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DraftKings PGA DFS Value Plays - The 2024 Zurich Classic (Premium Content)
There is a nuance to this course this week that we will be looking to try use to take advantage of the format that includes Best Ball (each team plays their two individual balls and takes the best score in R1 and R3), while alternate shot allows golfers to pick the order they tee off... Read More
PGA Betting, DFS Picks - Golf Bets Research - The 2024 Zurich Classic (Premium)
The fun part about this week is that, I am the model maniac, and I built a model for this team tournament. It's got alternate shot, best ball and overall team rankings included. The alternate shot is based off the optimal pairings that they should roll out, according my calculations. Per my model, "3 OF... Read More
Round 3 PGA DFS Showdown Slate Picks - The 2024 RBC Heritage
The general logic to showdown has been to target golfers who played well the day before and particularly those who hit their irons well. This makes sense as you want to roster players who are playing good golf right now. These players will be higher-owned and chalkier than golfers in the same price range who... Read More
Breaking $100 - Free PGA Betting Picks - Golf Best Bets for the 2024 RBC Heritage
Scottie Scheffler has won three of his last four tournaments, yet, had you bet him to win and return $100 in each tournament he has played in the last 12 months, you would have lost -$10 ... that is not a typo. It just goes to show how treacherous the outright landscape is right now... Read More
DraftKings PGA DFS Value Plays - The 2024 RBC Heritage (Premium Content)
This article is on a bit of a heater as we have written up Peter Malnati (win), Alejandro Tosti (2nd) and Akshay Bhatia (win) in the three weeks leading up to the Masters. Augusta loomed and Tommy Fleetwood boomed at $7,500 and notched us another podium finish. We will pretend the rest of the gang... Read More
PGA Betting, DFS Picks - Golf Bets Research - The 2024 RBC Heritage (Premium)
Course history is rather sticky at this short positional track. We are also coming off of the first major of the year and motivation levels of those that played well could likely be dwindling, or the form the showed could spill over into this week. Others who missed the cut are likely chomping at the... Read More
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
DraftKings PGA DFS Value Plays - The 2024 Masters (Premium Content)
This article is on a bit of a heater as we have written up Peter Malnati (win), Alejandro Tosti (2nd) and Akshay Bhatia (win) in the last three week's worth of article. Augusta looms and hopefully a 4th name shines for us again this week! Course history and major experience is going to be what... Read More
Breaking $100: Free PGA Betting Picks for 2024 Masters - Best Golf Bets
If you haven't made adequate communications with your significant other, make the adequate communications to get a divorce attorney on stand by, because this week is all about the Masters. Its lock yourself in the basement/garage/living room season and its the best season. All the best golfers playing under one cloudy sky. I simply cannot... Read More
PGA Stat Buffet- 2024 Masters (Premium Content)
Course history! Major experience! Those are the two critical areas of success required to make my player pool this year. We will have screenshots and columns in the model to help you find the best golfers in areas that matter most to you, as well! This article aims to help familiarize ourselves with how we... Read More
Free PGA Betting Picks - Breaking $100 Golf Best Bets for the 2024 Valero Texas Open
If anybody knows how to become rich and famous overnight, let me know. Trying to juggle quarter end accounting obligations, while trying to get articles out this week has left my procrastination running rampant this week. Apologies for my tardiness, but we are here for Breaking $100 and we are looking to get back to... Read More
DraftKings PGA DFS Value Plays - 2024 Valero Texas Open (Premium Content)
The intro to this article is becoming very easy as I am just copying the write up of a sub-$7,000 golfer who finished T2 this week. Last week was Pete, this week Tosti took care of business for us at $5,300. "Alejandro Tosti $5,300: (1%): "Show me a long golf course and I will show... Read More
PGA Betting, DFS Picks - Golf Bets Research - 2024 Valero Texas Open (Premium)
It is the week before the Masters. If not already qualified, the winner of this week's event will be heading to Augusta. A fun week with a massive reward at the end of the tunnel, depending on who you are. This article aims to help familiarize ourselves with how we can expect the course to... 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
