DraftKings PGA single-round slate · 6 golfers · $50K cap · all flex, no captain. Blaine's birdie-fest sets up a scoreable Sunday with the leaders out last — my cash core, the GPP leverage that actually wins, tiered pool, 150-max exposures, and two cap-legal builds. How I'm attacking Round 4 at TPC Twin Cities.
Here's the setup. This is a single-round DraftKings slate on Sunday's final round only — you pick 6 golfers, all at 1x (no captain), under a $50,000 cap, and you're graded on Round 4 DK points and nothing else. That changes everything about how you build. Course history and season-long form matter far less than one question: who is in a spot to go low today at TPC Twin Cities? And Twin Cities is one of the most scoreable tracks on tour — a wide-open, water-lined birdie-fest where the winner routinely gets to 18-20 under. We're proving that right now: amateur Jackson Koivun sits at -20 through 54 holes, with a logjam of guys at -15 to -17 chasing him. This is not a survival test. It's a shootout, and the slate rewards aggressive birdie-makers who are still swinging freely.
The tee-time edge. In a final round the leaders go off last — the marquee groups don't tee off until roughly 11:40am to 12:40pm. That late wave gets the most up-to-date greens read, plays the softest conditions of the day, and — critically — is chasing. When you're three back with nine holes left on a course giving up birdies, you fire at every flag. That's where the fantasy points live. The early wave (7:00-9:30am) is largely playing for pride and a paycheck bump; the points come from the names near the top going off after lunch.
The two names that define the slate. First, Scottie Scheffler. He carries the highest projection on the entire board — 59.1 DK points — yet he's only 17.6% owned. Read that again. The best golfer alive, in a birdie-fest where he'll shred par, and fewer than one in five lineups has him. That's not a fade; that's leverage on the best player in the world. Second, Jackson Koivun, the amateur leader at -20, priced at just $10,000 and owned a massive 38.3%. He's the chalk of the slate — a fine play, but a crowded one, and the leverage math around him is the whole GPP game today. Below is the full playbook: how I'm attacking R4, the studs/mid/value/low-owned tiers with per-golfer reasoning, best cash plays, best GPP take-down plays, my top 10-15 for single-entry and 20-max, a 150-max exposure table, and two cap-legal builds with the salary math shown. Let's get into it.
The Scheffler leverage thesis, the Koivun chalk read, STUDS/MID/VALUE/LOW-OWNED tiers with per-golfer reasoning, best cash plays, best GPP take-down plays, the top 10-15 for SE/20-max, a 150-max exposure table, and two cap-legal builds with the math shown.
Here's the mental shift that decides this slate: the final round is about where they FINISH. Sunday scoring rewards climbing the leaderboard, holding position, and closing — so the priority isn't just "who makes birdies," it's who has real top-finish and win equity today. That means two archetypes: the golfers already in contention who are going to climb or hold down the stretch, and the elite talent capable of charging from a few back on a scoreable course. Position plus finishing ability is the whole game. A golfer at -16 who closes into a top-5 is worth far more Sunday than a name who cards a quiet, out-of-contention 68.
Why finish equity is the right lens: on a birdie-fest like Twin Cities, the golfers near the top keep getting rewarded — soft greens, receptive pins, and a leaderboard so bunched that a single hot nine holes moves you five spots. The players with a genuine path to the top of the board are the ones who'll bank the birdies and the finish-position value. So I'm hunting golfers with a live path to win or top-5, not just anyone who might scrape together a decent number.
Three inputs drive who has that finish equity. One, current position. The -15 to -17 chasers are the sweet spot — close enough to win, far enough back that they have to keep firing — and the leader himself has the clearest path of all. Two, tee time. The contenders go off last (post-11:30): softest greens, freshest reads, and they're all playing for the trophy. Three, ball-striking and finishing ability on a scoreable track — the guys who keep giving themselves looks are the ones who actually convert position into a finish.
