PGA Ownership Report: The Barclays

Here’s the data for this week’s $3 Birdie at the Barclays Championship!

Name Ownership
Kevin Na 24.5%
Dustin Johnson 23.7%
Jason Day 22.0%
Henrik Stenson 21.3%
Daniel Berger 19.7%

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:

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It’s the playoffs! Nothing too crazy going on contest-wise but nothing to sneeze at either! Let’s take a look at who took who in our biggest GPP, the $3 Birdie:

Lucas Glover (3.6% GPP, 3.0% Cash) – I usually start off with some bigger names or the highest owned guys. But I’ve got to own this one first. I really thought that people would flock to him, coming off a really low round at the Wyndham, plus with his history here, with a pretty low price … I just thought he’d be a punt play that people flocked to. I was wrong! Very wrong! I was expecting 10-15% ownership on him. Anyway this was the first guy I tried to find on the list and, well … just like projecting performances, projecting ownerships is an inexact science.

Russell Knox (18% GPP, 36% Cash) – I found it curious, when you look at the list of FedEx Cup standings, we see a lot of names and we see Russell Knox. Who has two wins this year but in my opinion there were some really dark times inbetween. I think with the playoffs starting everyone was looking at FedEx Cup points a lot – I remember Robert Streb last year being plastered on the top 5 in FedEx points all year really anchored him as a high-owned guy for anyone doing the bare minimum research. I’m not hating on Knox just trying to dissect the love. It’s pretty simple I suppose, he’s played better than his price for the most part over a recent stretch! I am wary in general about this tournament for guys who are very high in points and can cruise into the next round. That said, Knox should have plenty more motivation to “go for it” than some of the more “superstar” type guys near the top. There’s still plenty of career-altering moments possible for Knox if he does well in these playoffs!

Daniel Berger (20% GPP, 39% Cash) – The highest owned cash game choice was Daniel Berger. Another young gun, along the same lines as Knox, has been in form and has shown all the upside ever possible, but his youth has perhaps kept his price down a little bit, and people feel like they’re getting a steal / ahead of the curve! He also did very well last year in the playoffs and I bet that is still strong memory for many of us who have survived the entire year!

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Jason Day / Dustin Johnson / Henrik Stenson – These guys all are ringing in at about 18-20% in GPPs and 18-25% in cash games. Basically the high-priced chalk. And for good reasons. Really hard to pick between any of the three – they’re our batch of in-form superstars at this point (yes Stenson has been so red-hot he’s solidified in that conversation, which makes me so happy as an unabashed Stenson homer since I started following golf!) But these guys are the types I’m very very wary of in this environment. There isn’t a ton of reason for them to even be here. And all three have it in them to put it on cruise control I feel like. Or come out and just see how it goes and if it’s going GOING, just take their foot off the gas. They’ll all be here next week guaranteed so they don’t have much to lose by trying some things. Just a thought. The counter-point is that well these are arguably the three most successful and talented golfers this season. So really hard to risk fading ALL THREE – I think that’s how we ended up where we did.

It’s going to be an interesting week for sure! I’m excited for the playoffs, but I feel like they start this week for half the field, and start next week for the other half of the field, so I expect there to be some agony this week! But how is that any different from any other tournamentArticle Image

Good luck!!

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Sean O'Donnell (hokie2009)

Sean O’Donnell is a proud Hokie (Virginia Tech class of 2009, electrical engineering) as well as a Grateful Dead enthusiast. A fantasy baseball player since age 12, he has flirted with DFS in the past, but only this season stumbled onto the dearth of information that exists pertaining to daily fantasy golf and made a commitment to analyzing PGA tournament data on a weekly basis. When he’s not scouring the web for obscure PGA data, he works as a consultant for small businesses involved in research grants with the federal government.