Geoff Ulrich runs through the PGA Championship course info, player history, and noteworthy betting trends to help DraftKings Fantasy Golf roster selections.
The Cheat Sheet provides DraftKings fantasy golf players with course info, player history, and the most noteworthy trends of the week to help them with their roster selections.
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The field for the second major championship of the season is set at 156 players. Like all PGA Championships, the year’s event gives out 20 spots to PGA TOUR teaching professionals who qualified through the 2025 PGA Professional Championship. The rest of the competitors come from the top pros in the world, with the top 70 on the PGA TOUR money list (from last year’s PGA Championship until two weeks prior) getting spots. Open Championship, U.S. Open, and Masters winners from the past five years also get invites.
From a field perspective, all of the big names are playing. Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy remain co-favorites with Scheffler sitting at +450 on the DraftKings Sportsbook. LIV golfers such as Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau (among others) have all qualified from their past major wins and will be in attendance. DeChambeau sits at +1850 on DraftKings as of writing and is the source of big speculation as his future is very much in the air at the moment.
For daily fantasy golf purposes, it’s also worth noting that the PGA Championship has its own cut rule. For this week only, the top 70 players and ties will be allowed to play the weekend, with no secondary cut rule intact. This is different from regular PGA TOUR events, where only the top 65 and ties play the weekend.
Course Record: Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McIlroy (62)
Aronimink has been seen before on the PGA TOUR, but as the host of the BMW Championship. The venue is one of Donald Ross’ most revered designs with distinct undulations in the greens, which tend to have the famous Ross tilt from back to front. It’s also got a solid amount of elevation with severe bunkering built in to challenge players off the tee and around the greens. The venue underwent a $4 million revamp before 2018 under the eye of designer Gil Hanse and should play at least somewhat similar to what we saw back in 2018, with the note that we’re likely to see the PGA attempt to “toughen up” this course somewhat to challenge players even more.
The venue plays as a longer Par 70 at over 7,300 yards on the scorecard and features several longer holes that may limit the number of birdie chances the players see this week if the green speed stays fast. The re-design focused on restoring some of the bunkering around the venue, setting new tee boxes, and widening some of the greens and fairways to bring different strategic elements into play. The large greens may be one of the best defenses the course contains, and firm greens this week, coupled with tough pin placements, will undoubtedly make things more challenging.
In 2018, we saw a tight leaderboard that ultimately came down to a duel between two precise ball-strikers in Keegan Bradley and Justin Rose, and even with some cooler weather in store, it does seem likely we’ll again see the need for precision and accuracy come to the forefront. The venue isn’t brutishly long like some previous PGA TOUR venues, but it does feature three par 3’s at over 220 yards in length, as well as six par 4’s in the 400-450 yard range.
The winning scores at this venue back in 2010 and 2011 were -10 (Rose 2010), -13 (Watney 2011), and -20 in 2018 (Bradley), the first time it hosted an event on the redesigned course. If it does soften up, then we could see some low scores throughout the week, but a hotter weekend suggests that firm greens may in fact keep scoring somewhat tougher.
Regardless, with the Ross design, course management should play a factor this week with players who manage their intensity and aggressiveness likely to remain in until the end.
2026 Weather Outlook: Aronimink could play a little long and soft early, favoring elite ball-strikers, with higher rain chances (50-60%) for Thursday and parts of Friday. This would also be accompanied by cooler temps in the low-to-mid 60s, and gusts up to 10-15 mph at times in the afternoon on Day 2, making the Thursday PM/Friday AM wave potentially the one to target for DFS and betting. It’s possible these sort of conditions again turns this event into a big hitters paradise, but the technical nature of the course should mean accuracy and consistency remain key. Warming temps into the high 70s or low 80s on Saturday and Sunday will likely firm up the greens as well and tighten scoring.
2025–Scottie Scheffler -11 (over three players at -6)
2024–Xander Schauffele -21 (over Bryson DeChambeau -20)
2023-Brooks Koepka -9 (over Scottie Scheffler and Viktor Hovland -7)
2022-Justin Thomas -5 (over Will Zalatoris playoff)
2021-Phil Mickelson -6 (over Brooks Koepka/Louis Oosthuizen -4)
SG: OTT—+4.0
SG: APP—+5.3
SG: Total—+16.8
SG: ATG—+4.8
SG: PUTT—+2.6
Odds to win are one factor to consider when picking players, but not the only one, so be careful not to put too much weight on them. This section is going to detail a few of the players who have the best fantasy value compared to their DraftKings Sportsbook odds of winning this week.
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All odds provided by DraftKings Sportsbook are subject to change.