So my framework: anchor with Scheffler (highest projection, most win equity of anyone on the board, and criminally under-owned), build a cluster of in-contention golfers with real finish upside (the -15/-16/-17 crowd going off late), and manage the chalk with key pivots rather than blind fades — because this week the popular names have finish equity too. Everything below flows from that.
The course. TPC Twin Cities in Blaine plays as a par-71 that surrenders birdies in bunches. It's long on paper but the fairways are generous, the greens are receptive, and the reachable par-5s plus a couple of short par-4s turn Sunday into a "go get it" round. The proof is on the leaderboard: Koivun at -20, a cluster at -15 to -17, and multiple guys still at -12 to -14 within striking distance. When the leader is at 20-under with a round to play, the message is unambiguous — this round rewards aggression, not caution. Bogey-avoidance grinders are the wrong archetype today; you want players whose birdie rate spikes when the course gives them looks.
Scoreability = pay up with confidence. Because the floor for a good ballstriker in these conditions is high, paying $14,200 for Scheffler isn't the salary trap it would be on a brutal U.S. Open Sunday. He's not going to grind out a lonely 71; in a birdie-fest he's going to fire at everything and post a number. The scoreable setup is what makes the "one elite anchor + cheap birdie arms" construction viable — the cheap arms will actually score.
The tee waves. Here's the map that matters for R4:
The anchors. In a $50K/6-golfer format you can realistically fit one or at most two of these, so the choice matters. Ranked by how I'd deploy them.
1 Scottie Scheffler $14,200 · 11:49 59.1 proj · 7.9 value · 17.6% own · -14
The single best play on the board, in cash AND GPP. He's the highest projection on the slate by nearly six points (59.1 to Koivun's 53.4), he's got the highest floor of anyone, and he tees off in the prime late wave at 11:49 — softest greens, chasing from four back at -14 on a course he'll dismantle. And he's only 17.6% owned. That combination — best golfer alive, best projection, birdie-fest setup, sub-20% ownership — is the rarest thing in DFS: an elite floor play that's also leverage. The field is scared of the $14,200 tag and is spending down into the Koivun/Kohles chalk instead. Don't overthink it. Scheffler anchors the majority of my lineups across every contest type. Pay up.
2 Jackson Koivun $10,000 · 12:40 53.4 proj · 7.2 value · 38.3% own · -20 (LEADER)
The leader, the amateur, the story — and the chalk of the slate at 38.3%. At $10,000 for a guy leading at -20 and teeing off dead last at 12:40 with the tournament in his hands, the projection (53.4) and value (7.2) are both excellent, and I understand exactly why the field is piled in. In cash he's a strong, near-mandatory play — leaders in the final group who are playing well have huge floors. The nuance is entirely a GPP one: at 38.3% he offers zero separation, and history says 54-hole leaders don't always run away on Sunday. More on the leverage math below — but as a pure play, he's very good. The question is never "is Koivun good," it's "do I want to be with 38% of the field or under it."
3 Kurt Kitayama $10,200 · 10:45 49.6 proj · 3.2 value · 13.9% own · -10
My favorite leveraged stud. Kitayama is a genuinely aggressive birdie-maker who thrives on scoreable tracks, he's at -10 (ten back but nothing to lose, pure attack mode), and he's owned just 13.9% — remarkably low for a $10K golfer with a 49.6 projection. The mid-wave 10:45 tee time isn't ideal, but on a course this soft it barely matters. He's the rare high-priced play that gives you separation instead of taking it away. If you want a second stud alongside Scheffler in a GPP, he's the one — you're getting stud-level upside at value-tier ownership.
4 Ben Kohles $9,200 · 12:30 50.4 proj · 5.2 value · 28.6% own · -17
Second-highest projection in this tier (50.4) and firmly in contention at -17, teeing off late at 12:30 in the chase pack. The 28.6% ownership makes him more of a cash/core piece than a leverage play, but the profile is exactly what wins single-round slates: a contender going off late who has to keep making birdies to win. Strong cash play, fine in GPP as long as you're comfortable being with the field on him.
