Rickie Fowler Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections

With just a little under an hour until roster lock, there is no injury or player movement to report. Kevin Roth's weather report is up on the site and it looks like we could have some liquid sunshine in play this week. According to Roth, Friday could be a somewhat wet day with chances increased more during the early part of the day. In terms of trying to gain an advantage for the first two rounds and or any showdown slates, there is not enough overall wind or weather to push you or onto one player in order to get a better draw. I would however pay attention to what players you chose in terms of the course rotation when building showdown lineups. The South Course historically plays as one of the harder courses on Tour. Targeting golfers on the North Course will give you access to players with a better chance of low rounds due to how much harder the South typically plays.

If you are the type of player that likes to bet on the long term talent of a golfer, then this is a good week to bet on Rickie Fowler. The one-time darling of DFS golf has not exactly played his best golf over the last few months. Since the tour's restart, Fowler is 5 for 10 in made cuts with 0 top ten or better finishes. Looking to turn the tide this week, Fowler is both cheap ( relative to long term talent) and somewhat low owned ( less than 7%). The difficulty of trying to navigate a no-cut event is magnified by the fact that this week's venue ( Shadow Creek), will host its first tour event. Shadow Creek is a venue created and built by Vegas mogul Steve Wynn. No expense is spared in the building and or upkeep of this course and early reports have the greens being extremely on the fast side. Fowler has always been a historically good putter, and if you feel like there is a strong chance that he will turn it around sooner than later, then this is a good week to take a shot on his long term talent at low ownership.

As we get closer to the first round of The PGA Championship, it appears that there could be an edge to have in terms of a weather draw. With winds expected to pick up throughout the day, the afternoon draw on Thursday could potentially have the worst of things. Friday could have a similar pattern, but for now, it appears the worst of the wind could happen after lunch during today's first round. If you are looking for a tie-breaker on a golfer this week for the classic slates, then weather could be used to break that tie. Overall if you like a player who plays late on Thursday, then the weather draw should not exclude you from playing that golfer. Thursday afternoon should be harder, but as we have seen in the past there can still be good rounds on the wrong side of the draw. Late week projected ownership numbers show a decreased interest in players with the worse perceived draw, so there is also a chance you can gain an edge by mixing in some of the golfers from the late wave on Thursday and hope the weather forecast misses. Perhaps the safest way to gain an edge this week using weather would be to stack the early wave in Thursday showdown slates.

Rickie Fowler has not missed three consecutive cuts since the 2016 season. As he prepares to play in this week's Rocket Classic, Fowler will look to put his current two missed cut streak in the rearview mirror. During the offseason, Fowler made a swing coach change and was even seen experimenting with a new putting grip during the second round of the RBC Heritage two weeks ago. Currently trending as a low owned golfer for the week, Fowler has a proven track record worth of talent needed to be a difference-maker at The Rocket Mortgage. While there is proof that the changes made in his game are not quite where Fowler would like them to be, his -3 score atThe RBC Heritage was just one shot off the cut line. We have seen that making the cut in the first three events of the restart has been a tougher task due to the strength of each field. Fowler could be closer to form than his results indicate and the intrigue of getting a player of his talent level in a weak field at a low ownership level has the feel of a strong leverage play.

Kevin Roth's weather report for this week's tour event is up on the brand new RotoGrinders PGA weather page. While it does not appear that we will have much of an edge in terms of an overall tee time draw there could be a small advantage to playing early only players in both the first and second-round showdown slates. According to Roth, we can expect similar weather conditions both Thursday and Friday Morning, with each afternoon giving way to a chance of winds and or a small pop up shower. With Thursday's winds potential having gusts near 20 mph there is a small chance that golfers on Thursday afternoon play in somewhat harder conditions than those on Friday afternoon. Forecasted lower winds for both Thursday and Friday morning could lead to a slight edge in terms of stacking for the showdown slates.

With just about five minutes until roster lock, it's all quiet on the news front this morning. The chance for high winds late Thursday afternoon could mount to a favorable weather draw for the early Thursday late Friday wave. ResutlsDB will be up and running a few minutes after lock. Good Luck this week Grinders!!!!

Kevin Roth's weather report for the year's final cut event of the season is up in the main forum. For the second straight week, it appears that while there will be some weather to contend with it will be very hard to guess if any tee time wave will have an advantage. As the day progresses on Thursday golfers could see an isolated shower or two, but nothing of great alarm. For DFS purposes we are more concerned about high winds and with projected winds of 5 to 10 mph ( gusts at 15mph) there is a major concern of wind creating an edge for one wave this week. For the most part wind conditions will be very similar on both Thursday and Friday. Tee time wave staking is always an option for GPP's but there is no need to avoid players due to the predicted weather this week.