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Sungjae Im Set To Make Valspar Debut
PGA Tour rookie Sungjae Im is set to make his Valspar Championship debut this week. The 20-year-old from South Korea is having an impressive rookie campaign. Im has already recorded three top-10 finishes in his 15 starts of the 2018-19 season. Last year's Web.com Tour player of the year ranks an eye-opening 20th in strokes... Read More
PGA DFS: Horse For The Course - Valspar Championship
Welcome back RotoBallers! After a series of near misses in seemingly every tournament this season, Rory McIlroy finally closed the deal on a Sunday to win The Players Championship. We are seeing a focused and motivated Rory this year and it's really what we've been waiting for from a guy that has all the tools... Read More
Branden Grace Looks For Another Strong Outing At Valspar
Branden Grace is in the field for the upcoming Valspar Championship. Grace will be looking for another top-10 finish at Innisbrook, where he recorded a T8 last year. The South African logged a forgettable T72 in last week's Players Championship, but a runner-up finish at the Waste Management Open earlier this year reminded golf fans... Read More
Henrik Stenson Has Elite Course History At Valspar
Henrik Stenson is in the field for the upcoming Valspar Championship. The Swede narrowly missed the cut at last week's Players Championship. After starting 2019 in sluggish form, Stenson showed some signs of life with a T17 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational two weeks ago. 'The Iceman' gained strokes on approach shots at TPC Sawgrass... Read More
Paul Casey Set To Defend Valspar Title
Paul Casey is set to defend his Valspar Championship title this week. A final-round 65 vaulted Casey to the top of the leaderboard last year and he won the title by a single shot over Patrick Reed and Tiger Woods. The Englishman will attempt to recover from his worst outing of the year at last... Read More
Webb Simpson Brings Consistent Play To Valspar
Webb Simpson is set to tee it up in this week's Valspar Championship. Simpson has been a model of consistency this season and has made the cut in all five of his 2019 starts. He heads to Innisbrook Resort fresh off a T16 finish at The Players Championship, where he rolled the ball extremely well... Read More
Ian Poulter Suffers Weekend Implosion At The Players
After beautiful opening rounds of 69 and 66 put Ian Poulter squarely in the mix at The Players Championship, a disastrous weekend sent him tumbling down the leaderboard. The Englishman's implosion resulted in rounds of 75 and 76 over his final 36 holes and dropped him into a T56 finish. It was an extremely disappointing... Read More
Webb Simpson Plays Well In Players Title Defense
Defending Players champion Webb Simpson played well in defense of his title, logging a T16 finish in this year's edition. Simpson moved up the leaderboard with a final-round 68, his best score of the week. The short hitter wasn't able to take advantage of a soft TPC Sawgrass course that played much differently this year.... Read More
Tiger Woods Logs Forgettable Outing At The Players
Tiger Woods was never able to get things going at TPC Sawgrass and settled for a T30 at The Players Championship. Woods finished at six-under par for the week, 10 shots behind winner Rory McIlroy. The 14-time major winner was undone by an ugly quadruple bogey on the par-three 17th hole during Friday's second round... Read More
Michael Thompson Has Poor Players Championship History
Michael Thompson is in the field for The Players Championship. Thompson has had a dream start to the year with top-16 or better finishes in five of his last six PGA Tour starts. His streak ended at last week's Arnold Palmer Invitational when Thompson lost strokes to the field in both approach and putting categories.... Read More
Branden Grace Brings Inconsistent Form To Sawgrass
Branden Grace is scheduled to tee it up in The Players Championship this week. The South African has been plagued by inconsistent form in 2019. Grace recorded a runner-up finish at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, but has also missed cuts at the Farmers and Genesis. He has been steady in his previous trips to... Read More
Brendan Steele Rides Hot Putter At Bay Hill
Brendan Steele recorded his best finish of 2019 at last week's Arnold Palmer Invitational. The slumping Steele rode a hot putter into a T17 finish at Bay Hill. It was just his second made cut in six starts this year. Normally atrocious on the greens, Steele gained a massive 7.3 strokes putting last week. It... Read More
Marc Leishman's DFS Price Reduced For The Players
Marc Leishman is set to tee it up in The Players Championship. The 'Big Aussie' has cooled a bit since a hot start to 2019. Leishman recorded top-five finishes in three of his first four starts this year, but has only managed a T62 and a T23 in his two most recent outings. The 35-year-old's... Read More
Phil Mickelson Is A Risky Proposition This Week
After weeks of speculation, Phil Mickelson appears set to tee it up in The Players Championship. 'Lefty' had hinted that he might skip this event, but has committed to playing after a practice round at TPC Sawgrass. The 48-year-old has vowed to reduce his schedule to only events where he feels he has a chance... Read More
Patrick Cantlay A Dark-Horse Contender At The Players
Patrick Cantlay is set to tee it up in this week's Players Championship. It will be Cantlay's third straight appearance at a TPC Sawgrass course on which he's logged back-to-back top-25 finishes. The 26-year-old had a breakout season in 2018 and has continued to play at a very high level this year. He ranks an... Read More
