Large-Field GPP Breakdown: Baycurrent Classic

And just like that, we are back to golf every week for the next six weeks. Even with NFL season rumbling away and NBA season just two weeks away (shout-out to my NBA grinders), DraftKings did us a favor by offering up a $50K-to-first lotto after last week’s $25K-to-first lotto filled with ease. I love to see the people at DraftKings paying attention (maybe). Anyways, even though the Golf Discord has been much quieter now that the fall season has begun, there still is plenty of money to win, and I need to make sure that I don’t come in last in the contributor challenge, either. For those of you still keeping score, Sam is in first, but none of us have won money on the year in the $200 Driver. I’m holding off Sky for second place and punishment avoidance, but I really would love a W one of these days so I can come out of 2026 positive in that contest. Maybe a trip to Japan for the Baycurrent Classic will do me some good.

Bank of Utah Championship — Recap

I’ll do a quick recap of the Bank of Utah Championship, where I think we saw the first instance of how fall golf ownership shakes out. There was a lot of talk about the top three players — Jackson Koivun, Michael Brennan, and Ben James. James was the 8.0 value going into the tournament, and boy, did he steam. Brennan, on the other hand, was projected as maybe slightly overowned and ended up squeezing because James and Koivun both came up so high. PGA DFS is often a tough beast to handle when projecting ownership because it really feels like you don’t know what the field is going to be doing. After last week, there’s some part of me that thinks maybe ETR had a bigger influence than I expected on ownership. Part of it might have been the fact that people didn’t think Brennan could win two years in a row, and he was priced in the $10K range. Who knows. What I do know, however, is that PGA ownership is fickle, which presents us with great opportunities if we call the steam/squeezes correctly.

I’m not going to take a look at the winning lineup in the Sand Trap because the field size was so different, but I will comment a little bit on how rosters were built. I was proud of the way I built my lineups last week, as Koivun/Brennan/James combinations littered the top of the ownership board. I put a strict MAX-1 on any of those players, meaning my ownership funneled into Maverick McNealy, Doug Ghim (winning play), and other $9K players like Matt Wallace (bum). While it didn’t necessarily work out last week, I knew that was the right strategy going into it to make my path to winning much easier. While I did have some lineups threatening at the top of both the Sand Trap and DTG, it wasn’t enough. My hypothesis is that the fall season is filled with players who don’t really have the same discipline as some of your most seasoned DFS players, presenting opportunities in combination management to maximize the edge we have. I’ve had sweats for the two fall events I’ve played so far this year. Maybe that’s a coincidence, but I tend not to think so.

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