PGA DFS GPP Breakdown: The PLAYERS Championship

Top-ranked grinder, STLCardinals84, will break down his top GPP golf targets for the coming week’s tournament, going over his favorite plays at various price ranges. Who better than PGA DFS master, STLCards, to help you on your way?

The PLAYERS Championship

Hey, Grinders! Welcome to the GPP breakdown for The PLAYERS Championship. This tournament is commonly known as the ‘fifth major’ — but remember that it is now the first one to be played each year. With the PGA Tour schedule changes that were enacted a few years back, this tournament got moved from May to March. There will be shot by shot video available for every shot of the tournament, so the coverage of this event cannot be topped. It should be a fantastic week!

As usual, TPC Sawgrass will be the host venue. In general, ball striking is the name of the game here, as is often the case with “major championship” venues. Sawgrass is a relatively short par 72 course by today’s PGA Tour standards, but it will play a bit longer than usual thanks to the cooler March weather. In fact, after rain moves through on Thursday and Friday, high temperatures on Saturday are not expected to get out of the 50’s. The prevailing wind generally blows in a different direction at TPC Sawgrass in March than it does in May, so we can’t take pre-2019 history as gospel with the calendar change. In particular, the iconic par three 17th will generally play into the wind in March. There will be plenty of splash down water balls as we go throughout the weekend, and that will be very interesting come Sunday afternoon (or Monday should the weather cause lengthy delays).

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Justin Van Zuiden (aka stlcardinals84) is a longtime RotoGrinders contributor and show host. He’s appeared in numerous Live Finals, has logged countless 6-figure wins in a host of different sports (including 5 in PGA), and is a former DFS Writer of the Year Nominee by the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. You can find Justin’s ‘Covering The Bases’ series on weekends during the MLB season. He is also a main contributor of sports betting picks at our sister site, ScoresAndOdds, and is a co-host on the RotoGrinders Game Night show on SiriusXM. Follow Justin on Twitter – @stlcardinals84