PGA DFS Expert Survey: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
Our panel of experts is here to give you their PGA DFS picks for this week’s contests by answering a handful of questions to help you make crucial lineup-building decisions. Want to know who Noto has as the top three finishers? Or who is STLCards’ top overall golfer? Find out below!
PGA DFS Picks: DraftKings & FanDuel Expert Survey for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
Who is your favorite golfer for cash games?
Notorious: Xander Schauffele
STLCardinals84: Xander Schauffele
hondizzle: Jason Day
Which useful trend or statistic stuck out most during your research?
Notorious: Pebble Beach is more of a second-shot golf course. It’s a very short Par 72, and many of the holes have forced lay-ups off the tee. The average driving distance here is lower than anywhere else on the PGA TOUR. This essentially makes driver a lot less important than most weeks. Pebble also has the smallest greens on the PGA TOUR, so scrambling often comes into play. I’m looking for golfers that can keep it in the fairway, hit their irons well, scramble with the best of them, and make a few putts on poa annua greens.
STLCardinals84: We are seeing a different format with this event for 2024. It is now a signature event with a much stronger field and a no-cut format, and only two courses will be used (for the first two rounds). Therefore, golfers will be playing Pebble Beach itself for three of their four rounds. It’s worth noting that Pebble Beach is a course that is very susceptible to the wind, so we will need to keep a close eye on the weather forecast. The other course (Spyglass Hill) is more tree-lined and is less susceptible to the wind. For full-week contests, if the wind looks to be worse on one of the first two days, you’ll want to prioritize golfers that play Spyglass Hill on the windier day. For Showdown contests, we might even see an edge for specific tee times over the course of a day, especially on the final day, where wind is expected to be a factor.
hondizzle: One of the most recognizable TOUR stops gets a major facelift, as the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am gets ready to host the first signature event of the season. Instead of a full field competing through a long, 3-day grind with amateur partners over three different courses, this year’s event will feature 80 golfers with no cut. Golfers will play Spyglass Hill on day one and then Pebble Beach the rest of the way. Amateur golfers will only play the first two days. More Pebble Beach means you need to dive in a bit more to think about course fit. Look back at the 2019 U.S. Open to get a feel for how golfers have played Pebble Beach or just look at the final rounds of the last five seasons. Due to this being a new signature event, we see a lot of names in the field that would not normally play this tournament. Nine golfers priced above $8,000 on DK have not played in this event in the last five years.
Who is your top contrarian golfer (when considering price, key stats, projected ownership, etc.) on the board and why?
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