Daily Fantasy Golf: FanDuel Picks – The 2019 Rocket Mortgage Classic

Welcome to this Daily Fantasy Golf piece from FantasyCPR.com. Here you will find players to target on FanDuel, for this weeks Rocket Mortgage Classic, taking place at Detroit Golf Club in Detroit, Michigan.

In this article, I will present to you some picks to consider from each price tier for Daily Fantasy Golf on FanDuel. Some plays will be geared toward cash games, and some for GPP tournaments. Some of course will also technically qualify as both. As we break each play down, I will be sure to specify which type of contests I am targeting that player in.

I will give two players to target from $11K up to the top salary, two targets from the $10K-$11K range, and two from the $9-10K range. After that will come my top value plays from the $8-9K range, along with a couple of GPP flyers to consider for tournament play. Last but certainly not least, I will end the article the ever popular sample lineup we like to do here at FantasyCPR.

I used to give a quick recap here from the previous week, but with MLB in full go, I am forced to scrap that portion of this article in an attempt to shorten things up. If you are ever curious as to how things worked out, my picks along with the other top experts in the field are tracked at Daily Overlay.

Daily Fantasy Golf: FanDuel PGA – Top Tier Picks: ($11,000+)

Hideki Matsuyama – $11,300 – (Cash)

It almost feels like it was just last week, and every week for that matter, that Matsuyama is ending up a target of mine. I have been on him for a good three events or so, and this really feels like the week he is going to get there.

He is yet to disappoint, as his worst finish in his last four events was his T-23 at the AT&T Byron Nelson, and he comes into Detroit Golf Club and the inaugural Rocket Mortgage Classic off of a T-21 at the U.S. Open.

I do like Dustin Johnson a good bit as well this week, as I do not feel he will do us as bad as Brooks did last week. In all honesty I am way more worried about the other two golfers in this price range, and even though this is not a deep field, I still feel compelled to fade both for a little variance.

Gary Woodland will be popular off of his win at Pebble Beach, but he will have a lot more to deal with due to that fact media wise, and while he could go out and dominate again, this is one chalk spot I will fade.

Rickie Fowler is the other top salary play this week, and he just has not been playing good enough as of late for me to play him. I will instead be heavy on Matsuyama as he is actually my pick to win this week, and I will have some DJ as well.

***Also Consider: Dustin Johnson – $12,500***

Daily Fantasy Golf: FanDuel PGA – Mid Tier Picks ($10,000-$11,000)

Chez Reavie – $10,900 – (Cash)

No chance I don’t write him up again, but hey at least I grabbed a new picture for the cover shot! This marks week three for Reavie in my Daily Fantasy Golf FanDuel Picks, and what a nice little journey it has been for my current favorite player, until he burns me in DFS. It could very well happen this week, but with this field, I am definitely going to continue to ride this wave.

Reavie first appeared in this article two weeks ago for the U.S. Open, hidden as my bonus GPP flyer as he was just $8,300. He had been playing solid golf again for about a month, despite missing the cut at the Charles Schwab Challenge in his previous action before Pebble Beach.

He quietly T-3 at that U.S. Open, and as we know he pulled off the win at the Travelers last week at $9,900. Chez got a hefty price bump this week, but he is still as he was last week, a cash game lock for me. Of course I do not expect another win here, but with the way he is playing and the strength of this field, Chez becomes a much harder fade than a few others priced a little higher.

Sungjae Im – $10,300 – (Cash/GPP)

Im has been overall pretty volatile over the course of 2019. That can be expected for any 20-year-old kid on tour, especially one as far away from home as he is. The South Korean came out swinging in 2019, playing nearly every event, and he definitely makes the cut more often than not.

This a pretty risky cash play as the masses may gravitate towards Ryan Moore this week, but is Moore really safer? Im did hit a funk and miss a few cuts in a row, but he has now made the weekend in three straight events, and he followed up his solo seventh place finish at the RBC Canadian with a decent T-21 at the Travelers Championship last week.

He is more of a GPP play this week, but with the player pool as limited as it is, I believe Im is plenty safe here. Look at it this way as well. This is a new course for everybody as it is a brand new event, but basically every course this year has been new for Im. This is what he has been doing all year, and he has been pretty solid doing it.

***Also Consider: Kevin Kisner $10,500 – Viktor Hovland $10,000***

Daily Fantasy Golf: FanDuel PGA – Low Tier Picks ($9,000-$10,000)

Joaquin Niemann – $9,800 – (GPP)

Niemann and Im have a lot in common this week. Age of course, both very much in play this week considering the strength of the field, and both close to being cash safe believe it or not.

It appears as though Hovland and/or Matthew Wolff will continue to get all of the hype and media coverage, and my guess is that with few eyes on them once again, either Im or Niemann here will post another top-ten.

