Round 3 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - The 2024 Masters

Scottie Scheffler sits atop the leaderboard once again, this time Bryson DeChambeau and Max Homa sit alongside him after 36 holes of wind swept major golf. With 60 golfers making the cut, we get a lot of our favorites playing the weekend. With the wind blowing as hard as it has the course has really... Read More

Round 3 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Texas Children's Houston Open

It's not often a golfer ties a course record that was set by himself (and Scottie Scheffler), but Tony Finau once again shot a 62 on a golf course that played more than a stroke over par. The +9.38 he gained today likely is not his best round of golf on tour, as he shot... Read More

Round 2 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Texas Children's Houston Open

We have 3 rounds of golf left at the Texas Children's Houston Open and Scottie Scheffler is already +120 to win the tournament. Wyndham Clark sits five shots back of Scheffler and is double the odds to finish top five. We are in some seriously unchartered territory with Scheffler right now. I guess we should... Read More

PGA DFS Picks - Round 4 Showdown For 2024 PLAYERS Championship

We should have a three-horse race for the winner of the PLAYERS Championship, with Xander Schauffele sitting in first at -17, Wyndham Clark in second at -16, and Brian Harman a shot back at -15. Fourth place has two golfers tied at -13 which is four shots off Xander, who Harman or Clark will be... Read More

Round 3 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 PLAYERS Championship

The cut has been made and Wyndham Clark has been a cut above the field so far, sitting four shots clear of 2nd after a pair of 65s see him at -14 for the event. Nick Taylor and Xander Schauffele sit in second and will be looking to chase down Clark who leads the field... Read More

Round 3 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational

Will Zalatoris sits one shot back of the lead in solo seventh. We have six golfers tied for the lead, five of them major winners. Scheffler, Clark, Lowry, Matsuyama, Harman have all won a massive event in the last few years. Russell Henley leads the field in strokes gained putting as the sixth golfer atop... Read More

Round 2 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational

Shane Lowry decided that he wanted to give himself another opportunity to have a final round meltdown, leading the field at -6 at the close of round 1. He seems to really like Florida golf, at least through the first three rounds. Hideki Matsuyama sits in T2, using his amazing feel around the greens to... Read More

PGA DFS Picks- Round 4 Showdown For 2024 Cognizant Classic

Shane Lowry gained +4.4 strokes on approach today, which is his third best iron display since 2017, where my database begins. It is also only the third time he has eclipsed four strokes on approach in that span. Lowry does however, own the 30th best singular round of approach in Data Golf's history tool, gaining... Read More

Round 3 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Cognizant Classic

The top of this leaderboard is looks like we just hit the randomize button on the field. The first non-surprising name shows up in T6 where Shane Lowery, Rory McIlroy and Cameron Young frequent the leaderboard. Bud Cauley leads the Cognizant Classic field in only his second start since returning to the tour after a... Read More

Round 2 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Cognizant Classic

The Honda Classic is likely looking down from above as the Cognizant Classic putt the metaphorical bumpers up alongside the fairways and greens, with today's round playing the second easiest in quite some time. The wind will be picking up tomorrow and hopefully the course starts playing like it has in the past. The general... Read More

PGA DFS Picks- Round 4 Showdown For 2024 Genesis Invitational

Do we get a winner from the final pairing, which consists of the Ryder Cup duo of Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele? Or do we see Will Zalatoris get his first win since the back surgery that rectified the pain that saw him withdraw from the Masters in 2023? We have a wild leaderboard, as... Read More

Round 3 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Genesis Invitational

Jordan Spieth got disqualified for not signing the correct score in Round 2. Spieth remains one of the most polarizing players in the game, hitting death-defying shots from the edge of Pebble Beach cliffs, chipping balls in from just about anywhere, missing four footers once too often, and failing to add up a Par 3... Read More

Round 2 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Genesis Invitational

12 of the 15 most expensive golfers on the Round 2 showdown slate lost a total of 14.7 strokes putting today, with the best putting performance of the dirty dozen barely gaining +0.1 on the greens. Patrick Cantlay and Jordan Spieth played together and gained a total of 6.3 strokes putting, ultimately landing Cantlay (+4.0... Read More

DFS Showdown Picks - Round 3 PGA - 2024 WM Phoenix Open

The golfing gods are giggling at us from above. Wringing their wet laundry over the temperate climate of Arizona causing rain delays. And then once we think they are done with that, they decide to turn the AC all the way up to induce frost delays. Hopefully we can get as much golf as possible... Read More

Round 3 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Pebble Beach Pro-Am

As expected, the talented wave that headed to Pebble Beach for R2 had a feast. Only two of the 11 best fantasy rounds came at Spyglass, which mostly had to do with the lack of talent on that course struggling, while the handful of stars playing Spyglass really struggled as well (Collin, Max, Xander). Thomas... Read More