5 Hideki Matsuyama $10,300 · 11:40 48.4 proj · 1.8 value · 18.1% own · -13
The name-brand ballstriker at -13, off late at 11:40. The projection (48.4) is solid but the value (1.8) is the worst in this tier — you're paying $10,300 for output you can nearly match $2K-$3K cheaper. I'll have some Matsuyama in GPP for the elite-iron ceiling on a birdie course, but he's a distant option behind Scheffler and Kitayama at this price point. If you roster him, roster him for upside, not efficiency.
This is where single-round slates are won: in-contention birdie-makers priced so you can pair them with Scheffler and still fill the roster. Ranked.
1 Emiliano Grillo $8,400 · 12:40 48.7 proj · 4.4 value · 28.4% own · -17
The best mid-tier play on the board, and a KEEP even though he's chalk. Grillo is a live, in-form ball-striker sitting near the lead at -17, teeing off in the final wave at 12:40 in the same prime conditions as the leaders — a golfer with genuine finish equity who'll keep flushing irons and firing at flags. A 48.7 projection at $8,400 is elite value (4.4). Yes, he's chalky at 28.4% — but this is exactly the week not to reflexively fade the popular names, because they've been playing well and stacking up near the top. Grillo is playing too well to fade; he's a core cash play and a very playable GPP piece. If I had to build around one non-stud, it's him. If you want to get different, pivot around him (see the pivots section), not off him.
2 Michael Brennan $8,100 · 12:30 49.7 proj · 5.8 value · 26.1% own · -16
Highest value in the entire mid-tier — 5.8 — and a 49.7 projection at just $8,100. Brennan is at -16 and off late at 12:30 with the chase pack. That projection is higher than several of the studs at 20% less salary. He's a cash cornerstone and a fully viable GPP piece; the only knock is 26.1% ownership, but you're being paid in raw points for it. This is the definition of the in-contention value the format rewards.
3 Davis Thompson $7,900 · 12:00 46.5 proj · 2.8 value · 18.4% own · -14
At -14 and off at noon, Thompson is a quality ballstriker in the striking-distance tier at a friendly $7,900 and a reasonable 18.4% ownership. The value (2.8) is good, and he's the kind of steady, in-contention name that raises a cash lineup's floor without much ownership cost. Squarely a core play — cash-first, but he plays fine in GPP too.
4 Denny McCarthy $7,900 · 12:19 46.2 proj · 2.5 value · 18.9% own · -15
Elite putter, at -15, off late at 12:19. On the fastest, most makeable greens of the week, a world-class putter in contention is exactly who you want — McCarthy's floor comes from never giving away the short ones and rolling in his share of mid-rangers. $7,900 and 18.9% owned is a clean price/ownership combo. A rock-solid cash play with just enough upside to carry into GPP.
5 Billy Horschel $7,600 · 12:10 45.9 proj · 2.6 value · 19.8% own · -15
At -15 and just $7,600, Horschel is one of the best price-to-contention combos on the board, teeing off at 12:10 in the heart of the late wave. He's a proven closer who won't be intimidated by the moment, and the 19.8% ownership is very manageable for a contender this cheap. Core cash piece and a smart GPP salary-saver that lets you fit Scheffler comfortably.
6 Michael Kim $8,200 · 12:10 45.5 proj · 1.5 value · 19.9% own · -15
Another -15 name off late at 12:10. The value (1.5) is more modest than the names above, but Kim is a sharp iron player and a steady contender at a fair price. He's a fine cash option and a decent GPP piece; I just rank him behind Horschel and McCarthy because you get similar contention a bit cheaper elsewhere. Solid, unspectacular, safe.
7 Lee Hodges $7,800 · 11:40 45.8 proj · 2.2 value · 14.8% own · -13
My favorite mid-tier leverage play. Hodges is at -13, off late at 11:40, priced at $7,800 — and owned just 14.8%, meaningfully below the Grillo/Brennan chalk in the same range. He's a big hitter who racks up birdies when a course lets him be aggressive, and this is that course. Same contention tier as the chalk, notably lower ownership. He straddles the mid and low-owned tiers and shows up in a lot of my GPP builds. Great pivot off the popular $8K names.
