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Tournament & Field 🏆

The PGA Tour heads south of the border to continue its FedEx Cup Fall Series with the World Wide Technology Championship next up on the schedule! We’ll see a brand new course hosting this year’s WWT Championship as golfers prepare to tee it up at El Cardonal at Diamante in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, which sits on the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. As is the case with most of these Fall events, the field strength is fairly weak, but there will be some well-known golfers on site. This 132-player field will feature 26 of the world’s top 100 ranked golfers and is headlined by guys like Ludvig Aberg, Cameron Young, Lucas Glover, and Sahith Theegala. The standard 36-hole cut rule will be in effect with the top 65 golfers (including ties) qualifying for the weekend. PGA is on the backburner for many folks with so many other major sports currently in full swing but someone has to win these PGA DFS contests!

The Course Preview ⛳

El Cardonal at Diamante

Par 72 | 7,452 Yards

Greens: Paspalum

First Tee: Thursday, November 2^nd at 9:25 am ET

As mentioned in the intro, this is a completely new course that has not been played on the PGA Tour before so there will be no course history to rely on this week. El Cardonal at Diamante is the very first venue designed by Tiger Woods and his TGR course design firm and I’m sure we’ll get some insight from the Big Cat on how golfers should attack this course throughout the week. This will set up as a traditional Par 72 layout so it will feature four Par 5s and four Par 3s. The Par 5s are rather short and should be reachable in two shots by the majority of golfers. Expect plenty of scoring to come on those four holes. There are a couple of Par 4s that measure in at 344 and 351 yards, which could be drivable by some of the bigger hitters in the field.

From a layout perspective, things are very wide open with massive fairways that average 60 yards in width. Bombers who often struggle to land it on narrower fairways won’t have to worry about that problem nearly as much this week. There is no traditional rough surrounding those wide fairways. Instead, if golfers manage to miss the fairway, they’ll find themselves in difficult-to-navigate native areas. There are natural hills, mounds, and undulation throughout the course and some strategically-placed fairway and greenside bunkers that work as a primary course defense and could bring bogey or worse into play.

On approach, golfers will be targeting vast green complexes that average 8,300 square feet. The greens feature coastal paspalum grass, which is a softer, more receptive putting surface. Putts should not run overly firm or fast on these large greens. A huge percentage of approach shots should come in the 150-200 yard range. Golfers who tend to throw darts from that shot bucket distance will have a strong advantage. Overall, this course is a more contemporary version of a links-style course that we often see in open championship venues. Scoring shouldn’t be an issue this week, especially since winds are not expected to be problematic. Golfers will have free reign to unleash their driver off the tee and the best overall ball strikers should ultimately prevail. I expect this to be an exciting event with plenty of low scores on the board and it’ll be interesting to see how these pros attack a Tiger Woods-designed course!

Weather & Tee Times ⛅

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⚖️Weather Verdict: No need to worry about weather this week. Winds should barely exceed 5 mph over the first two rounds so there will be no wave advantage. Things pick up a bit on the weekend with 10-15 mph winds at times, but those are far from treacherous conditions.

WWT Championship Tee Times

Key Stats to Consider 📊

1. Strokes Gained: Ball Striking (SG: OTT + SG: App) | 30%

2. Birdie or Better % | 25%

3. Par 4 Average | 20%

4. Par 5 Average | 10%

5. Proximity from 150-200 Yards | 10%

6. Strokes Gained: Around the Green | 5%

PGA Tour Stats Page

WWT Championship DFS Model Standouts 🏅

Below are the top 20 ranked golfers in both my overall model and my key stats model. Below that are the top 20 leaders in average fantasy points over the last five and last ten starts. The players ranked on these lists do not necessarily mean they are the top golfers I’m targeting for this week's event, but many of these guys should no doubt be favorable DFS options.

Overall Model Rank: A golfer’s ranking (within the current field) in my personal DFS model, which weighs all of the key stats listed above in this newsletter, as well as things like course history, recent form, recent average fantasy scoring results, and odds to win.

Key Stat Rank: Provides a golfer’s overall rank (within the current field) in my "key stats only" model, which considers only the key stats listed above in this newsletter with the specified percentage weights allocated towards each statistic.

WWT Championship DFS Cheat Sheet 📑

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That will do it for our PGA preview! Best of luck this week and, once again, feel free to hit me up in the LineStar chat or on Twitter @Ryan_Humphries with any questions.