PGA Ownership Report: The Players Championship

by Sean O'Donnell (hokie2009) Last Updated 2016-05-16 16:10:03

Here’s the data for the $3 Drive the Green for this week’s Players Championship!

Full field ownerships (for the $3, 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 $3 Drive the Green:

This week is sometimes referred to as the 5th major, we had the DK contests fill like it were a major (because they weren’t sized like it), and the salaries left everyone ripe for the picking. So with all of these choices, where did everyone land?! Let’s take a look.

Henrik Stenson (22% GPP, 50% Cash) – Welp, let’s get this one out of the way early. Just like Henrik did with a lot of our lineups this week! There’s still hope in cash games. But I think, yeah, not even DFS is fickle enough to let 1 missed cut spoiled, what, 20+ straight made coming in, and not many problems here before? Anyway I have a feeling it will be QUITE a different story next time Stenson comes out. We’ll see what he does tomorrow to save face.

Sergio Garcia (24% GPP, 36% Cash) – The “other” chalk golfer of the week, Sergio was a no-doubted for anyone who looks at course history or European tour results. Again like we saw with Stenson, a sharp drop-off from the field in the large $3 contest – evidence to me of people deliberately fading in GPP and just being more conscious of chalk in general in the smaller-dollar, longer-odds contests. As we should be!

Jason Day (15% GPP, 9% Cash) – Well, right now is that moment where everyone who doesn’t have Day is muttering about him, we’ve probably all been on both ends of the Day landslide (or spent a day or two living in fear of it!) at this point. Anyway since this article has the benefit of coming out with a tiny bit of the action having elapsed – I’m here to say – it’s a long event! He hasn’t lapped the field yet! He’s likely to have some competition. We hope. Or for the lucky few of us who looked the other way on the less-than-driver holes and maybe a spot or two on the course history, hopefully this is only the beginning.

Zach Johnson (15% GPP 32% Cash) – I found this one interesting, especially to see him so high in cash. The price was good, okay, fair. He’s been very spotty though this season and has changed clubs and is a very “touch” player so I don’t know I’ve bought that angle for the most part. I would have wanted to play him more in GPP as a guy who, if he’s “right” could easily win from that salary, but I felt there was a huge downside to having him as a cornerstone in cash in this deep of a field. In any case that’s all, like, my opinion, MAN! And I’m rooting for the guy to return to form, I just don’t want it to be when ⅓ of my opponents have him in cash games!

Rickie Fowler (20% GPP, 11% Cash) – This one surprised me, as well, but in the other direction. I honestly thought we wouldn’t see him quite so low in cash, I know there were people to steal some ownership from him, BUT, I still thought he’d carry the flag, coming off some strong play, and of course the “last year’s winner” angle which is always worth a few %. I wonder how low he would have been in cash if he DIDN’T shoot -5 down the stretch or whatever ridiculous feat that was last year.

Steven Bowditch (0.5% GPP, 0.1% Cash) – Last but not lea….. Er…. well, uh … anyway the last guy I’ll talk about is Mr. Bowditch, back with a vengeance, sporting the rare SOLO MINIMUM SALARY honors at $5300. Those percentages might seem low. But let me put it this way: There were 30 golfers in both the $3 Drive the Green and in the $5 Double-Up who were picked LESS often than Bowditch.

Now if you picked him don’t hate me, I have 100% of my money on Stenson lineups this week. I also have 90% of it on Jason Day lineups. Such is my fantasy golf life! I hope somebody else out there can get everything to click this week and take down one of these jackpots!

Good luck everyone!