Steven Polardi 
How well do you know your partner? Well enough to win The Zurich Classic ?
Do you know the partners well enough to take down the 200K first prize on DraftKings? Come on in! We have warm cookies at the bottom of this article! EDITORS NOTE: (We don’t have any damn cookies) Sorry everyone, I tried.
This format is about as foreign as it gets for PGA tourneys. The key strategy is to make sure you do not roster the same two golfers that are paired up, the reason is they BOTH get the same points when you pick just one of the two. Key strategy will be to find the golfers when paired up that play to each others strengths, and when playing alternate shot, can mitigate their partners weakness. Jonas Blixt won this in 2017, he’s normally a 6000 salary player, usually an alternate that squeaked by in the qualifier type of golfer. How did he win? Cam Smith was his partner. Give me Scottie Scheffler as my partner and I bet we don’t come in last, and no bet over $3.00. I am a realist. In reality there have been a diverse group of champions make it to the top at The Zurich Classic. This is a long course, so drivers, accurate drivers, may have an edge, approach and around the green as well as putting, birdie % and bogey avoidance will factor in as well.
As far as ownership we can get you close, the top tier will be extremely high owned. You have a team like Cantlay/Schauffele with no glaring weakness. Some will pick Cantlay because they play him regularly, I had him picked to win last week and he lost to Spieth in a playoff. Some prefer Xander so you add in that ownership on top of Patricks. We all know Scottie has won 4 of 6 tourneys, he is ranked #1 and rightly so. His partner Ryan palmer is ranked 75th, he missed the cut at the Masters, shot a 77 at The Valero and carded an 80 at The Players. he averages 1.4 bad rounds per tourney, that’s almost 27 holes. It would be like Scottie trying to beat Michael Phelps in the 100 meter freestyle with an anchor tied around his neck. He is from Dallas, TX and Scottie lives in Austin which may help as far as team cohesion. There are 80 teams entered, only 33 and ties make the weekend so it’s important to make the cut.
Odds are good that you can expect a playoff between two teams, rostering both goes a long way to making you and your bank account look good this week.
Lets take a look at The The Zurich Classic Final Ownership Projections to help you with your roster selections.
| OWNERSHIP PROJECTION | ||
| PLAYER | OWN % | SALARY |
| Morikawa/Hovland | 26.6 | 10700 |
| Schauffele/Cantlay | 23.9 | 10400 |
| Scheffler/Palmer | 22.9 | 9700 |
| Horschel/Burns | 22.8 | 10000 |
| Smith/Leishman | 21.7 | 10200 |
| Niemann/Pereira | 20.6 | 9200 |
| Homa/Gooch | 19.6 | 9100 |
| Garcia/Fleetwood | 18.5 | 9400 |
| McNealy/Bramlett | 17.6 | 7700 |
| Im/An | 16.3 | 8700 |
| Zalatoris/Riley | 15.4 | 8900 |
| Lowry/Poulter | 14.6 | 9500 |
| Hadwin/Svensson | 14.3 | 8000 |
| Straka/Sigg | 13.9 | 8300 |
| Bradley/Steele | 13.7 | 8500 |
| Willett/Hatton | 13.4 | 8800 |
