Michael Rasile 
Charles Schwab Challenge DraftKings Breakdown
In this article Steven Polardi give his Charles Schwab Challenge DraftKings Breakdown.
Hello everyone, the PGA is back, with the sponsor Charles Schwab hosting the Colonial in Dallas. DraftKings has a $3 million, (first place $1 million) golf contest, a $20 entry, with a sweetener, for every day of the tourney DraftKings will split a $50k bonus with everyone who rosters the low golfer of the day. You might have to split that with a few strangers, but $200k free money is free money. Texas has been under COVID restrictions, there has been little play and the course is in good playing condition. The temperatures will be in the mid to high nineties, so we’ll know pretty quick who’s been on the couch and who’s been on the bag practicing. There may be a west Texas breeze come thru so for showdown golfers, watch your weather. The following golfers are who I’m looking at for some of my core group, tomorrow I will have core picks, value plays, sleepers and ownership projections to assist in your lineup picks. Not all the golfers listed are in the order of their world golf rankings.
Even though I only play DK GPP, FanDuel has just changed their algorithms and metrics AND scoring to almost the exact duplicate of DK scoring. I guess that merger is still on in some aspects. This means for all you FD players that this data may apply as well to your rostering teams.
Rory McILroy- okay, he’s ranked number 1 for a reason. In his last seven tourneys he has placed in the top 5 five different times, his strokes gained average is obscene. He is the top priced golfer on DraftKings at $11,800, with his recent history, his ownership % will be a key factor in rostering him.
Bryson DeChambeau- Bryson is telling everyone who will listen he’s been in the gym and has his slide rule out every day for golf. His recent history glows, a 4th at Arnies Invitational, 2nd at the quality packed WGC Mexico and 5th at the Genesis, so his recent history is smoking.
DraftKings price $10,100.
John Rahm- in his last 17 starts he placed top 15 sixteen times, and although he missed the cut at last years Colonial, he finished 5th and 2nd the last two years before.
DraftKings price $11,000.
Sungjae IM- there’s a rumor he wanted to play “pretend tournaments” so he wouldn’t have to go home, this guy plays every single weekend. So far he won the Honda, then had a 3rd at the Arney Palmer Inv.
DraftKings price $9,300
Collin Morikawa- look, PATRICK SCOTT, look!!!! Patrick is one of our VERY good golf contributing writers, he told me about Collin at the beginning. I’ve been grateful ever since. This guy is a cut making machine, he hasn’t missed a cut since Robert Trent Jones last teed up at Augusta, (kind of). He is exactly the type of value play that will get you paid.
DraftKings price $9,100.
Tony Finau- Tony has had a quiet good year. He was 2nd at Phoenix, 6th at Torrey Pines and 14th at the American Express. With his DraftKings price at $8,700 he will have value to be watched closely
Scottie Scheffler- Scottie walked off the tour with hot clubs, he has been entering, and winning every mini tourney he can find since then. This is his hometown, 1st time playing here, so will nerves lower his score, or will he slam it in another gear?
DraftKings price $8,400
Victor Hovland- Victor has quietly been playing in small tourneys here in Texas, which acclimates him to the weather and conditions, although he hasn’t been winning them all like Scheffler, he has been tourney ready since May.
DraftKings price $7,900
Abraham Ancer- Abraham has played in two mini tourneys here in Texas, he is from Texas, and with the long layoff any tourney competition speaks well for the players.
DraftKings price $7,300
Golfers I may not roster- Rose, Day, Kokrak,Koepka again, this is preliminary.
Possible Sleepers: D Redman, DMcCarthy, C Ortiz, A. Hadwin X Schauffele, I Poulter, B Todd,K Kisner,R Palmer, T Duncan and I will have more value plays in that most important 7-8 K range tomorrow, along with % to make the cut, % to make the top 20, and % of ownership.
This tourney isn’t normally as talent laden, with the long layoff, even the stars are ready to tee it up. This is certainly noticeable with the softer pricing on DraftKings. We should be able to find excellent value and contrarian value in the lower tiers.
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