Golf

PGA Championship Power Rankings and Draft Kings Preview

by
Staff
May 14, 2023

It major time again. I always love the release of the Daily Fantasy pricing and making my picks. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I suppose for some fans and course history will play less of a factor. There just really isn’t any relevant course history most years outside of the Masters where courses rotate. This year’s version of the PGA champ will be held on May 18–21 at the East Course of Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York.

The last time Oak Hill hosted a PGA Championship was 2013 and another ten years prior in 2003. It also hosted the 1989 US Open. Jason Dufner won in 2013 and Shaun Micheel in 2003. The course is 7449 yards for this edition playing roughly 300 yards longer than in 2013. Unfortunately Jason Dufner has withdrawn from this year’s field. Here is the layout of the East Course and the top 10 finishers in 2013.

Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day, and Adam Scott will be playing this year. While it’s nice to know they can have success on this course I wouldn’t put to much stock in a finish from 10 years ago. Shorter hitters like Dufner and Furyk were more successful, but the course will play 300 yards longer in this version. That’s also important to remember.

The PGA Championship has a section of club professionals that will play alongside the tour pros but they never factor much. The field itself is the strongest tournament field overall even with that section of players included. Other Majors also have oldster former winners, qualifiers etc. The top 100 players in the world are invited. That’s more strength of field than any other tournament even as it’s perhaps the Major with the least prestige. Winning it to me is probably the hardest to accomplish with so many world class players.

With course history and many styles of players having been successful in the past at Oak Hill I will lean much more on the quality of golfer and those players that have top 20 talent and pedigree. For me I believe when on Brooks Koepka is in a tier with Jon Rahm as the two most talent golfers in the world. It’s harder to guage on the LIV tour but his form since just before the Masters has really trended back in the right direction. I’ll be playing lots of stock of Koepka this tournament. My core on Draftkings will be Dustin Johnson, Brooks, and Justin Thomas. Beware that Jordan Spieth is “50-50” to play in next week’s PGA Championship due to an injured tendon in his left wrist, George Savaricas of Golf Channel reports.

