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This Past Year: Dustin started the year on the disabled list, having undergone arthroscopic surgery on September 5th, 2019. Even though he finished T-7th at the Sentry TofC and then 2nd at the Saudi International he struggled and despite winning the Travelers Championship after the COVID-19 break had two terrible events at the Memorial and 3M Open. But after withdrawing the 3M, something ticked in his game and he played well the rest of the way, good enough to be able to claim the FedExCup title, for the first time in his career. But the best was yet to happen as he finished T-6th at the U.S. Open and then after catching COVID, returned to the Houston Open finishing T-2nd and then won the Masters, his second major championship title.

DraftKings: The big problem is his cost, most weeks he finds himself the favorite and it’s always a bit of a gamble taking him, but along with his high cost he seems to garnish 24.08 points per round, the highest point total. So yes for the high cost, Johnson usually gives you a lot of points.

DraftKings Results Past 12 Months

Events	Low Salary	Avg Salary	High Salary	Low Points Earned/Event	Avg Points Earned/Event	High Points Earned/Event	Total Points	Cost per Point
11	8500	10418	11500	0.00	55.40	103.20	575.40	199.17

Strengths and Weaknesses of Game: Has been a PGA Tour member since 2008 and frankly you can’t point a finger to any part of his game being weak. He is one of the most consistent players on tour, since 2009 he has never finished outside of the top-30 and has won at least once every year since joining the tour. When Johnson plays well the two signs that shows improvement is putting and his mastery around the greens. For the last 13 years Johnson has always been a great ball striker that is able to hit a lot of greens.

If there is one thing that Johnson has always been weak on is hitting fairways, in all his years on tour he hasn’t completed a year below being ranked 118th in driving accuracy. Because of his length off the tee, this has never really bothered him. If there is one thing Johnson has always worked on and that is to make sure he puts himself in contention going into the final round, of his 278 starts Johnson has gone into the final round with the lead or within 5 shots of the leaders 78 times. This shows why he has won 24 times, a 11.58% winning percentage.

Best and Worst Courses and Tournaments: Johnson plays best and worst on: He has no real advantage in time of year he plays, or on any kind of grass. If he has any real weaknesses he hasn’t played that great on Florida courses and the Players Championship hasn’t always shown poor numbers and just got his first top-ten in 2019 when he finished T-5th. Johnson has always struggled at the British Open but his best finish was T-2nd in 2011 when it was played at Royal St. George’s, which just happens to be the venue for this years British Open. While we are talking about the Majors, despite having a good record at the U.S. Open, Johnson has struggled at Torrey Pines over the years so he may not be a great pick this year. Of the events and courses Johnson has shined on, he has won twice in four starts at Club de Golf Chapultepec at the WGC-Mexico Championship. He also has a great record at the Sentry TofC, Genesis Invitational, Northern Trust, Tour Championship and of course the Masters.

This Past Year: At 26 years old he is one of the best on tour, 2020 was a terrific year with two wins and finishing 4th in the FedExCup ranking. One disappointment had to be not playing at all in Europe, in 2019 he won three times and was runner-up twice.

DraftKings: Yes he returns value for his high price, makes a lot of birdies and eagles along with lot’s of DraftKings points.

DraftKings Results Past 12 Months

Events	Low Salary	Avg Salary	High Salary	Low Points Earned/Event	Avg Points Earned/Event	High Points Earned/Event	Total Points	Cost per Point
16	9300	10738	11500	0.00	47.42	107.00	768.45	223.57

Strengths and Weaknesses of Game: Have to say his biggest improvement had to be the ability of controlling his emotions, he never went off which help him gain more consistency. He also has worked hard in being able to score on tough courses, in his first nine major starts only had one top-20 finish. In his last 11 majors, he has been in the top-15, seven times and seems to show a big liking toward the Masters. Also in 2020 his two wins came on tough courses at Muirfield Village and Olympic Fields.

Needs to work on touch shots around the green and scrambling.

