Fantasy Golf: Shriners Children's Open Preview

I spent some time on Saturday night in a downtown Baltimore casino mingling with Buffalo Bills fans at various low budget blackjack tables (CHANGING $60!!!) and I have two observations: 

(1) As far as invading forces go, they might be the friendliest. In fact, I think they started to grow a little weary of me complimenting them but they were too nice to tell me to just please go away so they sat there and smiled while I droned on and on about how I'd be rooting for the Bills if they make it to the Super Bowl because of all the heartbreak their fans have endured over the years. So much heartbreak. So so much heartbreak. My god I can't believe they didn't try to break a roulette table with me.     

(2) Anywhere must be better than Buffalo because there were so many damn Josh Allen jerseys running around that you would've thought that Pierce Brosnan was wearing one while trying to rob the Visionary Arts Museum. We don't usually see that many out of towners around Baltimore unless they're here to renovate a CVS. (Oh come on!)

Anyway, the Ravens predictably blew another big lead at home due to a combination of suspect coaching decisions and their inability to make just one fucking clutch play when they need to. The upside from a fantasy golf writing standpoint was that I couldn't digest one more minute of football after 4:00 p.m. so I was able to enjoy a dramatic PGA Tour finish while periodically glancing at my anthill sized stack of $5 chips and grinning with satisfaction.   

TWEET OF THE WEEK

There is no golf related context for this tweet. It just makes me burst out laughing every damn time I watch it. 

Top 5 video in Twitter history? Has to be. Gets a laugh every time. pic.twitter.com/1ysAopOCId

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) September 28, 2022

GOLF ANALYSIS

Among my ten recommendations last week was the guy who actually won the tournament so maybe this dalliance with golf in the fall has a future. There was actually a money making lineup in my top ten if you squinted and looked hard enough. 

We've got a respectable field headed to Vegas including fan favorites Max Homa and Tom Kim along with at least three guys named Taylor and that's just if you include first names. Had to be tough going through high school sharing your first name with a female pop star but nothing compared to sharing it with a hamburger peddling clown so I can only partially empathize.

We're going straight chalk with this week's pick because Patrick Cantlay has owned this event the four times he's played it. Sources tell me his scoring average here is under 67 and that's pretty good. 

We decided to go with Tom Hoge over Tom Kim in one of those moves that feels smart on Wednesday and very stupid on Sunday. We're also jumping-off the Denny McCarthy bandwagon for a week which has historically meant good things for the player in the Denny McCarthy role.

And finally, I believe that we're going to have at least one minor Rickie Fowler feel good moment this year so he will be a regular until (a) it happens, (b) I grow weary of waiting for it to happen, or (c) I forget to pick him and then it happens. Either way, I hope it happens. 

One and Done Pick: Patrick Cantlay

You can never tell whether he's 
intently studying the line or he just
remembered that he left the oven on.

Other Guy I'd Pick: Tom Hoge

Sleeper Pick: Rory Sabbatini 

DraftKings Top Ten Values

Patrick Cantlay	$11,100
Tom Hoge	$9,000
Si Woo Kim	$8,600
J.T. Poston	$8,300
Rickie Fowler	$7,800
Adam Hadwin	$7,700
Seamus Power	$7,600
J.J. Spaun	$7,300
Chesson Hadley	$6,900
Rory Sabbatini	$6,700

We went ahead and did a chart this week because frankly, there were several conference calls on Monday and Tuesday that found me desperately in need of a somewhat mindless distraction. More mindless than the calls themselves which is really saying something. 

                                THE RON DESANTIS' GO-GO BOOTS

                                HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE CHART 

If you haven't seen the picture, then I'm a bit jealous as I'd really like to un-see it. All partisanship aside, can someone please start a consulting company that does nothing but dress our politicians to visit the sites of national disasters? Please. 

	DK Price	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018
Patrick Cantlay	$11,100	DNP	T8	2nd	2nd	1st
Max Homa	$10,600	DNP	MC	MC	MC	DNP
Sungjae Im	$10,400	1st	T13	DNP	T15	DNP
Tom Kim	$9,700	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Taylor Montgomery	$9,500	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Emiliano Grillo	$9,300	T47	T34	MC	DNP	DNP
Cameron Davis	$9,200	T27	T52	DNP	T28	DNP
Alex Noren	$9,100	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Tom Hoge	$9,000	T14	T24	DNP	MC	T7
Aaron Wise	$8,900	T8	MC	MC	T15	T32
Brian Harman	$8,900	MC	T13	T18	DNP	DNP
Davis Riley (Out)	$8,800	T56	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Taylor Pendrith	$8,700	T47	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Si Woo Kim	$8,600	MC	T8	T55	T15	DNP
Dean Burmeister	$8,500	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Denny McCarthy	$8,400	MC	57th	T9	T15	MC
J.T. Poston	$8,300	MC	T27	MC	MC	T4
C. Bezuidenhout	$8,200	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Maverick McNealy	$8,100	MC	MC	T37	DNP	MC
Keith Mitchell	$8,000	MC	MC	DNP	DNP	MC
Thomas Detry	$7,900	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Mito Pereira	$7,800	T40	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Rickie Fowler	$7,800	MC	MC	DNP	T4	DNP
Adam Hadwin	$7,700	T6	T34	T4	DNP	DNP
K.H. Lee	$7,700	T14	MC	MC	MC	DNP
Matt Kuchar	$7,600	T35	T34	DNP	T57	DNP
Seamus Power	$7,600	T21	DNP	DNP	MC	T41
Taylor Moore	$7,600	T24	DNP	DNP	DNP	MC
Lucas Herbert	$7,500	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Matthew NeSmith	$7,500	T14	T8	T18	DNP	DNP
Nick Hardy	$7,500	DNP	DNP	DNP	MC	DNP
Gary Woodland	$7,400	DNP	DNP	T55	T10	T18
Mark Hubbard	$7,400	T44	MC	T42	DNP	DNP
Ryan Palmer	$7,400	MC	T34	T37	T7	DNP
Wyndham Clark	$7,400	T56	T13	MC	T57	DNP
Chris Kirk	$7,300	DNP	DNP	DNP	T41	MC
J.J. Spaun	$7,300	T35	DNP	MC	T15	T10
Kevin Streelman	$7,300	T47	MC	MC	T51	67th
Nick Taylor	$7,300	T47	MC	T29	T36	T32
Troy Merritt	$7,300	MC	T43	T63	T57	T51
Aaron Rai	$7,200	MC	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Byeong Hun An	$7,200	DNP	MC	MC	DNP	T32
Jason Day	$7,200	DNP	MC	DNP	DNP	DNP
Martin Laird	$7,200	T11	1st	T48	T28	MC
Harris English	$7,100	MC	MC	DNP	T36	MC
Hayden Buckley	$7,100	T8	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Joel Dahmen	$7,100	T24	T58	T9	T69	MC
Russell Knox	$7,100	MC	MC	T48	DNP	T72
Cameron Champ	$7,000	DNP	MC	MC	T28	DNP
Brendon Todd	$6,900	DNP	DNP	MC	DNP	DNP
Chesson Hadley	$6,900	T27	MC	T18	T7	T4
Chez Reavie	$6,800	MC	63rd	MC	DNP	DNP
Patrick Rodgers	$6,800	DNP	MC	MC	T41	MC
Charley Hoffman	$6,700	T44	MC	T74	DNP	T18
Rory Sabbatini	$6,700	T3	T52	MC	MC	MC
Scott Piercy	$6,700	MC	T19	MC	T10	T32

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