Fantasy Golf Tournament Preview- Nordea Masters (European Tour Package)

OVERVIEW
This year marks the second straight year where the Nordea Masters is held after the PGA Championship and it should be interesting to see where this event lands next year with the change in dates for the PGA. This year we get a new course after Bareseback hosted the last edition of this event making a champion out of Paratore. The course boasts four par 3’s ranging around 190-200 yards (two of them back-to-back on holes 5 & 6 which could put an end to birdie streaks if the players aren’t careful), and three par 5’s ranging from 549-606 yards and is laid out over a rugged landscape that consists of marshland to forest ridge. The Par 5 8th hole is a dogleg right, uphill and is the longest of the three, so this should be the only three shot Par 5 on the course for everyone. The Par 4’s don’t appear to be too tricky outside of keeping your tee shot in play, the longest is 476 yards and the shortest is 388 giving the players a mix of holes where par is a good score on about four of them, and par would be a bad score on three. There appears to be trouble everywhere, so we could see some higher scores this week. For a course flyover click here

TOURNAMENT BACKGROUND
o The Course
• Hills Golf Club
• Par: 71
• Yardage: 7,100
• Greens: Bentgrass
o Location: Molndal, Sweden
o Past Champions: [NONE AT THIS COURSE]
• 2017: Renato Paratore -11 over Matthew Fitzpatrick & Chris Wood
• 2016: Matthew Fitzpatrick -16 over Lasse Jensen
• 2015: Alex Noren -12 over Soren Kjeldsen
• 2014: Thongchai Jaidee -16 in a playoff over Victor Dubuisson & Stephen Gallacher
• 2013: Mikko Ilonen -21 over Jonas Blixt

KEY STATS TO TARGET
o Strong Emphasis – Greens in Regulation, Driving Accuracy, Driving Distance
o Important – Putting Average, Current Form

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