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Daily fantasy golf: FanDuel picks – The 2019 Houston Open

By Chris Aliperto

HUMBLE, TX - APRIL 02: PGA golfer Russell Henley plays his shot from the 18th tee during Shell Houston Open on April 02, 2017 at Golf Club of Houston in Humble, TX. (Photo by Juan DeLeon/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
HUMBLE, TX - APRIL 02: PGA golfer Russell Henley plays his shot from the 18th tee during Shell Houston Open on April 02, 2017 at Golf Club of Houston in Humble, TX. (Photo by Juan DeLeon/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /
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HUMBLE, TX – APRIL 03: Henrik Stenson of Sweden hits his tee shot on the 18th hole during the final round of the Shell Houston Open at the Golf Club of Houston on April 3, 2016 in Humble, Texas. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
HUMBLE, TX – APRIL 03: Henrik Stenson of Sweden hits his tee shot on the 18th hole during the final round of the Shell Houston Open at the Golf Club of Houston on April 3, 2016 in Humble, Texas. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images) /

Daily fantasy golf: FanDuel PGA – Top-tier picks: ($11,000+)

Henrik Stenson – $11,900 – (GPP)

Welcome back to the PGA Tour Henrik Stenson. Stenson picked a week where nobody else is around which makes him a huge favorite this week. In case you missed it, we haven’t heard from Stenson on this side of the pond since he passed on a guaranteed paycheck by skipping the FedEx Cup playoffs, and opting to return home to Sweden to play in the Scandanavian Invitation instead.

Stenson hasn’t really played a whole lot of golf over the last couple of months, having teed it up twice since his T-27 at the FedEx St. Jude Invitational. He T-3 at the Scandanavian Invitation, and T-17 in his last action which was the BMW PGA Championship late last month.

The 43-year-old Swede has played the Houston Open quite a bit, teeing it up seven times total in the last ten years. He has missed just one cut, and finished inside the top-ten four times, including runner-up finishes in 2013 and 2016. Last year, Stenson T-6 at 14-under par. His overall body of work here at the Golf Club of Houston is among the best in the field.

While he always plays well and is a consistent cut-maker, I don’t feel the need to pay up in cash games here this week. I love that FanDuel kept him under $12K, but the lack of overall action as of late has my expectations curbed a bit. I will play Stenson in GPP’s because he is the best golfer in this tournament, but I do not think he is a must-have this week.

Daniel Berger – $11,000 – (Cash)

I never thought I would see the day we have an $11K Daniel Berger and I am telling you to anchor your cash team with him, but here we are. Weak fields will make the unreasonable seem reasonable in PGA DFS, and when you couple the fact the Berger has been improving each week out as of late with the fact that this is probably the course he has done his best at, it makes perfect sense.

Here at the Houston Open, Berger has teed it up in each of the last four years and has finished no worse than T-25 which was in his debut in 2015. He finished T-5 in 2016 and alone in 5th in 2017, and finished T-18 last year at 11-under par. Only Russell Henley has a better body of work here over the last five years, and we will talk about him soon.

This season, Berger opened things up with a T-23 at the Safeway Open and followed that up with a T-18 last week at the Shriners Open after shooting all four rounds in the 60’s. For a guy who really hasn’t made any noise in a while, he has only missed one cut in his last fifteen events which really surprised me, and he is certainly trending in the right direction heading into this week.

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