PGA Ownership Report: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational

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

Name Ownership
Rickie Fowler 24.8%
Charley Hoffman 23.3%
Jon Rahm 21.5%
Paul Casey 21.1%
Kyle Stanley 19.5%
Marc Leishman 19.2%
Daniel Berger 17.5%
Charl Schwartzel 17.5%
Justin Thomas 17.3%
Kevin Chappell 17.2%

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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Right back into the swing of things! We get to preview the best golfers in the world, only a couple weeks removed from The Open, and heading straight into the PGA Championship. Big Boy Golf for dayysssssss!

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Rickie Fowler (25% GPP, 35% Cash) – Rickie jumps up to the top spot this week, but not by a big margin. It’s interesting that the ownerships leveled out at about 25% this week and nobody stood out enough to be 30, 35% owned in GPPs. I attribute this to the stacked field, and it being really hard to not spread our money around this week with literally every top option in the world available. Rickie still has been playing a little above his salary, and is very popular, so he snakes out the top spot.

Charley Hoffman (24% GPP, 42% Cash) – Chuck Hoffman is a guy a lot of people have won money with in the past, and seems to play very streaky. At this point, fans have noticed his upswings a lot faster than the salaries and Las Vegas odds are willing to react. Given his first-round performance, a lot of people are sitting on “free money” right now by rostering Hoffman at that price.

Paul Casey (19% GPP, 50% Cash) – It wasn’t long ago that we’d have written about Casey as a guy who has all the upside in the world to contend for a major championship, but a propensity for big numbers that makes him a liability in cash games. We see the opposite split this week! As always, DFS is a salary-driven game, and he fits nicely into cash game lineups at that price. I think a bigger factor is that there is no cut this week, so there’s not a lot of downside to chasing a guy who might shoot +5 one day and -5 the next.

Jordan Spieth (17% GPP, 8% Cash) – Can’t get through this without talking about the hottest golfer in the world! Honestly I expected him to be higher owned in GPPs. The cash game ownership makes sense as people rarely pay for the most expensive guy in the field when trying to build a balanced lineup. I thought “stars and scrubs” might be more popular given that there’s no cut, but still, it’s hard to not just stock up on superstars in the $7k-$9k range. Given his recent form and ridiculous closing ability, I think the 17% who own him in GPPs are very satisfied with their choices.

Good luck this week everyone. See you next week to break down our million dollar choices!

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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.