The Quicken Loans National takes place at a new venue this year, TPC Potomac. Below you will find this week’s fantasy golf rankings, One and Done picks and odds to win.
Travelers Championship finishes
Jordan Spieth defeated Daniel Berger in the first hole of a playoff Sunday by chipping a birdie in from out of the bunker. The lucky shot gave Spieth the victory, the tenth of his career. I had Berger at 35/1 odds so I’m a little bitter on the subject. Let’s move on to more important things…
Last week’s rankings resulted in 20 of 25 made cuts. We had 10 of our ranked golfers finish in 26th place or better at the Travelers Championship. Those 10 performances were:
Rank Player Finish
3 T. Finau T17
5 B. Steele T14
6 G. DeLaet T26
7 J. Spieth 1 (won)
8 P. Casey T5
9 D. Berger 2
12 M. Leishman T17
13 K. Bradley T8
18 C. Hoffman T3
21 W. Simpson T8
Quicken Loans National | Breakdown
The TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm hasn’t hosted a PGA Tour event since 2006. Renovations have been done over the past decade so course history is not a big factor when determining your lineups this week. Meaning, you will have to rely on current form and player statistics.
Another week, another weak…field. The Quicken Loans National will have one player in the OWGR top 10 this week (Rickie) and only a total of three in the top 25 (Reed and Thomas). There are some quality players sprinkled in but this is a field that has David Lingmerth at 28/1 odds to win…he’s been playing good, but c’mon now.
Side note: The Tiger Woods Foundations sponsors this event. Guess who will not be attending any of the week’s festivities? I’ll give you a hint, he’s half-Asian. And no, it’s not Jon from “Jon & Kate Plus 8.”
TPC Potomac is again a par 70 course which means par 4 scoring stats should be weighted into your decision making. Keeping it in the fairway is important as always, so golfers who’ve gained strokes off the tee and by approach will be heavily used when developing my DraftKings lineups. I’ll probably look for guys who play well on Pete Dye courses because there seem to be similarities here – aka Bill Haas.
Quicken Loans National Fantasy Golf Rankings
The Quicken Loans National fantasy golf rankings are provided by @Sgrignoli3 – PAS contributor and statistician. The rankings are derived from year-to-date player statistics extracted from PGATour.com. The weighted stats for this event can be found below the rankings. Player salaries are based off of DraftKings.com. The right end column has a variance between DraftKings salaries and Vegas odds found on RotoGrinders.com.
**Disclaimer: PGATour.com is used as source for all player statistics. Stats are extracted on Mondays of tournament week and calculated for rankings by our statistical expert. If there happens to be a numerical error, blame them not us. Also, European Tour statistics are NOT included in the rankings calculations.
The top weighted player statistics for the Quicken Loans National include:
- Strokes Gained: Approach = 20%
- Birdie or Better % = 20%
- Strokes Gained: Off the Tee = 20%
- Par 4 Scoring = 20%
- Strokes Gained: Around the Green = 10%
- Proximity to Hole = 10%
According to the model, Adam Hadwin, Sung Kang and Luke List are the best valued DraftKings plays in our top 25 this week when compared to Vegas odds.
Quicken Loans National | One and Done Picks
My top 3 One and Done options:
- Patrick Reed
- Marc Leishman
- Danny Lee
Already used: Brandt Snedeker, Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott, Bill Haas, Charles Howell III, Henrik Stenson, Rory McIlroy, Russell Henley, Jordan Spieth, Kevin Kisner, Branden Grace, Daniel Berger, Francesco Molinari, Sergio Garcia, Charley Hoffman, Jason Dufner, Tony Finau, Phil Mickelson, Jason Day, Paul Casey
Year-to-Date earnings = $4,261,360
Quicken Loans National | Betting Odds
Here is the action I have as of Tuesday evening. Be sure to check out my Twitter @Eddie_ThePAS Wednesday night for my final bets of the week, including FRLs.
To Win:
- Reed +1400
- Haas +3000
- Si WOO +4500
- Keegs +5500
- Hadwin +7000
- Grayson +10000
- Tringale +11000
- Blixt +17500
- Luck +20000
FRL:
- Mo. Hoffman +8000
- Hurley III +8000
- Tringale +10000
- MULLINEX +10000
- Barnes +125000