DraftKings PGA DFS Lineup Picks - Cognizant Classic Advice With Russell Henley, Ben Griffin, Max Greyserman and More (2025)

February 26, 2025

Spencer's DraftKings PGA DFS lineup picks for the 2025 Cognizant Classic. 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 2025 Cognizant Classic. I'll be providing DFS picks and analysis to help you set those winning DraftKings lineups.

New starting this year -- if you would like to see a deeper dive into my DraftKings analysis and thoughts for the week, you can click that link and find my beefed-up version, including more picks, data, analysis, and PGA DFS models.

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PGA DFS Rankings Wizard - Cognizant Classic

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• The Cognizant Classic

Vegas Report (All Pre-Tournament Bets)

• Top Pre-Tournament H2H Pick: (104-60-9) 63.41%
• All Pre-Tournament H2Hs: (296-228-30) 56.48%
• In-Tournament H2Hs (300-200-55) 60.00%
• Total H2Hs Since 2017: (596-428-85) 58.20%
• Outright Winners Since 2017: 51
• Units: +340.903 Units
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In-Tournament Head-To-Head Bets For Rounds 1,2,3 and 4

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Let's Look at the Stats

Field

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

Last Five Winners of Vidanta

Expected Cut-Line at the Cognizant

PGA National

7,145 Yards - Par 71 - Greens Bermuda

You can find my premium course breakdown in my Vegas Report this week

You can find Todd Mcgill's free breakdown here

First Look Into Outright Bets

Fantasy Golf Lineup Picks for DraftKings (PGA DFS)

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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 Targets Early On Monday

Russell Henley ($10,700)

If I asked you to project the top 11 players inside my model entering the 2025 season, most would not have any trouble rattling off the first handful of names. Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Rory McIlroy, Ludvig Aberg, Justin Thomas, Hideki Matsuyama, and Patrick Cantlay are all rather obvious choices. I wouldn't expect there to be much trouble there. However, I did have three names where my math was much higher than consensus.

Sam Burns and Maverick McNealy would be the first two. McNealy has already started this year red-hot after posting a second-place finish at the Genesis during a Signature Event. The other option, which, in fairness, has started to become widely accepted for this answer, would be Russell Henley.

While most DFS gamers have started to trust Henley more during events, the lack of consensus comes into play when you have to pay high price tags for a golfer that the space has deemed to have low win equity. I understand that group-think mentalities and long-term returns are hard to overlook, but Henley's profile yielded very similar projections to how Scheffler ranks in most events when comparing him to the given field.

For reference, Henley didn't rank worse than fourth in any of the seven categories. That will show the upside when you realize Sungjae Im, Keith Mitchell and a handful of others were the only names to rank inside the top 10 four times between those seven categories. 

Ben Griffin ($8,500)

Ben Griffin has always been a Bermuda specialist who sees his highest ceiling potential on this grass type. I realize that the ultimate factor of winning hasn't been rewarded throughout this stage of his career, but the upside has started to seep through the cracks, with Griffin posting four top-15 finishes during his last nine events.

My model placed Griffin sixth in this field for Weighted Strokes Gained Total, 11th for Lead-In Form, and third for Weighted Scoring.

If the putter can see a 34-spot improvement from 46th to 12th, as my model projects, Griffin could be a massive value in this field at $8,500.

Max Greyserman ($8,700)

Hi, my name is Spencer, and I was one of this app's biggest Max Greyserman faders to start the season.

In fairness, taking him on was the correct route since he has only generated one top-20 in six tournaments. However, Greyserman has likely been way too negatively affected during his recent Poa run, where he went from one of the best putters in the world to a golfer who struggled to succeed on a new surface.

The floor might be lower than some in this range, but my model did rank him as one of only four golfers to grade inside the top 40 for all seven categories.

A return to Bermuda isn't garnering the overabundance of support he was attracting for a handful of months, so I will now fight the good fight of leverage with someone the industry has abandoned.

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