PGA DFS Core Plays: Charles Schwab Challenge
Top-ranked DFS player, Notorious, breaks down his favorite PGA DFS picks at various price ranges for this week’s tournament. Who should you be building lineups around? Find out below!
PGA DFS Picks: DraftKings & FanDuel Core Plays for the Charles Schwab Challenge
While I had a lot of the right pieces last week at the PGA Championship, I made the mistake of targeting Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau over Scottie Scheffler. In his second straight event, Scheffler ran away from the field on Sunday. He has now won his last 2 events by 13 strokes combined. He picked up his third major victory and is now 2 wins away from the career grand slam (he needs to win the Open and the U.S. Open). How cool would it be if McIlroy and Scheffler both completed the career grand slam in the same year?
We typically have a letdown in the schedule after a major, but we actually have some fun events coming up. Over the next 3 weeks, we have the Charles Schwab Challenge, the Memorial Tournament, and the RBC Canadian Open. It does feel a bit strange going back to Texas after traveling all over the last few weeks, but I do love this event. We have a pretty strong field on tap this week, as Scheffler, Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood, and Daniel Berger are all set to tee it up in Fort Worth.
Editor’s Note: For more tournament and course notes for the Charles Schwab Challenge, check out this week’s PGA DFS First Look. To get access to Noto’s PGA DFS Model Breakdown & Download link, which allows you to create your own projections, click here.
Colonial Country Club underwent a restoration in 2023. All of the green complexes were moved and redone, the course was lengthened, and they added barrancas on about half of the holes. The course is a Par 70 that now measures 7,289 yards. This has always been one of the toughest stops on the PGA TOUR rotation and has ranked 5th, 9th, and 11th in difficulty over the last 3 years. The winning score typically ranges in the -10 to -15 range, so that gives us a good idea of what to expect this week.
This is a classical course with tree-lined fairways and plenty of doglegs. The fairways are narrow and difficult to hit on average. While this would usually lead us to believe it’s a less-than-driver course, the field hit driver on 65% of non-Par 3 tee shots last year. Golfers are getting more aggressive off the tee here each year. The greens are small and difficult to hit in regulation, which places an emphasis on Strokes Gained: Approach and Strokes Gained: Around the Green.
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Core Plays
Scottie Scheffler
DraftKings: $13,700 / pOWN%: 46%
FanDuel: $14,000 / pOWN%: 43%
Strokes Gained Off the Tee: 1
Strokes Gained Approach: 1
Strokes Gained Around the Green: 17
Strokes Gained Putting: 9
Birdie or Better %: 1
Bogey Avoidance: 1
This feels like a ‘fade Scheffler at your own risk’ type of week. He’s coming off back-to-back wins at THE CJ CUP and the PGA Championship. He’s gained 2.60 strokes per round in 2025, which is more than a shot better per round than the next closest in the field. He’s been the best tee-to-green golfer in the world over the last few years and has now gained strokes putting in 10 of his last 11 events. If you are worried about a hangover, he won the very next week (RBC Heritage in 2024) after winning his last major. He’s never won this event but has finished in the top 3 in each of the last 3 years.
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