3 days agoRight now, Maverick McNealy is on the outside looking in at a spot in the Tour Championship, as he sits in 31st position in the standings. With only needing to gain one spot over the next two weeks, McNealy has a great chance to take his first trip
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3 days agoKeith Mitchell starts the FedEx Cup playoffs in the 37th spot in the rankings, just seven spots out of a spot in the Tour Championship. Getting into the final event of the season will take a couple of good weeks, and that starts in Memphis at TPC Southwind. In his career, Mitchell is still looking for a breakout performance at TPC Southwind. Mitchell has two top-40 finishes in his career at the course in his only two starts. The reason for this could be his approach inconsistency. Once again, Mitchell finds himself outside the top 100 in strokes gained on approach, but he has made a massive improvement from last season. In 2020-21, Mitchell ranked 164th on tour in strokes gained on approach. This season, Mitchell sits 128th. Last week, Mitchell hit over 80% of greens, which he will need to do again this week. However, at his DFS price, anything better than a made cut will pay off for Mitchell.
--Kasey Kuhrts - RotoBallerSource: PGA Tour
3 days agoCorey Conners comes into TPC Southwind off back-to-back top-30 finishes at The Open Championship and the Wyndham Championship. He also finds himself 29th in the FedEx Cup standings, which is just inside the Tour Championship threshold, so Conners has something to play for this week. TPC Southwind should be a course Conners can perform well at due to his approach game. Conners sits fourth in greens in regulation percentage this season, as well as 21st in strokes gained on approach. With those stats, it's surprising for Conners to not have had a big performance at the event before. With three straight top-36 finishes at TPC Southwind, this could be the year for the breakout. In DFS, Conners has elite value with his cheap price, and ability to easily pull a top-20, or better, this week.
--Kasey Kuhrts - RotoBallerSource: PGA Tour
3 days agoMax Homa has had a strong 2022. He won the Wells Fargo in impressive fashion and has contended in a number of other events. While he does not have excellent course history at TPC Southwind, his game fits here. Homa is a leader in the field in strokes gained approach and off-the-tee. He will look to utilize those strengths this week. He currently is not projected to be highly owned and makes for a great GPP option.
--Rob Giltner - RotoBallerSource: PGA Tour
3 days agoCameron Young has recently been rumored to be interested in the LIV tour. Whether or not he leaves the PGA Tour remains to be seen, but what is for certain is how well he has been playing. Young arrives in Memphis off two straight second-place finishes. The first came at The Open. At St. Andrews, Young briefly tied the lead on the 18th hole with an eagle. He then backed that up with a strong performance at The Rocket Mortgage. Young has the tools to play well in Memphis and must be considered.
--Rob Giltner - RotoBallerSource: PGA Tour
3 days agoWebb Simpson arrives in a familiar place in TPC Southwind. Simpson has recorded three straight top 15 place finishes in as many starts at this event. His best finish was second place in 2019. Simpson will try to lean on past experience to find form as he has struggled as of late. In his last three starts, he has two missed cuts and a 69th place finish. If he expects to contend this week he must improve his ball-striking. Simpson has lost strokes on approach in his last two starts. Due to his form, Simpson is one to avoid this week.
--Rob Giltner - RotoBallerSource: PGA Tour
4 days agoAfter winning his first PGA Tour event last week, Tom Kim has secured himself a spot in the playoffs and as a regular tour member for the foreseeable future. His accuracy off the tee will once again come to his aid at a course with penal Bermuda rough. Although he did most of his damage with the putter last week, we can expect the South Korean sensation to continue displaying superior approach play. If he can handle the off-course obligations of winning last week's Wyndham, he stands a fantastic chance to contend again this week.
--Byron LindequeSource: PGA Tour
4 days agoAfter rattling off three top-10 finishes in four starts, Denny McCarthy has missed three of his last four cuts. His putter and around-the-green game have betrayed him in the majority of those missed cuts, which are both areas of his game that he typically relies on. McCarthy will be looking to bounce back at a venue that should suit his style of play quite well. If he can resort back to being accurate off the tee and gaining his status quo of 0.5 strokes gained in the short-game department, he may find himself back inside the top 10 again.
