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. It feels a bit weird now that we just had an “elevated event” with a very similar field a week ago, but hopefully the drama can live up to what we saw with last week’s thrilling finish. Congratulations to Kurt Kitayama for keeping his composure down the stretch and picking up a win while other bigger names struggled on the back nine.
As we turn our attention to a new week, TPC Sawgrass will be the host venue (as usual) for The PLAYERS. 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 it used to thanks to the cooler March weather. 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 plays 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.