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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
PGA Betting, DFS Picks - Golf Bets Research - 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational (Premium)
As we head to the King's Classic for the Arnold Palmer Invitational, we are going to shorten up the menu of the stat buffet, at least from a screenshot perspective. When I first got into writing articles for the wonderful people here at RotoBaller, I decided to paste a million screenshots of my model into... 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 Stat Buffet - Betting, DFS Picks - Golf Bets Research - 2024 Cognizant Classic (Premium)
Some KFT Rookies really came through for us in Mexico! This week we get a totally different course, which means a different type of golfer is capable of succeeding here this week. Let's find out who shows up in the most screenshots for this week's Cognizant Classic. This article aims to help familiarize ourselves with... Read More
Breaking $100 - Free PGA Betting Picks - Golf Best Bets for the 2024 Cognizant Classic
Jake Knapp, you are a beautiful, mullet-wearing wonder! It is becoming apparent that we have a type over here at Breaking $100, as we hit Cam Smith three times in 2022, and now Jake Knapp's mullet and Original Penguin shirt make it our fourth winner of that hair and clothing combo. We have also now... Read More
Breaking $100 - Free PGA Betting Picks - Golf Best Bets for the 2024 Mexico Open
Hideki Matsuyama finished inside the top-10 for the first time since the Players Championship, which was 11 months ago, winning the Genesis Invitational by gaining 10 strokes chipping and putting, while ranking outside the top-15 on approach and off the tee. He ended the week at -17 and shot -9 in round four, gaining half... Read More
The Stat Buffet: PGA Betting, DFS Picks - Golf Bets Research - 2024 Mexico Open (Premium)
We have ourselves a very weak field in the Mexico Open this week and we are going to do our best to parse through all the noise of newbies and rookies and try find the golfers that can help us have a magnificent week in Mexico! This article aims to help familiarize ourselves with how... 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
DraftKings PGA DFS Value Plays - 2024 Genesis Invitational (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. It wasn't our best outing last week with weather wreaking havoc and a few of our Leverage guys completely melting down when having to complete their final four holes early on Saturday morning in the cold. It can be tough to define "value" and... Read More
Breaking $100 - Free PGA Betting Picks - Golf Best Bets For The 2024 Genesis Invitational
My sausage fingers are cheering with every stroke of a letter on the keyboard knowing that we only have two outrights to write about this week, which is significantly less than the eight or so golfers we have been talking about here for the last few events. Two of those golfers gave us a great... Read More
PGA Stat Buffet - Betting, DFS Picks - Golf Bets Research - 2024 Genesis Invitational (Premium)
This may be the week we finally get some regular rounds of golf in. We have a field of 70 golfers who will make the cut if they are within 10 strokes of the lead or inside the top 50 come Friday evening. We head back to Riviera Country Club where course history is of... 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
DraftKings PGA DFS Value Plays - 2024 WM Phoenix Open (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. The majority of last week's article finished between T39 and T14. We had nobody play really badly, all finishing inside the top half of the field, but nobody cracked the top-10. It can be tough to define "value" and that task is made tricky... Read More
Breaking $100 - Free PGA Betting Picks - Golf Best Bets for the 2024 WM Phoenix Open
It was a great week for Wyndham Clark and RotoBallers alike, as the Saturday finish had Clark securing his third PGA title in 9 months and Spencer Aguiar's second 100-1 outright hit on the Coloradan. Is he the hottest golfer on the planet right now? His consistency is not even in the same stratosphere as... Read More
PGA Stat Buffet - Betting, DFS Picks - Golf Bets Research - 2024 WM Phoenix Open (Premium)
We are back to playing one course for four rounds to find a winner. We have a lot of interesting names showing up in the various screenshots below as this field is rather top-heavy with talent. With Viktor Hovland and Xander Schauffele withdrawing, there are only two names in the $10K range this week. This... 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
DraftKings PGA DFS Value Plays - 2024 Pebble Beach Pro-Am (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Maybe I should just do names with no write-ups more often? Stephan Jaeger T3, Jake Knapp T3, and Beau Hossler T6 all came from a different part of the article. Let's see what we can get up to this week at a no-cut, signature... Read More
Breaking $100 - Free PGA Betting Picks - Golf Best Bets for the 2024 Pebble Beach Pro-Am
Our second PGA Tour signature event arrives at the Pebble Beach Golf Links where weather seems to be cold, rainy and once Sunday rolls around, VERY windy. As a result of the extremely temperamental conditions that loom over the weekend, we are going to just bet our outrights we decided on Monday morning, with a... Read More
PGA Stat Buffet - Betting, DFS Picks - Golf Bets Research - 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (Premium)
The second designated event of the year is here and its going to be played on the picturesque Pebble Beach Golf Links, at least for three of the four rounds. Spyglass Hill Golf Course is definitely not a bad option as the other course, either. 80 golfers, 2 courses, four rounds (hopefully), 1 winner. I'm... 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
DraftKings PGA DFS Value Plays - 2024 Farmers Insurance Open (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. It has been a short week to get content out there, but I wanted to get this article out at least with some names. I will update the write-ups later tonight after my Back 9 Bets podcast. It can be tough to define "value"... Read More