Hayden Buckley Riding Hot Iron Play

Hayden Buckley enters this week's American Express ranked No. 157 in the world, his highest ranking yet. This will be the American's first time playing the event in La Quinta, so fantasy gamers will need to rely more heavily on his current form. They should like what they see. The 25-year-old has played just six... Read More

Brendan Steele Still Struggling

Brendan Steele did not play well on tour last season and kicked off this year with a missed cut at the Sony Open, a course where he has had success in the past. There was not much optimism to be found in last week's performance either, as the 38-year-old finished near the bottom of the... Read More

Andrew Landry Gets Back To A Favorite Course

Andrew Landry (OWGR No. 196) might be a good play in DFS for fantasy gamers that like to focus on course history. The 34-year-old won the AMEX in 2020, finished second in 2018 and has missed the cut just once in five appearances. However, he had a rough time on tour last year, finishing in... Read More

Brandt Snedeker Hoping To Build Off Last Week

Brandt Snedeker (OWGR No. 195) has been sliding down the world rankings for the last two years. Fantasy gamers might find a glimmer of hope in his performance last week at the Sony Open, where he finished T36 and gained strokes from tee-to-green. The 41-year-old has played in the AMEX nine times and finished in... Read More

Brian Harman Still Searching For His Swing

Brian Harman has only missed the cut twice in nine attempts at the AMEX and finished in the top 10 here in 2017 and 2021. However, the lefty has not been in good form since a top-10 finish at the Travelers Championship last June. The 62nd-ranked player in the world did manage to make the... Read More

Jason Day Hoping To Find Form In Maiden Trip To La Quinta

Jason Day's golf game has been trending downward since his two PGA Tour victories back in 2018. This is reflected in his No. 123 world ranking, which is the lowest he has been ranked in over a decade. With just two top-10 finishes across the 2021 season and three appearances this past fall that saw... Read More

Jon Rahm Looking To Win Again In The Desert

The world's No. 1 ranked golfer comes to La Quinta, California, hot off a second-place finish at the Sentry Tournament of Champions two weeks ago. This will be the Spaniard's fourth time teeing it up at the AMEX. He won this tournament in 2018 and followed it up the next year with a sixth-place finish.... Read More

Is Matt Kuchar Cooked?

Matt Kuchar had a horrific 2021 season with just one top-10 finish at the WGC Match Play event in March. The fall swing at least showed a glimmer of hope for the 43-year-old, as he made the cut at all four of the events he played in, but he had no finishes better than T22.... Read More

Hideki Matsuyama Ready For Waialae Country Club

Hideki Matsuyama had a solid performance last week at Kapalua, finishing T13 in a stacked field. It was nice to see that he had his irons dialed in as well, as he finished fifth in strokes gained while approaching the green. The world's No. 19 ranked golfer won twice in 2021, including at The Masters... Read More

Brian Harman Not In Form Heading To Hawaii

Brian Harman has made the cut at the Sony Open in eight out of 10 attempts, but his only top-10 finish came in 2018, and he has gone missed cut-32-56 since. A decent 2021 season for the lefty resulted in four top-10 finishes, but the last of those came at the Travelers Championship in June.... Read More

Erik Van Rooyen A Risky Play In Hawaii

Erik Van Rooyen finished T25 last week at Kapalua and lost strokes in all three of the tee-to-green categories. This was not what fantasy gamers hoped to see from the South African, who was coming off a lackluster fall performance in 2021 as well. The 65th-ranked golfer in the world teed it up at the... Read More

Brandt Snedeker Still Struggling

Brandt Snedeker (OWGR No. 199) has been sliding down the world rankings the last two years, and there does not seem to be much optimism in sight. The American's only top-10 finish in 2021 was a T6 at the Valero Texas Open, and he last played at The RSM Classic, where he finished T47. With... Read More

Keegan Bradley Looking For Form In Hawaii

It was a rather pedestrian 2021 season for Keegan Bradley, with the highlights being a second-place finish at the Valspar Championship in March and a T7 finish at the Zozo Championship in October. The 87th-ranked player in the world last teed it up at The RSM Classic, where he missed the cut. The 35-year-old has... Read More

Does Brendan Steele Have It At The Sony Open?

