Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Fantasy Golf: The Rocket Mortgage Classic Preview

Last week's lightly researched and hastily prepared preview resulted in the FGR picking the winner for the first time since January 3rd. Not just that, we also picked Brian Harman (T2), Patrick Cantlay (T4) and five other guys who made the cut. If not for losing the coin-flip by going with Kevin Streelman (MC) over Chez Reavie (T4) for the sleeper role, we would've been wallowing in gravy. Alas, Streelman flopped on Friday so it yielded no more than the price of four Egg McMuffins (which you can still get for $10 in case you, like me, didn't think there was any value left in this godforsakenly overpriced world). 

We will continue with the light and hasty approach in the hopes that there's a little more lightning or at least some ketchup left in that bottle. 

TWEET OF THE WEEK

Other acceptable directives would include "let's jump", "time to ride" and "go time!!!"

GOLF ANALYSIS

The Rickie Fowler redemption tour continued last week with a third round 60 that led to a T13. That followed three consecutive top 10's which have propelled him to 35th in the world. There is some concern as he's playing for the fifth week in a row but I assume he knows how to avoid a burnout better than I did when I recently agreed to play three straight and my scoring trend looked like a graph of The Bear's viewership over the past few weeks (totally justified by the way and could I subconsciously include more food references this week?).

I toyed with going longer shot again this week with an Adam Hadwin or Sepp Straka type but never got quite the gut feeling I had about Keegan Bradley . . . who I picked to win last week . . . if you hadn't heard. All of the aforementioned do, however, make the top ten along with Chris Kirk, J.J. Spaun and Chez Reavie . . . a dream leaderboard if you were trying to market a golf tournament in the dead spot between majors. 

Carson Young gets the sleeper spot this week because I'm tired of picking Cameron Young and then watching him lose to this guy as I mix them up on the leaderboard. Besides, young Carson is making about three out of every four cuts and he finished T15 last week. That get's you hired without an interview for the sleeper job around here.  

One and Done Pick: Rickie Fowler
I mean he's got the name of the
tournament right on his damn shirt!

Other Guy I'd Pick: Sungjae Im

Sleeper Pick: Carson Young

DraftKings Top Ten Values

Rickie Fowler

$10,400

Sungjae Im

$9,400

Keegan Bradley

$9,200

Chris Kirk

$8,500

Sepp Straka

$8,300

Adam Hadwin

$8,100

J.J. Spaun

$7,500

Chez Reavie

$7,200

Carson Young

$7,000

Troy Merritt

$6,500


We're going with a limited version of the Historical Performance Chart this week because we didn't really feel like checking to see if Ludvig Aberg had ever even been to Detroit before much less played golf there. 

                                         THE "CORNER!!!" (IFYKYK)
                                  HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE CHART

This is the fourth year at Detroit Golf Club so we've got some relatively informative data and by "relatively" I mean "scant." As far as I can tell, it's a course that really suits ball strikers and Troy Merritt.  

 

DK Price

2022

2021

2020

2019

Tony Finau

$10,900

1st

DNP

T53

DNP

Collin Morikawa

$10,600

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Rickie Fowler

$10,400

MC

T32

T12

T46

Max Homa

$10,200

T24

T25

DNP

T42

Justin Thomas

$10,000

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Tom Kim

$9,800

7th

DNP

DNP

DNP

Hideki Matsuyama

$9,600

DNP

W/D

T21

T13

Sungjae Im

$9,400

DNP

T8

T53

T21

Cameron Davis

$9,300

T14

1st

MC

DNP

Keegan Bradley

$9,200

T44

T14

T45

DNP

Harris English (OUT)

$9,000

MC

DNP

DNP

T55

Stephen Jaeger

$8,900

5th

DNP

DNP

MC

Brian Harman

$8,800

DNP

DNP

MC

MC

Chris Kirk

$8,500

T17

T12

T21

DNP

Tom Hoge

$8,400

DNP

MC

MC

T64

Sepp Straka

$8,300

MC

MC

T8

T11

Byeong Hun An

$8,200

DNP

76th

DNP

T13

Adam Hadwin

$8,100

T37

MC

T4

DNP

Justin Suh

$7,900

DNP

MC

DNP

DNP

Taylor Moore

$7,900

6th

DNP

DNP

DNP

Aaron Rai

$7,800

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Davis Riley

$7,800

MC

DNP

DNP

DNP

C. Bezuidenhout

$7,700

DNP

DNP

MC

DNP

Beau Hossler

$7,600

T69

T25

MC

MC

J.J. Spaun

$7,500

T8

T32

T30

T13

Brendon Todd

$7,400

DNP

MC

T57

DNP

Taylor Pendrith

$7,400

T2

DNP

DNP

DNP

Thomas Detry

$7,400

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Adam Schenk

$7,300

MC

T41

T30

T42

Alex Noren

$7,300

DNP

T4

MC

DNP

Nick Hardy

$7,300

MC

DNP

DNP

DNP

Nate Lashley

$7,300

T57

MC

MC

1st

C.T. Pan

$7,200

MC

DNP

MC

DNP

Chez Reavie

$7,200

DNP

MC

DNP

MC

Garrick Higgo

$7,200

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Lee Hodges

$7,200

T44

DNP

DNP

DNP

Matthew NeSmith

$7,200

DNP

T58

DNP

DNP

Ryan Palmer

$7,200

MC

DNP

DNP

DNP

Adam Svensson

$7,100

T24

DNP

DNP

MC

Ben Griffin

$7,100

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Luke List

$7,100

MC

DNP

T21

MC

Webb Simpson

$7,100

T69

MC

T8

DNP

Will Gordon

$7,100

DNP

MC

DNP

DNP

Cameron Champ

$7,000

T20

MC

T12

T46

Carson Young

$7,000

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Matt Wallace

$7,000

T10

DNP

T12

DNP

Patton Kizzire

$7,000

74th

T25

MC

MC

Ben Martin

$6,900

T24

MC

MC

DNP

Joel Dahmen

$6,900

MC

T21

DNP

DNP

Scott Stallings

$6,900

T10

T25

T39

T64

Charley Hoffman

$6,800

T10

DNP

DNP

MC

Doc Redman

$6,800

T57

MC

T21

2nd

Troy Merritt

$6,500

T14

T2

T8

MC


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