Jeff’s Hardcore Core- RBC Canadian Open

Grazie Francesco Molinari! A win from the Italian helped at least partially salvage a very tough Open Championship for my core last week. Friday was brutal as we lost a bunch of guys to the cut, none more surprising than world #1 Dustin Johnson. I really wish I could explain the porous effort, which was his first missed cut in over a year and only finish outside of the Top 20 in 2018. Having 30% of my lineups shaved off by the highest priced player that early is difficult to recover from. The other high priced guy that I chose to roll with did hold up his end of the bargain as Rory gave us a T2 finish. Zach Johnson and Webb Simpson were a couple of other highlights, but collapses by guys I had a lot of exposure to including Grace, Knox, Poulter, and Sullivan were far to crippling to make it a profitable week. Looking back there are not a ton of regrets, but one was not owning Justin Rose. As I talked about in my column last week I loved DJ, Rory, and Rose pretty much all the same. Since I felt like I had to make a decision and not own all of them, I left out Rose simply based upon him being the highest owned, which he was. The crazy thing about golf and DFS golf, is how it comes down to inches as Rose made a tough birdie putt on his 36th hole to make the cut on Friday. If that slides past the hole, Rose misses the cut and creates a disaster for 26% of all entries throughout GPPs. Instead he makes it and charges to a T2. Crazy. That is why I always say, you need a little bit of luck to win to go along with our edge. Thankfully we can move immediately past the lousy results for The Open, because it is has been burning at me for several days now.  I have never looked forward so much to the freaking Canadian Open, but after hours and hours of research, I feel really great about my core this week.

Jeff’s Strategy & Core- Canadian Open

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