Welcome back everyone, after an amazing FGWC experience last week with some of my fellow FGB members taking home around $25,000, we get another week of really nice prize pools and various contest structures. The Dell Technologies Championship is the second leg of the Fedex Cup Playoffs, being played at TPC Boston. We have lots of course history to go off of so really makes our process nice and tidy this week. Statistically, I am looking primarily at SG:T2G, Iron Play and a small dose of BoB and par 5 scoring. I have tossed around some driving distance numbers because I do see that being somewhat of an advantage this week.

Before we get into my core plays, let’s take a look at the course and what the players will be facing. The Dell Technologies Championship will be hosted this week at TPC Boston. We have a good bit of course history to go off of, even dating back to a Tiger Woods’ win in 2006, so we will definitely be considering that when narrowing down our player pools. TPC Boston will be playing as a par 71 at 7,283 yards, which for these guys is the standard in today’s game. I definitely see distance as an advantage but as you will read, this tends to be a “second-shot-and-in” type of course, so Driving Accuracy will not be weighed to heavily for me.

Scoring will mainly be set up by the players approach game and their performance on the par 5s, although every week par-4 scoring is pertinent. Scores are typically pretty low at this event with around 15 under winning each year so a player will need to be on their iron game in order to make enough birdies to keep up. Looking through statistics of the past events played here, SG: APP proved to be a very important benchmark on a player’s success that given week. Also, scoring on par 4s, specifically from the 450-500-yard range, proved key as there are a handful of long par 4s scattered throughout this layout. With all that out of the way, let’s get into my Core plays for this week…

Tiger Woods (DK $9,700)

I am approaching this week a little different. This is most likely going to be the last chance to have an edge playing cash games and single entry tournaments, so I am going to build a couple main lineups I will put in everything and then run about 100 lineups in the $6 DK Mini Main Event. So I will address these players as core for my main lineups, and as of now I do not plan to build any with an $11k-plus player.

Tiger is my first core play, and I feel really good about it. Coming of an abysmal showing last week where he lost nearly five strokes putting, his driving was actually much improved and he is still striping his irons, as he has all year. Tiger won this event back in 2006, which is somewhat irrelevant but it is still Tiger Woods and if he has won this event once he could do it again. This course is a bit more forgiving off the tee so even if he falls back into a wayward driver somewhat, I think he should still have plenty of opportunities with his irons to make birdies. After that, we are just betting on a slight improvement with his putting which should show positive regression of about six to 10 strokes.

Hideki Matsuyama (DK $8,900)

You are about to see a trend here with my balanced lineup approach, but first off as we get into the $8k range is Hideki. In the last three years at this event, he has never finished worse than 25th. He has some really nice form coming in this year as well, gaining strokes off the tee and with his irons in his prior two events and on top of that, he hit about five greens more than the field average the last two weeks. Hideki definitely has upside to win, and at that price, I really don’t “need” him to win to pay off his value. Hideki is not my favorite play in the $8k range but will definitely be one of my top plays to build around this week.

Tommy Fleetwood (DK $8,500)

Here is your free square everyone! Just kidding, there is practically never a free square in PGA DFS, but I think Fleetwood is as close as you’ll get to one. In this field, Tommy ranks inside the top 10 of GIR percentage, birdie-or-better, and par 5 scoring. He has only missed one cut on the PGA Tour in the past 12 months, which is a testament to the consistent player he is. Just like Hideki, Tommy has upside to win this week and at this price it really offers some flexibility in our lineup construction. He has never played this event, but we can use the course history for others to help us determine this is a great fit for him. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Tommy is that he gains strokes in every single category, almost every single week.

Rafael Cabrera Bello (DK $7,300)

Just like last week, Rafa is another core guy for me this week and at an even lower price. He is really a phenomenal ballstriker, so I feel great about his ability to play this course well. He finished poorly last week but I am not going to let one bad round (77-R3) persuade me to avoid him here at TPC Boston. He has only played here once, finishing 18th in 2017. Again, Rafa is a player that hits a ton of greens and even more fairways every single week, so it is easy to see at $7,300 that he would be someone to build around. He was actually over $10k just two weeks ago, so now we are in a position to grab him at a lower price, depressed ownership, and with that price it provides us the opportunity to play DJ or JT in some really solid GPP lineups.

Charley Hoffman (DK $7,300)

Charley Hoffman is perhaps my favorite play this week. He has quietly been racking up top 20s in the past few months (five of his last eight events) and finished with a sneaky top 20 last week. Statistically, it is hard to ever consider Charley a core play, but this week I am adding him to my “overweight” list. Charley has played here at TPC Boston for over a decade and in that span he has had a wide variety of finishes, but does have a win in 2010 and a third-place finish in 2015.

I see Charley trending in the right direction coming here this week, and I think he is the perfect play in a limited field to gain leverage on the field. The most tempting thing for me, is that Charley is known as a supreme iron player but the Driver can become a problem; luckily this course sets up with slightly wider fairways and less penal rough, so this should suit him even more.

Also consider

• Justin Thomas
• Brooks Koepka
• Tommy Fleetwood
• Justin Rose
• Patrick Cantlay
• Tony Finau
• Paul Casey
• Tyrrell Hatton

Good luck this week everyone!