PGA DFS GPP Breakdown: Memorial Tournament
Top-ranked grinder, STLCardinals84, will break down his top PGA DFS picks in various price ranges for this week’s tournament. Which golfers should you be targeting to try and take down the big DFS tournaments? Find out below.
Welcome back to another week of DFS golf! This week marks an exciting spot on the calendar, as Muirfield Village in Dublin, OH will host the annual Memorial Tournament. While this tournament has been around for a long time, we need to at least offer some pause when looking at course history. After the 2020 edition of this tournament, Muirfield Village was almost completely overhauled. New bentgrass surfaces were installed on tees, fairways, and greens. Several holes were lengthened. Green contours were changed. For a complete listing of the changes that were done, check out this guide that was given to caddies and players.
As for the course, while Muirfield Village is a par 72, it generally sets up as a second shot golf course. The bigger hitters will have an advantage on the four par fives, but a lot of the other holes mitigate the advantage of distance. As such, I will be focusing on ball striking and approach play, as usual. It is very important to stay below the hole on a lot of the pin locations that are used. Sometimes it is better to be 30 feet short than 15 feet past the hole, and that will be even more of a factor with trickier pins in use. While approach play is paramount, I will take par-five scoring into consideration, as scoring is a necessity on those easier holes. Distance also maybe gets a little bit of a bump with the recent course changes.
This will be yet another challenging course, as the cut line has come in at two over par in each of the editions that have been played since the 2020 renovation. Bogey avoidance gets a bump in the statistical rankings as a result of this.
With the general information out of the way, let’s take a look at some of my favorite GPP plays for the week!
PGA DFS Picks: DraftKings & FanDuel GPP Breakdown for the Memorial Tournament
Patrick Cantlay
DraftKings: $10,500
FanDuel: $11,800
Yahoo: $47
Scottie Scheffler needs no explanation at this point, as he is clearly the class of the PGA Tour at the moment. You can obviously start your lineups with him if you desire, but I’ll highlight Cantlay here. His game caters well to difficult courses, and he has finished inside the top five in four of the last five editions of this event. He has gained a whopping 63 strokes on the field in those starts. He leads this field in strokes gained off the tee over the last 24 rounds, and he ranks second in ball striking to only the aforementioned Scheffler.