	Name	Salary	AvgPointsPerGame
1	Jon Rahm	11400	104.92
2	Scottie Scheffler	11200	99
3	Brooks Koepka	10100	80
4	Justin Thomas	9400	76.35
5	Dustin Johnson	8800	62.42
6	Rory McIlroy	10700	79.89
7	Collin Morikawa	10300	75.46
8	Xander Schauffele	9900	89.38
9	Patrick Cantlay	9700	91.7
10	Cameron Smith	9300	75.22
11	Viktor Hovland	9100	88.89
12	Jason Day	8900	73.18
13	Jordan Spieth	9600	73.5
14	Tony Finau	9500	87
15	Hideki Matsuyama	8600	68.86
16	Tommy Fleetwood	8000	72.64
17	Adam Scott	7800	76.2
18	Cameron Young	9200	79.46
19	Sungjae Im	9000	81.29
20	Max Homa	8700	86.46
21	Joaquin Niemann	7900	65.71
22	Tyrrell Hatton	8500	79
23	Matt Fitzpatrick	8400	66.96
24	Keegan Bradley	7700	68.92
25	Justin Rose	7700	71.75
26	Patrick Reed	7600	74.72
27	Sam Burns	8200	66.57
28	Harris English	7200	59.92
29	Tom Kim	8000	75.43
30	Rickie Fowler	7600	78.58
31	Abraham Ancer	7500	55.81
32	Paul Casey	7300	66.08
33	Billy Horschel	7200	52.21
34	Webb Simpson	7100	48.79
35	Bryson DeChambeau	7400	51.58
36	Shane Lowry	8300	60.77
37	Sahith Theegala	8100	77.91
38	Chris Kirk	7000	69.78
39	Phil Mickelson	7000	69.17
40	Brian Harman	6800	65.07
41	Corey Conners	7900	69.2
42	Taylor Moore	7800	63.19
43	Talor Gooch	7600	81.58
44	Si Woo Kim	7100	68.31
45	Gary Woodland	7100	58.5
46	Francesco Molinari	6800	46.27
47	Wyndham Clark	7500	78.5
48	Mito Pereira	7000	79
49	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	7200	64.35
50	Alex Noren	6700	56.07
51	Matt Kuchar	6900	64.88
52	Danny Willett	6700	54.82
53	Adam Hadwin	6900	63.54
54	Thomas Pieters	6800	63.06
55	Anirban Lahiri	6800	66
56	Harold Varner III	6600	63.42
57	Cameron Davis	7400	56.41
58	Thomas Detry	7400	70.67
59	Denny McCarthy	7400	69.03
60	Brendon Todd	7300	66.56
61	Emiliano Grillo	7300	64.69
62	Victor Perez	7300	87.3
63	Russell Henley	7300	63.42
64	Taylor Montgomery	7200	74.94
65	Nicolai Hojgaard	7200	84.54
66	Min Woo Lee	7200	70.72
67	Kurt Kitayama	7100	53.81
68	Keith Mitchell	7100	67.43
69	Davis Riley	7100	53.36
70	Seamus Power	7000	74.47
71	J.J. Spaun	7000	61.56
72	Ben Taylor	7000	58.03
73	Lucas Herbert	7000	63.46
74	Aaron Wise	6900	65.45
75	Dean Burmester	6900	70.69
76	Robert Macintyre	6900	65.39
77	Tom Hoge	6900	69.47
78	Beau Hossler	6900	60.39
79	Maverick McNealy	6900	61.64
80	Ben Griffin	6800	68.25
81	Mackenzie Hughes	6800	55.83
82	Yannik Paul	6800	73.72
83	Taylor Pendrith	6800	55.59
84	Jordan L. Smith	6800	73.61
85	Adrian Meronk	6700	67.88
86	Sepp Straka	6700	54.55
87	Brandon Wu	6700	64.26
88	Padraig Harrington	6700	71.6
89	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	6700	69.8
90	Patrick Rodgers	6700	61.75
91	Scott Stallings	6700	60.77
92	Matt Wallace	6600	53.5
93	Callum Shinkwin	6600	58.1
94	Brendan Steele	6600	57.82
95	Jimmy Walker	6300	50.4
96	Adam Svensson	6600	63.53
97	Hayden Buckley	6600	65.25
98	Joel Dahmen	6600	61.19
99	Nick Hardy	6600	56.36
100	Mark Hubbard	6600	54.65
101	Adri Arnaus	6500	58.82
102	Ryan Fox	6500	59.79
103	Rasmus Hojgaard	6500	61.94
104	Kevin Kisner	6500	35.64
105	Thorbjorn Olesen	6500	97.79
106	Adam Schenk	6500	56.72
107	Justin Suh	6500	59.75
108	Nick Taylor	6500	66.06
109	Zach Johnson	6500	49.82
110	Thriston Lawrence	6400	59.08
111	Adrian Otaegui	6400	69.71
112	Kazuki Higa	6400	50.25
113	Trey Mullinax	6400	46.88
114	Andrew Putnam	6400	63.55
115	Luke Donald	6400	46.54
116	Rikuya Hoshino	6400	61.29
117	Sadom Kaewkanjana	6400	44.5
118	Martin Kaymer	6400	46.25
119	J.T. Poston	6300	57.25
120	Alex Smalley	6300	57.97
121	Matthew NeSmith	6300	52.34
122	Sam Ryder	6300	60.14
123	Davis Thompson	6300	60.82
124	Lee Hodges	6300	51.15
125	Chez Reavie	6300	42.72
126	John Somers	6300	0
127	Pablo Larrazabal	6200	73.93
128	Ockie Strydom	6200	63.5
129	Y.E. Yang	6200	55.44
130	Alex Beach	6200	0
131	Michael Block	6200	37.5
132	Matt Cahill	6200	0
133	Chris French	6200	0
134	Russell Grove	6200	0
135	Anthony Cordes	6100	0
136	Jesse Droemer	6100	0
137	Nicolas Echavarria	6100	46.74
138	Steve Holmes	6100	0
139	Colin Inglis	6100	0
140	Ben Kern	6100	18
141	J.J. Killeen	6100	0
142	Sihwan Kim	6100	32.4
143	Kenny Pigman	6100	0
144	Gabe Reynolds	6100	0
145	Greg Koch	6000	28.5
146	David Micheluzzi	6000	81
147	Chris Sanger	6000	0
148	Braden Shattuck	6000	0
149	Josh Speight	6000	0
150	Jeremy Wells	6000	0
151	Wyatt Worthington	6000	0
152	Steven Alker	6000	89.7
153	John Daly	6000	32.9
154	Shaun Micheel	6000	0