3M Open: DraftKings + FanDuel PGA DFS Projections
Before we get into a preview of our DraftKings and FanDuel PGA DFS projections, let’s check out some of the tournaments across the industry. DraftKings has another Millionaire Maker in the lobby along with the Signature Hole ($555 buy-in with $200,000 to first) and the Drive the Green ($5 buy-in with $100,000 to first). My personal favorites are the single-entry GPPs, as you don’t have to compete with DFS players that are throwing 150 lineups into the tournament. FanDuel scaled back their contests this week and many have already filled. Luckily, they have added a few more tournaments to their lobby.
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Here is a summary of the content you will have at your disposal as a premium member for this week’s 3M Open:
- Drive for Show, DFS for Dough show on playback
- Consensus Value Rankings
- Expert Survey
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- Core, GPP, Value, and Conviction Plays
- Noto’s model breakdown video
- Noto’s PGA golf betting tips
- Noto’s showdown article and projections for rounds two, three, and four
- Full course breakdown with stats
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- Weekly Lineup Building show with ToeTagginTambo
- Weekly Lineup Review show with ToeTagginTambo
- Sunday showdown video with ToeTagginTambo
2020 3M Open PGA DFS Preview
After a brutal week at Muirfield Village, a birdie fest will be a welcome sight to many of the golfers and to many of the golf fans out there. The 3M Open was an event on the Champions Tour for many years, but graduated to a PGA Tour event last season. TPC Twin Cities is a Par 71 that will play over 7,400 yards this week. While that seems long, it should play quite easy. The fairways are wide, the greens are easy to hit, and we should see a winner around 20-under par. Diving into the statistics from last year’s 3M Open, it was all about ball striking. Around the green game had little to no impact on the leaderboard and even putting wasn’t that important. If you can gain strokes off the tee and on approach, you can contend at this event.
DraftKings + FanDuel PGA DFS Projections for the 3M Open
Tony Finau
DK: $10,900 — Proj: 84.6
FD: $11,600 — Proj: 92.9
At one point on the back nine on Saturday, it looked like Finau was going to run away with the Memorial Tournament. He held a four-shot lead and was in full control of his game. Unfortunately, he was four over on his last seven holes. Meanwhile, Jon Rahm was four under in his last seven holes. That eight shot swing gave Rahm a four-shot lead heading into Sunday and Finau just couldn’t recover. He really struggled on Sunday and fell down to eighth place. If you told Finau he’d be top 10 at the start of the week, he probably would have been happy. It’s just wild how expectations change our opinion of a result after the fact. Anyway, Finau is best on bentgrass greens and he should really like the course in Minnesota this week. It’s a bomber’s and ball striker’s paradise. He has a real chance to win this week and is the top projected golfer in our model here at RotoGrinders.
Lucas Glover
DK: $9,400 — Proj: 81.4
FD: $10,600 — Proj: 86.7
We’ve seen a lot of boom and bust performances from golfers since the restart. Very few have been able to post consistent finish after consistent finish, but Glover is one of them. He has played in five events and has yet to finish worse than T38. The most impressive part has been his ball striking during that stretch: +7.4, +4.7, +5.6, +9.3, and +2.3. As noted above, this course favors ball strikers and tends to equalize the short game a little bit. The story of the week will be how many birdie opportunities golfers can create for themselves and Glover has been one of the best at that since the restart. The cherry on top is that Glover played in this event last season and finished in the top 10.
Cameron Tringale
Tringale should fly under the radar this week, even though he rates out as one of the top value plays in our projections here at RotoGrinders. He’s not the longest off the tee, but can gain strokes with his accuracy. He’s one of the better iron players in this field, ranking ninth in strokes gained approach over the last 50 rounds. He hasn’t been great since the restart, making one of three cuts with a T30 finish, but I’m not overly concerned. He now gets to play in a much weaker field and he should be well rested after taking last week off. He played here last year and posted a T42 finish, so he should have some good vibes heading back to Minnesota.
DK: $7,200 — Proj: 72.9
Branden Grace
FD: $7,000 — Proj: 63.5
Grace was a late add to the field this week and didn’t have outright odds posted at the time when salaries were released. Something tells me the pricing algorithm on FanDuel needs that outright number to come up with a proper price. Grace is priced at the bare-minimum this week, even though he’s now listed at 80-to-1 in some books and even though he’s the 79th ranked golfer in the world. If they re-ran salaries, he would likely be priced above $9,000. While he’s coming off of three straight missed cuts, those were quality fields and he actually gained 4.5 strokes on approach last week.
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