Golf Top Plays: Fortinet 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

Max Homa ($11,000 DK, $12,000 FD) – Let’s be clear: This is no Jon Rahm at the Mexico Open situation, but Homa is undoubtedly the class of this week’s watered-down field, pacing the field by nearly eight DraftKings points with 86.5% implied odds to make the cut. Homa will look to make it a three-peat after taking home Fortinet hardware in 2021 and 2022, gaining strokes in all four categories at each event.

Sahith Theegala ($9,800 DK, $11,800 FD) – Particularly on DraftKings where he carries just the slate’s fifth-most expensive tag, Theegala matches Homa with the illustrious 8.0 value score. Theegala has played Silverado three times, boasting finishes of T14, T47, and T6, gaining more than one stroke on the greens in 2021 and 2022. A good fit for this course, Theegala’s accuracy woes should not hurt him as badly here where a bomb-and-gouge game plan can succeed.

MID-PRICED