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Northern Trust picks (Daily Fantasy Golf)
Top-Tier Targets Jason Day ($10,700) A course that puts a premium on short game and scrambling… Hello Jason Day! Day has seen a nice price bump this week and checks in as the third most expensive player in the field, but you shouldn’t mind paying a premium for Day and his skill set at this layout. The price bump may actually make him a nice play in GPPs, as long as his hype doesn’t build too much throughout the week. Day has been excellent in his three appearances at this course with finishes of T-31 in 2008, T-5 in 2010, and T-2 in 2014. Tiger Woods ($10,100) I’m still riding the high from Tiger’s epic final round at the PGA Championship, and he should be licking his chops heading to a course where he will be able to club down off the tee and use his elite iron play to his advantage. Tiger has been simply incredible this season with his approach game and he remains one of the best in the world around the green. He flew under the radar last time out at Bellerive but expect Tiger to be one of the most popular plays in the entire field this week, if not the most popular. Others to Consider: Jordan Spieth (GPP), Webb Simpson
Mid-Tier Targets Zach Johnson ($8,700) If you do decide to play cash games this week, how do you not lock and load Zach Johnson in that lineup? Johnson has been a cash game warrior all year long and enters this week having posted six straight top-20 finishes. Add to the fact that he has finished within the top-25 at this course in 2010 and in 2014, and you have as close to a top-25 lock as there is in the field this week. I don’t mind a full fade in tournaments due to a likely lack of elite winning upside, but the floor is tough to pass up on in cash game formats. Louis Oosthuizen ($7,700) While Johnson is a cash game lock, Oosthuizen is a guy I’m taking a long hard look at for GPPs. He burned us badly by withdrawing before the first round at the PGA Championship, but we need short memories in DFS. I have no problem going right back to Oosthuizen and his aching back at a layout that puts a premium on the short game, as Oosthuizen ranks fifth on tour in SG: Around the Green. Expect ownership around 5 percent as long as we don’t get another pre-tournament withdraw. Others to Consider: Patrick Cantlay, Tyrrell Hatton, Alex Noren
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Value Targets Kevin Kisner ($7,300) It was a rough start to the season for Kisner, but he has really turned his season around since The Open Championship. His ball striking looks much better and has been riding a red-hot putter for the better part of the last month. Kisner has solid history on bentgrass surfaces and his game is always a better fit on courses where he won’t be put at a disadvantage because of his lack of elite length off the tee. Kyle Stanley ($7,300)Stanley is a one of my favorite golfers to target at less-than-driver layouts and he just showed out a few weeks ago at Firestone CC, which is another straightforward, bentgrass layout. He was disappointing last time out at the PGA Championship, but that was a much more difficult layout for Stanley’s game that what he’ll see this week at Ridgewood. Others to Consider: Keegan Bradley, Anirban Lahiri, Joel Dahmen
