Cash Lineup Review: Valspar Championship

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 Valspar Championship is one of my favorite PGA tournaments for DFS every year. I view it to be in the sweet spot of being volatile enough to reward contrarian GPP strategies while also being consistent enough to reward solid cash-game strategies. Similar to last week at TPC Sawgrass, the par 4s at the Copperhead Course are not excessively long, but they do require hitting fairways and greens for consistent scoring. Once again, I put an extra emphasis on ball striking for cash purposes with the hope that if my golfers could exceed the field averages in fairways and greens hit, they would be able to make the cut and stick around for the weekend.