Guess who just got reinstated?!?! Well, not officially. I can't believe I'm saying this but it actually feels good to be back. Sure writing this sad sack excuse for a preview over the course of three days has been like carving a model airplane out of a chunk of granite with each sentence squeezing-out like a painful gallstone but that's what you get for taking four months off (asshole).
At least last year when I bailed on golf in the fall I switched over to football and that slowed the atrophy but this year was a full-on hunger strike and the effects are lingering. For example, I just wrote that sentence and I walked away from the keyboard three times to think of something clever to say next before finally sitting down and writing this sentence. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!
Fortunately, I get to ease back in with a limited field event that starts late on Thursday so I can drag this thing deep into Wednesday evening without cheating the four readers who are anxiously waiting for my advice before making their picks. I've also been grinding-out a full season preview. At it's current rate, look for that around St. Patrick's Day. We'll get to this week's golf analysis in a minute but first . . . this.
TWEET OF THE WEEK
Last year we tried to thread the needle of getting middle aged deviants to visit our site while not appearing to be deviants ourselves by borrowing tweets from @golfbabes. While we would still recommend regular visits to their Twitter feed, we're going for more of a highbrow approach this year and what better way to kick that off than a pithy retort from our favorite purveyor of profanity (yes it's a screenshot because I couldn't remember how to embed a fucking tweet).
EXPERT SOUNDING GOLF ANALYSIS
We've got a pretty disappointing field when you consider all of the guys who could be here but aren't. (I'm looking at you Rory, Brooks, Rosy, Francesco and especially you Phil). But at least it's still a real non-wraparound fall bullshit golf tournament played in prime time on one of the most telegenic golf courses in the world. Suffice it to say that I will spend several glassy-eyed hours staring at it over the next four days.
The best thing about the Tournament of Champions from the fantasy golf "expert's" perspective is that there are really only about 7-8 players who can win it every year and that's when most of the best players actually show-up. This year the winner is almost surely going to be one of the four favorites (three of whom have already won it) and possibly Patrick "The Excavator" Reed. I'm going with the odds-on favorite who hasn't won here yet and also happens to be playing the best golf coming in on a blistering run that started all the way back with a T3 at the U.S. Open. It's Jon Rahm. I'm picking Jon Rahm.
Rickie Fowler and Patrick Reed are the logical picks at the next level based on their track records at Kapalua and then beyond that it gets a bit tricky. Figure that at least one of the two young studs is going to take advantage of this birdie fest so I'm recommending both Collin Morikawa and Matthew Wolff. Also, the Brendon Todd resurgence appears to be real so he should be a lock at his price. The next three guys are complete hunches. More on our sleeper in a minute.
One and Done: Jon Rahm
Other Guy I'd Pick: Justin Thomas
Sleeper Pick: Max Homa
DraftKings Top Ten Values
Max Homa may be granted permanent residence in our sleeper spot due to the God's work he's doing critiquing swings on Twitter these days. If you like golf and follow people on the Twitter, I can't recommend @MaxHoma23 strongly enough. If you're not on the Twitter, then shame on you for not choosing to have the world filtered to you through the random thoughts of a few hundred strangers.
THE LAMAR JACKSON FOR PRESIDENT
HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE CHART*
Footnote
* Joe correctly pointed-out that I whiffed on any mention of Paul Casey. What a true professional would do in this situation is go back and revise the whole chart to include Casey but no one ever accused me of being one of those so I'm going to footnote my way out of this mess and tell you that last year was the first time he played in this event in at least ten years and he finished T16 so I wouldn't pick him. Thank you Joe. Imagine the capacity of this website if we had more readers watching our back.
Email the Fantasy Golf Report at fgr@fantasygolfreport.com.
At least last year when I bailed on golf in the fall I switched over to football and that slowed the atrophy but this year was a full-on hunger strike and the effects are lingering. For example, I just wrote that sentence and I walked away from the keyboard three times to think of something clever to say next before finally sitting down and writing this sentence. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!
Fortunately, I get to ease back in with a limited field event that starts late on Thursday so I can drag this thing deep into Wednesday evening without cheating the four readers who are anxiously waiting for my advice before making their picks. I've also been grinding-out a full season preview. At it's current rate, look for that around St. Patrick's Day. We'll get to this week's golf analysis in a minute but first . . . this.
TWEET OF THE WEEK
Last year we tried to thread the needle of getting middle aged deviants to visit our site while not appearing to be deviants ourselves by borrowing tweets from @golfbabes. While we would still recommend regular visits to their Twitter feed, we're going for more of a highbrow approach this year and what better way to kick that off than a pithy retort from our favorite purveyor of profanity (yes it's a screenshot because I couldn't remember how to embed a fucking tweet).
