PGA Ownership Report: PGA Championship

by Sean O'Donnell (hokie2009) Last Updated 2016-08-01 02:50:46

Here’s the data for this week’s Millionaire Maker at the PGA Championship!

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 $33 Millionaire Maker:

Alright RotoGrinders it’s our last chance at a PGA Million for 2016, who’s going to take us to the promised land?

Dustin Johnson (47% Cash, 43% Milly) – Wow! So in this space we often note that even the most popular cash game plays will kind of self-correct themselves in GPP down to the 30-35% owned range. DJ has broken through on that! This is an INCREDIBLY high Milly Maker ownership. I mean it’s hard to say it isn’t deserved – the price was laughably affordable, and he’s been consistently elite. Still, this will be a huge story throughout the week! Almost nobody who liked him got off of him, even in GPPs.

Charl Schwartzel (61% Cash, 31% Milly) – This is a more typical spread for us. Schwartzel was the highest owned cash play by good measure, and I think most people writing had him featured this week. Just too cheap! People were a lot more willing to fade Schwartzel in GPP though than fade DJ. I can’t wait to see how it plays out!

Rory McIlroy (27% Cash, 29% Milly) – The clear #2 choice as far as the big boys this week was Mr. McIlroy. Coming in in great form, was talking himself up before the tournament, and it kind of WOULD be “his turn” if it ended up playing out that way. I’m slightly surprised it tilted towards DJ and Rory so much I’m used to seeing people arbitrarily spread it around up top, but this sure makes for some excitement.

J.B. Holmes (16% Cash, 21% Milly) – I figure we all know enough about Sergio and Matt Kuchar they’ve been featured a lot lately and are just “there” as far as high owned players every week seemingly in recent memory! JB Holmes is a fresh face though. That #3 at the British Open is carrying a LOT of weight for people who had him dead in the water going into that. One event and he’s catapulted back up into popularity. The vegas odds or his DK salary likely didn’t change a ton with that one performance but the public’s opinion of him did dramatically, for whatever reason. I think J.B. is a guy you always/only want to play when he’s low owned, kind of a GPP-only kind of guy, just boom or bust. Maybe like a Mickelson at least IN MY MIND – don’t jump on me if you have a different opinion just waive the money in my face after you get it!

Jordan Spieth and Jason Day (5% Cash, 10% Milly each, approx.) – Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Very affordable prices. Only 1 out of 10 willing to take a shot at a return to glory. Honestly the recent results haven’t looked like they were on the brink of dominating, per se. So I can understand it. Understand it to the point that I’m now realizing I played 150 $3 lineups and didn’t roster either of these guys. It’s one of those where if they end up doing well it will be a huge “DUH” moment for many, but at the same time PGA and DFS are both very much “what have you done for me lately” businesses, so this is what we get!

Good luck everyone and let’s ship it for the RG community!