Best and Worst Courses and Tournaments: Rahm plays best and worst on: Can play in any type of grass well, is good on tough courses and his most consistent evert is the Sentry Tournament of Champions and Farmers Insurance. Also good at the Masters and the American Express, he does play his best up through the Masters. Since he does so well at the Farmers at Torrey Pines, he may be a favorite at the U.S. Open.

This Past Year: Another great year for Thomas, just look at his consistencies of finishing in the top-25 in 18 of his 23 starts. In some respects Thomas year was more consistent than Johnson’s year, but after winning the WGC-FedEx St. Jude invitational, he played poorly in the PGA Championship (T-37), Northern Trust (T-49) and the BMW Championship (T-25). Because of these finishes he dropped from 1st in the FedEx Cup rankings to 3rd and even though he shot the same 269 score at the Tour Championship as the FedEx Cup leader Dustin Johnson, that was enough to win as Thomas finished T-2nd. In 2021 Thomas has been sharp, with a runner-up finish at the Zozo Championship, 4th place finish at the Masters and T-8th at the U.S. Opens.

DraftKings: He will always cost you a lot, but he does produce great numbers and since he made a lot of cuts, always gives you great value. Just look at Thomas DraftKings numbers since coming back from the COVID-19 shutdown, he averaged 22.68 points per round which is a very high number. So yes there is value is picking Thomas despite his cost.

DraftKings Results Past 12 Months

Events	Low Salary	Avg Salary	High Salary	Low Points Earned/Event	Avg Points Earned/Event	High Points Earned/Event	Total Points	Cost per Point
13	10600	10885	11300	0.00	69.08	104.30	622.50	227.31

Strengths and Weaknesses of Game: He is more consistent in not only hitting greens but getting the ball close to the hole. What Thomas has been good is being consistent and being able to avoid bogeys and worst. He always seems to be among the leaders in making birdies and being one of the top players in Par Breakers.

He is one of the best shotmakers on the PGA Tour. He could get even better if he could make more putts, in 2020 he ranked T-69th in putting inside 10 feet and was 112th in Strokes Gained Putting. This is proven out when Thomas wins, he does it when he is putting well. Most of his problems on the greens are on courses with Bent greens. I’m not saying it’s a major problem since he has won five times on Bent greens, but still some courses he struggles on. Lastly and you can’t practice this, Thomas has to get better when he gets himself in contention. He calls it mental strategy hurdle, of his 160 PGA Tour starts, Thomas has worked himself into contention 46 times. That’s the number of times he has gone into the final round with either the lead or 5 shots of the leader. But in those 46 times he has won 13 times. Same thing about winning when you go into the final round with the lead or share of the lead. He has found himself in that position 14 times, winning eight times. Now that seems like an impressive record, but since the 2019 Genesis Open when he blew a four shot third round lead with a final round 75 giving the win to J.B. Holmes. Adding to this problem, Thomas led the 2020 WGC-Mexico, Workday Charity and 2021 Zozo Championship but didn’t win the tournament.

Best and Worst Courses and Tournaments: He is good on the west coast, likes playing the courses in Hawaii. Also good on Florida courses, again courses with Bermuda style greens. Has won twice at the Sentry TofC, look for him to play well again. Also won at WGC-FedEx on two different courses, one in Ohio and the other in Memphis. Also won two at the CJ Cup, but the course in Korea he won on won’t be holding the 2020 CJ Cup. Avoid courses in the desert and Texas, has struggled on these courses. Yes I understand he was 3rd the last two years at Phoenix, but he also has missed the cut twice.

This Past Year: He won twice with one of them at the PGA Championship, playing in just his second major championship. After winning that title he went into his first slump as a professional and will be looking to regain his lost form in 2021.

DraftKings: Before his PGA Championship win he was a great pick in that 8,400 to 10,000 price range because he makes cuts and lot’s of birdies. But after his PGA Championship win because hard to justify in the just under 10,000 price range. Best to wait for his value to drop, if his game continues to struggle, he will be valued in that 8,500 price range and thus worked the pick.

