Golf Top Plays: BMW Championship

Editor’s Note: We may not write up every player we consider to be a top play. Be sure to consult the chart at the bottom of the page. This article will update to reflect any injury or weather news.

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Below, you will find the players we consider the best for the slate. These do NOT account for ownership, but they do account for salary. In other words, Jon Rahm could be our No. 1 play in the high range… but he could also be a bad tournament play because he projects for 60% ownership in an extreme example.

This article is for cash games (contests in which roughly 50% of the field gets paid out, such as a head-to-head or double-up). For tournaments, our focus should be more on the projected ownership and projected ceiling columns in our projections table.

With that said, these are our Top Plays considering the following factors: median projection, lower volatility, upside, and value. They are listed in price descending order. At the bottom, you’ll find suggested rankings by site once salary is accounted for.

HIGH-PRICED

Russell Henley ($9,700 DK, $9,800 FD) – It’s easy to list Scottie Scheffler or Rory McIlroy here — as we do almost any week they’re teeing it up — but it was actually Henley who stood out amongst a strong group of high-priced players as a strong value given how we expect this course to play and who we expect it to favor. Henley certainly isn’t known for his length Off the Tee, ranking 48th out of 49 in this field in Driving Distance, but he is still one of the field’s best overall golfers and may not be priced accordingly, as just the ninth-most-expensive golfer in the field. While we’d prefer that he offer more distance, he’s still fourth in Driving Accuracy, 12th in Data Golf’s True Strokes Gained: Approach, third Around-the-Green, and 11th in Putting. Despite not being an ideal course fit, we think the price is too cheap for someone who has booked finishes of T5, T10, T2, T10, and T17 in his last five events against some of the best fields the golf world has to offer.