The pieces that let you afford Scheffler. In a scoreable round the cheap contenders card real birdies — these are not dead-weight punts.
1 Seamus Power $7,000 · 12:00 45.0 proj · 2.4 value · 16.2% own · -14
The best value on the board, full stop. Power is at -14, off at noon, and priced at just $7,000 — the cheapest genuine contender on the slate. A 45.0 projection at that price (2.4 value) with 16.2% ownership is the enabler that makes a Scheffler build work: he saves you the cap to pay up top while still giving you a late-wave golfer in the tournament. He's in almost every one of my builds, cash and GPP alike. Elite floor-for-price.
2 Jesper Svensson $7,700 · 9:19 44.4 proj · 1.0 value · 8.8% own · -9
A big-hitting birdie-maker at -9 and only 8.8% owned. The catch is the early 9:19 tee time — he's out of contention and playing in the morning wave, which caps the ceiling somewhat. But at $7,700 with single-digit ownership he's a legitimate low-owned dart if you want to differentiate cheaply. GPP-only, and I'd use him sparingly.
3 Kevin Roy $7,500 · 10:34 44.5 proj · 1.3 value · 9.9% own · -10
At -10, mid-wave 10:34, and just 9.9% owned — Roy is a clean GPP salary-saver with real birdie ability at sub-10% ownership. The 44.5 projection is fine for the price, and getting a mid-40s projection at 10% ownership is exactly the kind of quiet leverage that separates a take-down lineup. He anchors the value slots in my GPP build below.
4 Zecheng Dou $7,200 · 10:34 43.2 proj · 0.4 value · 7.3% own · -10
At -10 and 7.3% owned, Dou is a deep low-owned option in the mid wave. The value (0.4) is thin, so he's not a cash play, but for GPP builds where you want to punt a slot to an ultra-low-owned name with a birdie streak in him, he qualifies. A dart, not a core piece.
Where GPPs are won. These are the sub-15% names with real ceiling that let you get off the Koivun/Grillo/Kohles chalk. Ranked by how much I want them.
1 Kurt Kitayama $10,200 · 13.9% own 49.6 proj · -10
Covered in STUDS, but he belongs here too: a $10K golfer with a 49.6 projection at 13.9% ownership is the highest-upside low-owned play on the board. Aggressive, in attack mode from -10, and criminally under-owned for the price. The single best way to get a stud-tier ceiling while staying off the chalk.
2 Lee Hodges $7,800 · 14.8% own 45.8 proj · -13
The mid-tier leverage play again — -13, off late at 11:40, 14.8% owned. Same contention as the popular $8K names, a few points of ownership lower, and a bomber's birdie ceiling on a course that rewards it. My favorite "affordable" leverage piece.
3 Kevin Yu $7,600 · 10.2% own 43.7 proj · -12
At -12, off late at 11:30, and just 10.2% owned — Yu is a quality ballstriker in the top half of the leaderboard at a price and ownership that scream leverage. On a birdie course a good iron player with nothing to lose can post a low number, and almost nobody will have him. A core piece in my GPP build.
4 Davis Chatfield $6,200 · 8.4% own 42.0 proj · -12
The cheapest playable golfer on the board, and he's at -12. Chatfield is $6,200, off late at 11:30, and owned just 8.4%. That combination — genuinely in the top half of the leaderboard, minimum-ish price, single-digit ownership, late tee time — is a GPP dream. He's the cap-relief piece that also gives you leverage, letting you jam Scheffler up top without punting a slot to a non-contender. Shows up in both of my builds below.
5 Chris Kirk $6,500 · 6.7% own 42.1 proj · -10
At -10, off mid-wave at 10:55, and the lowest-owned name I actively like — 6.7%. Kirk is a seasoned, accurate birdie-maker who won't beat himself, and at $6,500 he's the value that unlocks a Scheffler build. The 42.1 projection is respectable for a sub-7% golfer. He's the quiet leverage piece that, if he goes low, single-handedly separates your lineup. In both builds below.
