Daily fantasy golf: FanDuel picks – The 2019 TOUR championship
Daily fantasy golf: FanDuel PGA – Mid-tier picks ($10,000-$12,000)
Jon Rahm – $10,700 – (Cash/GPP)
Rahm has been the most consistent golfer on the planet over the last couple of months. It doesn’t matter if the event is in the U.S., somewhere on the European Tour, or a Major Championship in Ireland, Jon Rahm has put together an outstanding run leading into the season finale, the TOUR Championship.
He won the Irish Open in his tune-up for the Open Championship where he finished T-11, but unfortunately, that win was on the European Tour, and there were no FedEx Cup points awarded.
It almost seems absurd that he sits in 6th place in the standings, but the quadruple points for the last two weeks were a huge boost for those who finished first and second.
With the drop from 5th to 6th place in the FedEx Cup standings after the BMW Championship, Rahm will start things out at East Lake with a score of 4-under par. Six strokes back is a huge deficit to start, and that is the design of this tournament with the rule changes.
In past years, the winner of the TOUR Championship did not win the FedEx Cup, and this starting strokes model is designed for that scenario to unfold.
Regardless of starting strokes and all of these outliers many will be spending too much time on to figure out, just like any week we still simply want the best golfers fit for whatever particular course they are playing on.
For the past couple of weeks, we have wanted to target the best tee-to-green players, and this course demands a different skill set being it is just a par 70.
I am looking at players who are great in approach, and around the greens instead this week, as this is a course where the second shots will be key.
Rahm is solid in both aspects here and is actually a bit underrated in both categories as well. He has played in two TOUR Championships in his young career with a T-7 and a T-11, and he comes into East Lake off of a T-3 at the Northern Trust, and a T-5 last week at the BMW Championship.
I think Rahm sneaks his way up to second place this week, coming up just short of Justin Thomas on an exciting final Sunday of golf of the season.