Cash Lineup Review: Rocket Classic

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.

The storyline of the week for DFS was the restoration of Detroit Golf Club and the speculation on how the course would play in tournament conditions. As has been the case in past editions of the Rocket Classic, projection models and content were divided around the industry about whether the course would heavily favor bombers. My goal for cash purposes was to build the best floor-ceiling lineup I could regardless of how the course fared for bombers.

MY MUST PLAYS

• Si Woo Kim ($9,600) has been one of the best golfers on Tour all season, and he’s done it with an extremely well-rounded game. He’s been one of the most accurate off the tee, one of the best on approach, he’s continued to be strong around the greens, and now even his putter — typically his weak link — has been strong lately. Kim’s lone missed cut on the season came at the U.S. Open, but he bounced back strongly with consecutive top 10s at the Scottish Open and Open Championship since. I thought he was the best price-adjusted play on the slate and too cheap for someone who already had top-10 finishes in 10 events this year.
• Cameron Young ($10,500) and Hideki Matsuyama ($9,000) were the only two players left on Tour who had yet to miss a cut this season, and now they were playing against a very weak field by their standards. Although I would have loved to play Young, the pricing dynamics of the slate favored a much more balanced build this week, and his $10K+ salary simply didn’t fit that construction. This left me with Matsuyama as my no-brainer must-play. Aside from his ongoing made-cut streak, I was excited to play Matsuyama this week because his game had been extremely sharp in all areas this season except off the tee, where he has struggled with accuracy. But entering this week, Matsuyama had been extremely accurate off the tee in four consecutive events, and that gave me the confidence to hop back on the train here in Detroit.

MY WANT PLAYS