RBC Heritage: Player Pool
Has Meredith gone into labor yet?
No, but seriously… has Meredith gone into labor yet? Someone please get Scottie out of this field. I can’t keep doing this.
At least Zurich should be fun next week.
Which is also a new world record - I am already on to next week before the current tournament has even started.
Harbour Town is such an incredible track. It’s my favorite non-major course because it’s so technical and the views are absolutely breathtaking. It’s short, but distance doesn’t matter at all here. You have to be accurate, find the fairway, and know how to play angles.
I’m leaning heavy into accurate players that are elite ball strikers and plus putters (all things considered) and we’ll have to make some bargain shopping work to get the rest of our lineup to cooperate.
Of course it’s Scottie who has almost doubled up the field at this point. It’s ridiculous. If he’s in a field, Draft Kings at this point should just lock him into every lineup and make us pick 5 or 6 different golfers. Whatever. He’s mega chalk again and you should probably play him. I don’t know any more. SERIOUSLY, IS MEREDITH HAVING THE BABY YET???
Lowry is gonna be decently chalky - probably a top 5 clicked guy. But… I don’t really have much bad to say about him. He should be solid.
I like both Akshay & Si Woo. The latter is going to be mid to high teens and I expect him to spike further being an optimizer darling. Akshay is going to be mid to high single digits and I think that’s perfectly fine.
I’m guessing guys like Cam Young, Wyndham, Rory & Conners will club down and improve their accuracy numbers since they have the type of length to put the ball where they want with long irons & shorter woods. So they’re fine.
I really like Taylor Moore again. A solid showing for us at Augusta last week, he’s plus across the board in recent performances, has a very accessible salary and is high single digits and may creep into low double digits, but I think that’s fine. I think some of the players in his range like Cam Davis, Bezuidenhout & Poston will siphon away some of his clicks or at least keep them in check.
Not huge on Mackenzie Hughes this week, despite his score.
Glover will likely be chalky, but good course fit.
Henley will be chalk, for sure, but again - solid course fit.
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The more volatile group of players here, but will be necessary to find value.
Hoge has been awful at this course. However - he’s coming in under 10%, I believe, but it’s close and his accuracy is solid enough and his iron game has been fantastic and he’s a good putter. I’m fine playing him.
Homa likely steams some from his performance last week. Seems like his game is picking up traction.
Harman has been a course horse here and will likely rebound from a disastrous appearance at Augusta.
Tommy Fleetwood is going to be insanely popular here and for good reason. I’m probably out just based on clicks, but it depends on the rest of your roster build and if you decide to skip the $10K range entirely.
I really like Collin here, although he only has one top 10 at Harbour Town. Still, when he’s on, what he does really well is an exact fit for this course.
Fitzpatrick is your reigning champion and he absolutely loves this place.
Andrew Putnam has horrendous course history, but his game is in good shape heading into this week. 8/10 in made cuts this year and the only two MC’s were by one strike.
A lot of people will play Pat Cantlay because he’s awesome at this course. I probably will avoid him, but I’ve also never tripped over myself to play him.
Lee Hodges should be fine here.
Brice Garnett is minimum priced, from South Carolina, has won this year and is deadly accurate with a decent enough putter! Why not? I think he makes a lot of sense!
Sepp & Kitayama should be fine if you need to fit them in.
Good luck, let’s get 6/6 through!