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DraftKings PGA DFS Lineup Picks - The Rocket Mortgage With Min Woo Lee, Taylor Pendrith, Aaron Rai, Maverick McNealy, Nicolai Hojgaard, Matt Wallace and More Golf Advice (2024)

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PGA DFS Rankings Wizard - The Rocket Mortgage

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  • The Rocket Mortgage

Vegas Report (All Pre-Tournament Bets)

  • Top Pre-Tournament H2H Pick: (104-60-9) 63.41%
  • All Pre-Tournament H2Hs: (265-194-25) 57.73%
  • Total H2Hs Since 2017: (518-361-71) 58.93%
  • Outright Winners Since 2017: 42
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Field

Field Size: 156
Cut: Top-65 & Ties
Top 20 Entrants: 1

 

Last Five Winners of the Rocket Mortgage

2023 Rickie Fowler -24
2022 Tony Finau -26
2021 Cam Davis -18
2020 Bryson DeChambeau -23
2019 Nate Lashley -25

 

Expected Cut-Line At The Rocket Mortgage

2023 -3
2022 -2
2021 -2
2020 -4
2019 -4


Detroit Golf Club

7,370 Yards - Par 702 - Greens Bent/Poa

We will go over the course on my podcasts this week!

 

Let's Look at the Stats

Stat Detroit Golf PGA Average
Driving Distance 296 283
Driving Accuracy 65% 61%
GIR Percentage 72% 65%
Scrambling Percentage 62% 57%
Average Three-Putts Per Round 0.52 0.55

 

Key Stats 

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

Weighted Strokes Gained: Total (30%)

 

Distance + All Proximity + Putting (Geared Toward Detroit Golf (10%)

 

Total Driving + Short Prox + Comp Putting (10%)

 

Strokes Gained: Total Easy Scoring (10%)

 

Strokes Gained Total: Donald Ross (10%)

 

Weighted Scoring (20%)

 

Expected Ball-Striking (10%)

 

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

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First Look Into Outright Bets

Player Odds Risk Win Book
Min Woo Lee 22 0.32 7.04 BetMGM
Nicolai Hojgaard 66 0.15 9.9 BetRivers
Taylor Pendrith 40 0.17 6.8 DraftKings
Taylor Montgomery 100 0.07 7 BetRivers

 

Golfers to Land in the Top 60 of the Field for All Categories

(Not a negative value over five spots off, Using Top 75 this week)

 

Fantasy Golf Lineup Picks for DraftKings (PGA DFS)

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High-Priced DraftKings DFS Players 

***There are six 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.

My biggest problem with Alex Noren and Cameron Young is their projected ownership and actual price tags. Both of their profiles have a certain built-in safety, but my model prefers the win equity marks from Tom Kim and Min Woo Lee.

Lee ranked second in my model for Distance + Proximity + Putting and also landed at the exact same total for Weighted Strokes Gained Total. When you add that to his stout Total Driving Expectation, you get a golfer who joined Kim with nine top 10 categories out of 14 chances between the two.

 

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Mid-Priced DraftKings DFS Players

$9,000 Range

I found this board straightforward in how I wanted to treat these opening two sections. If Kim and Lee are going to land as my higher-priced commodities, Taylor Pendrith is worth the chalk at his $9,600 price tag.

Pendrith has generated seven top-33 finishes over his past eight starts, posting a victory and four additional top-25 results during that run. While I realize a lot of that has been putter-heavy in its nature, there wasn't a golfer in my model who graded better on "Easy-Scoring Courses" or Recent Strokes Gained Total than the Canadian.

Pendrith's distance has helped him to post back-to-back top-15 finishes at this course during his only two attempts.

 

Mid-Priced DraftKings DFS Players

$8,000 Range 

There is a lot to like in this section. Most players graded as a neutral or better value when looking through the slate

I came very close to betting Maverick McNealy and Aaron Rai in the outright market but decided not to because of their lack of upside totals in my sheet. While that decision came because we can't have tickets on everyone in the field, each man looks like a legit top-five candidate to consider for DFS.

You can see their profiles inside of my model.

 

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

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The only reason Matt Wallace didn't make my outright card was because of his lengthy travel to get to Detroit Golf Club. Maybe that was too technical of a reason, but the price tag is substantially too cheap here for DFS. 

I had envisioned a different year for Nicolai Hojgaard entering 2024. Outside of his early-season top-10 showings at the Dubai Desert Classic and Farmers Insurance Open, there has yet to be a top-15 finish on his resume in 12 starts since that moment, including four missed cuts and an additional four finishes landing 50th or worse. 

I know all those reasons are going to discourage DFS players, but Hojgaard ranked first in this field when combining Distance, Proximity and Putting into one grade to fit the venue, and it also found an upside for him to use his length off the tee to overcome some of his recent questionable returns with the driver. 

The floor has problems, but I view this answer similarly to why I liked Wyndham Clark last week. 

 

$6,000 Options to Consider

If you could promise me Taylor Montgomery would enter the week healthy, he would be my locked-in choice for this section. I will just leave him as someone I am incredibly bullish on and way above public consensus, but I don't want to fall into the trap of recommending a player who might pull out of the event or might be rusty as my favorite play. 

Instead, I will go with Thorbjorn Olesen as my preferred DFS target to avoid that danger. Olesen has produced five made cuts during his past six events and landed 16th in this field for Total Driving + Short Proximity + Corollary Putting Courses.

 

$5,000 Options to Consider

I gave Carson Young -120 over Ben Silverman at BetOnline earlier. We have since moved that line out to -138, but I would guess the price comes back down at some point.

Youmg's profile isn't perfect, but there is a certain return that is interesting my model.

 

Favorite Play Each Section (Monday):

$10,000+ - Min Woo Lee/Tom Kim
$9,000+ - Taylor Pendrith
$8,000+ - Aaron Rai/Maverick McNealy
$7,000+ - Nicolai Hojgaard/Matt Wallace
$6,000+ - Thorbjorn Olesen
$5,000+ - Carson Young

 

Fade In Each Section (Monday):

$10,000+ - Alex Noren
$9,000+ - Will Zalatoris
$8,000+ - Robert Macintyre
$7,000+ - Erik Van Rooyen
$6,000+ - Cameron Champ/Ben Silverman
$5,000+ - Martin Laird (There are a ton of options to consider) - I just gave the most mis-priced one near the top



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