Fantasy Golf: The Tour Championship Preview

If you're reading this preview that means that I posted it and if I posted it that means that I didn't miss one goddamned post all season. Through corporate takeovers, graduations, road trips home from Memphis, and more "fuck you Tuesdays" than I can count, the FGR machine cranked out some kind of authentic frontier Mid-Atlantic gibberish every week. 

To be honest, the struggles drove the content because if nothing else, the FGR runs on angst. I've got to believe it's more interesting to read updates from a guy who chooses to crash into every buoy instead of sailing around them. It's certainly never boring living in a perpetual man overboard drill when you're both the guy in the water and the guy trying to throw him the life jacket.

So as we wrap-up maybe the worst handicapping season in FGR history that ended somewhat ironically by hate picking a winner, we're already looking forward to an eventful 2027 fraught with new challenges that we can go out of our way not to avoid.  

GOLF ANALYSIS

The Tour Championship is back for it's second year of attempting to restore credibility after a six year run of employing arguably the most absurd scoring method in the history of sports. This week's Historical Performance Chart has been adjusted to erase any remnants of it and it reveals that Scottie Scheffler is merely very good at East Lake so definitely a little overvalued at +340 to win.   

Below we have listed some more attractive alternatives including Chris Gotterup who has only played the event once but appears to have the perfect make-up for it. If we're talking about a marriage of odds and likelihood of winning, I like him followed by Collin Morikawa and yes, Wyndham Clark (shoot me). 

From the slightly longer shot department, we're looking at Russell Henley based on his Tour Championship track record and Tom Kim based on current form. In fact, I just dialed them both up for top 10's along with a Collin Morikawa top 5 for a +2800 parlay that feels just dumb enough to work. 

Place	Player	Odds
Winner	Chris Gotterup	+1950
Top 5	Collin Morikawa	+285
Top 10	Russell Henley	+135
Top 10	Tom Kim	+195
Top 20	Alex Fitzpatrick	-150

One and Done Pick: Justin Rose

Oh right. Justin Rose is our one and
done pick. It was either him or some
guy we couldn't pick out of a line-up. 

Other Guy I'd Pick: Chris Gotterup

Sleeper Pick: Alex Fitzpatrick

DraftKings Top Ten Values

Xander Schauffele	$10,000
Wyndham Clark	$9,400
Patrick Cantlay	$8,900
Collin Morikawa	$8,100
Chris Gotterup	$7,900
Russell Henley	$7,500
Viktor Hovland	$7,300
Justin Rose	$6,900
Tom Kim	$6,800
Alex Fitzpatrick	$6,200

As noted above, we painstaking removed all of the handicap nonsense from years 2021-2023 to deliver this useful data. No need to thank us. We'd rather feel under appreciated it. Fits with this week's theme. And if you don't get this week's HPC dedication, a quick search under "Good Good" will get you there. We're not going to link to it because fuck those losers. 

THE GOOD GOOD/CALLAWAY MARKETING

DEPARTMENT'S MIDDLE MANAGEMENT MEMORIAL

HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE CHART

As indicated below, Sam Burns and Tommy Fleetwood are certainly worth your consideration while Hideki Matsuyama is not (I'm not even going to bother with the obvious disclaimer on that prediction). 

	DK Price	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021
Scottie Scheffler	$14,000	T4	3rd	T21	T13	T17
Rory McIlroy	$11,000	T23	12th	T11	1st	14th
Xander Schauffele	$10,000	DNP	T13	1st	T6	3rd
Ludvig Aberg	$9,700	T21	T19	DNP	DNP	DNP
Wyndham Clark	$9,400	DNP	T8	3rd	DNP	DNP
Sam Burns	$9,200	T7	T13	T4	T25	T17
Tommy Fleetwood	$9,000	1st	T16	T9	DNP	DNP
Patrick Cantlay	$8,900	T2	T19	T6	T16	T4
Cameron Young	$8,500	T4	DNP	DNP	T19	DNP
Collin Morikawa	$8,100	T19	1st	T4	T19	28th
Chris Gotterup	$7,900	T10	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Matt Fitzpatrick	$7,800	DNP	DNP	T13	T16	DNP
Si Woo Kim	$7,700	DNP	DNP	19th	DNP	DNP
Hideki Matsuyama	$7,600	29th	T16	DNP	T9	T26
Russell Henley	$7,500	T2	4th	T13	DNP	DNP
Ryan Gerard	$7,400	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Viktor Hovland	$7,300	12th	T8	1st	15th	T4
J.J. Spaun	$7,200	T25	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Robert MacIntyre	$7,100	T17	T16	DNP	DNP	DNP
Jacob Bridgeman	$7,000	T27	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Justin Rose	$6,900	T21	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Tom Kim	$6,800	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Min Woo Lee	$6,700	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Gary Woodland	$6,600	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Adam Scott	$6,500	DNP	5th	DNP	24th	DNP
Kristoff Reitan	$6,400	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Alex Smalley	$6,300	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Alex Fitzpatrick	$6,200	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Akshay Bhatia	$6,100	T13	T24	DNP	DNP	DNP
Ryan Fox	$6,000	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

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