6 Chandler Phillips $7,800 · 16.7% own 44.2 proj · -16
The interesting one: Phillips is at -16 — genuinely in contention — yet the model only projects 44.2 and value 0.6, and he's off late at 12:19. That's a mixed signal worth naming honestly: his position is elite but the projection is skeptical of his ballstriking holding up. I lean into him lightly as a GPP contrarian — a -16 golfer at 16.7% who could easily outperform a soft projection — but I wouldn't make him a core cash piece. Upside dart with a real leaderboard case.
On a soft, gettable course, the round comes down to who keeps giving themselves birdie looks. Elite ball-strikers separate here because when the greens are receptive, quality iron play turns into a stream of 12-to-20-footers — and over 18 holes that volume of chances is what converts leaderboard position into a finish. If you're deciding between two similar names Sunday, side with the better ball-striker. My top ball-strikers in this field, and why each keeps setting up birdies down the stretch:
Tie it back to finish position: the golfers above are the ones most likely to keep manufacturing birdie chances over the closing nine — which is how you climb the board on a Sunday like this.
Cash (double-ups, 50/50s, head-to-heads) is about floor — you want six golfers who will reliably post competent Round 4 scores, and you don't need the tournament-winning ceiling. In single-round PGA that means contenders off the late wave: guys near the top who'll keep making birdies and won't card a lifeless 73.
My cash foundation is Scheffler (highest floor and highest projection on the board — the definition of a cash anchor; the 17.6% ownership is a bonus you don't even need in cash), plus the in-contention value engine: Emiliano Grillo (-17), Michael Brennan (-16), Billy Horschel (-15), Denny McCarthy (-15), Davis Thompson (-14), and Seamus Power (-14). Every one of those is priced to fit around Scheffler and every one is in the tournament going off after 11:40. Koivun (-20) is also a strong cash play — a leader in the final group has a massive floor — and cash is the one place I'm happy to be on his 38.3% chalk.
GPPs are won by being right AND different. The entire tournament game today revolves around one number: Koivun's 38.3% ownership. Nearly four in ten lineups are on the leader. That creates two edges. First, Scheffler at 17.6% is the best leverage on the board — the highest-projected golfer alive, owned less than half as much as the amateur leader. If Scheffler outscores Koivun (very possible — he's projected six points higher), every Scheffler lineup gains ground on 38% of the field at once. Rostering Scheffler over Koivun is the cleanest leverage move on the slate.
Second, the leverage-off-Koivun angle. You don't have to fade Koivun entirely — but going underweight the field (say, 15-25% Koivun instead of 38%) is itself an edge, and it frees your remaining salary and ownership for the low-owned arms. 54-hole leaders, especially amateurs in the final group under Sunday pressure, do not always close. If Koivun shoots even par while a chaser fires 63, the lineups that were underweight Koivun and overweight the low-owned birdie-makers take down the tournament.
The pieces that get you there: Kurt Kitayama (13.9%) for a leveraged stud ceiling, Lee Hodges (14.8%) and Kevin Yu (10.2%) for mid-tier separation, and Chris Kirk (6.7%) and Davis Chatfield (8.4%) for cheap, in-contention leverage that unlocks the Scheffler anchor. Stack Scheffler with three or four of those and you've built a lineup with a real ceiling that almost nobody else has.
Here's the game-theory nuance that separates good single-round players from the field this week: blindly fading chalk is a trap. The popular names got popular for a reason — they've been playing well, they're near the top of the leaderboard, and they've been showing up in the winning lineups all tournament. When the chalk is genuinely good and genuinely in contention, sledgehammer-fading it doesn't make you sharp; it just makes you worse. You can't win a birdie-fest by benching the golfers most likely to make birdies.