Big Field Punt plays:
Alex Fitzpatrick ($5,900): Fitzpatrick couldn’t close last week, but the Englishman has been playing some high-level golf after getting his PGA TOUR card via the Zurich Classic win with his brother. At under 6k, he looks markedly underpriced.
Harry Hall ($5,800): Hall played well last week, ending the event in T8, and should get a small boost at a more technical venue where his short game can potentially flourish.
Jordan Smith ($5,500): This is a very low price for the Englishman, who is a very underrated ball-striker and finished T3 at the Valspar in March on another very technical, tough track.
Core Plays:
Ludvig Aberg ($9,800): Despite not grabbing a win yet in 2026, Aberg comes in looking in prime form. The Swede has posted finishes of T8 or better in five of his last six starts and finished with a solid 66 last Sunday.
Si Woo Kim ($7,900): Kim is a Ross course specialist, having grabbed a win and a playoff loss at Sedgefield and a T3 finish at Detroit Golf Club. He was T3 in Miami two weeks ago and has been a leader in tee to green stats all season.
Rickie Fowler ($7,400): Fowler has a solid record at Ross courses as well and comes in playing some of the best golf he has produced in recent years. At under 7.5k he’s an option for three-max and single-entry tournaments.
High-value pivot: Brooks Koepka ($9,300): Koepka is the PGA Championship final boss, having won this event three times between 2018 and 2023. He produced some high-level golf last week in South Carolina and should be chomping at the bit after missing last week’s signature series.
1. Cameron Young ($10,200; T10-win-T25): Young couldn’t hold it together for his second signature win in a row, but his 63 in Round 3 showcased the sort of form he’s holding right now. Young’s first win (Wyndham) came on a Ross course, so expect him to bounce back quickly from last Sunday.
2. Rory McIlroy ($12,400; T19-win): Rory shook off the rust nicely last week with a couple of decent rounds and ended quietly in T19. He’s been great at peaking for majors of late, so don’t be shocked to see a return to prime Rory this week.
3. Patrick Cantlay ($8,900; T10-T8): Cantlay has sneakily been playing some great tee-to-green golf of late. He produced a T12 at Augusta after a rough start and his third top-10 last week in his last four starts.
4. Matthew Fitzpatrick ($8,100; T52-win-win): Fitzpatrick cooled off last week, but has been on absolute fire this season, posting two wins in a row in April and three wins on the season. It’s possible he peaked too early, but I wouldn’t be shocked to see him contend again at Aronimink.
5. Ludvig Aberg ($9,900; T8-T6): Aberg has had some great rounds and just needs to avoid the bad hole here and there to get over the finish line. He’s now produced five top-10s over his last six starts and finished strongly again last week at Quail.
Fleetwood started the year a little slow, but his recent form has shown a pretty solid change of pace. He landed a nice top-10 at THE PLAYERS back in March, then followed that up with another top-10 in Texas and a T5 last week at Wells Fargo. It’s been a perfect lead-in for the classy Englishman, who showcased his perennial pinpoint ball-striking around the longer Quail Hollow track last week, gained over a stroke in every category, and was +4.1 strokes on approach.
While he’ll be disappointed not to have won, the truth is that staying in contention but out of the spotlight for a week more likely sets him up better for Aronimink, a course where he shot back-to-back rounds of 62 at the BMW in 2018. The Donald Ross-designed venue should fit him better than the longer Par 71 that was in play last week, and it of course doesn’t hurt that Fleetwood’s first and only PGA TOUR win came last season on another Donald Ross Par 70 design at East Lake.
For DFS, I like Fleetwood as part of a more balanced approach if you’re fading World number one Scottie Scheffler, and for betting, his current +2700 odds at DraftKings Sportsbook have more than enough upside given his recent form and course history.
If I’m dipping below 7k this week for DFS, I also wouldn’t hesitate to take a long look at Alex Noren as a name who could outperform this week. The Swede had a great week in Miami two weeks ago, where he landed a top-10 finish, and he’ll be another name who gains from the change to a shorter Donald Ross par 70 this week. Noren has finished high up at Sedgefield a couple of times and has multiple top-10 finishes at the Ross-designed Detroit Golf Club.
Last year at this event, Noren shocked everyone by coming in off a long injury layoff and getting into the final group on Sunday. This year, he’ll have had a proper lead-in and will be playing a course better suited to his talents. While he did regress around the greens last week, he’s now gained quite substantially on approach in two straight starts and should experience some natural positive regression in scrambling, given it’s almost always a strength of his.
Look to him as a value add in DFS tournament lineups, or a potential top-10/top-20 ladder play for betting on the DraftKings Sportsbook.
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