Fantasy Golf: WGC Dell Technologies Matchplay Preview

Well we were due for a bit of a deflation week and The Honda Classic delivered. You'd think a tournament sponsored by a car that you can drive for 75,000 miles without changing the oil would deliver more of a reliably entertaining product but alas, you'd be wrong. All credit to Matt Jones for mastering a golf course that was more dangerous than an actual grizzly bear according to the ominous tones of Dan Hicks and Paul Azinger. I'm just thankful no one was hurt.

TWEET OF THE WEEK

Always nice to discover a kindred spirit even if it does nothing to help your condition.

SO CALLED GOLF ANALYSIS 

Matchplay is always a bit of a crapshoot but since moving to Austin Country Club there has been some sense of order to it with a handful of players making it past the group stage on multiple occasions. That includes a lot of good mid-value options this week including Paul Casey, Tyrrell Hatton, Sergio Garcia and Louis Oosthuizen, all of whom I would recommend as one and done options because I'm too chicken shit to role the dice on an upper echelon player in this format. In fact I'm going with Casey as my pick even though I know he can't win but there's no downside if he flops because hey, all you did was waste Paul Casey.

You can pretty much close your eyes and throw a dart at any of the top eight guys. I'm throwing mine at Jon Rahm and Patrick Reed. Not saying I'd like to throw an actual dart at anyone of course but . . . 

Plenty of solid options at the bottom of the price range and I'd have Matt Kuchar as a lock for sleeper if he didn't have to escape the group of death with Justin Thomas, Kevin Kisner and Oosthuizen. Who knows? Maybe the residual karma from his win in Mexico will carry him through.

One and Done Pick: Paul Casey

Paul is always smiling and easy
to root for until it matters.

Other Guy I'd Pick: Louis Oosthuizen

Sleeper Pick: Kevin Na 

DraftKings Top Ten Values

Jon Rahm	$10,700
Patrick Reed	$9,600
Paul Casey	$8,900
Sergio Garcia	$8,300
Louis Oosthuizen	$8,100
Abraham Ancer	$7,700
Kevin Kisner	$7,600
Brian Harman	$7,200
Kevin Na	$7,100
Matt Kuchar	$6,700

Named in honor of the Big 10 successfully advancing just one out of nine teams to the Sweet Sixteen and proving that it's more overrated than Coldplay. Note that any player with a pretty color or two next to his name below has advanced out of the group stage which is a good thing.

                         THE BIG 10 CONFERENCE ON A MILK CARTON

                                 HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE CHART

	DK Price	2019	2018	2017	2016
Dustin Johnson	$11,500	T40	T59	1st	T5
Justin Thomas	$11,200	T24	4th	T39	T61
Bryson DeChambeau	$10,900	T40	DNP	DNP	DNP
Jon Rahm	$10,700	T24	T52	2nd	DNP
Collin Morikawa	$10,400	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Rory McIlroy	$10,200	T9	T36	T30	4th
Xander Schauffele	$10,000	T24	T17	DNP	DNP
Patrick Reed	$9,600	T24	T9	T51	T9
Viktor Hovland	$9,400	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Jordan Spieth	$9,300	T24	T17	T30	T9
Tony Finau	$9,200	T40	T17	DNP	DNP
Webb Simpson	$9,100	T56	T29	T58	DNP
Daniel Berger	$9,000	DNP	T59	T39	T61
Paul Casey	$8,900	T9	T17	T9	T61
Sungjae Im	$8,800	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Matthew Fitzpatrick	$8,700	T61	T36	T17	T38
Tyrell Hatton	$8,600	T9	T9	T17	DNP
Cameron Smith	$8,500	T61	T5	DNP	DNP
Jason Day	$8,400	T61	T36	T58	1st
Sergio Garcia	$8,300	T5	T9	T30	T18
Hideki Matsuyama	$8,200	T24	T36	T51	T18
Louis Oosthuizen	$8,100	T5	T9	T17	2nd
Joaquin Niemann	$8,000	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Scottie Scheffler	$7,900	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Will Zalatoris	$7,900	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Corey Connors	$7,800	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Tommy Fleetwood	$7,800	T24	T17	T39	DNP
Abraham Ancer	$7,700	T17	DNP	DNP	DNP
Lee Westwood	$7,700	T56	DNP	T17	T38
C Bezuidenhout	$7,600	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Kevin Kisner	$7,600	1st	2nd	T17	T38
Jason Kokrak	$7,500	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Russell Henley	$7,500	DNP	T36	DNP	DNP
Bubba Watson	$7,400	T40	1st	T9	T28
Max Homa	$7,400	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Harris English	$7,300	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Si Woo Kim	$7,300	T61	T9	T30	DNP
Billy Horschel	$7,200	T24	DNP	DNP	DNP
Brian Harman	$7,200	DNP	T9	DNP	DNP
Kevin Na	$7,100	T5	T52	T9	17th
Shane Lowry	$7,100	T24	DNP	T51	T51
Matt Wallace	$7,000	T40	DNP	DNP	DNP
Ryan Palmer	$7,000	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Lanto Griffin	$6,900	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Matthew Wolff	$6,900	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Carlos Ortiz	$6,800	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Marc Leishman	$6,800	T9	T52	T9	T51
Ian Poulter	$6,700	T17	T5	DNP	T28
Matt Kuchar	$6,700	2nd	T9	T30	T9
Talor Gooch	$6,600	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Victor Perez	$6,600	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

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