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| It's just funny because Simon doesn't look like a potty mouth. |
EXPERT SOUNDING GOLF ANALYSIS
We've got a pretty disappointing field when you consider all of the guys who could be here but aren't. (I'm looking at you Rory, Brooks, Rosy, Francesco and especially you Phil). But at least it's still a real non-wraparound fall bullshit golf tournament played in prime time on one of the most telegenic golf courses in the world. Suffice it to say that I will spend several glassy-eyed hours staring at it over the next four days.
The best thing about the Tournament of Champions from the fantasy golf "expert's" perspective is that there are really only about 7-8 players who can win it every year and that's when most of the best players actually show-up. This year the winner is almost surely going to be one of the four favorites (three of whom have already won it) and possibly Patrick "The Excavator" Reed. I'm going with the odds-on favorite who hasn't won here yet and also happens to be playing the best golf coming in on a blistering run that started all the way back with a T3 at the U.S. Open. It's Jon Rahm. I'm picking Jon Rahm.
Rickie Fowler and Patrick Reed are the logical picks at the next level based on their track records at Kapalua and then beyond that it gets a bit tricky. Figure that at least one of the two young studs is going to take advantage of this birdie fest so I'm recommending both Collin Morikawa and Matthew Wolff. Also, the Brendon Todd resurgence appears to be real so he should be a lock at his price. The next three guys are complete hunches. More on our sleeper in a minute.
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| Yeah nice place if you like blue skies, water and mountains and shit. Pffft. |
Other Guy I'd Pick: Justin Thomas
Sleeper Pick: Max Homa
DraftKings Top Ten Values
Jon Rahm
|
$11,400
|
Rickie Fowler
|
$9,500
|
Patrick Reed
|
$9,000
|
C. Morikawa
|
$8,600
|
Brendon Todd
|
$8,100
|
Matthew Wolff
|
$7,900
|
Corey Connors
|
$7,800
|
Ryan Palmer
|
$7,200
|
Sung Kang
|
$6,600
|
Max Homa
|
$6,300
|
Max Homa may be granted permanent residence in our sleeper spot due to the God's work he's doing critiquing swings on Twitter these days. If you like golf and follow people on the Twitter, I can't recommend @MaxHoma23 strongly enough. If you're not on the Twitter, then shame on you for not choosing to have the world filtered to you through the random thoughts of a few hundred strangers.
THE LAMAR JACKSON FOR PRESIDENT
HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE CHART*
DK PRICE
|
2019
|
2018
|
2017
|
2016
|
2015
|
|
Jon Rahm
|
$11,400
|
T8
|
2nd
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Justin Thomas
|
$11,200
|
3rd
|
T22
|
1st
|
T21
|
DNP
|
X. Schauffele
|
$10,600
|
1st
|
T22
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Dustin Johnson
|
$10,100
|
T4
|
1st
|
T6
|
T10
|
DNP
|
Patrick Cantlay
|
$9,800
|
DNP
|
T15
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Rickie Fowler
|
$9,500
|
DNP
|
T4
|
DNP
|
5th
|
DNP
|
Gary Woodland
|
$9,300
|
2nd
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Patrick Reed
|
$9,000
|
T25
|
DNP
|
T6
|
2nd
|
1st
|
Collin Morikawa
|
$8,600
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Matt Kuchar
|
$8,400
|
T19
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
T17
|
Cameron Champ
|
$8,200
|
T11
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Brendon Todd
|
$8,100
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
T8
|
J. Niemann
|
$8,000
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Matthew Wolff
|
$7,900
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Corey Connors
|
$7,800
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Kevin Kisner
|
$7,700
|
DNP
|
T17
|
9th
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Chez Reavie
|
$7,600
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Kevin Na
|
$7,500
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
J.T. Poston
|
$7,400
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Dylan Frittelli
|
$7,300
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Ryan Palmer
|
$7,200
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Sebastian Munoz
|
$7,100
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Keith Mitchell
|
$7,000
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Adam Long
|
$6,900
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
G. McDowell
|
$6,700
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
T29
|
DNP
|
Sung Kang
|
$6,600
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Lanto Griffin
|
$6,500
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Tyler Duncan
|
$6,400
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Max Homa
|
$6,300
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
J.B. Holmes
|
$6,200
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
33rd
|
Jim Herman
|
$6,100
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
T12
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Martin Trainer
|
$6,000
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
DNP
|
Footnote
* Joe correctly pointed-out that I whiffed on any mention of Paul Casey. What a true professional would do in this situation is go back and revise the whole chart to include Casey but no one ever accused me of being one of those so I'm going to footnote my way out of this mess and tell you that last year was the first time he played in this event in at least ten years and he finished T16 so I wouldn't pick him. Thank you Joe. Imagine the capacity of this website if we had more readers watching our back.
Email the Fantasy Golf Report at fgr@fantasygolfreport.com.
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You are missing Paul Casey
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