Daily Fantasy Golf: FanDuel Picks – The 2019 3M Open
Daily Fantasy Golf: FanDuel PGA – Low Tier Picks ($9,000-$10,000)
Sungjae Im – $9,800 – (Cash)
More chalk, and another rising star right on the cusp of grabbing his first victory. If you have followed me since I was writing up rankings for PlayDraft way back in the day, you are either sick of me writing up Im and Niemann, or you love them both as young golfers like I do. Imagine my excitement right now with how well both of these kids are playing at the same time! Bring in Viktor Hovland and Matthew Wolff, to the fold and I am more excited about the PGA tour than I have been since I saw Tiger Woods lose to Rich Beem at the 2002 PGA Championship at Hazeltine National.
Im is another pure ball-striker, but his only bugaboo right now is his putter. After missing three straight cuts with the busiest schedule on tour playing pretty much every week through April, he has really got it together over the last six weeks or so. He has now made four straight cuts, and after his solo 7th place at the RBC Canadian Open to start June, Im has finish T-21 in each of the last two weeks at the Travelers Championship and the Rocket Mortgage Classic. I will be heavy on him again this week, as usual.
Scott Piercy – $9,600 – (GPP)
I am not a guy that projects ownership or anything like that, as I all want to do is roster the guys I think that are going to go out and play the best golf. I see a lot of what I saw in Charles Howell III last week in Piercy this week, in the sense that I think he is a golfer that plays really well on easier courses, and he may go a bit unnoticed here. Piercy has been solid in 2019 so completely unnoticed is a stretch, but there are a ton of golfers in this price range this week worthy of consideration.
Of course we have Howell again, and Streelman is still cheap and viable as well. Even though both were just fine until a less than stellar Sunday last week, they essentially still did what we needed them to do fantasy points wise. I was in really good shape with my lineups going into Sunday, and if these two could have shot under par just one more day, it easily could have been much better.
So about Piercy. He comes into Minnesota this week well rested, having not teed it up in any of the three events since the U.S. Open. He got off to a fine start at Pebble Beach shooting 4-under par on Thursday, but failed to shoot under par in any of the three remaining rounds, and finished T-52. Prior to that he had missed a cut at the RBC Canadian Open, snapping a streak of making the weekend in six straight.
Because of the long layoff and the plethora of “safer” options in this price range, I am going to save Piercy for tournament play this week. I have that feeling he could easily top-five here, as he is not too far removed from back-to-back top-fives at the RBC Heritage and the AT&T Byron Nelson.