This article combines course history and recent form to showcase two of the most essential elements when building out PGA DFS lineups each week. Let’s get into the Fit & Form guide to make your PGA DFS picks for your daily fantasy golf lineups on DraftKings and FanDuel for The Mayakoba Golf Classic.
Form Guide Past 11 Weeks: PGA DFS Picks DraftKings + FanDuel
There are 132 golfers here this week in Mexico, and none of them played a professional golf tournament last week. So this data really runs back 12 weeks but still covers the last 11 tournaments. Only four of the golfers in the field, Armando Favela, Austin Eckroat, Quade Cummins and Patrick Cover, are making their first start in the professional ranks over the last 11 weeks.
Positives
Top 10s
Will Zalatoris is back in the field this week and is the only golfer to have come up in the top 10 four times in the last 11 weeks. Justin Thomas leads a threesome of golfers in the field that have three top 10s in the last 11 weeks. The other two are Harris English and Corey Conners. Just six others have two top-10s, including Ollie Schniederjans, Peter Malnati, Russell Henley, Kristoffer Ventura, Denny McCarthy and Brooks Koepka.Â
Top 25s
Conners is the only golfers with five top-25s over this time span. At the same time, Thomas, Zalatoris, Joaquin Niemann and Sebastian Munoz all have four. Eleven others have three, including English, Malnati, Tony Finau, Patton Kizzire, Charley Hoffman and Adam Long. Each of them has a top-10, while Doug Ghim, Viktor Hovland, Alex Noren, Maverick McNealy and Scott Piercy all have three top-25s but no top-10s.
Cuts
Eleven golfers have made every cut in the last 11 weeks. Many of the names we’ve already mentioned, like Thomas, Kopeka, Finau, Hovland, but a few we haven’t are Abraham Ancer, John Huh, Daniel Berger and Billy Horschel.Â
Trending Up
- Kizzire showed a bit of form about eight weeks ago, making three straight cuts but only one top-25. Since then he has added an 11th-place finish and a top-10 at his home course two weeks ago. Some might think that could have been the climax for him, but he’s a former winner here as well, so don’t go away just yet.
- Marc Leishman went through a period of golf that looked absolutely horrible, but after a couple of weeks with decent ball striking and a resurgence at Augusta, finishing 13th, his game is trending in the right direction.
- Ghim is right there. He’s scoring DFS points at a great rate, but he doesn’t care much about that; he wants a top-10 or better. It’s three straight top-25s, with his last two coming inside the top 20.
Negatives
Top 10s
Four golfers in the field will be giving it their ninth try in the last 11 weeks this week in search of their first top-10: Branden Grace, K.H. Lee, Tyler Duncan and Mark Hubbard.Â
Top 25s
Hubbard at least has one top-25, while the others don’t. Six other golfers have competed at least seven times over the past 11 weeks and don’t have a top-25 finish to their name. Those names are Troy Merritt, Adam Schenk, Sung Kang, Bo Hoag, Fabian Gomez and Will Gordon.
Cuts
However, all six of them have made at least two cuts in those seven tries, while golfers like Martin Trainer, Michael Kim, Bo Van Pelt, Chris Baker and Matt Every will all be looking for their first paycheck in the last 11 weeks.
Trending Down
- A pair of 28th-place finishes for Duncan seemed like a promising start to the season, but it’s been three missed cuts since then.
- Tom Hoge went on a nice stretch of golf, making five straight cuts with three top-10s, but since then he’s had two missed cuts in his last two starts.
Course History at El Camaleon
This tournament has been a mainstay on the tour’s fall circuit for a little while, once seen as the Tour’s way of putting you on probation for not meeting certain standards. Since Robert Streb won the RSM Classic last week, the site of his only other win on tour, I decided to go back to 2013 this week because that’s when Harris English won. It’s a bit arbitrary, but that’s what I’m rolling with for this week.
Top 10s
A name you might not expect to see here is Brice Garnett, who has three top-10s over the past seven years, one of four golfers to do so. Russell Knox, Pat Perez and Charles Howell III are the other three. Another eight golfers have a pair of top-10s here, including Ancer, English, Emiliano Grillo, Brian Stuard, Harold Varner and Adam Hadwin.
Top 25s
Only Garnett and Howell have been able to finish inside the top 25 five times since 2013, while Perez has done it four. Knox, Grillo, Ancer, Stuard and Piercy have all finished in the top 25 three times. Graeme McDowell, a former champion here, has also added another pair of top-25s for a total of three.
Cuts
Nineteen golfers in the field have teed it up at least twice here at El Camelon and have made the cut in both appearances. No one has more than Knox, who is 6-for-6. Chez Reavie and Brian Gay are 5-for-5, while Grillo, Piercy, Kizzire and Vaughn Taylor are 4-for-4. Aaron Baddeley is also 4-for-4, but he has an MDF mixed in there. Some rather notables like Gary Woodland and Joel Dahmen are 3-for-3 in their trips south of the border.
Trending Up
- After missing the cut in each of his first two trips, Hadwin has bounced back with two top-10 finishes since then.
- Since missing the cut in his first try and coming in 55th in his second try, Ancer has come in the top 21 in each of his next three starts, with two top-10s.
- Since missing the cut in 2016, Horschel has bounced back nicely in his next two trips to Mayakoba, coming in 21st and eighth.
Negative Course History
Top 10s
This week Robert Diaz is one of 94 golfers in the field searching for their first top-10 here at El Camaleon. Some of the more notable names on the 94 are Henley, Munoz, Conners, Max Homa and Ryan Armour.Â
Top 25s
However, Armour has found himself in the top 25 at least, while another 76 golfers can’t say the same. A few of those names are Niemann, Beau Hossler, Keith Mitchell, Austin Cook, Camilo Villegas and Lucas Glover.Â
Cuts
Hoffman won the 2014 edition of this tournament but has since missed the cut in each of the proceeding five years. He’s one of two golfers to have missed the cut five times, Robert Diaz being the other.
The Mayakoba Classic Fit & Form for PGA DFS Picks + Fantasy Golf
The best of the best are here, and some of them have been playing great recently. So there are a bunch of names to choose from that are a good fit and in good form. I’ll choose what I believe to be the top three.
- Knox seems to have been mentioned quite a few times both here and recently. Let’s see if another trip to Mayakoba will be as fruitful as the others.
- Ancer has managed to make the weekend in every start over the last 11 weeks, was in one of the final groups on Sunday at Augusta, and unless there’s going to be some type of hangover from that round, he’s set up to have a good chance to win here at Mayakoba, which would be his third top-10.
The PGA DFS + Fantasy Golf Recent Form Guide (Last 11 weeks) | The Mayakoba Golf Classic
Course History at El Camaleon Golf Club For Fantasy Golf
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