While Hovland is also close it seems, Wolff proved to be at least human with an MDF after a poor Saturday last week at the Travelers, and he is the one youngster I am going to put on the back-burner for a week.

If I actually wasn’t running good the last two weeks I would say that means play Wolff, but not this week. Not yet.

Niemann is overall a little hotter than Im, and he still seems to still be riding that narrative of going home to Chile which I mentioned a few weeks back, and taking a few weeks off of the PGA tour to regroup after a few missed cuts.

He has now made four straight cuts, and shot all four rounds under par last week at the Travelers Championship to T-5. I hear Niemann is pretty expensive over there on DraftKings this week, so this could be a popular GPP play over here on FanDuel. Regardless of that, this is where I will have my exposure.

Kevin Streelman – $9,500 – (Cash)

As I have sort of displayed here but not quite said it maybe, for me the overall theme the week is “If it ain’t broke…” This is my approach with Reavie, Matsuyama, and now here with the suddenly hot Kevin Streelman.

I recommended Streelman last week, and he continued his solid run with a T-15 at TPC River Highlands.

What surprises me most here, is that with six straight made cuts now which includes four finishes of T-15 or better , he still got no price increase.

Being that all golfers are pretty much in the same boat being this is a new PGA Tour venue, I wouldn’t have blinked an eye if Streelman was up over $10K this week after what he has done in his last two, and he would still be right here featured in this article once again.

He notched a solo fourth at the Memorial in his prior action to the Travelers Championship, and he quietly has shot seven straight rounds under par. When I saw his price here it was an instant cash lock for me, and this is yet another wave I will ride until his price comes up a bit, or it backfires and he has a bad week.

***Also Consider: Charles Howell III $9,800 – Rory Sabbatini $9,400***

Daily Fantasy Golf: FanDuel PGA – Top Value Picks (Below $9,000)

Brian Stuard – $8,600 – (Cash/GPP)

“Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Narrative Street?” What a perfect week to dig for narratives as we have no course history to go off this we6eek, and man was PGA DFS Twitter all over this one as early as Sunday night.

It started here with Brian Stuard, as it was originally thought he may be the only golfer that has played this golf course, as this will be a homecoming for him.

Then it even stretched to little known Joey Garber as another Detroit native, and he should also have some experience here. Look narratives are fun, super fun in fact. But don’t play Garber, and yeah I love the fact that Stuard is a better golfer and gets to play in front of some family most likely, but I am honestly on him for what he has done over the course of 2019.

Stuard has missed just three cuts including last week, but obviously his price stays way down here because he just is not going to win. Still, making the weekend 13 out of 16 times, regardless of finish, is really something I am dialed into here.

I don’t know how highly owned Stuard will be in cash games, narrative street can be a powerful thing. But if he did not miss the cut last week at the Travelers Championship, you can bet it would be higher.

My guess is Dustin Johnson will get his normal 30% ownership in cash, and that means that golfers will be rostered in this range. What Stuard has done off of each his missed cuts is the final aspect that has my attention here though, and still not the narrative street stuff just so we know that is all in good fun.

So I mentioned Stuard has missed three cuts in 2019, and he comes into the Rocket Mortgage Classic this week off of one. Last time he missed a cut it was in a weak field at the Puntacana Corales Championship, and that likely disappointment led to a T-4 the following week at the Valero Texas Open.

Prior to that, Stuard snapped a streak of six straight cuts made when he missed one at the Players Championship, but he then followed that up the next week with a T-18 at the Valspar Championship. Feels like a top-20 or better here for for the veteran, and I have plenty of reasons here to pivot off of a perceived chalky Sung Kang.

***Also Consider: Sung Kang – $8,800***

***Bonus GPP Flyer: Peter Malnati – $8,500***

Daily Fantasy Golf: FanDuel PGA – The 2019 Rocket Mortgage Classic – Sample Cash Lineup:

The line-up below is meant to be illustrative only to further back-up the logic laid out in previous slides. It is not an optimal line-up. It is in fact, just a “Sample Lineup.”

G – Hideki Matsuyama – $11,300
G – Sungjae Im – $10,300
G – Chez Reavie – $10,900
G – Rory Sabbatini – $9,400
G – Kevin Streelman – $9,500
G – Brian Stuard – $8,600

That is all for this weeks Daily Fantasy Golf FanDuel Picks for the 2019 Rocket Mortgage Classic. If you have any questions, give me a follow on Twitter with the link at the top of the article and fire away.

You can also leave a question right here in the comments, and I will do my best to respond before lock Thursday morning. Thank you for reading this weeks FanDuel PGA preview. Time to go make some lineups, and may your golf tilt be minimal this weekend!