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2021 Butterfield Bermuda Championship: Best DFS plays from each price range

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The PGA Tour heads to Southampton, Bermuda, this week to play the Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Club.

Port Royal Golf Club is a 6,828-yard, Par 71 layout, featuring Bermudagrass greens. This is the third edition of the tournament, and the second time it will be the primary Tour stop for the week (it was previously an alternate event). The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones. Last year’s ended up being very exciting down the stretch as Brian Gay edged out Wyndham Clark in a playoff.

The field at the Bermuda Championship leaves a lot to be desired but will feature some interesting names on Tour such as Patrick Reed, Matt Fitzpatrick, Mito Pereira, Seamus Power, and Danny Willett.

Let’s take a look at each DraftKings price range and identify the best plays for each in GPP’s.

10,000+

Mito Pereira $10,500:

Pereira has come on strong to begin his PGA Tour career, with three top six finishes in as many starts. A prolific winner on the Korn Ferry Tour, Mito knows what it takes to go low and win in a birdie fest. Additionally, the Chilean rates out beautifully for Port Royal Golf Club and ranks 1st in the field in Strokes Gained: Approach, 7th in Fairways Gained, and 4th in Birdie or Better.

9,000+

Hayden Buckley $9,900:

Buckley is a relatively unknown player on Tour at this point in his career, but has shown he is supremely talented. He has won on PGA Tour Canada and the Korn Ferry Tour and looks primed to have a breakout campaign on the PGA Tour. He has come on strong so far this season with back to back top ten finishes at the Sanderson Farms Championship and the Shriners Children’s Open.

8,000+

Scott Stallings $8,600:

Scott Stallings began his 2021 season nicely with a sixth place finish at the Fortinet Championship in September and now heads to a course in which he has shown that he is more than comfortable. He finished 26th at Port Royal last season and 18th back in 2019. His prowess for playing well on shorter coastal tracks should set him up nicely this week in Bermuda.

7,000+

Kiradech Aphibarnrat $7,500:

After a very difficult few years while recovering from injury, Kiradech Aphibarnrat is starting to show some signs of returning to form. When he is playing at his best, a coastal Bermuda track is the ideal spot for Kiradech as he has shown he is prone to strong performances on similar style courses. He finished 11th at this event last season despite being in pretty horrific form overall.

While his most recent PGA Tour starts have not been fruitful, the same cannot be said for his most recent start on the European Tour at the BMW PGA Championship back in September. The native of Thailand finished in second place just one shot behind winner Billy Horschel and had a real chance to win until the very last hole.

Two of Aphibarnrat’s biggest strengths are his ability to find the fairway and his ability to catch a hot putter on Bermudagrass. In his past five starts, he has gained 1.4 strokes per round on the field in “Fairways Gained” and gains an average of 0.65 strokes per round on Bermudagrass.

6,000+

Kramer Hickok $7,000:

At last year’s Bermuda Championship, Hickok finished in eighth place, which was the best finish of his career to that point. In retrospect, it makes a great deal of sense that the 29-year-old would play well at Port Royal. The course plays quite penal from the rough, and one of the biggest strengths of Kramer’s is his driving accuracy, as evidenced by his ranking of fifth in the field for fairways gained. Also, Bermudagrass has been far and away Hickok’s best-putting surface to this point in his career.

In his past 36 rounds, Hickok ranks 3rd in the field on courses that feature Bermudagrass and are under 7,200 yards. It also helps that the former Texas Longhorn ranks 9th in the field in Strokes Gained: Total in extremely windy conditions. His skill in that department could loom large this week as we are expected to get winds north of 20 mph.

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Phil Mickelson reveals he won’t be pursuing broadcasting career when he retires from golf

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On Tuesday, Chris McKee, a Toronto writer and radio host, wondered aloud on his X account if Phil Mickelson will be a commentator after his playing days are over.

“The second Phil Mickelson retires he’ll instantly become the most sought after TV analyst in golf. Would any PGA Tour broadcaster (CBS, ESPN, NBC or Sky) bring him in or would he have to stick to LIV broadcasts? #LIVGolf”

Mickelson saw the post and responded, saying he’s not interested in moving from the course to the broadcast booth.

“Thank you for the kind words. However, just cuz someone CAN do something doesn’t mean they SHOULD do it. Instead of commentating, I’m going to shoot some Pros vs Schmos 9 hole matches. I’ll share insights throughout as well as talk a little smack. It won’t be the highest quality video but it’ll be fun for me to do and fun to watch I think too.”

While I believe many fans would like to see Phil in the booth, his idea of “Pro’s vs Schmo’s” could certainly be intriguing.

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PGA Tour pro sounds off on ‘unfair’ PGA Championship invites

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This week, the PGA of America made some surprising announcements regarding the field of next week’s PGA Championship at Valhalla.

The event now will feature 16 LIV players with Talor Gooch, Dean Burmester, David Puig, Adrian Meronk and Patrick Reed receiving special exemptions.

PGA Tour player, Dylan Wu, took issue with how the exemptions were used and went to X to share his thoughts.

“Why is there never “real” qualifications for the PGA Championship? You have a points list and World ranking invite. Usually just outside top 100 in OWGR gets in. Chan Kim ranked 104th in OWGR doesn’t get in. SH Kim at 107th isn’t in.”

“Jesper Svennson ranked 108th gets in. Tim Widing 120th gets in. Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald gets a spot. A bunch of guys get leapfrogged even though they’re ranked higher than others. Seems like they just invite whoever they want. Unfair to the guys on the edge like Chan and SH”

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On Tuesday, the full field for the PGA Championship at Valhalla was released. In some surprising news, a handful of LIV players were granted exemptions including Dean Burmester, Patrick Reed, Lucas Herbert and Adrian Meronk.

The most surprising omission was Louis Oosthuizen. The South African has been one of the most consistent players on LIV this season, and also won two DP World Tour events in the fall.

According to the AP’s Doug Ferguson, Oosthuizen was actually given an invitation, but declined due to “personal commitments”.

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