Fantasy Golf Tournament Preview-Corales Punta Cana Championship

OVERVIEW

The PGA Tour’s alternate event this week is the Puntacana Championship in the Dominican Republic. The Corales Course primarily a flat course which features six oceanside holes and is extremely susceptible to the wind. The fairways are fairly wide and forgiving. Players missing these wide and forgiving fairways will be greeted with short rough, meaning accuracy won’t be an issue this week as it wasn’t an issue last year either. The greens ran as fast as a typical PGA Tour event, and were firm last year, so outside of judging the wind players will need to play away from the hole and run their approaches close. Speaking of wind, it was only really windy during the first round, so I don’t think it’s necessary to heavily target strong wind players as much as we’d like to think. Instead, I’d pay closer attention to draws and target the favorable draw more than anything this week. Normally I don’t give into that narrative, but because the wind can be so strong here we should be able to gain an edge by utilizing the draw. The Par 5’s are the easiest holes on the course, which shouldn’t be a surprise and for the most part this course has easy Par 4’s as well. The Par 4’s aren’t beastly out here, but six of them are listed at over 430 yards, while two of them are under 400. Par 4 scoring on the long holes won’t be where the players score from, but as long as our guys don’t bleed back many birdies on these holes, it should be considered a win.

 TOURNAMENT BACKGROUND

• The Course
• Corales Course
• Par 72
• 7,600 yards
• Paspalum greens
• Location: Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
• Corollary Courses/Performances: Coco Beach Golf Club, El Camaleon GC
• Past Champions:
• Brice Garnett -18 over Keith Mitchell

 KEY STATS TO TARGET

• Strong Emphasis – SG: T2G, P5 Scoring, Birdie Or Better, Scrambling
• Important – SG: P, P4 Scoring, Driving Distance/SG: OTT

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