PGA DFS Core Plays: RBC Canadian Open
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 RBC Canadian Open
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m officially a member of Team Girl Dad. Our baby girl was born Saturday morning and is the cutest thing I have ever seen. She’s perfect. I’m hoping to bring some of that baby swag good luck to this week’s PGA TOUR event in Canada. It’s the week before a major, so we have a fairly weak field. However, the RBC Canadian Open never disappoints, and the course we have this week looks incredible. Let’s dive into the event.
The North Course at TPC Toronto is a Par 70 that measures 7,389 yards. It’s a long course when adjusted for par and could play quite difficult this week. When the PGA TOUR Americas hosted an event here last year, the winning score was only -5. This is obviously a much better field than we had for that event, but we can still expect the course to have some teeth. We’ve seen them trick up the courses for this event over the last few years.
Editor’s Note: For more tournament and course notes for the RBC Canadian Open, 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.
The fairways at TPC Toronto are much more generous than we are used to when it comes to a Par 70 on the PGA TOUR. They are 35-37 yards wide on average, so there’s plenty of room off the tee. Add in 3.75” thick rough, and good drivers of the ball will have a major advantage this week. The greens are fairly large as well, averaging 6,500 square feet. The greens will likely be tough to hit in regulation from the rough, so total driving is likely the best off-the-tee metric this week.
We don’t know exactly how this course is going to play, but this is a long Par 70 with extremely thick rough. I’m going to roll with the assumption that the course plays tough. When that happens, tee to green becomes even more important. We tend to see golfers who gain all of their strokes on the greens do better in pure birdie fests. In other words, don’t be afraid to target the ball strikers over the good putters this week.
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Core Plays
Corey Conners
DraftKings: $10,100 / pOWN%: 21%
FanDuel: $12,100 / pOWN%: 19%
Strokes Gained Off the Tee: 9
Strokes Gained Approach: 16
Strokes Gained Around the Green: 63
Strokes Gained Putting: 30
Birdie or Better %: 48
Bogey Avoidance: 47
Conners always plays his best golf in the spring and in the summer. We are in the midst of that stretch right now. While he can certainly compete in birdie fests, he tends to shine on difficult courses. This is because he’s one of the best ball strikers in the world. In general, the tougher the course, the more important tee-to-green play becomes. He offers a high floor/ceiling combo and will have the support of the Canadian crowd.
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