Daily fantasy golf: FanDuel picks – The 2019 Houston Open
Daily fantasy golf: FanDuel PGA – Low-tier picks ($9,000-$10,000)
Keegan Bradley – $9,800 – (Cash)
Bradley doesn’t have immaculate course history here at the Houston Open, but it is not too shabby either. He also is not really in the greatest form coming in, but he simply should not be under $10K here this week in this field. I may be a full #NeverKeegan guy, but he always makes cuts and usually fires a low score at some point in the first couple of days. We just know we can expect him to tail off as the weekend goes on more often than not as well.
It was the Sunday blues once again for Bradley last week at the Shriners Open. Mostly everyone that was still alive was going low, and Keegs shot +3 to finish alone in 70th. I will never understand what it is about the final round for this guy, but two tournaments to this new season and it has been the same story. Bradley has shot six rounds out of eight under par thus far, and the two Sunday rounds were even and the 3-over from last week.
The 33-year-old has teed it up here at the Houston Open in each of the last eight years, and while there has been some good, it has been an even split of good and bad. He has missed just one cut, and most recently T-43 last year, but did have a stretch of three top-tens in four years from 2012 to 2015.
It doesn’t feel like a safe play, but the salary made it too obvious. I expect Bradley to pretty popular in cash games this week.
Lanto Griffin – $9,500 – (Cash)
Griffin stayed hot last week, and while I missed him here on FanDuel personally, I did sneak him in the value plays and I hope some of my readers fit him in somewhere. The 31-year-old T-18 last week at the Shriners Open, giving him five straight top-20’s. Griffin spent last season on the Korn Ferry Tour where he picked up a win at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Championship and ended his regular season with a T-7 at the KFT Championship to earn a PGA Tour card for this season, and he is making the most of it.
Griffin has played four weeks in a row now to start the new season and hasn’t really even had a bad round. He had a second round of +1 at the Safeway for his only round over par and was still able to finish 9-under par and T-17 in that event. Last week, Griffin finished 15-under par and his 70 birdies through 16 rounds rank first on tour. He did play here last year and missed the cut, but his recent form makes him a lock for me in cash games.