DraftKings PGA DFS Lineup Picks - The Texas Children's Houston Open With Scottie Scheffler, Tony Finau, Stephan Jaeger, Max Greyserman and More Golf Advice (2024)

Spencer's DraftKings PGA DFS lineup picks for The Texas Children's Houston Open. His PGA DFS targets and value plays for daily fantasy golf lineups, and golfers to avoid.

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• The Texas Children's Houston Open

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Field

Field Size: 144
Cut: Top 65 & Ties
Top 20 Entrants: 4

Last Five Winners Of The Texas Children's Houston Open

Expected Cut-Line 

Memorial Park

7,435 Yards - Par 70 - Greens: Bermuda (Overseeded)

Measuring marginally over 7,400 yards, Memorial Park is widely regarded as one of the top municipal golf courses in the world, something that makes the 2019 renovation of the track that much more impressive since Tom Doak was able to remodel the layout and get it back up and running for the nearly 60,000 patrons who visit the grounds each year. Doak was accompanied on the project by former world number one Brooks Koepka, and the rebuild aimed to create a challenging tournament venue that could provide dramatic lead changes down the stretch.

We see that factor come into play with six holes yielding either a 21%+ bogey or worse rate or 26%+ birdie or better percentage on the back nine, although the primary blueprint to one of Doak's designs will always be his distinctive green complexes. That remains front and center for the week because of the 5.4% percent increase in dispersion of scoring when it comes to strokes gained around the green, and players have mentioned how failing to get a putter in hand can present this ping-pong nature of going back and forth on this unique contextual setup.

Large specimen oak trees are positioned to cause issues if you are wayward off the tee, and there are weird quirks throughout, including a clamshell landing area on the par-four 10th that will create problems if you go inside of it. Add that fact to a ravine that runs through a handful of holes, green complexes that produce a 3.1% reduction in GIR percentage and fairways that are over three yards narrower than average, and you get this diabolical test that will reward quality tee-to-green play.

The move from November to March for this venue should yield even firmer grass and windier conditions. Keep that in mind when building a model. This is also not true Bermuda like it would have been later in the year. Completely different surface.

Let's Look At The Stats

Key Stats 

Let's quickly run through how I built my model.

Weighted Strokes Gained: Total (35%)

Strokes Gained - Tee To Green (10%)

Strokes Gained Total: Long Par 70s (10%)

Strokes Gained Total: Long Courses (10%)

Weighted Scoring (25%)

Birdie or Better + Bogey Avoidance (10%)

Total Number Of Top-10's Out Of The Six Categories: Two-Year Running Model

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First Look Into Outright Bets

Fantasy Golf Lineup Picks for DraftKings (PGA DFS)

We have tons of great weekly PGA articles, DFS analysis, tools and DFS advice. Be sure to read our other fantastic articles regarding this week's event.

High-Priced DraftKings DFS Players 

***There are four players priced above $10,000. Please remember that my DFS article is always a first look at the field. Opinions might shift as the week goes on, and I am more than happy to discuss anyone further on Twitter/X. 

Pricing landed in the exact order of my model. Ownership will be the decider in this spot since all four players graded out well.

Ownership answers never entirely stay steady when more data enters the market (Scheffler will climb in popularity), but my general thought is to stack the top of this board as much as possible.

From a game theory perspective, fading the expensive and popular golfer is typically the correct strategy, but I am hoping Scheffler's price tag makes enough people question where they stand for a 30%+ name.

The American was the first golfer to ever grade number one in my model for all categories I ran.

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End of the Season Totals: @rotoballer @BettorGolfPod

2017 +54.26 Units
2018 +55.88 Units
2019 +27.743 Units
2020 + 37.015 Units
2021 + 68.846 Units
2022 +67.485 Units

Total Winnings: +311.229 Units

Total Outright Wins Since 2017: 36

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Mid-Priced DraftKings DFS Players

$9,000 Range

To me, the direct comparison in this field comes down to how to use Tony Finau, Will Zalatoris, Sahith Theegala and Wyndham Clark.

Unfortunately, this is what you get early in the week when pricing is correct, and the names at the top of the field are massively ahead of the options beneath them.

Some weeks, a flat build is the preferred route; this isn't one of them. I can find enough value at the bottom of the board to mix and match everyone.

I do lean Tony Finau/Si Woo Kim as the two I am most inclined to want to play in the $9,000s.

Mid-Priced DraftKings DFS Players

$8,000 Range 

My model is always much higher than the market on Stephan Jaeger, something we see with my math ranking him second in projected strokes gained tee to green and fourth for expected strokes gained total at Memorial Park.

I know the current form has slipped over the past few weeks, but there is a reason Jaeger landed inside the top 10 here last year.

I also think this is a nice bounce-back spot for Doug Ghim and Aaron Rai. I fell victim to the marginal Rai chalk at the Valspar Championship, but the upside for each will come down to how their putters cooperate on this overseeded Bermuda.

The last time Rai missed back-to-back cuts came during the Wells Fargo and Byron Nelson in May of 2023.

Low-Priced DraftKings DFS Players To Consider ($7,000+)

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You can dive deeper into my model to get the exact reason certain players ranked how they did for me this week.

My model found itself most bullish on Mark Hubbard, K.H. Lee, Akshay Bhatia, and Thomas Detry.

It also believed Cameron Davis was worth a shot if he landed at sub-two percent because of his tournament-changing upside.

$6,000 Options To Consider

One reason I am willing to be more aggressive up top (outside of just projected win equity) was the soft pricing in this section.

I will find myself firing on a name like Max Greyserman quite frequently this week. My model believed that Greyserman ranked inside the top 30 of this field for both expected scoring and weighted strokes gained in total, a return that generated a built-in floor and upside potential at the going rate.

$5,000 Options To Consider

There are some limited sample size returns that I don't necessarily trust.

I decided to leave the answers where they stood because the top of the board was so consistent in its profile, but I am willing to buy back in on Jacob Bridgeman after a surprisingly lousy stretch on Thursday caused him to miss the cut.

Despite the risk, my model is projecting that to be one of the best bounce-back spots on the board for the price.

Favorite Play Each Section:

$10,000+ - Scottie Scheffler
$9,000+ - Tony Finau
$8,000+ - Stephan Jaeger
$7,000+ - Mark Hubbard
$6,000+ - Max Greyserman
$5,000+ - Jacob Bridgeman

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