--Byron LindequeSource: PGA Tour
4 days agoAfter an incredible run of approach play in the first half of the year, Aaron Wise has lost strokes on approach in three of his last four starts. At a course that emphasizes the importance of approach play, Wise enters the week with skeptical form in that department. He has been driving the ball with phenomenal consistency, morphing distance and accuracy into perennially prolific results off the tee. His broomstick putter has flashed upside as much as it has disappointed, which leaves Wise backers wondering what kind of performance can be expected this week.
--Byron LindequeSource: PGA Tour
4 days agoSam Burns returns to TPC Southwind where he lost in a playoff last year. Since the US Open, Burns has averaged -0.23 strokes off the tee in 14 rounds. What appears to be a concern, may not be that big of an issue as he lost -2.77 strokes off the tee here last year, salvaging a poor ball striking performance with a typical red-hot putter. Burns has averaged +1.02 strokes putting in his last 42 rounds and will look to continue sinking putts with regularity this week on his best putting surface.
--Byron LindequeSource: PGA Tour
4 days agoWith speculation of Cameron Smith's departure to LIV reaching fever pitch, the Australian remains focused on winning the FedEx Cup Playoffs, refusing to comment on his imminent departure from the tour. His new driver and shot shape have shown signs of promise recently, gaining off the tee in seven of his last eight starts. He has averaged +0.84 strokes putting in his 42 rounds this season and will look to continue his success on the TPC Southwind greens. After gaining +9.7 strokes at the PGA Championship, his approach over the last 18 rounds has been relatively poor. If he can get his irons firing again, he stands a fantastic chance to win his fourth event of the year.
--Byron LindequeSource: PGA Tour
4 days agoJon Rahm has lost strokes off the tee in two of his last four starts. Incredibly, these are the only two times he has lost strokes off the tee on the PGA Tour since the 2019 Tour Championship. He should continue to dominate with his driver this week with hopes that the rest of his game can return to the exceptional levels we have seen from him in the past. Rahm has finished seventh and T52 in his two appearances at TPC Southwind, gaining +5.2 strokes putting in round four of his seventh-place finish in 2019. Although his floor remains exceptionally high, his relative upside is questionable this week.
--Byron LindequeSource: PGA Tour
4 days agoSungjae Im enters the week with back-to-back second-place finishes, losing over two strokes putting both Sundays he was in contention. Even with those two abysmal putting performances, he has still gained a stroke per round on the greens in his last duo of starts. His ball-striking has been steady enough to have gained total strokes on the field in his last eight rounds. Im is primed to best his T35 and T46 finishes at TPC Southwind and should find himself in contention once again this week.
--Byron LindequeSource: PGA Tour
4 days agoTyrrell Hatton has only lost strokes on approach in one of his last dozen rounds, averaging 0.91 strokes gained over that period. His stellar iron play has resulted in finishes of T24, T11 and T8 in his last three starts. The rest of Hatton's game is also starting to round out nicely, as he has gained strokes in all three other major stat categories since the Scottish Open. His best finish at TPC Southwind is a T17, which might be topped this week if he continues his recent form into the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
--Byron LindequeSource: PGA Tour
4 days agoWill Zalatoris will look to follow up his eighth-place finish in the 2021 FedEx St. Jude with a better finish this season. Zalatoris is comfortably inside the Tour Championship threshold but does still have some work to do to get into the top-10. Across the board, Zalatoris is one of the most consistent players on the PGA Tour. In the six major strokes-gained categories, Zalatoris sits inside the top-11 in four of them, and is only outside the top-70 in one stat, putting. As it always is, the putter is the only thing holding Zalatoris back in taking over the PGA Tour. However, he gained .206 strokes on the greens last week, his best since the U.S. Open. If Zalatoris can keep that same stroke on the greens this week, he has a great chance to win in Memphis.
--Kasey Kuhrts - RotoBallerSource: PGA Tour
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