after which two weeks later for the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am, which can characteristic Spyglass Hill in addition to Pebble Seashore. Sometimes we solely get shot-link at one of many programs, in order that’ll add to the lean on Friday afternoons. Because the well-known villain as soon as mentioned, “be prepared.”

Here’s what you may anticipate finding on this article, with some new additions:

• The Match & Format
• Course Commentary
• Course Details & Figures
• PGA DFS Course Abstract & Statistical Comparability
• PGA DFS Preview, together with sweat sheet and now that includes profitable lineups from final yr’s occasion
• Participant Preview

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The Match and Format

The professional-ams of California have been at all times nicely attended and well-liked inside these communities. This event was lengthy remembered because the Bob Hope Charity Traditional and has been performed at 13 completely different programs across the Palm Springs space in its over 50 years of existence. It has been on the PGA West and Nicklaus course since 2016 and the La Quinta Nation Membership (the third of three programs sometimes used for this occasion) for the final 10 years. There shall be 154 gamers unfold out between the 2 programs over Thursday and Friday, with the highest 65 and ties making the weekend. With one of many greatest fields of the yr and the identical lower rule, you may anticipate the 6-for-6 percentages to be fairly low this week.

The Course(s)

PGA West & Nicklaus Course 

From luscious inexperienced to an unsightly brown, that’ll be the colour most outstanding this week, as dormant Bermuda with overseeded fairways offers a novel watching expertise. The programs themselves are a part of the Silverado Resort, so to say they’re “resort” programs might be a tad of an understatement. Every course has its potential to go low, however the PGA West course, which shall be used for 3 of the 4 rounds, is often the tougher of the 2. Let’s dig into these numbers.

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Course Details & Figures * PGA West stats offered

Par and Yardage 

Course Problem

• 40/49-PGA west -1.72 beneath par
• 48/49- Nicklaus Course -2.942

Gap Dispersion:

• Par 3’s – 170, 223, 195, 165
• The Par 4’s- 445, 381, 448, 445, 405, 363, 399, 468, 435
• Par 5’s- 535, 559, 560, 591

Grass Varieties & Hazards

• Grass Sort: Bermuda all through
• Common Inexperienced: 5,000 sq. toes
• Water Hazards: 7
• Bunkers: 90
• Tough Size: 2.5 inches

Designer 

Details and Figures

• Off the Tee: The PGA West course tends to be comparatively straightforward off the tee, rating proper in the midst of each accuracy (24) and distance (29). About 63% of the fairways have been hit final yr, whereas the common drive was round 288.
• Approach to the Inexperienced: Although these are a few of the smallest greens on tour, due to the resort arrange and quick tough they have been nonetheless hit on an above-average price. The fairways-hit proportion of 70.24% ranked 12th best final yr.
• Across the Inexperienced: Holding the theme of small greens, each scrambling and placing ranked a few of the best on tour final yr. The 67% up-and-down price was the simplest on tour.
• On the Inexperienced: With scrambling being the simplest, that signifies that placing was as nicely, coming in at 1.53.

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PGA DFS Course Abstract & Statistical Comparability

With greens this straightforward and scrambling charges being a lot larger than regular, I’d wish to put a heavy emphasis on golfers which were sizzling with their method video games and hitting the green at an above-average price.

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There are a few additions to this part. I’ll spotlight the upcoming week and what contests are supplied, and go over the profitable GPP lineups from final yr’s three price points. Lastly, we’ll look to the DFS sweat sheet to see the place the golfers shall be scoring essentially the most DFS points this week.

PGA DFS Slate Preview

The primary draft of this, written on Sunday night time, had these contests posted on the time of the article being completed:

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I’ll cowl three buy-in ranges: The big-field GPP, the high-dollar GPP and the single-entry mid-level buy-in. I’ll additionally present a few notes on the general scoring of the occasion.

Notes

• The event’s common rating (of golfers that made the lower) was 92 points, with the very best being 158.5 and the bottom being 70.
• 19 golfers scored at the least 100 points.
• The points scored proven on this image isn’t correct.

Profitable Lineups

It appears there’s a lapse within the information as neither of my websites with GameCenter hyperlinks have them proper now. So, as a substitute of the profitable lineups, I’ll simply present the optimum lineup.

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PGA DFS Sweat Sheet

There must be balanced scoring right here this week, a pleasant change of tempo from the final two the place a couple of holes dominated the scoring. No holes have had beneath 2.2% of the scoring, and there’s a plethora of holes that earn over 5%. The simplest holes when it comes to PGA DFS scoring are eight and 16.

Earlier Winners for The American Express

• 2020: Andrew Landry (-26)
• 2019: Adam Lengthy (-26)
• 2018: Jon Rahm (-22)
• 2017: Hudson Swafford (-20)
• 2016: Jason Dufner (-25)

Participant Preview

Usually we see an enormous drop off in expertise to the Desert Traditional/American Express, with possibly two or three top-20 gamers. This yr there are 5, together with two golfers making their 2021 debut: Matthew Wolff and Brooks Koepka. Additionally making his season debut is fan favourite Rickie Fowler. He wants an enormous begin to the season right here if he simply desires to tee it up at Augusta in April. Including a bit extra class is a pair of Patrick’s, who have been each late provides to the sphere this week with Patrick Cantlay & Patrick Reed heading to Palm Springs.

Scottie Scheffler additionally returns to motion after skipping final week, and Phil Mickelson is making his season debut.

*An earlier model of this text had Jon Rahm within the discipline, however he withdrew after salaries have been posted Monday afternoon.

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