PGA Ownership Report: The Memorial
Here’s the data for the $4 Fore for this week’s Memorial at Muirfield:
| Name | Ownership |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 25.2% |
| Dustin Johnson | 23.1% |
| Matt Kuchar | 22.3% |
| Jason Day | 20.8% |
| Charl Schwartzel | 20.1% |
Full field ownerships (for the $4, cash games, 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 $4 Fore:
Big Boy golf this week, so not a lot of unfamiliar names to choose from. Let’s see who went where and I’ll throw a couple of guesses as to why!
Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, and Rory McIlroy (about 20% in GPPs, 8% in cash) – I don’t think there was much consternation about whether these guys would be picked a lot, and really at no point did the scales tip dramatically one way or another. There’s a couple of % difference here in GPPs, but all pretty much the same. Really kind of a yawn. But what I find interesting is how low-owned they ALL were in cash games. People just, seemingly without hesitation, jumped down to Matsuyama/DJ/Bubba/Kuchar types for their cash games, which isn’t a HUGE surprise because that is always the trend, every week. But I kind of thought with those three big names more people would be drawn, and I guess if you combine them, more people DID roster a 12k+ golfer in cash this week in cash than normal. In any case it’s not up for debate whether or not people are deliberately playing down-the-middle lineups in Double Ups. It IS up for debate, in my opinion, whether that is always the best strategy or not. But that’s a discussion for another time!
Hideki Matsuyama (nearly 50% in cash, 25% in GPPS) – I gathered that this was the chalk this week, and it definitely came true. I was reminiscing that last Summer Matsuyama was incredibly high owned for quite a stretch, but he was coming in at about $8,500. He’s a much more seasoned golfer a year later and has a higher price tag, too. I think the course history put him over the top here. The funnier part about that story was last Summer, Matsuyama was “the most consistent golfer on tour” as he was coming off a stretch of top 10’s and his price seemingly didn’t budge – a cash game staple if there ever was one. By the end of the Fall he was a horrific choker, who couldn’t chip or putt to save his life and you came to expect more than one crooked number out of a round, seemingly. Just a reminder that there is no “safe” golfer – all you can really count on is scoring – and Hideki does that! So! Not a bad play by any means!
Matt Kuchar (around 50% in cash again, and 23% in GPP) – I’ve been saying he’s on a HEATER for awhile, and he keeps doing it – so this is beyond heater at this point; he’s just blazing. It doesn’t hurt that as of this writing he’s continued right along his warpath towards a non-win … I was actually on him for all of this streak luckily enough and I decided this week his price finally bubbled and I was going to buy elsewhere. I guess the one saving grace that Kuchar faders may have had is a lot of them probably ended up on our next guy…
Dustin Johnson (23% GPP, 20% cash) – I guess his ownerships are kind of vanilla – his course history isn’t SPECTACULAR but is pretty good, his last couple of events not SPECTACULAR but overall pretty good … very affordable this week, I guess he could have been even higher but you have to factor in that such humongous portions of the field took Kuchar and Matsuyama at similar price points, that’s going to clip him a little bit.
Graham DeLaet – 0.3% in $4 Fore – Over 1700 hard-earned American doll hairs were wagered on DeLaet, who withdrew fairly late in the process. It’s a drop in the bucket but it’s better than nothing!
Good luck everyone!