Fantasy Golf: The Sentry TOC Preview

So you sit on your ass for a couple of weeks and watch a lot of football and the whole time you're wondering "when does the real 2019 PGA Tour season start" because you still refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of the wraparound schedule. A couple of times you actually ponder the dates and think that, if New Years Day is on a Tuesday, then the season probably starts that week but you're not really sure and you don't really care because it's like December 28th or something and what fucking day is it anyway?

Then you actually go to PGATour.com, look-up the schedule and boom, there it is. Time to get your ass back to work. At least you get to ease into it with a limited field event so the research takes about seven minutes or half as long as usual. 

I'm not going to over think this because the winner of the Sentry Tournament of Champions is usually the guy who enters the season in the best form. I'm also not going to over think it because I really just want to sit here and stare at the sun-soaked beauty of the Rose Bowl after another day in the Mid-Atlantic that made you feel like you'd been dropped into a dystopian novel. ("Mommy why did the mole people take the sun away?").

So I'm going with current world #1 Brooks Koepka who has now proven that on any given day he can hit it and putt it better than anyone in whatever conditions you throw at him. If you're the kind of person who doesn't like to throw a big chip on the pile this early in the season, then take a look at Xander Schaffele or Marc Leishman. Schauffele will probably get you at least a top five and, if you use Leishman now, you will avoid having him disappoint you later. So there's that.

As for more affordable options, Keegan Bradley appears to have returned to some semblance of his formerly world class self and Billy Horschel is definitely worth a flyer at $7,000 which means that Patton Kizzire is most definitely worth a flyer at $6,200. The guy won twice last year including once in Hawaii before deciding to take a little well deserved "me" time in the form of a bunch of missed cuts but he's now made eight in a row with a T15 his last time out. Apparently someone showed him what his bank account is going to look like if he keeps flying around the country just to play casual rounds on Thursdays and Fridays. 

We are officially switching to soft-core
weather/scenery porn until further notice.

One and Done Pick: Brooks Koepka

Back-up Pick: Xander Schauffele

Sleeper Pick: Keegan Bradley

DraftKings Top Ten Values

Brooks Koepka	$10,200
Jon Rahm	$9,800
Webb Simpson	$8,500
Xander Schauffele	$8,300
Gary Woodland	$8,000
Marc Leishman	$7,700
Matt Kuchar	$7,600
Keegan Bradley	$7,300
Billy Horschel	$7,000
Patton Kizzire	$6,200

And everyone else you might want to consider a/k/a the entire field. Not a whole lot to go on here other than the stellar track records of Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed. Of course I'm not picking either of those guys because you know, trying not to over think it. 

	DK Price	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
Dustin Johnson	$11,000	1st	T6	T10	DNP	T6
Justin Thomas	$10,500	T22	1st	T21	DNP	DNP
Brooks Koepka	$10,200	34th	DNP	T3	DNP	DNP
Jon Rahm	$9,800	2nd	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Rory McIlroy	$9,600	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Jason Day	$9,000	DNP	T12	T10	T3	DNP
B. DeChambeau	$8,700	26th	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Webb Simpson	$8,500	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T3
F. Molinari	$8,400	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
X. Schauffele	$8,300	T22	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Patrick Reed	$8,200	DNP	T6	2nd	1st	T16
Cam Champ	$8,100	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Gary Woodland	$8,000	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T13
Paul Casey	$7,900	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Bubba Watson	$7,800	DNP	T25	T10	10th	DNP
Marc Leishman	$7,700	T7	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Matt Kuchar	$7,600	DNP	DNP	DNP	T17	T6
Aaron Wise	$7,500	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
B. Snedeker	$7,400	DNP	T14	T3	DNP	T11
Keegan Bradley	$7,300	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Charles Howell	$7,100	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Billy Horschel	$7,000	T11	DNP	DNP	T22	T6
Kevin Na	$6,900	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Andrew Putnam	$6,600	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Kevin Tway	$6,500	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Bryce Garnett	$6,400	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Patton Kizzire	$6,200	T15	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Andrew Landry	$6,100	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Michael Kim	$6,100	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
S. Kodaira	$6,000	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Ted Potter	$6,000	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP