PGA Ownership Report: RSM Classic

by Sean O'Donnell (hokie2009) Last Updated 2017-01-11 20:03:13

Here’s the data for this week’s $4 Fore at the RSM 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:

Okay, where’s Jon Rahm? What do I do without Jon Rahm!?

This week we get a reprieve from the Jon Rahm free square in cash games! Nobody could quite duplicate his recent popularity, but let’s look at who has filled in behind him:

Charles Howell (25% GPP, 48% Cash) – Second week in a row of “back to normal” CHIII ownership… I knew this was going to happen when three weeks ago he was $7100 and about 10% owned and golfed really well. The bandwagon is back and in full force with Chucky taking the title as highest owned GPP and Cash golfer this week! All of the warm fuzzies from last year’s wraparound season are back! We’ll see what happens … I totally divested from Howell this week, which is always an interesting ride to take. But I made my choice and all I can do now is pray!

Lucas Glover (20% GPP, 40% Cash) – The Love Glove HAS ARRIVED!! I kicked this one around in my head a lot because, obviously he’s coming off of a monster performance. But at the same time I didn’t think the DFS crowd would be ready to own Lucas at a top-5 rate with a top-5 salary. That is pretty strong! A lot of believers out there! I’ve been on Glover for a long time, his putting has been “not really bad at all” for the better part of a year now but he has this reputation as one of the worst putters on tour. Things change. I’m riding the wave!

Matt Kuchar (25% GPP, 25 Cash) – In many senses Kuchar could/should be the class of this field, he’s not lacking for popularity, but he’s the kind of guy who in the past year, with this setup, we might not have been surprised to see him in the 40-50% ownership range in cash games. His popularity remains, and for good reason, but people didn’t build around him in cash games like they have in the past. If he finishes top 5 one time expect to see a train of outings where he’s the cash game building block again as people chase his reputation of being “consistent, but not a winner”.

Zach Johnson and Jim Furyk (14% and 9% in GPPs) – Same commentary on both of these guys. “Oh how soon we forget.” Granted, golf is ABSOLUTELY a “what have you done for me lately” business. But just take a deep breath and think about the idea that these two guys are NOT the most expensive players, on a short course, weak field … and I’m shocked that 85-95% of the field stayed away from them. That’s pretty telling. Sure, Furyk got cut last week. Seriously, who cares?? He made 10 straight before that with a 58 mixed in there. Anecdotes, sure – but the guy is the Rodney Dangerfield of PGA DFS! Gets NO respect! Zach Johnson has always been fairly popular, and again, surely not the best run of form BUT for GPP play, this is a guy we know can take a course like this and go crazy with it. That said, Zach has never sniffed that potential in 5 or more tries here. Very likely an attitude thing, but at the same time … I absolutely did not count him out in GPP play. We’ll see what happens!

Cody Gribble and Ryan Blaum – Just an interesting note on these guys, not often do we see such a dark red square in the middle of our co-ownerships matrix. Nothing ground breaking but it seems like these guys were DEFINITELY paired together on $4 Fore teams more likely than you’d expect based on their individual ownerships. I guess the angle is pretty clear to see – if you’re on the “new guy” train with one, logically more likely to be on it with both! Whereas other people, if they aren’t buying it for one, likely not buying it for either! I’ve just never seen such a strong pairing ownership-wise buried in the middle of the pack like that! Definitely a correlation there in strategy for anyone who owned them!

Keep grinding guys and let’s have an enjoyable week!