Jeff’s Hardcore Core- Quicken Loans National

For the second straight week, a member of the core was the leader of the tournament late by four strokes and for the second straight week that guy choked it away. Of course last week it was Dustin Johnson, this week it was Paul Casey. Its not like I was shocked that Casey choked, because he has done it many times before, but it hurt since I had so much exposure to him. Still, at $9,600 a T2 and 110 DK points more than provided value for us. Beau Hossler absolutely killed it with a T2 and 112.5 DK points for only $7,400 and only owned by about 10% across GPPs. Other quality performances for us came from DeChambeau (T9), Cantlay (T15), Stanley (T15), and Grillo (T19). The biggest duds last  week were Leishman, Simpson, Moore, Steele, and Hadley. Justin Thomas turned out to be the wrong choice of the upper tier players as he was outscored by Koepka, McIlroy, Day, and even by Spieth. The crazy thing about last week is that a lot of the guys who I felt were the safest cut-makers missed the cut and I am not sure how to explain it, outside of the fact that golf is highly variant. A guy like Brendan Steele who had five consecutive Top 25s there collapsed at the end of the second round and inexplicably missed the cut. All the research in the world is not going to help us know that would happen. A ton of the $8k guys produced again last week with Watson, Harman, Holmes, Cantlay, Hoffman, and Zach Johnson all performing well. I did not have a ton of guys in that range, thus I did not have any real shot at winning a large field GPP. Hindsight is 20/20, but I wish I would have had more balanced teams anchored by all $8k and $9k guys than I did. It is tough to overcome large exposure to guys that completely tank and miss the cut however. Not a week to write home about, so let’s chalk it up to variance and move onto the Quicken Loans National.

Jeff’s Strategy & Hardcore Core- Quicken Loans National-
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