PGA Ownership Report: John Deere Classic

Here’s the data for this week’s $4 20-max at the John Deere!

Name Ownership
Charles Howell 27.6%
Kevin Na 25.4%
Nick Taylor 22.8%
Charley Hoffman 22.3%
Chad Campbell 21.9%
Kyle Stanley 21.9%
Zach Johnson 21.4%
Wesley Bryan 20.0%
Steve Stricker 18.3%
Danny Lee 17.1%

Full field ownerships (for the $4, $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 $4 20-max:

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The John Deere this week gives us our last warmup before the The Open and while many of the world’s top golfers are resting or practicing overseas already, our hearts and our wallets are in Silvis, IL this week! Let’s take a look at who came out of the scrap heap being shown the most love in our DraftKings contests!

Zach Johnson (21% GPP, 35% Cash) – ZJ is the King of this Course, for sure, having ended a truly incredible multi-year run of rounds in the 60s just last season. That most recent performance cast a lot of doubt, but his game has come and gone since his win at St. Andrews a couple of years ago. Still, 35% found his salary worthwhile in cash games, and a few less in GPP. I would have expected more of a GPP presence, given his “go big” history here, but 21% is nothing to sneeze at with such a high salary. We’ll see if last year was a fluke or the end of an era for ZJ at the John Deere.

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Charles Howell III (28% GPP, 38% Cash)DFS’ favorite golfer is BACK from injury and he’s been playing with a chip, a putt, and a long drive on his shoulder. Fans have noticed quickly, and based on his ownership percentage this week, a little more quickly than vegas and the DK salary-makers have. Howell is known for tee to green prowess and consistency on certain courses. This course demands some putting to break through and shoot the really low scores required to win, and he doesn’t carry the expectations of a monster history here. But, for his price this week, a win isn’t necessary for him to make all our hopes and dreams come true.

Kevin Na (25% GPP, 71% Cash) – Mr. Na has been in hibernation for awhile, and is playing a little faster these days than his trademark style. He’s shown consistent signs of life lately, and a name that has always felt like a nice warm cozy cash-game blanket is garnering that kind of attention once again. We see a dramatic leap here with Na being by far the highest valued cash game property. A course that doesn’t demand great length and rewards finesse and short game combined with his recent form makes Na the safest play in the field, in the minds of DFS’ers, once again!

Kevin Kisner (14% GPP, 4% Cash) – Mr. Kisner became a super-hot commodity very quickly over the past couple of months, but now his salary has caught up to him in a weak field, and given that he’s still young and his sustained success is still relatively new in our minds, a lot of people seemingly jumped off the ship after being burned by a missed cut last week. The high salary combined with that sour taste made him an easy “skip” on everyone’s cash lineup construction, but 14% still hope he can birdie-streak their way into the money!

Daniel Berger (13% GPP, 4% Cash) – We see something similar from Mr. Berger this week, the most expensive golfer in the field. With so much uncertainty even in the middle-salaries, almost nobody opted to roster Danny Boy in cash games because it would force them to try to find somebody who could confidently make a cut at bottom-barrel salary – and this is not a field that exactly exudes confidence from DraftKings participants! Berger has all the skills, but his prowess off the tee might not get an opportunity to shine here, and it’s a lot harder to eat that top salary when you’re not a household name. It will be interesting to see if his all-around game can carry him, but less than 15% of contestants will get to say “I told you so!” if he does.

Good luck this week everyone. Rest up, we’ll be up late all next weekend in Europe!

About the Author

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Sean O'Donnell (hokie2009)

Sean O’Donnell is a proud Hokie (Virginia Tech class of 2009, electrical engineering) as well as a Grateful Dead enthusiast. A fantasy baseball player since age 12, he has flirted with DFS in the past, but only this season stumbled onto the dearth of information that exists pertaining to daily fantasy golf and made a commitment to analyzing PGA tournament data on a weekly basis. When he’s not scouring the web for obscure PGA data, he works as a consultant for small businesses involved in research grants with the federal government.