DraftKings Results Past 12 Months

Events	Low Salary	Avg Salary	High Salary	Low Points Earned/Event	Avg Points Earned/Event	High Points Earned/Event	Total Points	Cost per Point
14	8100	9286	10600	0.00	21.11	81.30	508.95	255.43

Strengths and Weaknesses of Game: From tee to green Morikawa has been solid and he showed throughout the year a realm of maturity that is hard to find in a 23-year-old.

Putting is his number one weakness and something he has to work on to be a key player in the future.

Best and Worst Courses and Tournaments: Morikawa plays best and worst on: Has not played enough to see if any course favors his game.

This Past Year: At 26 years old he is one of the best on tour, 2020 was a terrific year with two wins and finishing 4th in the FedExCup ranking. One disappointment had to be not playing at all in Europe, in 2019 he won three times and was runner-up twice.

DraftKings: Another of those high end players that finds a way to make your pick work. First because he makes so many cuts and also he makes a lot of birdies and eagles, so you can’t go wrong with Schauffele’s numbers.

DraftKings Results Past 12 Months

Events	Low Salary	Avg Salary	High Salary	Low Points Earned/Event	Avg Points Earned/Event	High Points Earned/Event	Total Points	Cost per Point
16	9200	9844	11200	0.00	27.26	101.70	806.95	195.18

Strengths and Weaknesses of Game: When he joined the tour in 2017 he was a very average putter and lacked the skills of a first class scrambling game. In 2017 he ranked 138th in Strokes Gained around the green and was 104th in Scrambling. Over the years those stats got better, the next year he was T-113th in SG Around the green and 104th in Scrambling. In 2019 he improved to 40th in SG Around the green and 43rd in Scrambling In 2020 he showed even more improvement, 37th in SG Around the green and 2nd in Scrambling. As for putting, Xander’s only coach was dad Stefan until college when he got together with Derek Uyeda to work on putting. In Xander’s first year on the PGA Tour in 2017 he was good, T-27th in SG Putting and 10th in putting inside 10 feet. But the next year he slipped to 66th in SG Putting and T-75th in putting inside 10 feet. It wasn’t much better in 2019, he was 46th in SG Putting and T-85th in Putting inside 10 feet. With Uyeda, they worked hard in not only his stroke and ailment, but changes to a multi-material putting shaft and then changing at the U.S. Open at Pebble to a Tuttle Mallet style putter helped, at Pebble in the U.S. Open he ranked 7th in strokes gained putting to help him finish T-3rd. He got better the rest of the year, but in 2020 the worked paid off as he was 33rd in SG putting and 18th in putting inside 10 feet. He has shown even more improvement in his four 2021 starts, he is 13th in SG Putting and 4th in putting inside 10 feet.

For his age of 27 he is a very solid player, and has very little flaws and problems. He is very consistent, since the start of 2019 he has played in 44 events and only missed four cuts, the last coming at the Farmers last year.

Best and Worst Courses and Tournaments: At a young age Xander is getting a reputation as one that does well at tough venues and events. In 14 majors has been in the top-ten in half those starts. He is good on both Bermuda and Bent greens, he does seem to struggle on Poa greens. The two events he is great at is the Sentry TofC and the Tour Championship in which in 16 rounds, has never been over par in any round.

This Past Year: 2020 was not a very successful year for him, yes he won in China early, played well the first ten weeks of the year, but struggled after the break from COVID-19. Many say it was because of the birth of his first child, but he never looked sharp.

DraftKings: He is always a high price item and frankly he was a weak pick in Draftkings. Will have to see if his price gets lower and he starts regaining some of his lost form.

DraftKings Results Past 12 Months

Events	Low Salary	Avg Salary	High Salary	Low Points Earned/Event	Avg Points Earned/Event	High Points Earned/Event	Total Points	Cost per Point
14	10200	10971	11700	0.00	53.62	116.80	499.10	307.75

Strengths and Weaknesses of Game: One of the best drivers of the game, that wasn’t his problem in 2020. Some feel that McIlroy who is now married with a child has gotten very soft now that he has a family.

His putting has always been the weakest part of his game, he also needs some iron work because his numbers in Greens in Regulation has been terrible since the end of 2017.

