DraftKings PGA DFS Lineup Picks - PLAYERS Championship Advice With Collin Morikawa, Russell Henley and More (2025)

Welcome everyone to my DraftKings PGA DFS lineup picks and advice for the 2025 PLAYERS Championship. 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 - PLAYERS

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PGA Rankings Wizard Model (Pre-Tournament)

• A powerful and interactive data spreadsheet that allows user inputs to create custom rankings and models for golf. If you are considering signing up, take a look at this how-to guide of everything you can find weekly inside my pre-tournament model. The sheet is loaded with sortable and weighable information to help you in all sectors of the market. 
• The PLAYERS

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
• All Totals Are Entering 2025
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• Here, you will find updated stats for the particular tournament -- all sortable and weighable when you make a copy of your own under the file tab. The purpose of this is to provide an area where you can research the daily proceedings for DFS strategy or find outright or daily head-to-head wagers. There are over 25 weighable categories by the time Round 4 comes around, including the ability to add back in your pre-tournament research for every day.

In-Tournament Head-To-Head Bets For Rounds 1,2,3 and 4

• Lifetime Record:
• (300-200-55) 60.00%
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First-Round Leader/ 3-Ball Articles

• Nine first-round leader wins in 2022.
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One & Done (Deep-Dive Into Potential Options To Consider)

• 10+ million in earnings during two of the past three seasons while providing information for contests. We will take a comprehensive look into a handful of options to consider.
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Late DraftKings Article (Condensed Player Pool) + Ownership Trends

• We will build off the Monday article throughout the week and consolidate selections toward a more concrete player pool for everyone to consider by Wednesday.

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Let's Look at the Stats

Field

Field Size: 144
Cut: Top 65 & Ties
Top 20 Entrants: 18

Last Five Winners of The PLAYERS

Expected Cut-Line at The PLAYERS

TPC Sawgrass

7,266 Yards - Par 72 - Greens Bermuda (Overseeded Grass)

You can find my premium course breakdown in my premium DraftKings article this week. 

You can find Todd Mcgill's free breakdown here

First Look Into Outright Bets

Fantasy Golf Lineup Picks for DraftKings (PGA DFS)

We have tons of great weekly PGA articles, DFS analysis, tools, and DFS advice. Be sure to read our other fantastic articles regarding this week's event.

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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

— Spencer Aguiar (@TeeOffSports) November 21, 2023

Favorite Targets Early On Monday

Collin Morikawa ($10,500)

I had this conversation last week about the public's perception of a player's win equity and how that correlates to ownership and value in the outright market. Those two points aren't always directly connected for DFS since a cheap enough price tag oftentimes allows someone to take a shot at a golfer's overall safety. However, many of these higher-end names can suffer from recency bias when we have gone through extended periods of time without them getting across the finish line.

Almost every golfer who has ever played the game at this level has hit a drought at some point. It doesn't mean that the depletion of victory-laced effects stems solely from bad luck or poor play when it occurs. Still, my model tends to like this route of quality play not getting rewarded with an ultimate upside return because winning a golf tournament takes both answers of good play and lucky outcomes in nature to capture the title.

Over my two-year running model of Strokes Gained: Total, here would be the top five performers in my sheet and their number of worldwide wins since Morikawa's last victory:

Two of the questions I want you to ask yourself would be:

1. Does your opinion change when you realize not every course is as ideally suited for a golfer as the next?
2. Let's remove Morikawa from the equation. Should Scheffler have eight more worldwide wins than Xander in 1.5 years after averaging just 0.36 strokes better per round than Xander?

I understand that certain golfers handle pressure better than others. We see that every week with Scheffler. However, being in contention often does eventually breed a victory from just the sheer fact of being there every week.

My model graded Morikawa as highly as it ever has at the PLAYERS, and perhaps this is the week he can get the monkey off his back and re-enter the winner's circle.

Russell Henley ($9,500)

I haven't updated the week's ownership yet. That said, it will be an interesting case study of what the public will do about a golfer who checks out as a data darling and won again last week but experiences a heightened price tag over his general going rate.

I am hoping that the increased salary will influence the public's opinion since my model continues to love Henley's statistical profile as a legitimate top-10 golfer in the world.

My numbers graded Henley as one of only three golfers to grade inside the top 25 of all seven metrics I weighed, including ranking as the number one choice three times. The only other two golfers to accomplish that top 25 answer would be Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa. 

$5,000 Dumpster Dive At Less Than 5% Ownership

Andrew Putnam ($5,500)

When you take shots at the bottom of the board in a contrarian sense, you are always looking for 2-3 things you can hang your hat on that most gamers may be ignoring.

Some of the Weighted Ball-Striking marks will leave a little to be desired for a golfer who has missed four of five cuts at TPC Sawgrass and never finished better than 53rd. However, I am a massive believer in trusting current form over course history, especially when it is accompanied by a volatile tournament and a data profile that believes a player to be a top 40 fit for the venue.

When we examine Putnam's season more closely, we see a very respectable output, including four top-32 finishes through six tournaments.

That alone wouldn't make Putnam worthy of a play if the data didn't join the fray, but the American delivered three high-end returns in my sheet that I decided to examine a little further as one-off grades.

If I shrunk my model down to only include those three categories (not something I advise), he would rank below only Henley, Scheffler and Morikawa this week when taking a cumulative total.

Also, if you are concerned with the course history, I mapped out where my model had him during each recent iteration.

The -120s to make the cut out there are intriguing, as well as the top-40 totals at +200 or top-20 marks at +600.

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