Statboy’s Weekend Golf Plays – WGC-HSBC Champions

The Weekend Golf format is very different from the Classic Golf format and it is important to know how to build winning lineups and attack these contests over on DraftKings.  Simply put, Weekend Golf is all about scoring.  Fantasy points for finishing positions are no longer awarded so selecting the right golfers for your lineup will require the right mix of golfers who started off well and others who might just be finding their form for a solid weekend run.

Great importance is put on Birdies & Eagles and conversely very little is put on Bogeys or worse for accumulating fantasy points.  Due to this fact, Birdie or Better % is the primary Key Stat when analyzing golfers.  Par 3, 4, 5 Scoring will also be considered especially when previous success on a specific course had a high correlation to one or more of those Key Stats.

 

Rounds 1 & 2 Recap for WGC-HSBC Champions:

After two rounds of the WGC-HSBC Champions, the leaderboard could not be more scattered with golfers of all types and nationalities.  Brooks Koepka was your first round leader after firing an 8-uner 64 that featured a 20-foot birdie putt on the eighth hole after driving the ball into a tiny stream.  Somehow he was able to hit it out of the water onto the fairway to set up his long-range birdie putt.  Gavin Green started off hot once again and was only a shot back after the first round but naturally fell back in the second round.  Kiradech Aphibarnrat was also one shot back after the first round and is clearly motivated by the funeral for the late king of Thailand.

In the second round we saw DJ shoot a 63 and shoot all the way up to the top of the leaderboard after finally landing on a putter that he liked.  He actually got the putter he used in Round 2 right before he teed off after making a few putts with it on the practice green.  As a previous winner of this event on the Sheshan International GC, DJ is going to be a popular Weekend Golf play this week.  Brooks Koepka and Kiradech Aphibarnrat did enough in the second round to remain in contention along with Justin Rose and Patrick Reed.  It will be fun to watch DJ and Brooks Koepka over the weekend since they are so close friends and yet very competitive when on the golf course.  Even with all of the scoring that took place in the first and second round, there were many golfers that struggled.  Most notably was defending champion Hideki Matsuyama who cannot get anything going after shooting two rounds of 74 and sits way back at T66 heading into the weekend in Shanghai, China.

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