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Jhonattan Vegas Is Garnering DFS Buzz
Jhonattan Vegas is in the field for the upcoming Wells Fargo Championship. The big hitter from Venezuela heads to North Carolina in excellent form. Vegas has recorded five straight made cuts and notched an impressive T3 finish at The Players Championship. He ranks ninth on the PGA Tour in strokes gained: off the tee and... Read More
Justin Rose Returns To Wells Fargo Championship
Justin Rose is set to tee it up this week. It will be the Englishman's first appearance in the Wells Fargo Championship since 2016. Rose has logged strong results at Quail Hollow in his career, including a third-place finish in that '16 start and a fifth-place outing in 2014, so his two-year absence from the... Read More
Brendan Steele Hopes To Find Form At Quail Hollow
Brendan Steele is in the field for this week's Wells Fargo Championship. Steele heads to North Carolina in the midst of an almost year-long slump and has missed the cut in seven of his 10 starts in 2019. The Californian has struggled in basically every facet of the game, but his biggest woes have been... Read More
Charles Howell III Looks To Continue Strong Season
Charles Howell III is in the field for the upcoming Wells Fargo Championship. Howell has had a tremendous season by any measure. He won the RSM Classic in the fall and has notched five top-15 finishes on the PGA Tour in 2019. The veteran will look to continue his strong run at Quail Hollow this... Read More
Webb Simpson Feels Right At Home At Quail Hollow
Webb Simpson is in the field for the Wells Fargo Championship. Simpson is a member and resident of Quail Hollow Club, the host course of this week's tournament. In addition to his home-course advantage, he heads into the week with some sharp recent form. Simpson followed up a T5 at the Masters with a recent... Read More
Keegan Bradley Looks To Regain Form At Wells Fargo
Keegan Bradley is set to tee it up in this week's Wells Fargo Championship. After starting the season in solid form, Bradley's play has been trending downward in his last two outings. He missed the cut at the Valspar Championship and could only manage a T43 at the Masters. Bradley is an elite iron player,... Read More
Rory Sabbatini Continues To Surprise In 2019
Rory Sabbatini is in the field for this week's Wells Fargo Championship. Sabbatini is experiencing a bit of a career renaissance in 2019 and his hot play has been a big surprise to many golf fans. He and partner Brian Gay logged a T3 in last week's Zurich Classic team event. The South African also... Read More
Keith Mitchell Offers High Upside At Quail Hollow
Keith Mitchell is scheduled to tee it up in this week's Wells Fargo Championship. Mitchell is having a breakout season in 2019 and scored his first career victory at the Honda Classic in February. The University of Georgia product has struggled in his last three starts, but Quail Hollow profiles to be a better fit... Read More
Zach Johnson Looks To Stay Hot At Wells Fargo
Zach Johnson is in the field for this week's Wells Fargo Championship. Johnson heads to Quail Hollow fresh off his best finish of 2019, a T16 at the RBC Heritage. The two-time major champion has struggled to get on track this year, but top-25 finishes in two of his last three starts indicate that he... Read More
Tony Finau Brings Momentum To North Carolina
Tony Finau is slated to tee it up in this week's Wells Fargo Championship. Finau had been quiet for the majority of 2019, but exploded for a T5 finish at the Masters earlier this month. The young star will look to bring that positive momentum to North Carolina in his first start since his strong... Read More
Phil Mickelson Has Flourished At Quail Hollow
Phil Mickelson is in the field for this week's Wells Fargo Championship. It will be Mickelson's first start since a T18 at the Masters earlier this month. The 48-year-old has flourished at Quail Hollow throughout his career. He logged a T5 in last year's Wells Fargo Championship and scored back-to-back T4 finishes in 2015 and... Read More
Henrik Stenson Returns To Wells Fargo Championship
Henrik Stenson is set to play in this week's Wells Fargo Championship. It will be Stenson's first appearance in the tournament since a missed cut in 2016. Though the Swede hasn't played the Wells Fargo recently, he did log a T13 in the 2017 PGA Championship that was held at Quail Hollow. He hasn't put... Read More
Paul Casey Looks To Rebound At Wells Fargo
Paul Casey is scheduled to tee it up in this week's Wells Fargo Championship. It will be Casey's first start since a disastrous outing at the Masters earlier this month, where he suffered through an opening-round 81 before missing the cut. This week's host course, Quail Hollow, should be a nice bounce-back spot for the... Read More
PGA DFS: Horse For The Course - Wells Fargo Championship
Ok...how bad did last week suck?!? No offense to the Zurich Classic, but a week in April without PGA DFS feels like it lasts a month. The struggle is real for those of us that eat, sleep, and breathe this game. The unlikely duo of Jon Rahm and Ryan Palmer took down the Zurich, and... Read More
Team Patrick Is Ready For Zurich Classic
Team Patrick is once again ready to tackle the Zurich Classic. The duo of Patrick Cantlay and Patrick Reed logged a T7 in last year's version of the Zurich, the PGA Tour's only team event. Cantlay is coming off two strong performances at the Masters and the RBC Heritage, while Reed has been scuffling as... Read More
