PGA Ownership Report: Travelers Championship

Here’s the data for this week’s $4 20-max at the Travelers!

Name Ownership
Charley Hoffman 33%
Brendan Steele 32%
Justin Thomas 29%
Paul Casey 27%
Brandt Snedeker 24%

Full field ownerships (for the $4, $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 $4 20-max:

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Shew. Big breath of relief after the big event last weekend for DFS! We’ve got a few superstars however who are taking a very small breath of relief and teeing it back up at the Travelers this week. Let’s see if anyone took the bait, or if some smaller names and smaller salaries have prevailed this week.

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Charley Hoffman (33% GPP 48% Cash)BIG CHUCK taking the top dog spot this week, at least as far as boom-or-bust GPP plays are concerned. He’s had a steady run over the past few months missing only one cut, and a good showing at last week’s US Open has his upside on everyone’s mind! Combine that with several made cuts in a row at this venue, and, well, he’s snuck in there past some of our other contingent. Good luck, chuck!

Brendan Steele (31% GPP, 60% Cash) – Five out of six made cuts here, and no worse than 25th, combined with no missed cuts in the past three months (while playing a very light schedule however) and people are feeling VERY warm on Steele. A really consistent and accurate golfer from tee to green, also coming off a good finish at the US Open, he’s a guy who DFS has really liked in the past and always seems to come in with a tasty salary in these mid-level events where he can bring home a top-level finish!

Paul Casey (27% GPP 57% Cash) – Casey did more than fizzle out last week, he kind of crashed back down to earth, but his early surge at the US Open put his name into the excited minds of many gamers! The result is we see his ownership buoyed dramatically this week, again somebody who can play with the very best in the world, perhaps just not as consistently, but being offered for a significantly smaller salary. Casey feels like he’s been on the verge of a big-stage breakthrough for a couple of years now! The Travelers doesn’t quite qualify but perhaps a little less pressure will be what he needs to put four rounds together.

Jordan Spieth (23% GPP 13% Cash) – It’s not often you get to own Spieth for this cheap, and the short course this week always seems to let people gather around him and his abilities – not that he’s particularly short, but it’s the one area you could criticize him at a place like last week’s US Open. Without that tidbit on the table, he’s fairly popular again this week! It’s his first showing here, but he’s undoubtedly one of the favorites.

Rory McIlroy (15% GPP, 10% Cash) – Spieth’s counterpart in arms, Rory McIlroy, is also making his debut at TPC River Highlands, but coming off of a little bit rougher stretch of play. A lighter schedule and a rib injury that he claims to be done with has limited our exposure to Rory’s game this year, but there’s not anything that says he’s necessarily broken. An early exit at the US Open was jarring to many, but he wasn’t the only elite golfer to falter there. This week will be a good litmus test – if he can’t compete in Connecticut, the optimism for his game will certainly take a hit going forward.

Good luck everyone!! See you next week!

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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.