Fantasy Golf: The Tour Championship Preview

This week's late preview excuse is the fact that I attended the Eagles concert last night along with about 20,000 fellow inhabitants of the assisted living on-deck circle. (I'm actually only sitting in the dugout waiting to pinch-hit but the joke worked better with on-deck circle . . . to the extent that it worked at all). Anyway, the place reeked of Aqua Velva, medical marijuana and Grecian Formula 45 and no more than 23% of the crowd was able to stand-up at any one time. Even when they started playing Life in the Fast Lane which made for the most mismatched song/audience combination since the last time Rod Stewart performed Tonight's the Night for a "live" audience.  

I will, however, hand it to the Eagles because once you get past Don Henley's raging ego and their slew of sappy ballads, they put on a great fucking show for a bunch of geezers. Vince Gill (doing his best Higgins from Ted Lasso impression) joined them to effectively create a wall of four to six guitars at the front of the stage and they just churned-out one hit after another that made you smile. Even when Joe Walsh's vocals on Life's Been Good fell about five seconds behind the beat, the crowd picked him up to the point where it didn't matter because everyone there was just so happy to be alive. At least for now.      

TWEET OF THE WEEK

By this logic, I should have more friends. 

GOLF ANALYSIS FROM THE NEW TORNADO ALLEY*

This will be the third year of what I like to call the "Shit Format" (actually I just made that up) and let's be honest, it sucks for wagering. The DraftKings salaries are all out of whack and if you saved a stud like Xander Schauffele or Rory McIlroy, you now have to watch them start 8 shots back. 

I'm down to some serious scraps. Saving Collin Morikawa seemed like a brilliant maneuver a little over a month ago but since the Olympics he's been on a downward spiraling run of T26 - MC - T63. My other options are basically Sam Burns and Jason Kokrak and by basically I mean they are my other options. You can add to my woe the fact that I just dropped-out of first place in this league I am desperate to win thanks to Brooksie's choke job at Caves Valley. Wait, can I get thrown-out of my own blog just for writing that? 

I'm going to say I'm picking Sam Burns and maybe I am but maybe I'm not (wink wink nudge nudge). If I had access to the entire Tour Championship buffet, I'd go with either Jon Rahm or Justin Thomas and Rory would be my darkhorse but 8 shots? Fuck me.

As usual I like Scottie Scheffler to exceed expectations and you know the real Brooksie would like nothing more than to make-up those five shots on his wannabe nemesis so he's a solid bet. Daniel Berger and Billy Horschel as deep sleepers are total flyers but, if this tournament got what it actually deserved, Stewart Cink would have an out of potato body experience and walk away with the $15M.

One and Done Pick: Sam Burns

Am I actually picking
this guy? Supposebly . . .

Other Guy I'd Pick: Jon Rahm

Sleeper Pick: Scottie Scheffler 

DraftKings Top Ten Values

Jon Rahm	$13,000
Justin Thomas	$11,000
Rory McIlroy	$9,300
Xander Schauffele	$8,900
Sam Burns	$8,500
Brooks Koepka	$7,800
Sungjae Im	$7,300
Scottie Scheffler	$6,800
Daniel Berger	$5,500
Billy Horschel	$5,100

I'm not sure how much value you can derive from 2019 and 2020 because they were both played using the Shit Format but hey, I'm just here to provide the information so you can do you.

                               HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE CHART

                           FOR THOSE WHO TRIED TO HIT THE HIGH 

                        NOTE ON "TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT" LAST NIGHT

	DK Price	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
Patrick Cantlay	$13,400	DNP	T21	T21	T20	DNP
Jon Rahm	$13,000	4th	T12	T11	T7	DNP
Bryson DeChambeau	$12,300	22nd	T12	19th	DNP	DNP
Tony Finau	$11,800	17th	7th	T15	T7	DNP
Justin Thomas	$11,000	T2	T3	T7	2nd	T6
Dustin Johnson	$10,700	1st	T29	3rd	T17	T6
Jordan Spieth	$10,400	DNP	DNP	DNP	T7	T17
Cameron Smith	$10,100	T24	DNP	20th	DNP	DNP
Abraham Ancer	$9,600	T18	T21	DNP	DNP	DNP
Rory McIlroy	$9,300	T8	1st	T7	DNP	1st
Xander Schauffele	$8,900	T2	2nd	T7	1st	DNP
Harris English	$8,700	T12	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Sam Burns	$8,500	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Collin Morikawa	$8,300	6th	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Viktor Hovland	$8,000	T20	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Brooks Koepka	$7,800	DNP	T3	26th	6th	DNP
Louis Oosthuizen	$7,600	DNP	T21	DNP	DNP	DNP
Sunjae Im	$7,300	T11	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Scottie Scheffler	$6,800	5th	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Jason Kokrak	$6,600	DNP	14th	DNP	DNP	DNP
Hideki Matsuyama	$6,400	T15	T9	T4	T26	5th
Corey Conners	$6,200	DNP	T26	DNP	DNP	DNP
Kevin Na	$6,000	T27	DNP	25th	DNP	29th
Daniel Berger	$5,800	T15	DNP	DNP	DNP	T15
Patrick Reed	$5,700	T8	T9	28th	T13	T24
Joaquin Niemann	$5,600	T27	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Sergio Garcia	$5,400	DNP	DNP	DNP	T10	DNP
Stewart Cink	$5,200	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Billy Horschel	$5,100	30th	DNP	2nd	DNP	DNP
Erik van Rooyen	$5,000	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Footnote

* I'm writing this under a tornado watch. Just outside of Baltimore. I thought when I agreed to live in this hellhole that there were to be no tornadoes, earthquakes or plagues. None of this was covered in the fucking brochure. 

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