So the edge isn't fading the chalk — it's KEY PIVOTS. The move is to swap a chalky name for a same-tier, similar-upside golfer at lower ownership. You keep the ceiling and the finish equity; you just get there on fewer rosters. Do that two or three times across a lineup and you've built something meaningfully different from the field without giving up any win equity. Concrete pivots I like:
The rule: respect the chalk, then pivot around it. Don't fade a golfer just because he's popular; fade him only if there's a comparable name with similar finish equity at lower ownership. Get different without getting worse.
If you're playing SE or 20-max, this is the pool to build from — a blend of floor and calculated leverage. Ranked in order of how central they are to my builds.
1. Scottie Scheffler ($14,200 · 59.1 · 17.6%) — the anchor in nearly every lineup. Highest projection, highest floor, best leverage. Non-negotiable core.
2. Seamus Power ($7,000 · 45.0 · 16.2%) — best value on the board, the enabler that pays for Scheffler. In-contention at -14.
3. Emiliano Grillo ($8,400 · 48.7 · 28.4%) — best mid-tier projection/value, -17, final wave. Cash cornerstone.
4. Michael Brennan ($8,100 · 49.7 · 26.1%) — highest mid-tier value (5.8), -16, late. Core.
5. Jackson Koivun ($10,000 · 53.4 · 38.3%) — the leader; core in cash, a chalk decision in GPP. Underweight the field if going for the win.
6. Billy Horschel ($7,600 · 45.9 · 19.8%) — -15 at $7,600, elite price-to-contention. Core value.
7. Denny McCarthy ($7,900 · 46.2 · 18.9%) — elite putter, -15, fast greens. High-floor core.
8. Kurt Kitayama ($10,200 · 49.6 · 13.9%) — leveraged second stud; the GPP ceiling play at low ownership.
9. Ben Kohles ($9,200 · 50.4 · 28.6%) — -17 contender, second-highest stud-tier projection. Cash-leaning core.
10. Lee Hodges ($7,800 · 45.8 · 14.8%) — the mid-tier leverage pivot; same tier as the chalk, lower owned.
11. Davis Thompson ($7,900 · 46.5 · 18.4%) — steady -14 ballstriker, clean price/ownership. Core value.
12. Kevin Yu ($7,600 · 43.7 · 10.2%) — -12 at 10.2%, the low-owned mid-wave separator for GPP builds.
SE approach: anchor Scheffler, take Koivun near his chalk (you want the leader's floor with one bullet), and fill with the in-contention value — Grillo/Brennan/Horschel/Power. One clean lineup with a high floor and a Scheffler-driven ceiling. 20-max approach: keep Scheffler at high exposure, drop your Koivun exposure a bit under the field, and rotate the leverage pieces (Kitayama, Hodges, Yu, Kirk, Chatfield) through your builds so no two lineups are identical.
For 150-max you spread wider and lean the portfolio toward leverage while keeping a floor spine. Suggested exposure % is where I'd land across a large-field build. Tiers noted.
