DraftKings PGA DFS Lineup Picks - The Valero Texas Open Advice With Patrick Cantlay, Denny McCarthy and More (2025)

Welcome everyone to my DraftKings PGA DFS lineup picks and advice for the 2025 Valero Texas Open. I'll be providing DFS picks and analysis to help you set those winning DraftKings lineups.

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PGA DFS Rankings Wizard - The Valero Texas Open

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• The Valero Texas Open

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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Let's Look at the Stats

Field

Field Size: 147
Cut: Top 65 & Ties
Top 20 Entrants: 3

Last Five Winners of The Valero Texas Open

Expected Cut-Line at The Texas Children's Open

TPC San Antonio

7,435 Yards - Par 72 - Bermuda Greens (Overseeded With Bent/Poa)

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)

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Final 2023 Golf Betting Results:
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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)

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Favorite Targets Early On Monday

Patrick Cantlay ($10,200)

Some things never change. If there is a golfer who makes my outright card more than anyone on tour, it would be Patrick Cantlay.

We have seen that with me betting him to win a golf tournament 28 times since 2018 (29 if you count this week), with 27 of those outcomes landing as a failed experiment if we are talking about just the pure result of it being a win or a loss.

While that answer is going to spook anyone who sees another Cantlay discussion inside an article, including two times already this year, I do want to show that Cantlay is still a positive performer for me in the outright market because of the one victory I was able to secure on him at the BMW Championship during his last win on tour in 2022.

Now, I understand that the price at which we are grabbing him does make a significant difference. However, the more considerable note to this is that most of Cantlay's eventual wins or even the moments when I have decided to back him incorrectly have landed under one of two pretenses.

1. Strong around-the-green corollaries that suit his game for extended upside
2. TPC properties (that seem to be an ideal fit) because of what they do to his Expected Driving return within my model

That second point of the driver is something that shows front and center in my model when we dive into Cantlay climbing from 42nd over the last two years in this field for actual performance versus a 12th-place projection that sees him soar as high as second when we look into primarily TPC properties.

Add all of that to his quietly impressive 2025 campaign, which has him averaging 3.4 strokes per start with his irons over his last four attempts, and you get a golfer that the public always dismisses because of his failure in big moments in the previous three years.

Does that equate to a victory? Not necessarily...although I hope, at a bare minimum, we can get a buy-low spot on him at a heightened price for DFS purposes and can find leverage over the field on a golfer with a built-in floor for success at similar designs.

Denny McCarthy ($9,000)

While you don't quite reach elite status with Denny McCarthy on how he comps off the tee and approach for TPC San Antonio, you do receive a substantial improvement in his projection this week versus his baseline production elsewhere.

McCarthy climbed nearly 25 spots in expectation with his driver at the facility, and he graded as one of only three players to crack the top 35 in Weighted Proximity, Weighted Around The Green and Weighted Putting. The other two names were Eric Cole and Justin Rose.

McCarthy suffered heartbreak at this event last season after firing a back-nine 28 to get himself into a playoff but couldn't beat an injured Akshay Bhatia after McCarthy chunked a wedge into the water on the first playoff hole on Sunday.

Here is an image of Bhatia throwing his shoulder out during his celebration.

Sam Stevens ($8,000)

Of all the golfers with a $8,000+ price tag on the slate, my model thought Sam Stevens was the most mispriced option of the week.

Stevens has been stellar here in the past, producing back-to-back top-14 finishes, and the long-term data shows a profile of someone who tends to thrive at these longer setups.

Even though I didn't get to Stevens in the outright market, I found different areas to back him outside DFS, including as a head-to-head wager.

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