PGA DFS Tournament Breakdown: Austin Championship
Long-time grinder, stlcardinals84, breaks down his top PGA DFS tournament picks in various price ranges on DraftKings & FanDuel for the Austin Championship. Which golfers should you be targeting to try and take down the big DFS tournaments? Find out below!
Welcome to the second full week of November! We have an intriguing new event on the calendar this week with the Austin Championship in… you guessed it – Austin, Texas! We haven’t seen a PGA TOUR event in Austin for over 3 years since the Match Play event was discontinued. We have just two weeks remaining before the winter break, so let’s try to make them count!
The host course for this new event is a Tom Fazio design called Fazio Canyons. It will be a stock par-72 layout that stretches to over 7,400 yards from the tips. A blend of distance and accuracy seems to be the way to succeed here, but of course we are all flying blind until we see some data. I’ll lean on the strong ball strikers and golfers in good fall form given the lack of course history here.
Let’s check out some of my favorite tournament options!
PGA DFS Picks: DraftKings & FanDuel Tournament Breakdown for the Austin Championship
Blades Brown
DraftKings: $9,900
FanDuel: $11,900
Blades Brown is one of the best young golfers on the PGA TOUR, and it is absolutely no surprise that he grabbed a win last week in a fun playoff finish over Ben James. Ironically, I wrote this about Brown in last week’s article:
Over his 33 measured ShotLink rounds this year, he ranks 2nd in this field in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green, behind only Ben James.
Lo and behold, those ended up being the top 2 golfers last week. Sometimes, it’s best to not overthink things. Brown’s metrics are still fantastic across the board, and at his age I don’t expect him to get complacent after a victory. He now has 7 top-20 finishes in his last 8 PGA TOUR starts, which is a ridiculous level of play for a 19-year-old. I expect him to continue the momentum in another weak field event, and he’s my favorite high-end golfer to target.
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