Tuesday, March 23, 2021

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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