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Kyle Stanley Making Corales Puntacana Debut
Kyle Stanley is set to make his tournament debut in the Corales Puntacana Championship this week. Stanley is well known to DFS regulars as a tremendous ball striker and horrible putter. His statistics indicate that reputation is well deserved, as he finished last year ranked second on the PGA Tour in greens in regulation percentage,... Read More
Will Zalatoris Heads To Corales Riding High
Will Zalatoris is set to make his Corales Puntacana tournament debut this week. The youngster out of Wake Forest has been dominant on the Korn Ferry Tour this season, and leads the KFT in both the points standings and scoring average. He heads to the Dominican Republic fresh off an impressive T6 finish in last... Read More
Graeme McDowell Set To Defend Corales Title
Graeme McDowell is set to defend his Corales Puntacana title this week in the Dominican Republic. McDowell captured the victory last season with a score of 18-under par for the tournament. He led the field in strokes gained tee to green and was powered by back-to-back rounds of 64 on Friday and Saturday. The veteran... Read More
Bryson DeChambeau Wins U.S. Open In Dominant Fashion
Bryson DeChambeau's search for distance has been a focal point of discussion since the PGA Tour's restart. DeChambeau's power off the tee proved to be the difference at Winged Foot, as the 27-year-old dominated en route to victory at the U.S. Open. "The Mad Scientist" was the only player to finish under par both in... Read More
Break The Slate: DraftKings NFL DFS Lineup Picks - Week 2
Hi there, RotoBallers, and welcome back to Break The Slate! If you read this article regularly, then you know what we're about here, but if you are a new reader, let me quickly summarize our goals with this article. We'll spend each week discussing a few plays at each position for the DraftKings main slate.... Read More
U.S. Open - PGA DFS Bible (Premium Content)
Hello PGA DFS fans! Welcome to the U.S. Open DFS Bible! Obviously, the world has been turned upside down this year and after some shuffling of the schedule, we get our second major championship of 2020, the highly anticipated U.S. Open at legendary Winged Foot, a golf course that has historically played extremely difficult and... Read More
Horse For The Course: PGA DFS - U.S. Open
Thanks for joining me here at RotoBaller PGA DFS family! The new PGA Tour season kicked off with an old, familiar face emerging with a win. Stewart Cink, last seen ripping Tom Watson's heart out at the Open Championship, showed the youngsters how it's done at Silverado, winning the Safeway Open at 21-under par. We... Read More
Daily Fantasy Golf FanDuel Picks (PGA DFS): U.S. Open
Hello RotoBaller PGA family! Stewart Cink proved that age is nothing but a number by winning the Safeway Open at 21-under par last week. The Safeway Open was cute and all, but we've got a big-boy field on a big-boy golf course this week, as the world's best head to Winged Foot Golf Club for... Read More
RotoBaller PGA: One And Done Staff Picks - U.S. Open
Here at RotoBaller, we are always searching for ways to give our readers the best fantasy sports content possible. With that goal in mind, we are very proud of our weekly PGA “One and Done” column. In this feature, our golf staff of Joe Nicely, Spencer Aguiar and Josh Bennett will provide their weekly golf... Read More
DraftKings Core Four (PGA DFS): U.S. Open (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Hello RotoBallers, and thank you very much for joining me for the U.S. Open! This will be the second major championship of 2020 and we head to legendary Winged Foot Golf Club for what is expected to be a brutally-tough test of the... Read More
Viktor Hovland Looks To Make Major Impression
Viktor Hovland is one of the most exciting young players on the PGA Tour. He's been tremendous since the restart, racking up seven top-25 finishes over the last three months. Hovland is an elite ball striker and has the ability to handle the length of this week's Winged Foot layout. However, things might get tricky... Read More
Matthew Fitzpatrick Has Played Well In U.S Open
Young Matthew Fitzpatrick is set to tackle Winged Foot Golf Club this week. The Englishman has performed well in golf's toughest event, posting back-to-back T12 finishes in the last two U.S. Opens. Fitzpatrick has a tremendous short game and ranks third in this field in strokes gained putting over recent rounds, but his lack of... Read More
Ian Poulter Brings Years Of Experience To Winged Foot
Ian Poulter heads to Winged Foot Golf Club this week with 14 career U.S. Open starts on his resume. Poulter's best career finish in a U.S. Open, a T12, came on this Winged Foot layout in 2006, and he seems like the type of cagey veteran that might be able to navigate this treacherous track... Read More
Matthew Wolff Set To Make U.S. Open Debut
It's really easy to forget that Matthew Wolff is just 21 years old. The youngster made his major championship debut at the PGA Championship last month and posted an impressive T4. The lack of experience is always a concern in U.S. Opens, but in a vacuum, Wolff is intriguing. He has a nice combination of... Read More
Jordan Spieth Is Still Lost
It wasn't that long ago that Jordan Spieth was winning the U.S. Open. This week we're more concerned with if he'll be able to make the cut. The young Texan appears to be totally lost with his swing right now. Spieth ranks 121st in the field in strokes gained off the tee and 109th in... Read More
Rickie Fowler Heads To U.S. Open In Slump
