PGA Ownership Report: The Open
Here’s the data for this week’s Millionaire Maker at the Open Championship!
| Name | Ownership |
| Dustin Johnson | 30.2% |
| Sergio Garcia | 29.5% |
| Matt Kuchar | 25.9% |
| Adam Scott | 23.6% |
| Charl Schwartzel | 18.2% |
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 Millionaire Maker:
We had a LOT of buildup to this event, everyone got to analyze and re-analyze, so let’s see what we came up with:
Dustin Johnson (30% MM, 28% Cash) – The hottest golfer on the planet, not a huge surprise, although we expected to see some competition from maybe some cheaper options. There was some back and forth about DJ maybe not fitting the course, it being over seas, etc. – I think all criticisms that you could dole out for a lot of golfers if you really wanted to. He can hit a lot of shots, and I think this ownership % reflects that. He can’t stay this dialed in forever but at the same time if he does well it will be hard to not think “duh” in hind sight!
Sergio Garcia (29% MM, 39% Cash) – This is one of the cheaper guys, and with his cash ownership one of the all-around most popular golfers this week. Very hot again, and the quintessential European player perhaps in the game right now. His fantastic record in open championship history has buoyed his popularity to put him this extra notch up here I believe. When you think about it this is a rather large % of the field going in on the classic “never won a major” player as well. He doesn’t have to win per se to be on a winning team, though!
Matt Kuchar (26% MM, 49% Cash) – Ole faithful Matt Kuchar came in predictably high, especially in cash. Basically if you follow golf long enough almost all of these guys will put the fear of God into you at one point or another. Kuchar hasn’t really done that in awhile. I understand very much the sentiment we see here of refusing to build a cash team without him. At his price this week, people were likely playing more than one player in his salary range, so it was very hard to avoid him for half the field!
Adam Scott (27% GPP, 24% Cash) – Adam Scott’s head might have turned when I said Sergio was the quintessential European player out here. It really begs the question of what constitutes a European player and if you think about that long enough you realize how silly the whole conversation is. Scott was a favorite on almost all of the RotoGrinders articles I believe so I think we have a lot of us and our readers heavily invested! I have my chunk, I know that. He’s certainly capable, but you can say that about many.
Day / McIlroy / Spieth (17/17/14 % in the MM) – I think it’s interesting to look at these two guys in comparison to DJ. That is quite the gap, for the decidedly top four priced golfers. Honestly a little more than I expected. Probably a few % on both sides, I thought people would throttle back on DJ and spread it around more over here in Europe. It’s quite the mess but I know nobody who owns these three is complaining at all about these ownership %’s.
Good luck everyone! Let’s get a RotoGrinder to take home the million again!