Round 2 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Thomas Detry leads the Pebble Beach Pro-Am after chipping in on the final hole to break the hearts of Patrick Cantlay FRLs (First Round Leaders). He was also only 2% owned in the $5 Single Entry. Cantlay sits one shot back at -8, with both of them now heading to Pebble Beach. We are going... Read More

PGA DFS Picks- Round 4 Showdown For 2024 Farmers Insurance Open

We have a fully-fledged Farmers Insurance Open on our hands in San Diego. The first four names on the leaderboard are all from across the pond, with all five pursuers in T5 from North America (we have one Canadian in there). The four Americans in fifth were on the KFT tour as recently as December,... Read More

Round 3 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Farmers Insurance Open

We have four Euros cultivating the top of the Farmers Insurance Open, occupying the first four spots heading into "the weekend" with round 3 taking place on a Friday courtesy of the Divisional Championship games on Sunday. Stephan Jaeger leads the pack at -12, with Nicolai Hojgaard a shot back. Kevin Yu (+5.71 strokes gained),... Read More

Round 2 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Farmers Insurance Open

Kevin Yu are the round 1 leader of the Farmers Insurance Open and lead the seven other golfers T4 or better who all played on the North course in R1. On the South side, the two guys with all the tricks are both Nicks. Nicolai Hojgaard and Nick Hardy blistered the South course, shooting -5... Read More

PGA DFS Picks- Round 4 Showdown for 2024 American Express

Nick Dunlap sits four and five shots clear of Sam Burns and Justin Thomas, respectively, and holds the third-lowest 54-hole score in PGA Tour history at -27. In case you think you are out of the loop in golf, I learned about Nick Dunlap yesterday. He is a 20-year-old sophomore at Alabama who lipped out... Read More

Round 2 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 American Express

I have been struggling to get accurate strokes gained data, but we finally have some accurate info after reaching out to get this stuff corrected. Let's get right into Round 2 showdown at The American Express. Three courses and some lopsided results on the La Quinta course makes for some really tough ownership projections tomorrow,... Read More

PGA DFS Picks- Round 4 Showdown for 2024 Sony Open

The top of the Sony Open leaderboard consists of a Ryder Cup snub and some rookie scrubs (and Chris Kirk & Benny An - shout out to the Sentry squad). This leaderboard would have definitely rewarded the weeklong DFSers who played the sketchy long shots, had the chalk squad not made the weekend thanks to... Read More

Round 3 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Sony Open

The darkest times tend create the strongest bonds between people and tonight on Twitter/X, us golf maniacs were left in the dark regarding the PGA Tour's coverage of the Sony Open. With multiple 20%+ owned golfers sitting inside the cut at -2, Joel Dahmen had a five foot birdie putt on the last to get... Read More

PGA DFS Picks- Round 4 Showdown for 2024 Sentry Tournament of Champions

The Sentry Tournament of Champions will crown the first champion of the 2024 calendar year and the challenge will be to determine which six golfers can help us get crowned a champion in our respective contests. Scottie Scheffler had a bit of a rough outing today, but don't expect him to put forth another round... Read More

Round 3 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Sentry Tournament of Champions

Scottie Scheffler is a problem. He gained strokes putting today. In fact, he gained TWO strokes putting. Why is that significant? Well, in Scheffler's 79 shot link rounds in 2023 he gained 2+ strokes putting ... three times (aka 4% of the time). Funnily enough, all three of those instances he gained 3+ strokes putting.... Read More

Round 2 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - 2024 Sentry Tournament of Champions

What an awesome day of golf. The stars showed up, the birdies were flying, and the top 10 of the leaderboard includes Sahith, Viktor, Collin, Jason, Scottie, Patrick, Sungjae, Xander, and Jordan. The reason I mention all first names is because you know all those first names without their last. Great round by Sahith to... Read More

Round 2 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - BMW Championship 2023

Rory McIlroy made more birdies (5) than fairways hit (3) today on route to a bogey-free round of 65. Brian Harman is trying to silence those that doubt his Ryder Cup security off of one major round of golf, as he sits -5 alongside Rory. Scottie Scheffler (T3) has potentially found a putter that can... Read More

PGA DFS Picks- Round 4 Showdown for 2023 FedEx St. Jude Championship.

Lucas Glover (-14) sits atop the leaderboard with the final round still to come tomorrow with Taylor one more shot back of him at -13. The star studded leaderboard behind them will be ready to go super low tomorrow as evidenced by Justin Rose shooting -9 in R3. This tournament is far from over and... Read More

Round 3 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - The FedEx St. Jude Championship 2023

Lucas Glover would dominate Harry Potter in quidditch the way he is riding that broomstick putter of his lately. His ball striking continues to remain hotter than Memphis itself, which had a heat index of 111 today. Meanwhile, Jordan Spieth has Einstein turning in his grave, as he defies all logic-gaining strokes on the field... Read More