Scott Piercy Records Best Finish Of 2019
Scott Piercy finished at 10-under par to record a T3 at the RBC Heritage. It was Piercy's best finish of 2019 and his first top-five since the CJ Cup at Nine Bridges in October of last year. The ball-striking extraordinaire gained a massive 7.1 strokes on approaches at Harbour Town. He was also helped by... Read More
Matthew Fitzpatrick Quiet At Harbour Town
Matthew Fitzpatrick logged a T39 at the RBC Heritage. It was a quiet performance from the Englishman, who has often described Harbour Town as his favorite course on the PGA Tour schedule. After back-to-back 71s to start the week, Fitzpatrick fired a Saturday 68 but followed that up with a final-round 72. At just 24... Read More
Daniel Berger Fades Over The Weekend
Daniel Berger logged a T33 at the RBC Heritage. Berger came out of the gates firing at Harbour Town with opening rounds of 66 and 69. However, the two-time PGA Tour winner wasn't able to keep pace over the weekend, as scores of 72 and 74 sent him tumbling down the leaderboard. At just 26-years-old,... Read More
Sam Burns Has Big Weekend In Hilton Head
Sam Burns enjoyed a very nice weekend in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Burns got engaged to his long-time girlfriend and recorded a ninth-place finish in the RBC Heritage. It was Burns' first top-10 finish since a T3 at the Sanderson Farms in October of last year. The 22-year-old out of LSU is a player that... Read More
Patrick Cantlay Shines At RBC Heritage
Patrick Cantlay tied for third place at the RBC Heritage. Cantlay was propelled by weekend rounds of 66 and 69. He came to the 72nd hole just one stroke back of eventual winner C.T. Pan. Needing a birdie to force a playoff, Cantlay could only manage a bogey and fell into a tie for third... Read More
Zach Johnson Scores Best Finish Of 2019 At RBC
Zach Johnson logged three sub-70 rounds at Harbour Town en route to a T16 finish at the RBC Heritage. Surprisingly, it was Johnson's best finish of 2019. The two-time major champion has failed to find his groove this season. His normally-reliable putting has let him down time and again this year, as he ranks just... Read More
Jim Furyk Records Shocking Missed Cut At RBC
Jim Furyk shot 70-76 in his opening two rounds at the RBC Heritage to finish at four-over par and miss the cut. It was a shockingly-poor outing from the two-time Heritage winner who has revived his career in 2019. The 48-year-old has played inspired golf this year with a runner-up finish at the Players Championship... Read More
Sungjae Im Sent Packing In Heritage Debut
Sungjae Im failed to make the cut in his RBC Heritage debut. Im never found his footing on the tricky Harbour Town layout. The rookie shot an opening-round 72 and was on the borderline of the 54-hole cut line, but a triple-bogey late in his second round ended any hopes he had of making the... Read More
Kevin Na Surprises At Harbour Town
Kevin Na recorded a T10 at the RBC Heritage. A final-round 67 shot Na up 24 spots on the leaderboard. It was a surprising performance from the 35-year-old that has been saddled with nagging injuries for most of 2019. Na showed some signs of life at the WGC-Dell Match Play a few weeks ago, but... Read More
Ian Poulter Fades In Final Round Of Heritage
Ian Poulter entered the final round of the RBC Heritage trailing only the leader Dustin Johnson, but Poulter wasn't able to capitalize on his position and a two-over par 73 sent him tumbling eight spots down the leaderboard into a tie for 10th. The Englishman has had two opportunities to win recently, but he's struggled... Read More
Branden Grace's Struggles Continue At RBC Heritage
Branden Grace has struggled throughout much of 2019. Those struggles continued in the RBC Heritage, as the South African limped to a T61 finish at Hilton Head. Harbour Town seemed like a good spot for Grace to snap out of his funk, as he won the RBC Heritage title in 2016, but he failed to... Read More
Webb Simpson Posts Solid Heritage Outing
Webb Simpson entered the RBC Heritage as one of the many elite fantasy options in the field. Simpson appeared to be headed for a strong finish after a blistering third-round 65, but his move up the leaderboard stalled out with an even-par 71 in the final round. The veteran's six-under par total was good for... Read More
Marc Leishman Disappoints At RBC Heritage
Marc Leishman logged scores of 77 and 71 over his final 36 holes in the RBC Heritage. The Aussie's difficult weekend capped off a disappointing outing at Hilton Head and left him in a share of 58th place. After picking up a win during the swing season and recording three top-five's in his first four... Read More
Matt Kuchar Finishes Strong At RBC Heritage
Matt Kuchar fired a final-round 67 to shoot up the RBC Heritage leaderboard Sunday. The score was good enough to put him at 11-under par for the tournament, one stroke shy of winner C.T. Pan. The runner-up finish was just the latest in a string of great performances by Kuchar at Harbour Town. The veteran... Read More
Kevin Na Hopes To Find Form At Harbour Town
Kevin Na is set to tee it up in this week's RBC Heritage. Na has battled injuries and poor play throughout 2019. He hasn't shown much form this season outside of a deep run at the WGC-Dell Match Play last month. The 35-year-old managed to make the cut in the Masters last week but could... Read More
