Daily Fantasy Golf: FanDuel Picks – The 148th Open Championship
Daily Fantasy Golf: FanDuel PGA – Top Tier Picks: ($11,000+)
Rory McIlroy – $12,000 – (GPP)
The Open Championship has been McIlroy’s tournament for much of the last five years, and if you play any DFS golf, you should know that this is the week to play him. Rory has played in four Opens in the last five years and has had a top-five finish in all four, which includes his win in 2014 at Royal Liverpool.
McIlroy has been a top-ten machine in 2019, posting ten total in just 13 events. He has notched two victories, one being fairly recent at the RBC Canadian Open, and his top-tens include a T-9 at the U.S. Open and a T-8 at the PGA Championship. Rory has not won a major since 2014, and he is in great form coming into Royal Portrush in his native Northern Ireland.
I love the narrative, I love the event history, and I love his recent form coming in. Regardless of ownership, I like McIlroy just a hair better than Koepka this week, but I will be playing a bit of both. McIlroy is my who my head and research lead me to believe will come out victorious, but my gut call is on my next target.
Jon Rahm – $11,300 – (GPP)
Rahm always feels like an established veteran to me, so I sometimes forget he is only 24-years-old and still seeking his first major championship victory. He has won a total of seven times already, with three on the PGA Tour, and now four on the European Tour after he captured his second Irish Open title in his last action.
There is no question Rahm had his struggles in late May and into June, but whatever was off seems to be fixed. He T-3 at the U.S. Open which started his run of three straight top-three or better finishes, then T-2 at the Andalucia Masters before his win two weeks ago. Rahm was dialed-in on the final day at the Irish Open firing a 62, and held off Andy Sullivan and Bernd Wiesberger to seal the victory.
My gut call is on Rahm this week, as his game is clearly peaking, and I think he is actually a little cheap here comparatively speaking. It is not that I do not trust him or McIlroy for cash games this week, I just feel like getting 6/6 golfers to make the weekend should be your number one priority for cash games.
Remember you don’t have to find the winner to win a double-up, and you can make a really solid balanced cash lineup this week. I am not going crazy in this high tier this week for GPP’s either, but I will have plenty of Rahm and McIlroy, and a little bit of Koepka as well.