DraftKings PGA DFS Value Plays - 2024 Texas Children's Houston Open (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. "Peter Malnati: $5,600 (1%) Don't look now, but Peter Malnati has made back-to-back cuts in his Florida swing starts. He has not played well here in the past, but what Malnati does best is scramble! If we expect tons of golfers to be missing... Read More
Breaking $100 - Free PGA Betting Picks - Golf Best Bets for the 2024 Texas Children's Houston Open
We are going to enjoy an expedited article as we are running way behind this week. Life can just get away from you at times but we are behind the keyboard and sharing some thoughts and bets on the week for the Texas Children's Houston Open. Congrats to Peter Malnati who took yet another piece... Read More
PGA Stat Buffet - Betting, DFS Picks - Golf Bets Research - 2024 Texas Children's Houston Open (Premium)
I have enjoyed putting this article together much more than recently when pasting hundreds of screenshots into this article had me feeling as robotic as Scottie Scheffler's ball striking. Now that my model is available to premium subscribers, I hope you are using that to make better decisions on your DFS and Betting selections. This... Read More
DraftKings PGA DFS Value Plays - 2024 Valspar Championship (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Not our best week last week but getting guys across the cut at the PLAYERS remains a mystery for the majority of DFS goers. The field gets watered down a little as we head to the Valspar Championship as a continuation of the Florida... Read More
Breaking $100 - Free PGA Betting Picks - Golf Best Bets for the 2024 Valpsar Championship
Scottie Scheffler is a cheat code when the putter works and when it doesn't, well, he can still win golf tournaments. The guy tweaked his neck and then was taped up like Jason Kelce and still managed to win a golf tournament of the highest demands. Despite doing the back-to-back piggyback, winning back-to-back tournaments in... Read More
PGA Stat Buffet - Betting, DFS Picks - Golf Bets Research - 2024 Valspar Championship (Premium)
I have enjoyed putting this article together much more than recently when pasting hundreds of screenshots into this article had me feeling as robotic as Scottie Scheffler's ball striking. Now that my model is available to premium subscribers, I hope you are using that to make better decisions on your DFS and Betting selections. This... 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
DraftKings PGA DFS Value Plays - 2024 PLAYERS Championship (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Carnage, folks. Carnage. The PLAYERS is an event that sees some of the biggest names miss the cut in epic fashion. If you are intending on playing Scottie Scheffler this week, you are likely going to need a name or three south of the... Read More
Breaking $100 - Free PGA Betting Picks - Golf Best Bets for the 2024 PLAYERS Championship
Scottie Scheffler has learnt how to putt, or so it seems. As a result we have got some really good odds down the board to lean into. So much so that we have 10 outrights going this week. If Scheffler returns to planet earth and just finishes inside the top-10 like we have come to... Read More
PGA Stat Buffet - Betting, DFS Picks - Golf Bets Research - 2024 PLAYERS Championship (Premium)
This article has been ... remodeled a little. For me, it is so much easier to share my model that has information for all the golfers, compared to just screenshots of the top 20 of each category. It's a win-win situation, as you get more info and I save tons of time. If there is... 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
DraftKings PGA DFS Value Plays - 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. We have a limited field heading into a signature event at Bay Hill Club and Lodge, or what I jokingly called it in Breaking $100, Bay Hill Club & Cabbage Patch, with rough exceptionally thick inches off the fairway making it impossible to advance... Read More
Breaking $100 - Free PGA Betting Picks - Golf Best Bets for the 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
Another week, another long shot winner in the form of 160-1 Austin Eckroat. These long shots are making me want to take shots ... of very strong alcohol. This has been such a wild start to the season as hitting Knapp in Mexico at 40-1 was the shortest winner in the first two months of... Read More