DraftKings PGA DFS Lineup Picks - The Farmers Insurance Open Golf Advice With Ludvig Aberg, Sungjae Im, Max Homa, Aaron Rai and Daniel Berger and More (2025)

January 21, 2025

Spencer's DraftKings PGA DFS lineup picks for the 2025 Farmers Insurance. His PGA DFS targets and value plays for daily fantasy golf lineups, and golfers to avoid.

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PGA DFS Rankings Wizard - The Farmers Insurance Open

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• The Farmers Insurance

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
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Field

Field Size: 156
Cut: Top-65 Ties
Top 20 Entrants: 5

Last Five Winners of the Farmers

Expected Cut-Line at the AMEX

Torrey Pines South + Torrey Pines North

We will dive deeper into the course inside of Discord this week!

Strokes Gained Dispersion Importance 

***These are the expected production rates for players that landed under each threshold.

Winners

OTT - 15.5%
APP - 40.5%
ATG  -11.5%
Putt - 32.5%

Top Five Performers

OTT - 14.2%
APP - 38.7%
ATG  - 15.1%
Putt - 32.5%

Top 10 Performers

OTT - 14.8%
APP - 38.9%
ATG  - 15.6%
Putt - 30.5%

Top 20 Performers

OTT - 13.8%
APP - 36.1%
ATG  - 16.6%
Putt - 33.5%

Cut Makers 

OTT - 12.7%
APP - 35.2%
ATG  - 16.1%
Putt - 36%

Miss Cut

OTT - 12.7%
APP - 35.2%
ATG  - 16.1%
Putt - 36%

If you want to make the cut, you increase your ATG + putting.

If you want to win this event, you ball-strike and stay somewhat okay with your short-game

Profiles That Most Closely Resemble That Of Past Winners

This doesn't mean these are the most likely players to win the title, but what it does suggest is that these players are most similar statistically to those who have won here in the past:

Let's Look at the Stats

Key Stats 

Let's quickly run through how I built my model.

Weighted Strokes Gained Total (30%)

Strokes Gained Total: Weighted T2G (10%)

Strokes Gained Total: Hard Scoring + Long Course (10%)

Distance + Long Iron Prox (10%)

North Scoring (20%)

Weighted Scoring (20%)

Total Number of Top-10's Out of the Six Categories: Two-Year Running Model

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First Look Into Outright Bets

Better Expected Weighted Form Versus Recent Form

(Players that are likely to be better for this property) - Only look at the top 50 projected players for either 'Overall' or 'Upside'

A handful of outright bets for me have made this list.

Worse Expected Weighted Form Versus Recent Form

Golfers to Land in the Top 6 of the Field for All Categories

Golfers to Land in the Top 35 of the Field for All Categories

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.

High-Priced DraftKings DFS Players 

***There are three players priced above $10,000. Please remember that my DFS article is always a first look at the field. Opinions might shift as the week goes on, and I am more than happy to discuss anyone further on Twitter/X.

I didn't get all the pieces correct last week up top since I played too much Tony Finau and faded Max Greyserman, but one area where I was correct was my overexposure to Justin Thomas and the general fade of Sungjae Im in the $10,000+ range. 

That answer isn't going to come to fruition this week since my model found playability for all four names in this section, with all golfers grading inside the top four of my model for upside. 

I have no reason to initially cut any of these four names. Aberg + Im will be where my early lean goes, but this strength will be one of the reasons I am not looking to throw a ton of darts in the outright market.

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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

Mid-Priced DraftKings DFS Players

$9,000 Range

This is another very strong range.

I am done with these strong stances against Max Greyserman when the putting continues to be world-class, but I wonder what my model would have thought if he didn't get a real boost of upside in his profile when faced with the North Course. That can quickly start to help anything that is more marginal elsewhere.

My initial thought is that I am lower on Sahith Theegala than the market, and a little higher when it comes to Shane Lowry's upside than the space. However, let's see where ownership lands. I don't have a massive take when all players outside of Theegala rank in the top-15 for safety.

Mid-Priced DraftKings DFS Players

$8,000 Range 

There isn't a more glaring disparity in my model for "Expected Form" versus "Current Form" than Max Homa. 

We see that with Homa ranking 126th in this field over his past 24 rounds in Strokes Gained Total against the second-place total that my model found for him when grading his outlook at Torrey Pines.

Homa looked impressive again at the Sentry from a ball-striking perspective, ranking first in this field when putting on Poa greens and third historically at similar courses.

I am still waiting to see how I want to round out my card between Homa, Rai, Aberg, Berger and Lowry, but fingers crossed that we get some weak matchups in the space to attack some of these edges with Homa, Rai and others.

Low-Priced DraftKings DFS Players to Consider ($7,000+)

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$6,000 Options to Consider

I noted this during the offseason, but no golfer saw a bigger increase in value from 2023 to 2024 than Erik Van Rooyen. 

It doesn't mean we have an elite golfer on our hands, but what it does suggest is that the market may still be too low on him.

Favorite Play Each Section (Monday):

$10,000+ - Ludvig Aberg/ Sungjae Im
$9,000+ - Neutral to most
$8,000+ - Max Homa/Aaron Rai
$7,000+ - Daniel Berger
$6,000+ - Erik Van Rooyen

Least Favorite Play Each Section (Monday):

***This still has time to change

$10,000+ - None - Tons of playability with all these names
$9,000+ - Sahith Theegala
$8,000+ -  Ben Griffin/Luke Clanton
$7,000+ - Henrik Norlander/Max McGreevy
$6,000+ - See Model

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