PGA Ownership Report: Puerto Rico Open

by Sean O'Donnell (hokie2009) Last Updated 2016-03-28 02:04:37

Here’s the data for the $3 Birdie for this week’s Puerto Rico Open!

Full field ownerships (for the $3 and more) 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:

SO! Welcome back from the bathroom for all of those who had to go throw up when they saw the list of our highest owned players this week! Thanks for bearing with me! Honestly this will probably be one of the more fascinating ownership reports we’ll have! At least for a PGA DFS obsessor like myself.

I know many of us have asked for European Tour or even Web.com events on off-weeks, somewhat jokingly (somewhat NOT!) and I think this is kind of a preview of what kind of mayhem a mediocre European Tour event might bring, as far as sifting through the field trying to separate the poop from the diamonds (er, cubic zirconium?)

Let’s take a closer look at a handful of guys who jumped out at me this week:

Scott Brown (30% GPP, 45% cash) – The chalk of the chalk this week. To me it wasn’t abundantly obvious if the highest owned would be DeLaet, Brown, or I actually thought it might be Finau with DeLaet and Brown stealing some ownership from each other. But Brown it is. I think people glanced at Brown’s recent form and course history and seemed him much more “safe” than Finau or DeLaet who we know can throw up duds with the best of them.

Tony Finau (18% GPP, 34% cash) – I think this was a case of people deliberately picking up on the fact that Finau was chalk, and laying off of him in GPPs to some extent. Obviously not totally, but he was chosen 2nd most often in cash games and 8th most often in GPPs. Attractive price point, good name, and coming off a good week … a fair pick, but somebody I chose to fade in GPP (so far not working out very well!)

Graham DeLaet (21% GPP, 27% cash) – I’ll get to some of the lower-end guys here in a second (can you believe that?) … DeLaet fascinated me this week! He’s only $100 more than Brown, the vegas favorite I believe to win, coming off a better week than anyone in the field, t2g off the charts for this field, etc. etc. … throw in the ICING on the cake, DraftKings had his bearded mug plastered all over the front page advertising for this week’s contests or some strategy article (I really don’t know). All of this combined, I’ll just say, I find it curious that people seemingly went out of their way to get on other options? I own virtually no DeLaet just because I went Brown in cash and purposefully wanted to fade him in GPP this week. But at 21% I think he was actually playable. We’ll see how it all works out!

Mark Hubbard (10% GPP, 20% cash) – I mentioned him a few weeks ago, this guy keeps making cuts like crazy, but barely, and I’ve been outspoken in my criticisms of continually picking this guy because of the cuts made stat … and well it’s been foot in mouth more often than not! So regardless of my personal valuation of Hubbard – I just find it really fascinating that we had a few weeks where he was seemingly riding good form, and he was under 10% owned even in cash games … and this week he is coming off 4 really bad rounds, I mean two weeks ago he was the worst player to be in the field on Saturday and Sunday, and then last week he missed the cut. So this week he’s back in play and crushing it. Without getting into too much sour grapes, I just hate it that whenever everyone picks this guy (arbitrarily in my mind, but what do I know? :) ), he makes the cut and does well, and whenever people ignore him (arbitrarily, again, seemingly :) ), he does poorly. ::Shakes fist begrudgingly at Mark Hubbard and moves on …::

Dean Burmester (8% GPP, 11% cash) – The new guy in town! Hasn’t finished outside the top 5 in whatever bizarro events he’s been playing in the past couple of months, or something like that. Not cheap. I was interested to see how many people bought the ticket and took the ride! These are pretty significant ownership percentages, and honestly I figured he’s the kind of guy a lot of people would take shots with in GPP, but not build around in cash, BUT, 11% is significant! I’m interested to learn more about the guy and see him hit a shot or two hopefully at some point!

Those are some of the highlights, but I’m sure there will be many more, especially as the cut starts to develop. Let me know on here or in the forums if anyone else jumped out to you guys!