Fantasy Golf Rankings WGC Bridgestone Invitational

This week is the World Golf Championship’s Bridgestone Invitational held at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Below you will find this week’s fantasy golf rankings, One and Done picks and bets placed on both the WGC and the other PGA Tour event this week, the (piss poor) Barracuda Championship.


RBC Canadian Open finishes

Jhonattan Vegas who was ranked #11 in our model last week, defeated Charley Hoffman (ranked 5th) on the first playoff hole of the RBC Canadian Open this past Sunday. Vegas has now won the Canadian Open in back-to-back years.

Overall, 7 of our top 25 ranked golfers finished in 8th place or better.


WGC-Bridgestone Invitational | Fantasy Golf Rankings

The WGC-Bridgestone fantasy golf rankings are provided by @Sgrignoli3 – PAS contributor and statistician. The rankings are derived from year-to-date player statistics extracted from PGATour.com. The weighted stats for this event can be found below the rankings. Player salaries are based off of DraftKings.com. The right end column has a variance between DraftKings salaries and Vegas odds found on RotoGrinders.com.

**Disclaimer:  It should be noted that the following golfers did not have statistical rankings on PGATour.com and, therefore, could not be included in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational rankings model: Rory McIlroy, Henrik Stenson, Thomas Pieters, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood, Bernd Wiesberger, Ross Fisher, Alex Noran, Danny Willett, Andres Romero, Chris Wood, Thorbjorn Olesen, Lee Westwood, Andy Sullivan, Tyrell Hatton

Fantasy Golf Rankings WGC

The top weighted player statistics for the WGC-Bridgestone include:

  • Strokes Gained: Off the Tee = 20%
  • Birdie or Better % = 20%
  • Strokes Gained: Approach = 20%
  • Par 4 Scoring = 20%
  • Greens in Regulation % = 10%
  • Scrambling = 10%

According to our model, Jason Dufner, Francesco Molinari and Kyle Stanley are the best valued DraftKings plays in our top 25 this week when compared to Vegas odds.


WGC-Bridgestone Invitational | One and Done

My top 3 One and Done options:

  1. Hideki Matsuyama
  2. Brooks Koepka
  3. Marc Leishman

Already used: Brandt Snedeker, Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott, Bill Haas, Charles Howell III, Henrik Stenson, Rory McIlroy, Russell Henley, Jordan Spieth, Kevin Kisner, Branden Grace, Daniel Berger, Francesco Molinari, Sergio Garcia, Charley Hoffman, Jason Dufner, Tony Finau, Phil Mickelson, Jason Day, Paul Casey, Keegan Bradley, Webb Simpson, Brian Harman, Rickie Fowler, Patrick Cantlay

Year-to-Date earnings = $4,851,284


WGC-Bridgestone Invitational & Barracuda Championship | Bets

Here is the action I have as of Tuesday. Be sure to check out my Twitter @Eddie_ThePAS Wednesday night for my final bets of the week.

WGC-Bridgestone

FRL:

  • Swafford +10000
  • HV III +10000
  • Bryson +10000
  • Romero +15000

To Win:

  • Rahm +2200
  • Fleetwood +4000
  • Berger +4000
  • Woodland +6600
  • Chappell +6600
  • Xander +9000
  • Bryson +10000
  • *BOMB* Si WOO +15000
  • *BOMB* Varner III +20000

Top 10 Finish:

  • Perez +1200
  • Hughes +2000

Top 5 Finish:

  • Vegas +2500
Barracuda Championship

To Win:

  • Ridings +6600
  • Gonzales +8000
  • Wheatcroft +8000
  • Collins +10000

PARLAY:

Matsuyama wins WGC & Mullinax wins Barracuda +127200

 

@Eddie_ThePAS

 

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