DraftKings PGA DFS Lineup Picks - The Wyndham Championship Golf Advice (2023)

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PGA DFS Rankings Wizard - The Wyndham Championship

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• The Wyndham Championship

Vegas Report (All Pre-Tournament Bets)

• Top Pre-Tournament H2H Pick: (104-60-9) 63.41%
• All Pre-Tournament H2Hs: (234-174-23) 57.35%
• Total H2Hs Since 2017: (434-301-59) 59.05%
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Field

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

 

Last Five Winners Of The Wyndham Championship

2022	Tom Kim	-20
2021	Kevin Kisner	-15
2020	Jim Herman	-21
2019	J.T. Poston	-22
2018	Brandt Snedeker	-21

 

Expected Cut-Line

2022	0
2021	-2
2020	-2
2019	-3
2018	-2

 

Sedgefield Country Club

7,127 Yards - Par 70 - Greens Bermuda

Sedgefield Country Club was designed by Donald Ross in 1926 but was re-modeled and toughened in 2007 by Kris Spence. The venue should be considered a straightforward par 70 that measures 7,127 yards and will reward plodders who can find the fairway off the tee. The greens are typical of a Ross design, featuring small surfaces and undulation throughout the property, and three-putt avoidance does come into play because of the speedy nature of the complex.

Eight of the par-fours measure between 400-450 yards. That is a significant rate that explains the 8.2% increase the event experiences with iron shots between 125-175 yards. Birdie or better percentage will play a factor since the event routinely plays around 20-under par or better, but this is a ball-striking course that demands excellence in finding fairways off the tee above all else.

I do believe trying to find comp courses that stretch under 7,200 yards is worth measuring because it may give us a better idea of driving accuracy since the full spectrum of that answer generates a wonky dispersion in expectation. However, Sedgefield is one of those tracks that does produce rollover predictability when we look into its ranking as one of the 12 most consistent venues on tour in yearly performance.

Let's Look At The Stats

Stat	Sedgefield	PGA Average
Driving Distance	281	283
Driving Accuracy	62%	61%
GIR Percentage	72%	65%
Scrambling Percentage	58%	57%
Average Three-Putts Per Round	0.67	0.55

Key Stats 

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

Strokes Gained Donald Ross (10%)

 

Weighted Putting (10%)

 

Strokes Gained Total Easy Scoring (10%)

Weighted Strokes Gained Total (35%)

 

Strokes Gained Total Under 7,200 Yards (15%)

 

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

Golfer	Odds	Risk	Win
Ben Griffin	90	0.135	12.15
Alex Noren	80	0.15	12
Chris Kirk	50	0.145	7.25
Adam Hadwin	60	0.12	7.2
Taylor Pendrith	80	0.09	7.2
Eric Cole	70	0.1	7

 

Fantasy Golf Lineup Picks for DraftKings (PGA DFS)

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High-Priced DraftKings DFS Players 

***There are four 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.

I don't believe starting in the $10,000 section is necessary this week. I am curious to see where ownership lands on Hideki Matsuyama, Russell Henley and Sungjae Im because they would be my preferred three options to consider, but it will come down to an ownership game.

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End of the Season Totals: @rotoballer @BettorGolfPod

2017 +54.26 Units
2018 +55.88 Units
2019 +27.743 Units
2020 + 37.015 Units
2021 + 68.846 Units
2022 +67.485 Units

Total Winnings: +311.229 Units

Total Outright Wins Since 2017: 36

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Mid-Priced DraftKings DFS Players

$9,000 Range

Some of these smaller tournaments can possess weird boards. I tend to believe the best value in this event comes lower down the slate, but saving money is only worth so much if you have nowhere to use it. A lot of the week feels like that concept over and over again. I wouldn't be afraid to leave an inordinate amount of dollars on the table.

 

Mid-Priced DraftKings DFS Players

$8,000 Range 

Stephan Jaeger ($8,900) 

The year of middling finishes for Stephan Jaeger continued at the 3M Open, as the 34-year-old produced his 11th-straight made cut to stay barely inside the top 70 of the FedExCup standings. Regardless of his finish at the Wyndham Championship, it is doubtful Jaeger would slip out of the playoff picture for next week's event. However, a top finish would go a long way in keeping him in the season and potentially the top 50 of the BMW Championship in two weeks.

Most of those concepts are detrimental to any player on the bubble, but Jaeger's skillset is ready to pop in a big way one of these weeks. The German ranked eighth in my model for expected strokes gained total, including a 47-spot increase in projected putting. If that facet of his game does come to fruition, the ceiling is exceptionally high.

Chris Kirk ($8,200) 

Chris Kirk has one of the safest profiles this week because he combines course history, form and stats better than most in the field. The American hasn't missed a cut at this event since 2012 (six straight attempts) and places inside the top five of my model for weighted strokes gained total, Donald Ross history and par-four scoring from 400-450 yards. That is a range that sees over 65% of the par-four locations.

Adam Hadwin ($8,000) 

It looks as if Adam Hadwin will be more popular than you would have thought for a golfer who has missed back-to-back cuts. I would monitor that situation closely because there is no point in using the Canadian if it turns into chalk-central, but I have no issues with his current 12.5%-13.5% mark.

Hadwin placed fourth in my model for weighted strokes gained total and seventh for weighted scoring, making him one of five golfers in that area for both categories. For transparency, the other four were Sungjae Im, Stephan Jaeger, Eric Cole and Hideki Matsuyama.

 

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

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Here are the top players from the $7,000s

Ben Griffin ($7,200) 

If you have access to BetOnline, I will be playing Ben Griffin -115 over Sam Stevens.

Consider this a bonus head-to-head pick that I usually don't include in my DraftKings article.

Stevens seems to lose some of his value because of the 2.6% reduction in proximity 175+ yards, adding to an already questionable return he is experiencing from under 7,200 yards. We can get more into that play in my Vegas Report + podcasts, but Griffin is a golfer I am going to be backing in a lot of iterations of the market because of his stellar top-to-bottom portfolio this week.

Alex Noren ($7,300) 

I am okay with most of the names in the chart above. We will see where ownership lands, but Eric Cole ($7,700), Taylor Pendrith ($7,500), Chesson Hadley ($7,000), Davis Riley ($7,100), Andrew Putnam ($7,200) and Billy Horschel ($7,600) are all options that I am including into my player pool on Monday afternoon. We would be here all day if I did individual posts on each golfer, but I will be backing each name if their ownership stays anywhere near where we have it.

I am not sure what else there is to say about Alex Noren since I can't seem to get him out of my player pool weekly, but this is the highest my model has been on him because of the massive increase he experiences in proximity from 125-175 yards.

If it doesn't work here, the only positive is that he can't derail my FedExCup run by not being in the field. I understand the trepidation for all the times Noren has burned us in the past, but value is value on a golfer that graded ideally for Sedgefield.

Once again, including Eric Cole ($7,700), Taylor Pendrith ($7,500), Chesson Hadley ($7,000), Davis Riley ($7,100), Andrew Putnam ($7,200) and Billy Horschel ($7,600) as early options I am using. 

 

Sub-$6,000 Options To Consider

We will dive deeper into this section later in the week.

 

 

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