Fantasy Golf Tournament Preview- The Olympics

OVERVIEW

This week we have a very limited field in attendance for the Men’s Olympics being hosted at Kasumigaseki Country Club in Japan. There hasn’t been much information about the course released or provided pretty much anywhere so my analysis on the course below is basically a summary of what I’m finding through extensive googling. The field consists of 4 Americans – Morikawa, JT, Patrick Reed and Xander Schauffele, representing Ireland will be Rory McIlroy & Shane Lowry, The Brits will be represented by Paul Casey & Tommy Fleetwood, Hideki Matsuyama & Rikuya Hoshino will be representing Japan and Si Woo & Sungjae will be representing South Korea. There are many more familiar names (especially to those who play European Tour DFS) so I’ll make sure to list those players below in the player pool as the event seems extremely top heavy and I think you should be looking at this field from an “elimination” perspective versus a “play x number of golfers” perspective. In 2016 the representatives from the United States were Matt Kuchar (bronze), Bubba Watson (8^th), Patrick Reed (11^th), and Rickie Fowler (37^th – but he did find himself a wife, so all was not lost). Marcus Fraser representing Australia opened the Olympics with 9 birdies and shot 63 holding the first-round lead. Also, this will be my last week writing for Fantasy Golf Insider, so thanks to all of you for your support over the years and thanks to Jeff & Zach for giving me a place to write for the past 5+ years. I wish you all the best.

• The Course
• Kasumigaseki Country Club – East Course
• Par 71
• 7,466 yards
• Bentgrass
• Location: Japan
• Corollary Courses: Quail Hollow (per Golf Channel interview w/ Bradley Klein), Harbour Town (per Tommy Fleetwood – saying it’s not as demanding off the tee as QH), Riviera (Tommy again, in the routing of the course), Spyglass (Ian Finnis, Tommy’s caddie), Bellerive (Sean Zak, golf.com writer)
• Past Champions:
  • 2016: Justin Rose [Gold], Henrik Stenson [Silver], Matt Kuchar [Bronze}

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