| Golfer | Tier | Salary | Proj | Own% | Suggested Exp% ▾ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scottie Scheffler | STUD | $14,200 | 59.1 | 17.6% | 45% |
| Emiliano Grillo | MID | $8,400 | 48.7 | 28.4% | 35% |
| Michael Brennan | MID | $8,100 | 49.7 | 26.1% | 35% |
| Seamus Power | VALUE | $7,000 | 45.0 | 16.2% | 35% |
| Kurt Kitayama | STUD/LOW-OWN | $10,200 | 49.6 | 13.9% | 30% |
| Billy Horschel | MID | $7,600 | 45.9 | 19.8% | 28% |
| Lee Hodges | MID/LOW-OWN | $7,800 | 45.8 | 14.8% | 28% |
| Denny McCarthy | MID | $7,900 | 46.2 | 18.9% | 27% |
| Jackson Koivun | STUD (LEADER) | $10,000 | 53.4 | 38.3% | 25% |
| Kevin Yu | LOW-OWN | $7,600 | 43.7 | 10.2% | 25% |
| Davis Thompson | MID | $7,900 | 46.5 | 18.4% | 24% |
| Ben Kohles | STUD | $9,200 | 50.4 | 28.6% | 22% |
| Davis Chatfield | VALUE/LOW-OWN | $6,200 | 42.0 | 8.4% | 22% |
| Chris Kirk | VALUE/LOW-OWN | $6,500 | 42.1 | 6.7% | 20% |
| Michael Kim | MID | $8,200 | 45.5 | 19.9% | 18% |
| Kevin Roy | VALUE/LOW-OWN | $7,500 | 44.5 | 9.9% | 18% |
| Hideki Matsuyama | STUD | $10,300 | 48.4 | 18.1% | 15% |
| Chandler Phillips | LOW-OWN | $7,800 | 44.2 | 16.7% | 12% |
| Zecheng Dou | VALUE/LOW-OWN | $7,200 | 43.2 | 7.3% | 10% |
| Jesper Svensson | VALUE/LOW-OWN | $7,700 | 44.4 | 8.8% | 8% |
How to read it: Scheffler is your spine at 45% — the leverage-and-floor cornerstone. The mid-tier contenders (Grillo, Brennan, Power) run 35% as your value engine. The leverage names (Kitayama, Hodges, Yu, Chatfield, Kirk) run 20-30% to give the portfolio ceiling and get you off the field. Koivun is deliberately capped at ~25% — below his 38.3% field ownership — so your portfolio is structurally underweight the chalk leader. Exposures are directional, not gospel; adjust to your risk tolerance and late news.
Full 6-man lineups, every salary summed and verified under the $50,000 cap. Build off these or use them straight.
💰 Build A — CASH (floor / contenders)
| Scottie Scheffler | 11:49 · -14 | $14,200 |
| Emiliano Grillo | 12:40 · -17 | $8,400 |
| Billy Horschel | 12:10 · -15 | $7,600 |
| Seamus Power | 12:00 · -14 | $7,000 |
| Chris Kirk | 10:55 · -10 | $6,500 |
| Davis Chatfield | 11:30 · -12 | $6,200 |
| TOTAL | $49,900 |
$14,200 + $8,400 + $7,600 + $7,000 + $6,500 + $6,200 = $49,900 ≤ $50,000. ✓ ($100 under cap.) The Scheffler anchor plus four in-contention birdie-makers off the late wave, with Kirk and Chatfield as the cheap-but-in-the-top-half pieces that pay for the stud. High floor, everyone tees off after 10:45, five of six inside -12. Want it even safer? Swap Chatfield/Kirk for Koivun ($10,000, -20) and one min — you'll take on the leader's chalk but raise the floor further.
🏆 Build B — GPP (leverage / take-down)
| Scottie Scheffler | 11:49 · -14 · 17.6% | $14,200 |
| Lee Hodges | 11:40 · -13 · 14.8% | $7,800 |
| Kevin Yu | 11:30 · -12 · 10.2% | $7,600 |
| Kevin Roy | 10:34 · -10 · 9.9% | $7,500 |
| Chris Kirk | 10:55 · -10 · 6.7% | $6,500 |
| Davis Chatfield | 11:30 · -12 · 8.4% | $6,200 |
| TOTAL | $49,800 |
$14,200 + $7,800 + $7,600 + $7,500 + $6,500 + $6,200 = $49,800 ≤ $50,000. ✓ ($200 under cap.) Scheffler as the leverage anchor (17.6%, over the 38.3% Koivun the field is on), then five low-owned birdie arms — every one under 15% ownership, every one in the top half of the leaderboard, five of six off after 10:30. This lineup completely fades the Koivun chalk and gets its separation from names nobody else has. Highest ceiling relative to how few people will build it. Want a stud ceiling instead of a value spine? Swap Roy for Kitayama ($10,200) and drop to a min filler — you keep the leverage, add a bigger top-end. Just re-check the cap after any swap.
