PGA Ownership Report: PGA Championship
Here’s the data for this week’s $33 Milly Maker at the PGA Championship!
| Name | Ownership |
|---|---|
| Tony Finau | 32.4% |
| Rory McIlroy | 32.2% |
| Paul Casey | 30.9% |
| Charley Hoffman | 29.8% |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 28.7% |
| Brooks Koepka | 25.0% |
| Rickie Fowler | 22.7% |
| Daniel Berger | 19.1% |
| Jordan Spieth | 15.7% |
| Zach Johnson | 15.6% |
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 $33 Milly Maker:
This week’s PGA Champ gives us our last look at all the top players in the world at once, but soon enough we will have the PGA Tour Playoffs to look forward to! Everyone buckled down for their research this week, and lots probably budgeted for multiple lineups for a shot at $1,000,000.
Tony Finau (32% Milly, 66% Cash) – Perhaps an unlikely candidate for highest owned with such a stacked field, there are a lot of reasons this makes sense. On DraftKings it’s hard to roster more than one “elite” golfer so that ownership gets spread around. Also, all of the talk this week was about the length of the course. Finau was a fan-favorite before his game even settled down, and his ability to score, especially on par 5’s, is always alluring. Combine all of this, and it was hard for anyone to make it through the “middle” of their rosters without choosing Finau as one of the two or three best options.
Paul Casey (31% Milly, 67% Cash) – Paul Casey has a similar outlook as Finau, but for different reasons. The same logic applies here – his mid-range price is suited to these especially beefy ownership numbers, particularly in cash, where a balanced lineup is even more favored. Casey presents a much more all-around game, and lots of recent success and low rounds have dwarfed his penchant for a big number or a crooked round here and there. A veteran with lots of class and experience, he comes from a much different place in DFS’ers minds, but ends up with about the same ownership profile as Finau.
Rory McIlroy (32% Milly, 37% Cash) – Rory was without a doubt the most heralded player coming in. He was seemingly struggling just a month or so ago, but it hasn’t taken much of a spark for the hype train to pull out of the station, once again. All aboard! Rory has performed historically well on this track, and nobody missed that with all of the in-depth analysis this week. In a bubble he probably was liked by even more fans, but many probably opted to go a different direction just in an attempt to be different. The cash game ownership is a symptom of people just not wanting to spend such a big chunk on any one golfer when a 6/6 lineup will make money without a winner, no problems.
Hideki Matsuyama (28% Milly, 44% Cash) – Anyone who watched Sunday’s closing round at the Bridgestone probably couldn’t help but roster Mats. He’d been in a lull before that, but when you zoom out and look at the entire season, it’s undoubtedly been a career year for the young man from Japan, with 10+ top 5 finishes if you go back to last year’s PGA Champ. His salary on DraftKings was very representative of this, but even more money was placed on him on FanDuel, where he was comparatively much cheaper.
Jordan Spieth (16% Milly, 4% Cash) – Mr. Spieth comes into this tournament with more momentum than he’s had probably since his banner 2015 season. That said, these numbers still aren’t very staggering. Chalk a lot of it up to it being nearly impossible to roster BOTH Jordan AND Rory, and given the length of the course and Rory’s history, it wasn’t a very fair fight. Spieth still has a lot to prove and could make history by becoming the youngest to win a career Grand Slam. I wouldn’t put anything past him, and I know that the 16% who do own him are licking their chops.
Good luck this week everyone!