Cash Lineup Review: Genesis Scottish Open

Our Adam Levitan devised a tried and true method for reviewing his NFL DFS cash lineups every week. And if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. My goal here is simply to apply Adam’s structure to PGA DFS cash lineups.

To steal directly from Adam, I play around 50-75% of my action each week in “cash games”. Cash games refer to any contest in which roughly 50% of the field gets paid out, such as head-to-heads, double-ups, or 50/50s. 

Each week, I’ll review my cash-game lineup in this space. Sometimes I’ll lose, but hopefully I’ll win more often. Either way, I’ll post it here and give you my thought process. For more on PGA cash game strategy, see my How to Beat PGA DFS Cash Games article.

We had an impressively strong field to kick off the links swing at the Scottish Open, as many of the world’s best — from both the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour — made the trip to The Renaissance Club for a final tune-up prior to next week’s Open Championship. I’m not usually a fan of especially strong fields for cash purposes because I often feel that stronger fields lead to a larger quantity of viable player combinations, which in turn leads to fewer opportunities for our opponents to make mistakes. On this slate, however, I appreciated the plethora of strong players because I had a lot of factors I wanted to consider for cash this week, and the larger pool of quality golfers allowed me to be especially picky. These factors included: