Golf Top Plays: The Open 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

Jon Rahm ($10,400 DK, $11,600 FD) – Rahm remains as impressive as ever Off-the-Tee, ranking third in this field over the last 12 months in Data Golf’s True Strokes Gained in that category, boasting the field’s 12th-best Driving Distance and 42nd-best Driving Accuracy. While length isn’t necessarily rewarded as much here as other venues, his ability to consistently find fairways should be a positive here. He still ranks 21st in True SG: Approach and though Around-the-Green performance is often tough to predict, it doesn’t hurt that Rahm ranks third during the same time frame there either. Checking in with a slight discount from both Rory McIlroy ($11,500) and an even bigger gap from Scottie Scheffler ($14,200), he checks in as our top overall value.