PGA Ownership Report: Genesis Open

by Sean O'Donnell (hokie2009) Last Updated 2017-02-20 04:46:48

Here’s the data for this week’s $3 Birdie at the Genesis Open!

Full field ownerships (for the $3, the $33, and cash games) can be found here!

And we have a co-ownerships matrix that shows who the highest owned pairs of golfers were in this week’s $3 Birdie:

Riviera CC has brought out not-quite-a-major but maybe the next best thing type of field! Let’s take a look at how everyone sliced up their picks!

Dustin Johnson (37% GPP, 62% Cash) – Dustin Johnson won the ownership battle for the high-priced guys this week. He was the capstone on the most GPP teams and the second most owned guy in cash games. So highly that he really cut into the ownerships, I believe, for Jordan Spieth. DJ has a great track record here – and everyone who has him is thrilled after day one with him posting one of the best rounds of the day. He no longer really has the reputation of not being able to close – so it’ll be really fun to see if he can propel through three more days, or if the ones who faded him will get a chance over the weekend!

Brendan Steele (30% GPP, 70% Cash) – I’ll admit I figured people would be on Steele, but I overlooked him being the highest owned cash game golfer this week! Obviously thinking about ownerships is never an exact science. Steele checks all the boxes and I owned him in almost all of my lineups as well, so I guess it was just wishful thinking on my part that he’d come in a little lower. The California native plays his irons really well and the salary fits in every cash lineup conceivable, so here we are. Best of luck to Brendan!

Justin Rose (27% GPP, 54% Cash) – Rose had a monumental ownership last week, scared the heck outta everyone and then ended up recovering quite nicely. Not the payoff most people were hoping for last week, but he is comparatively cheap this week, and ideally had/has momentum from the latter part of last week. It all makes sense, but I think there were more options to play around with this week and he really did give some people a scare for sure last week, so we’re down a little bit from whatever he was 80% in cash games last week, I can’t even remember, but it was the highest I remember seeing off the top of my head.

Bubba Watson (14% GPP, 6% Cash) – I was curious to see this one…obviously hasn’t made any real noise and hasn’t played a lot in general lately, a good showing at the HSBC I believe where he also has a good track record…obviously his history here is factored into his salary, and the field collectively said “meh” this week! I am a HUGE Bubba honk/homer and I ended up with zero Bubba myself, so, I can’t act surprised. I was definitely curious to see though where everyone landed. The returning-champ pull can be strong in DFS, but I think again there were just so many other options around that price range…this is where we landed. Best of luck to Bubba even though I don’t have him!

Jordan Spieth (17% GPP, 5% Cash) – Last but not least! Like I hinted at above…I think Spieth’s percentage just got cut into by Dustin Johnson (and to a certain extent, Jason Day for a LOT cheaper)…still a relatively sturdy GPP ownership, but nobody wanted to spend the extra money and risk another missed cut at the bottom of the lineup in cash games it seems. Which makes total sense. At the same time I still expected more people to bite given how well he played last week. If he gets hot again (stays hot?!) over the next couple of months…well all I can say is the attention will be insane going into the Masters. Oh wait, I’m already starting that thought. Guilty as charged. I can’t wait!

Until then, best of luck everyone!