While this is only Brendan Steele's fourth appearance at Waialae Country Club, he finished second and fourth the past two years. Fantasy gamers who decide to play the No. 102 golfer in the world this week will mainly be focused on that recent course form. The 38-year-old had an up-and-down season last year with just... Read More

Harris English Slumping Ahead Of Another Hawaii Event

Harris English finished near the bottom of the pack in both position and strokes gained from tee to green at the Sentry Tournament of Champions last week. Despite a career resurgence that has him up to No. 14 in the world rankings, the American remains a risky play this week after a fall season that... Read More

Seamus Power A Good Bet This Week

The 34-year-old Seamus Power found unbelievable form in the second half of 2021, including a win at the Barbasol Championship. That momentum continued last week with a respectable T15 finish in a loaded field at Kapalua. However, the Irishman has not taken an immediate liking to Waialae Country Club with two missed cuts and a... Read More

Denny McCarthy Looks To Continue Momentum

Denny McCarthy, who is ranked No. 179 in the world, is set for his first look at Waialae Country Club this week. The 28-year-old capped off a great fall swing with top-15 finishes in his last three events. Fantasy gamers last saw the American tee it up at The RSM Classic in November of last... Read More

Collin Morikawa Has Been Unstoppable

Collin Morikawa (OWGR No. 2) has played in the Sentry Tournament of Champions the past two years, finishing in seventh place both times. More importantly, the 24-year-old is firmly in the conversation for best golfer in the world after his performance last year. Morikawa ranked first in strokes gained on approach in 2021, and the... Read More

Xander Schauffele Looking For Victories In 2022

This will be Xander Schauffele's (OWGR No. 6) fifth stab at the Sentry Tournament of Champions with finishes of first, second and fifth in the last three years. Schauffele clearly thrives on the Plantation Course, and there is no reason to expect any letdown this time around. While the American has not yet won on... Read More

Marc Leishman Riding Hot Form Heading Into 2022

This will be Marc Leishman's (OWGR No. 36) fifth look at the Plantation Course at Kapalua. The Australian finished in the middle of the pack at this tournament last year but had top-10 finishes in 2018 and 2019. Last year's mediocre performance can partially be explained by a cold putter, but Leishman also had a... Read More

Viktor Hovland Figures To Be Highly Owned At Kapalua

This will be Viktor Hovland's (OWGR No. 7) second appearance at the Plantation Course after finishing 31st in the Sentry Tournament of Champions last year. One poor performance, partially due to poor putting on his first look, will not keep fantasy gamers away from a golfer who has been scorching hot in recent months. The... Read More

Erik Van Rooyen Could Provide Value

Erik Van Rooyen (OWGR No. 66) picked up his first PGA Tour victory at the Barracuda Championship in August of last year, so this will be his first appearance at Kapalua. The South African played full-time in the United States for the first time last season, and there were many ups and downs along the... Read More

Jordan Spieth One To Watch At Sentry Tournament Of Champions

Jordan Spieth (OWGR No. 14) has a superb track record at Kapalua with four appearances all ending in top-10 finishes. The Plantation Course has very large, undulating greens, which many like to compare to Augusta National, another course where Spieth has a great course history. However, he hasn't played this course since 2018 due to... Read More

Harris English A Risky DFS Option At Kapalua

Last year, Harris English (OWGR No. 12) took full advantage of a pandemic-related exemption to win the Sentry Tournament of Champions. His only other appearance in this event came in 2014, when he finished 11th. This year, English earned his way into this winners-only field by the standard method with a win at the Travelers... Read More

Sam Burns Is A Great Play This Week In Hawaii

Sam Burns, who is ranked No. 10, has never played the Plantation Course at Kapalua before after picking up his first PGA Tour wins in 2021 at the Valspar Championship in May and the Sanderson Farms Championship in October. The 25-year-old is quite simply one of the hottest golfers coming into the Sentry Tournament of... Read More