| Laird/MacIntyre | 13.2 | 8000 |
| Watson/Varner | 11.4 | 9000 |
| Kisner/Brown | 10.7 | 7600 |
| Tringale/Clark | 10.6 | 7800 |
| McDowell/Power | 10.4 | 8600 |
| NeSmith/Moore | 9.9 | 7400 |
| Noren/Norlander | 9.8 | 7500 |
| Mitchell/Snedeker | 8.9 | 7900 |
| Theegala/Hossler | 8.9 | 7500 |
| Ghim/Schwab | 8.7 | 7700 |
| Streb/Merrittt | 8.6 | 7800 |
| Todd/Kirk | 8.5 | 8200 |
| Kizzire/Poston | 8.2 | 8400 |
| Redman/Ryder | 8.1 | 7100 |
| Rai/Lipsky | 7.8 | 7400 |
| Higgs/Smotherman | 7.6 | 7100 |
| Schwartzel/Bezuidenhout | 7.1 | 7900 |
| Stuard/Knox | 6.9 | 7500 |
| Hoge/Barjon | 6.9 | 7000 |
| Stenson/Rose | 6.7 | 8100 |
| Smalley/Buckley | 6.6 | 7000 |
| Day/Scrivener | 6.4 | 7600 |
| Garnett/Stallings | 6.3 | 7200 |
| Duncan/Schenk | 6.2 | 7100 |
| Brehm/ Hubbard | 4.7 | 6600 |
| Lebioda/Seiffert | 4.5 | 6800 |
| Werenski/Uihlein | 4.4 | 6900 |
| Hodges/Whaley | 4.2 | 6700 |
| Glover/Reavie | 4.1 | 7400 |
| Watney/Hoffman | 3.9 | 7000 |
| Horsfield/Wallace | 3.8 | 7200 |
| Rodgers/Wu | 3.6 | 6900 |
| Dahmen/Jaeger | 3.4 | 7300 |
| McCarthy/Kohles | 3.4 | 7200 |
| Herbert/Atwal | 3.3 | 6700 |
| Herman/Taylor | 3.2 | 6400 |
| Long/Hoag | 3.1 | 6800 |
| Cabrera-Bello/Grillo | 2.9 | 7300 |
| Kitayama/Aphibarnrat | 2.6 | 6800 |
| Hagy/Percy | 2.6 | 6600 |
| Grace/Higgo | 2.3 | 7300 |
| Hahn/Chappell | 2.2 | 6700 |
| Piercy/O’Hair | 2.1 | 6900 |
| Tarren/Skinns | 2.0 | 6100 |
| Ramey/Creel | 1.7 | 6500 |
| Stanley/Villegas | 1.5 | 6400 |
| McGreevy/Novak | 1.4 | 6600 |
| Mullinax/Bryan | 1.4 | 6300 |
| Lower/Wu | 1.4 | 6300 |
| Kang/Huh | 1.3 | 6500 |
| Noh/Kim | 1.3 | 6300 |
| Cook/Dufner | 1.3 | 6100 |
| Reevers/Wolfe | 1.2 | 6200 |
| Thompson/Hardy | 1.2 | 6500 |
| Lee/Bae | 1.1 | 6400 |
| Tway/Kraft | 1.1 | 6200 |
| Hadley/Byrd | 0.9 | 6200 |
| Gainey/Garrigus | 0.8 | 6100 |
| Gligic/Armour | 0.7 | 6200 |
| Van Pelt/Martin | 0.6 | 6100 |
| Trainer/Knous | 0.4 | 6000 |
| Van Der Walt/Drewitt | 0.2 | 6000 |
| Haas/Haas | 0.1 | 6000 |
| Gutschewski/Points | 0.0 | 6000 |
These projections are accurate as of 5:59 EST. Top Tier Golfers will show a higher % by lock.
My picks for The Zurich Classic
Top Tier: Cantlay/ Schauffele
Mid Tier: Pereira/Niemann
Low Tier: Streb/Merritt
Out in Left Play: NeSmith/Moore
Frisky Risky Biscuit Play: * In Discord later Tonight ! *Risky
FR Leader: Garcia/Fleetwood
FR Leader: Hovland/Morikawa
Be sure to check out Spenser’s and Stix’s Bettor Golf podcast on Anchor at Spotify. They are both taking the week off because they’ve won so much money but you can catch their podcast next Tuesday night.
Don’t miss out on the very popular and fun PGA DraftCast with Sia, Joel and Spencer (golf writer of the year) every Tuesday night at 8:00 EST. They did not have a DraftCast Tuesday night due to the unusual format and Sia having one single hair out of place on those luxurious locks.
As always, I hope to be with you on Sunday afternoon, in the money. You can also come and hang out in the Win Daily Sports Discord Chat to talk it out with everyone before the lock!