Tony Finau Has Rocky History At TPC Sawgrass
Tony Finau is in the field for this week's Players Championship. The rising star had a breakout 2018 season, but has yet to figure out TPC Sawgrass. In three career Players starts, Finau has a T54 and two missed cuts. The 29-year-old's game revolves around his distance off the tee, an advantage that is muted... Read More
Alex Noren Still Searching For Form
Alex Noren is in the field for the upcoming Players Championship. The Swede has a strong track record at TPC Sawgrass, but heads into this year's event in horrible form. The Euro Tour veteran has missed the cut in two of his four 2019 starts, with a T44 at the Waste Management Phoenix Open standing... Read More
Zach Johnson Looks For Breakout At The Players
Zach Johnson is in the field for The Players Championship. It has been a ho-hum 2019 to this point for the two-time major champion, with his best finish being a T28 at the Desert Classic in January. Johnson has been making cuts, but not much else. He logged a T40 in last week's Arnold Palmer... Read More
Sungjae Im Set To Make Players Championship Debut
Sungjae Im is set to make his first career start at The Players Championship this week. The 2018 Web.com Tour Player of the Year is fresh off a T3 in last week's Arnold Palmer Invitational. It was the young star's second top-five finish in what has been an outstanding rookie campaign on the PGA Tour.... Read More
Tiger Woods On Track To Play This Week
Tiger Woods is on track to play in The Players Championship after a surprising withdrawal from last week's Arnold Palmer Invitational. The 14-time major champion opted to skip Bay Hill due to a painful neck sprain, but a week of rest and treatment has him ready to give it a go at TPC Sawgrass. The... Read More
Ian Poulter Has Great Record At TPC Sawgrass
Ian Poulter is in The Players Championship field this week. The Englishman has a track record of great success at TPC Sawgrass. Poulter is twice a runner-up at THE PLAYERS and logged a T11 in last year's edition. The Euro Tour veteran is playing some of the best golf of his career this season and... Read More
Matt Kuchar Returns To Action At The Players
Matt Kuchar is in the field for The Players Championship. The veteran has experienced a roller coaster season up to this point. Kuchar has already nabbed two wins, but has also been forced to deal with an embarrassing caddie-payment scandal that turned into a media firestorm. The 40-year-old has used the last two weeks to... Read More
Paul Casey Heads To TPC Sawgrass On A Hot Streak
Paul Casey is set to tee it up at The Players Championship. The Englishman missed last year's PLAYERS, but will be riding a wave of hot play into this year's edition. In his last three starts, Casey has scored a runner-up finish at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, a T25 at the Genesis Open, and... Read More
Henrik Stenson Trending In The Right Direction
Henrik Stenson is in the field for The Players Championship. The Swede has struggled in the early part of 2019, missing three Euro Tour cuts and playing poorly in the WGC-Mexico. 'The Iceman' surprisingly caught fire in last week's Arnold Palmer Invitational, logging a T17 while gaining a massive 6.7 strokes on approach shots for... Read More
Justin Rose Looks To Rebound At The Players
Justin Rose is set to tee it up at The Players Championship this week. The Englishman will attempt to rebound from an uncharacteristically-poor outing at last week's Arnold Palmer Invitational. Rose struggled horribly over the weekend at Bay Hill and dropped into a T63 finish. It was the defending FedEx Cup champ's worst finish since... Read More
Webb Simpson Set To Defend Players Title
Webb Simpson made some history at last year's Players Championship by tying the tournament's single-round course record and 54-hole scoring mark on the way to a four-shot victory. Simpson will try to make a little more history at TPC Sawgrass this week as he attempts to become the first-ever repeat winner in THE PLAYERS Championship... Read More
PGA DFS: Horse For The Course - THE PLAYERS Championship
Welcome back RotoBallers! 'The Italian Stallion' Francesco Molinari caught fire Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational. I hope you read last week's edition of HFTC, as Molinari was one of our featured players! Let's keep the momentum going, because we've got a big one this week. We head to TPC Sawgrass for THE PLAYERS... Read More
Justin Rose Disappoints At Arnold Palmer Invitational
Justin Rose suffered through a disappointing outing at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. The Englishman is one of the most consistent golfers in the world, but was uncharacteristically uneven in Orlando. Rose followed opening rounds of 70-71 with a disastrous weekend performance in which he played Bay Hill at eight-over par over his final 36 holes.... Read More
THE PLAYERS Championship - PGA DFS Tournament Preview
Hi RotoBallers! In our ongoing attempt to expand and improve our PGA coverage, we will be dropping a 'Tournament Preview' for some of the big events on the PGA Tour schedule. We're getting this new series kicked off this week with the 'Fifth Major', THE PLAYERS Championship! We hope this preview will give you a... Read More
Matthew Fitzpatrick Comes Up Short At Bay Hill
Matthew Fitzpatrick entered the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational with the 54-hole lead, but couldn't hold off a surging Francesco Molinari for the API title. The young Englishman hung tough Sunday by grinding out a one-under par 71 to finish at 10-under for the tournament, two strokes shy of Molinari's winning 12-under score.... Read More
