PGA Ownership Report: RBC Canadian Open
Here’s the data for this week’s RBC Canadian Open $3 Birdie!
| Name | Ownership |
| Dustin Johnson | 33.5% |
| Jason Day | 30.8% |
| Matt Kuchar | 30.8% |
| William McGirt | 25.1% |
| Emiliano Grillo | 24.0% |
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 $3 Birdie:
This week feels like it came on so fast! It’s been grueling stretch of DFS action and I’m sure our golfers feel the same way. Let’s take a look at who everyone thought had the best chance to take them to the promised land, North of the border!
Jason Day (31% GPP, 32% Cash) – Defending champ, fairly obvious pick, lots swirling about him being tied to RBC – which I kind of ignored … but lots of attention on Jason. Neither of these ownerships surprise me … the shine has worn off Jason’s 12month run SLIGHTLY – which either means it’s the perfect opportunity to pounce on him, OR, this is the beginning of the end and these 30%+ are just suckers pining for old memories. For what it’s worth, I played him!
Dustin Johnson (33% GPP, 18% Cash) – What fascinates me here is how Dustin Johnson ended up such a less preferable cash game play than Jason Day. I guess there’s just some subjective things people felt better about Day there. I wouldn’t have expected to see that drop-off … I know people avoid the $12k guys in cash some times but I figured the ones who did go for it would be split evenly, like they were in GPP. Just an interesting note! Neither of them are particularly low-owned obviously!
Matt Kuchar (30% GPP, 50% Cash) – The Legend is back, and this is a great setup for him in theory. In this price range and his popularity we see his cash game % just buoyed tremendously – Kuchar has that unshakable reputation of being “steady” … at least when he’s playing well. So I’m not sure how much merit that has, but he’s definitely somebody who people feel like is going to be more consistent than most, and that’s definitely reflected here.
Daniel Summerhays (21% GPP, 60%+ Cash) – YOWZAH, look at that cash game ownership percentage. That is one of the highest ones I’ve seen. I think $8k’s Matsuyama last Summer might have made it that high. Summerhays doesn’t feel as juicy as an $8k Matsuyama so I’m a little surprised to see it THAT high – I mean lots of weeks we have stone-cold-dead-locks in cash seemingly and they’ll come out around 50%. I suppose he’s just that much cheaper and irresistible. I played him, too! So not criticizing. It is kind of peculiar to think – how flaky Summerhays has been in general say in the recent portion of his career … it’s an aggressive ownership for sure!
Emiliano Grillo (24% GPP, 45% Cash) – This is the guy who I thought the hype train was REALLY peaking behind. I mean those are actually very very strong ownership #’s just kind of drowned out by some of our even HIGHER cash game plays above. If I had to pick somebody beforehand that the field might go overboard on I thought it would be Grillo. Really pretty appropriate ownerships though.
I can’t wait to see how this all shakes out!
Good luck everyone!