Rickie Fowler heads to Winged Foot Golf Club in slumping form. The fan favorite stands just 61st in the field in strokes gained tee to green over recent rounds. If he were in better form, Fowler is a play that would be intriguing on this layout, as it does fit his game on paper. He's... Read More
Jason Day Looks To Regain Form At Winged Foot
Leading up to and including the PGA Championship, Jason Day started to look like his former elite self. Unfortunately, the magic has left just as quickly as it came. Day has struggled mightily since his T4 at Harding Park, only recording one sub-70 round in his six post-PGA Championship rounds. Despite his recent funk, the... Read More
Paul Casey A Consistent Performer In U.S. Open
Paul Casey will attempt to follow up his blazing runner-up performance in the PGA Championship this week at Winged Foot Golf Club. Casey has been an extremely consistent performer in the U.S. Open, recording top-25 finishes in each of the last three years. The Englishman finished the season ranked 21st on the PGA Tour in... Read More
Daniel Berger A Rock-Solid DFS Option
Perhaps the most consistent performer of the season, Daniel Berger has missed just one cut this calendar year and has gained strokes tee-to-green in all but one start of 2020. Berger picked up a win in the first tournament back after the restart at the Charles Schwab and has added three more top-three finishes to... Read More
Justin Rose Has Been Consistently Inconsistent
For many years an auto play in major championships, Justin Rose has been anything but consistent as of late. True to recent form, the Englishman logged a T9 at the PGA Championship on the heels of three straight missed cuts, and then proceeded to log a missed cut against a weak field at the Wyndham... Read More
Tiger Woods Hopes To Find Major Magic In New York
It's been a year marked by injury and disappointment for Tiger Woods. The legend has failed to capitalize on his promising play during the fall of 2019 and hasn't cracked the top-25 in a tournament since January. Woods has continued to strike his irons well, but has lost strokes putting in five-straight starts. It is... Read More
Tony Finau Has Been Consistent In Majors
Much is made of Tony Finau's inability to win golf tournaments, but despite being winless in major championships, the 31-year-old has been remarkably consistent in the year's biggest events. Finau has recorded four top-five finishes in his last nine major-championship starts and heads to this week's U.S. Open on the heels of a T4 in... Read More
Bryson DeChambeau Still Struggling With His Irons
Bryson DeChambeau has gained lots of publicity for his bulked-up physique and distance off the tee. However, it's DeChambeau's iron play that is the real story as he heads to Winged Foot Golf Club for this week's U.S. Open. The 26-year-old has been ice cold with the irons recently and ranks just 117th in this... Read More
Collin Morikawa Looks To Make It Two In A Row
Collin Morikawa emerged victorious from the year's first major, capturing the PGA Championship in dramatic fashion at TPC Harding Park. The young star will try to make it two majors in a row this week at the U.S. Open. Morikawa is perhaps the best young iron player that we've seen since Tiger Woods, but it's... Read More
Rory McIlroy Showing Signs Of Improvement
Rory McIlroy heads to Winged Foot Golf Club in search of the second U.S. Open title of his career. McIlroy started the season in white-hot form, but his game has floundered since the PGA Tour's restart. The four-time major champion does appear to be trending in the right direction and has gained strokes tee to... Read More
Jon Rahm Looking For First Major Championship
Jon Rahm heads to Winged Foot Golf Club this week in search of his first major championship victory. Rahm has continually gained steam since the restart and has notched marquee wins at both the Memorial and the BMW Championship. The Spaniard has plenty of power off the tee, but perhaps the most impressive area of... Read More
The Turn: Fantasy Golf Podcast & Video (PGA DFS) - U.S. Open
Joe Nicely (@JoeNicely) is joined by Andrew Poore (@AndrewPutters) to discuss the U.S. Open, breaking down the PGA DFS slates for daily fantasy golf contests on FanDuel and DraftKings. Scroll down to checkout the YouTube link! Be sure to subscribe to The Turn Podcast, part of RotoBaller Radio's Podcast Network. Like and Subscribe to the RotoBaller channel on Youtube to... Read More
Break The Slate: DraftKings NFL DFS Lineup Picks - Week 1
Hi there, RotoBallers, and welcome back to Break The Slate! If you read this article last year then you know what we're about here, but if you are a new reader, let me quickly summarize our goals with this article. We'll spend each week discussing a few plays at each position for the DraftKings main... Read More
PGA DFS: Expert Roundtable - Safeway Open
Please enjoy this PGA Premium article free for a limited time. Hello RotoBallers and thanks for joining us for the Safeway Open! This is a new article that we're offering each week as part of our PGA Premium subscription, and we hope that you will find it useful. Be sure also to read all of... Read More
Daily Fantasy Golf DraftKings Picks (PGA DFS): Safeway Open
Welcome back, RotoBallers! Dustin Johnson capped off an amazing stretch of play by winning the Tour Championship last week. With the victory, DJ also claimed the FedEx Cup and a huge $15 million payday. I'll be filling in for the great Spencer Aguiar this week. While I won't be able to equal Spencer's amazing DK... Read More
