PGA Ownership Report: Shell Houston Open
Here’s the data for this week’s $3 Birdie at the Shell Houston Open!
| Name | Ownership |
| Phil Mickelson | 31.7% |
| Rafa Cabrera Bello | 28.7% |
| Tony Finau | 28.0% |
| Jon Rahm | 27.6% |
| Rickie Fowler | 27.3% |
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:
It’s the last week for a lot of big names to tune up before the Masters, and our last chance to practice divvying them up! How’d we do!?
Phil Mickelson (31% GPP, 48% Cash) – Big-name prowess and a promise of a chance to win even at this stage in his career, but with a price tag $1,000 less than any of the other big-boys! Mickelson was popular in all formats. Typically a little bit of a hit-or-miss all-or-nothing guy at this point in his career, his salary this week made him an easy fit in balanced cash lineups as well as the $3 birdie!
Rafa Cabrera Bello (28% GPP, 45% Cash) – Again a guy who we’ve seen priced in what I’d call the “2nd tier” before comes in in the $7k’s this week and it was really hard to avoid him. Seemingly consistent AND with upside, there’s a lot we don’t know actually about this Spaniard, but some times we’re more attracted to the guys that we haven’t gotten to know well enough to leave us any scar tissue from past misery.
Tony Finau (28% GPP, 55% Cash) – Again, typically Finau is a guy who has the moniker of a more inconsistent/bomber, but lately his putting stats have been leveling out, and people have noticed. We hope if nothing else Finau will make the cut and do some scoring, and for a low $7k’s price tag he made plenty of room to pick from Mickelson and a couple of other big names to make for a lineup really worth rooting for!
Jon Rahm (28% GPP, 32% Cash) – The Spaniard I’ve got MY eyes (and dollars) on this week, Rahm comes in BLAZING hot but with a big-boy price tag to support it. He was cheap enough to garner some pretty decent cash-game attention, coming in over $1,000 less than Spieth at the top of the list. Overall a very healthy ownership rate for somebody so expensive, and somebody that everyone expected to be owned. He’s young enough that it can’t be super-scary to try to pick against him with one of the veterans right below him on the salary list!
Jordan Spieth (25% GPP, 12% Cash) – I always like seeing where Spieth ends up ownership-wise! It’s been a similar story for awhile now, always coming in having played “pretty well” and always the most expensive guy or within a few hundred dollars of anyone who can top him. This week it was interesting because he was SO much more expensive than the next set of golfers on DraftKings. It’s a “home” event for all intents and purposes for Spieth, but that’s a huge chunk of salary to sacrifice. 25% is still a good rate in the GPP and I don’t think having him in cash games is at all a necessity. We’re one week away from the anniversary of his epic Masters meltdown, and it’s going to be talked about nonstop going forward, it will be interesting to see how it affects him! A great driving force to succeed and finish it out this time, or a haunting memory that he won’t be able to shake? I can’t wait to find out!
Good luck guys. See you next week!