Golf Top Plays: Zozo 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

Min Woo Lee ($9,100 DK, $11,200 FD) – More attractively priced on DraftKings where he’s at the low end of the high-priced salary spectrum, Lee checks in with our fourth-highest overall base projection (76.3) as just the ninth-most expensive player. As Tom pointed out in his Course Preview and Fits article, OTT play will be important here with Driving Distance taking priority over Accuracy. Lee ranks first in this field over the last 12 months in that category, also ranking third in Data Golf’s True Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green and sixth in Putting. It certainly doesn’t hurt that he’s coming off a win at last week’s SJM Macao Open.

Xander Schauffele ($11,100 DK, $12,000 FD) – In fairness, the stars and scrubs of this week’s slate could make any one of the players priced $9K and above a ‘top play’ and selecting the slate’s most expensive player feels like a bit of a cop-out, but sometimes the obvious answer is the right one. Even in a stronger field than we’ve seen in recent weeks, Schauffele is still easily head and shoulders above the rest, ranking second in Data Golf’s True Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green metric and third in SG: Putting. Notably, he’s also second on Approach over the last 12 months, an area where the field’s best should be able to separate from the pack.

MID-PRICED