Click any column header to sort (projection, salary, value, ownership, score). Default sort: projection. Ownership figures are CourtEdge projected ownership. Score = strokes to par entering R4. Tee times are local (CT).
| Golfer | Tee | Salary | Proj ▾ | Value | Own% | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scottie Scheffler | 11:49 | $14,200 | 59.1 | 7.9 | 17.6% | -14 |
| Jackson Koivun | 12:40 | $10,000 | 53.4 | 7.2 | 38.3% | -20 |
| Ben Kohles | 12:30 | $9,200 | 50.4 | 5.2 | 28.6% | -17 |
| Michael Brennan | 12:30 | $8,100 | 49.7 | 5.8 | 26.1% | -16 |
| Kurt Kitayama | 10:45 | $10,200 | 49.6 | 3.2 | 13.9% | -10 |
| Emiliano Grillo | 12:40 | $8,400 | 48.7 | 4.4 | 28.4% | -17 |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 11:40 | $10,300 | 48.4 | 1.8 | 18.1% | -13 |
| Keith Mitchell | 9:40 | $9,300 | 48.2 | 2.8 | 11.6% | -9 |
| Tom Kim | 9:40 | $9,900 | 47.6 | 1.5 | 9.3% | -9 |
| Corey Conners | 9:10 | $8,800 | 47.0 | 2.2 | 8.6% | -8 |
| Brian Harman | 11:49 | $8,300 | 47.0 | 2.8 | 20.0% | -14 |
| Gary Woodland | 11:04 | $9,000 | 46.6 | 1.6 | 10.8% | -11 |
| Casey Jarvis | 10:45 | $8,600 | 46.6 | 2.1 | 10.3% | -10 |
| Jake Knapp | 8:40 | $9,100 | 46.5 | 1.4 | 8.2% | -7 |
| Davis Thompson | 12:00 | $7,900 | 46.5 | 2.8 | 18.4% | -14 |
| Denny McCarthy | 12:19 | $7,900 | 46.2 | 2.5 | 18.9% | -15 |
| Maverick McNealy | 7:25 | $9,600 | 46.0 | 0.3 | 5.1% | -4 |
| Billy Horschel | 12:10 | $7,600 | 45.9 | 2.6 | 19.8% | -15 |
| Lee Hodges | 11:40 | $7,800 | 45.8 | 2.2 | 14.8% | -13 |
| Zac Blair | 11:15 | $8,000 | 45.7 | 1.9 | 12.9% | -12 |
| Michael Kim | 12:10 | $8,200 | 45.5 | 1.5 | 19.9% | -15 |
| Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen | 9:49 | $8,000 | 45.5 | 1.7 | 9.7% | -9 |
| Jordan L. Smith | 8:49 | $8,500 | 45.4 | 1.0 | 5.8% | -7 |
| Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 9:19 | $8,900 | 45.3 | 0.4 | 8.0% | -9 |
| Seamus Power | 12:00 | $7,000 | 45.0 | 2.4 | 16.2% | -14 |
| Kevin Roy | 10:34 | $7,500 | 44.5 | 1.3 | 9.9% | -10 |
| Jesper Svensson | 9:19 | $7,700 | 44.4 | 1.0 | 8.8% | -9 |
| Chandler Phillips | 12:19 | $7,800 | 44.2 | 0.6 | 16.7% | -16 |
| Kevin Yu | 11:30 | $7,600 | 43.7 | 0.4 | 10.2% | -12 |
| Zecheng Dou | 10:34 | $7,200 | 43.2 | 0.4 | 7.3% | -10 |
| Ricky Castillo | 10:15 | $7,100 | 43.0 | 0.3 | 6.6% | -9 |
| Joel Dahmen | 9:00 | $6,400 | 42.8 | 0.9 | 6.2% | -8 |
| Chris Kirk | 10:55 | $6,500 | 42.1 | 0.1 | 6.7% | -10 |
| Davis Chatfield | 11:30 | $6,200 | 42.0 | 0.4 | 8.4% | -12 |