Best and Worst Courses and Tournaments: McIlroy plays best and worst on: Has always played great at Club de Golf Chapultepec and the WGC-Mexico Championship. Makes sense that he is good at the Genesis Invitational since Riviera is a lot like Chapultepec Also good at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Watch him at Torrey Pines, especially at the U.S. Open. Also remember one of his PGA Championship wins came at Kiawah Island, which will hold the PGA Championship in May.

This Past Year: 2020 proved to be a breakout year for him. During the COVID-19 break DeChambeau buffed up, adding 20 pounds to the frame which had already added 20 pounds in the years before. After the break he came out and completely changed the landscape of the game as his added strength increased his ball speed and made drives of 350 more of the norm. After finishing T-3rd at the Charles Schwab, he was T-8th at Heritage and T-6th at the Travelers. The next week he overpowered the field to win the Rocket Mortgage and become the talk of the tour. He was able to finish T-4th at the PGA Championship, but struggled with his game in the FedExCup and dropped from 4th to his final position of 22nd on the FedExCup. His biggest accomplishment was in September when he won the U.S. Open by six shots over Matthew Wolff. His first major was done in a speculator manor as he not only overpowered a Winged Foot Golf Club which had proven tough in the half dozen majors played on the course but did it with a combination of great driving, great iron play and a deft touch on the greens along with the ability to get it up and down when he missed a green.

DraftKings: His price is always high and that demands good play. Yes his points per round is high ranking him 6th, but when things go off kilter like they did at the Memorial, Northern Trust, even the Tour Championship the price turns into a ball and chain around the pickers shoulders. One thing to watch, DeChambeau is a streaky player and when he gets on a roll is great.

DraftKings Results Past 12 Months

Events	Low Salary	Avg Salary	High Salary	Low Points Earned/Event	Avg Points Earned/Event	High Points Earned/Event	Total Points	Cost per Point
13	9000	10415	11800	0.00	43.42	86.10	658.45	205.63

Strengths and Weaknesses of Game: He has been able to overpower tee shots in which every drive in 2020 was 322 yards. With this skill he has a new found advantage over most of the others in the field, because he is able to even on tight courses drive it far enough that even if he misses the fairways, will have a short iron left. Another skill DeChambeau has is he is a good putter, with the combination of driving makes him hard to beat.

The biggest thing he needs to work on is to be able to control his power, which at the same time has gotten him in trouble and taking him out of contention like the driver did during the Masters.

Best and Worst Courses and Tournaments: Loves TPC Summerlin, in his last four starts was T-7th, won, T-4th and T-8th in 2021. Also plays well at the Arnold Palmer, won in his only Rocket Mortgage start on a course suited for his game and played well at the Travelers.

This Past Year: 2020 was another banner year for him with two wins and just over $5 million in earnings.

DraftKings: His price is always high averaging over 10,000 per event, still he was 5th rank in points per round. Just have to pick and choose his best events.

DraftKings Results Past 12 Months

Events	Low Salary	Avg Salary	High Salary	Low Points Earned/Event	Avg Points Earned/Event	High Points Earned/Event	Total Points	Cost per Point
13	9000	10169	11200	0.00	55.61	104.60	623.70	211.96

Strengths and Weaknesses of Game: His biggest improvement is putting, after struggling for years and when golf put a ban on putting while anchoring the putter. In 2015 Simpson was 174th on Strokes Gained putting, in 2016 he was 177th. In 2017 he improved to 88th and in 2018 was up to 5th. In 2019 he was steady with the putter ranking 11th and in 2020 was 13th. So this is the reason for his great play.

Frankly there is not many weaknesses in his game and with him turning 36 in 2021 is hitting his peak years. Look for him to continue his great play.

Best and Worst Courses and Tournaments: The Wyndham is his little annuity, in 12 starts has eight top-10s but in his last four starts has finished T-3rd, 2nd, T-2nd and 3rd in 2017. In the last decade in his last 11 starts he is a remarkable 156 under in 44 rounds. Simpson is also good at the Heritage which he won in 2020 and on any short yardage course in which accuracy and shotmaking is needed. Also if you want to take advantage of him early he is always good in the two Hawaiian swing events.