PGA First Look: Rio 2016

by Derek Farnsworth (Notorious) Last Updated 2016-08-11 14:28:14

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The PGA First Look is complete with a course preview, odds, salaries, Official World Golf Rankings, and course history.

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Travelers Championship Recap

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Russell Knox completed a nice comeback win on Sunday to claim his second win of the season, but the real story on Sunday was Jim Furyk. He shot a 12-under par round and became the first golfer in PGA Tour history to shoot a 58. He was dialed in all day and every single putt seemed to find the bottom of the cup. The craziest tidbit from last week was that Furyk and Daniel Berger ended up tying for fifth place, even though Furyk was 16 shots behind to start the final round.

Rio Olympics Preview

I was a little sad when I saw the focus for the week was going to be on the Olympics. I know that people love the Olympics and all, but there should be bigger contests for the actual PGA Tour event, which is the John Deere Classic. As a content provider, we need to follow the lead of DraftKings though, so most of our content will focus on the tournament in the Olympics. My hope is that DraftKings will see the demand for both tournaments and offer some larger GPPs for the John Deere in the next day or two.

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Now, onto the Olympics. Even though we are missing some of the top golfers in the world, this is still a star-studded field that should be a really fun event to watch. Hopefully, we can get better coverage than we did for the PGA Championship (where we couldn’t even see coverage of the first few hours of the final two rounds). None of the players in the field have ever seen or played this course because it was built specifically for the Olympics. There have been reports of massive rodents and snakes on the course, which should provide an added obstacle for the golfers this week.

The Olympic Golf Course is a Par 71 that measures 7,128 yards. Without a dive further into the course, you would expect there to be only three par fives on a Par 71, but that’s not the case. There are four par fives and five par threes. This course is short and it doesn’t feature a whole lot of trouble other than some native grassy areas. It should play more like a links style course and we could see some really low scores. It’s obviously anyone’s guess at this point, but don’t be surprised if the winning score is around 20-under par.

Cut Rule: With only 60 golfers in the field, there is no cut for the Olympics.

Recent Winners of this Event: It has been a while since golf was in the Olympics. We have to go all the way back to 1904 when George Lyon from Canada took home the gold medal.

Key Statistics

1) Strokes Gained: Tee to Green
2) Strokes Gained: Putting
3) Driving Distance
4) Birdie or Better %
5) Par 5 Scoring

Salaries, Odds, and Course History (2011-2015)

Golfer	Salary	S-Rank	Odds	O-Rank	+ / –	OWGR
Henrik Stenson	$12,400	1	5	1	0	5
Sergio Garcia	$11,900	2	7	2	0	11
Justin Rose	$11,500	3	11	3	0	12
Rickie Fowler	$10,900	4	13	4	0	8
Bubba Watson	$10,500	6	14	5	1	6
Patrick Reed	$10,700	5	15	6	-1	14
Matt Kuchar	$10,100	8	16	8	0	20
Martin Kaymer	$10,300	7	16	7	0	50
Emiliano Grillo	$9,600	10	25	10	0	39
Danny Willett	$9,900	9	23	9	0	9
Rafael Cabrera-Bello	$9,200	11	27	11	0	29
Byeong-Hun An	$8,800	12	39	12	0	35
Soren Kjeldsen	$8,500	14	48	14	0	44
David Lingmerth	$8,000	19	50	17	2	52
Thongchai Jaidee	$8,600	13	49	16	-3	43
Padraig Harrington	$7,700	23	42	13	10	128
Danny Lee	$8,400	15	48	15	0	45
Thomas Pieters	$8,100	18	52	18	0	64
Jhonattan Vegas	$8,300	16	52	19	-3	80
Joost Luiten	$7,500	25	63	22	3	66
Nicolas Colsaerts	$6,900	37	62	21	16	127
Graham DeLaet	$7,400	27	68	23	4	145
Bernd Wiesberger	$7,800	21	54	20	1	58
David Hearn	$7,400	27	70	25	2	139
Alex Cejka	$6,600	43	101	34	9	119
Gregory Bourdy	$7,000	35	73	26	9	107
Anirban Lahiri	$7,700	23	74	27	-4	69
Scott Hend	$7,800	21	81	28	-7	78
Kiradech Aphibarnrat	$8,200	17	69	24	-7	60
Mikko Ilonen	$7,100	33	89	30	3	237
Matteo Manassero	$7,200	31	83	29	2	338
Jaco Van Zyl	$7,900	20	91	31	-11	71
Ryan Fox	$6,400	47	101	35	12	156
Jeunghun Wang	$7,500	25	97	33	-8	75
Thorbjorn Olesen	$7,300	29	97	32	-3	68
Cheng-Tsung Pan	$6,600	43	113	36	7
Julien Quesne	$6,500	45	135	41	4	133
Fabian Gomez	$6,300	49	144	44	5	79
Fabrizio Zanotti	$6,800	39	129	39	0	153
Brandon Stone	$6,900	37	117	37	0	96
Wu Ashun	$7,100	33	133	40	-7	142
Ricardo Gouveia	$6,700	41	139	43	-2	131
Felipe Aguilar	$7,300	29	118	38	-9	265
Yuta Ikeda	$7,200	31	136	42	-11	95
Marcus Fraser	$6,700	41	154	45	-4	90
Adilson Da Silva	$6,100	53	183	47	6	288
Nino Bertasio	$7,000	35	199	48	-13	308
Hao-Tong Li	$6,800	39	174	46	-7	155
Seamus Power	$6,400	47	217	49	-2	295
Shingo Katayama	$5,700	58	231	51	7	124
Espen Kofstad	$6,300	49	226	50	-1	301
Wen-tang Lin	$6,000	55	264	54	1
Jose-Filipe Lima	$6,500	45	244	53	-8	405
Miguel Tabuena	$6,100	53	239	52	1	146
Gavin Green	$6,200	51	269	55	-4	289
Shiv Chawrasia	$5,500	60	277	57	3	229
Roope Kakko	$5,600	59	269	55	4	298
Siddikur Rahman	$5,800	57	286	58	-1	318
Rodolfo Cazaubon	$5,900	56	342	59	-3	381
Danny Chia	$6,200	51	389	60	-9	242

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