PGA Ownership Report: OHL Classic

by Sean O'Donnell (hokie2009) Last Updated 2016-11-10 16:29:31

Here’s the data for this week’s $4 Fore at the OHL Classic!

Full field ownerships (for the $4, 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 $4 Fore:

Well we’ve got to get this out of the way, until he finally misses a cut or they start making him $13,000 I feel like we’re going to have to ‘deal’ with this from Jon Rahm every week:

Jon Rahm (36% GPP, 50% Cash) – I think last week that 40%+ number in GPPs woke a lot of people up to the idea that they should maybe just TRY somebody else in GPPs … the upside is kind of limited to where, even if he does win the tournament, you’ve got 40% of the field getting first place points and only 20% cash. The question becomes…is Rahm THAT MUCH more likely than some of his salary-peers to win? I don’t really think anyone is THAT MUCH more likely to do well, even than somebody we don’t like. But he’s coasting right now. Maybe this is the beginning of a, and I’m going to say it – Spieth-like breakout run!?!? Okay. “Spieth-like” has never been paralleled per se, making a bunch of top 20’s and sprinkling in some better ones isn’t the same as winning majors. But at this point…let’s just say there’s a lot of room for him to go backwards compared to the room for Jon Rahm to do better than he’s currently doing. All this said, I rode the guy fairly heavily this week – but I absolutely have a good chunk of lineups without him, and absolutely have him in cash.

Charles Howell III (27% GPP, 49% Cash) – THE RETURN OF THE MACK! I wrote about Howell in both articles I believe last week, wondering how or why people were SO down on him at that price. He golfed pretty well and is still super cheap this week so I expected the bandwagon to be back in full force, and it is. Now bandwagons are bandwagons, but in this case I think it’s fairly justified. It’s just a weak price. Take the free square (as of this writing he already has a triple bogey so many of you will probably scoff at the free square comment :-/). But it was too easy to get him in at that price, especially in cash. Might as well let it rip. If he were $8800 then it’d be decision time. That’s how I played it, but I purposefully, since I knew Howell would be very high-owned, limited his exposure to only half of my GPP lineups.

Keegan Bradley (24% GPP, 42% Cash) – What year is it!?!? How long have I been asleep? Right up there with Howell, Keegan Bradley seems to be QUITE the DFS darling. It’s amazing to me to think how many thousands and thousands of dollars have been lost on this guy – and for how many months he was in the $6k’s and nobody would touch him … but yet, just the slightest glimmer of hope, and the barn doors get blown wide-the-frick open by people clamoring to draft him – and pay DAMN good money for him at this point! I’m no Keegan hater and I know golf and especially fantasy golf is a “what have you done for me lately” endeavor…but really, take a step back, we’re in a cash game, we need our guy to make a cut above all else – and you’ve got twice as many people taking Keegan Bradley as they are Jim Furyk – for the same price? Surely anything can happen. But that one doesn’t sit right with me. I’m prepared to eat crow!

Russell Knox / Scott Piercy / Emiliano Grillo – I want to analyze all these guys together. All three of them are around 20% in GPPs but in cash games are 15%, Piercy as low as 10%. Subtle but significant info here. Really, truly, everyone built around Jon Rahm and Keegan Bradley in cash games. I think that was everyone’s first choice. But people deliberately tossed money on Knox/Piercy/Grillo as alternatives in GPPs. Rahm and Bradley ate up all of their potential cash game ownership %’s, since the status quo is to only roster one “expensive” guy and beef up the midrange (and thereby avoid a really cheap flier who might not make the cut) in cash games. Kind of interesting as I feel like these ownership %’s for these three guys don’t have as much to do with THEMSELVES as they do with…Rahm and Keegan eating it all, and then people deliberating trying to fade Rahm and Keegan some in the GPPs.

Best of luck to everyone!