PGA GPP Breakdown: Waste Management Phoenix Open
Top-ranked grinder, STLCardinals84, will break down his top GPP golf targets for the coming week’s tournament, going over his favorite plays at various price ranges. Who better than PGA DFS master, STLCards, to help you on your way?
Phoenix Open
Welcome back, Grinders! We have a fun tournament in the desert this week, as the always popular Waste Management Phoenix Open rolls into Arizona at TPC Scottsdale. We have just one course in use for this tournament, which means we will have ShotLink for the full tournament for the first time in a few weeks. Hurrah for wasted time and rage tilting!
As for the tournament, it will be contested on a course that is a moderately long par 71 layout that does allow players to be aggressive with the driver. This is most definitely a tee to green golf course, and a premier short game does not seem to be 100% mandatory for success. The occasionally wayward putter is very much capable of winning here. Hideki Matsuyama won this event two years in a row before withdrawing last year. Webb Simpson had good results here even before he became a better putter. Successfully getting on the green in regulation and giving yourself birdie opportunities is what matters, and the tee to green specialists will do that plenty often. I will be looking at all tee to green data as the statistics to look at for this event, with driving distance, total driving, strokes gained off the tee, and ball striking being the primary measures I am looking at. If you’re not a good ball striker, you simply don’t land on my list for this event.
Now it’s time to get to some GPP picks!
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