DraftKings PGA DFS Lineup Picks - The PLAYERS Championship (2026)

March 9, 2026

Spencer's DraftKings PGA DFS lineup picks for PLAYERS Championship (2026). His PGA DFS targets and value plays for daily fantasy golf lineups, and golfers to avoid.

Welcome, everyone, to my DraftKings PGA DFS lineup picks and advice for the 2026 PLAYERS. I'll be providing DFS picks and analysis to help you set those winning DraftKings lineups.

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Fantasy PGA DraftKings Lineup Picks - PLAYERS

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• The PLAYERS

Vegas Report (All Pre-Tournament Bets)

• Top Pre-Tournament H2H Pick: (104-60-9) 63.41%
• All Pre-Tournament H2Hs: (353-277-34) 56.00%
• In-Tournament H2Hs (361-250-69) 59.08%
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• (361-250-69) 59.08%
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Let's Look at the Stats

The PLAYERS Championship Field

• Field Size: 120
• Cut: T65 & Ties 
• Top 20 Entrants: 19

Last Five Winners of the PLAYERS

Expected Cut Line

TPC Sawgrass

7,352 Yards - Par 72 - Greens Bermuda (Overseeded Grass)

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First Look Into Outright Bets

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Final 2023 Golf Betting Results:
(Individual breakdowns of all sections in thread) @RotoBaller

2023 (+16.634 Units)
2022 (+67.485 Units)
2021 (+68.846 Units)
2020 (+37.015 Units)
2019 (+27.743 Units)
2018 (+55.88 Units)
2017 (+54.26 Units)

Overall: (+327.863 Units) pic.twitter.com/tuaDfwFXlo

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Favorite DFS Plays for the PLAYERS

Si Woo Kim ($9,200) 

The once-thought-of erratic Si Woo Kim has become a rather impressive staple of consistency over the past year, with a current made-cut streak of 11 tournaments, including five top-13 finishes over his seven events in 2026.

While the consistency in that regard is something that has helped to catapult the 30-year-old toward a second-place rank in 2026 when merging the in-event data into expected Sawgrass production in my model (behind only Morikawa), the consistently poor putting returns continue to plague what should be a season that has delivered a win.

Kim has gained +43.2 shots ball-striking in his seven starts this year (+6.17/start), but is experiencing a negative-2.25 per event return with the putter. I can go on and on about how putting is reduced at this venue, something we saw with his 2017 title as a 500/1 longshot, but the data shows quite the upside profile when we remove the flat-stick from the mix. Even if he can be neutral, the upside is there for victory.

Here are the only golfers in my model to land top 20 for Expected Proximity + Weighted Driving + Weighted Scoring + Weighted Strokes Gained Total:

For what it is worth, that return was one of the reasons I backed Sepp Straka in various markets this week.

Max MxGreevy ($6,500) 

I had Max McGreevy last year across the board at TPC Sawgrass. A 500/1 outright price, top-5/10/20/30/40 as a laddered-up golfer on the slate, and while it did yield a positive return, it likely resulted in the second-worst (worst?) shot from a golfer I backed in 2025.

I still have issues with Cameron Davis at the American Express, and whatever that drive was on 18 to go OB into a housing development that was 200 yards right of play. You can be the judge of which shot was worse between that and the iron shot that McGreevy hit that airmailed the green by nearly 50 yards from 57 yards out:

Cameron Davis (AMEX) -

Max McGreevy (PLAYERS) - 

I am going to let bygones be bygones here and back one of the top pure values I have in my sheet.

Here are all the players inside the top-40 for me that landed above a certain threshold return for DFS purposes:

*** Yellamaraju and Ewart have very limited profiles in 2026. I took their small sample size and didn't adjust.

McGreevy ranked among the best pure wind players on my sheet and also delivered high-end OTT grades in courses with a larger penalty for misses and overall driving accuracy.

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