The CJ Cup Preview: Hovland and the Dustballs


I have a lot of respect for my fellow degens still grinding these golf tournaments with me. I got blasted last week as a result of Bigdicki having the worst round of his life on his home course. Matt Wallace also appeared to forget what a golf club was on his way to a 64th-place finish.

There’s normal variance and then there’s the PGA variance I’m experiencing.

This is the best field of the year so far. Rory is back in the mix so I think we all know what that means. I’ll be dragging my sack over the exclude button next to his name.

I have no choice but to click Scheffler. His putting has gone cold as of late, but I have zero doubt that he can right the ship and start dick-dragging again. He is still somehow number one in the world, but that could be in jeopardy this weekend. His competition is Rory so it really shouldn’t be much of an issue, but I still expect Scottie to be motivated by that a bit. He’s coming off of a T3 at the BMW Championship and a T2 at the TOUR Championship, which you might think is good until you realize he went into it with a 2-stroke lead and gurgled his own dick.

I’m going back to the fucking well on Morikawa. He’s at rock-bottom price and feels like one of the best buy-lows out there at extremely low ownership. He has a T5, a T44, a T21, and a T45 in his last 4 events and has looked like absolute donkey dick in the process. There’s no guarantee he won’t get the Odell shit chest treatment this week, but I’ll be playing him at that price and ownership.

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I’ve come back around on Jordan Spieth. He used to be nearing Rory territory for me after a couple horrific performances, but he’s now $8.8k and I will be playing him this week. He had a few good finishes to close the season with a T10 at the Genesis Scottish Open, a T8 at The Open in July, and a T19 at the BMW Championship in August. He’s one of my favorite plays in the $8ks at under 15% ownership.

The best leverage in this $8k range is Tyrrell Hatton (Off of projected chalk Cam Young). I can’t describe what he did last week in any other way than him taking his dick into his own mouth at the ZOZO Championship, finishing T45. He is top 8 in strokes gained so these fucking terrible results must be a result of variance. I expect him to finally pull things together this weekend at less than 10% ownership. The patrons and I watching Hatton finish top 10:

Holy shit DraftKings tossed us a bone again. Seong-Hyeon Kim is still $7.1k. This is a better field than when he finished T4 at Shriners Children’s Open, but he’s still got his dick out… and it’s not soft. He’s finished T36, T13, and T4 in his first 3 events this year and I don’t see him slowing down this week. This is one of the best values in the entire field.

My favorite play in the $7ks is Fleetwood Mac. This is another egregious misprice at $7.7k. He absolutely shit the bed last week at the ZOZO Championship, but that was his first event of the season so an expected warm-up. He finished last season with T4s at the Genesis Scottish Open and The Open. He is also one of the best values of the field and I will be playing him. Live look at me when Fleetwood birdies to get into the top 5 on Sunday:

The time has arrived for the dustballs. K.H Lee is another golfer that appears to be a bit mispriced at $6.8k. Scrolling down the list a little further you’ll see Justin Suh, who is 13%. I said last week that playing chalk in the $7ks is bad, but I can assure you that playing chalk in the $6ks is even worse. I’ll be “paying up” for K.H. Lee, who finished last season with a T20 in the FedEx St. Jude Championship, a T5 in the BMW Championship, but then gurgled sack at the Tour Championship (almost finished last).

Davis Riley went on a streak to remember at one point last season, but his boner has since subsided quite a bit. He started this season with a missed cut at Fortinet but rebounded with a T19 at the Sanderson Farms Championship. At $6.9k and around 8% ownership, he’s getting a little chalky, but it’s a tough fade. You don’t normally see his name all the way down here. He’s the best golfer in the $6ks.

It’s time for the Cash God Guarantee. It’s Diktor Hovland. It looked rough for him in June and early July. He finished T51 at the Memorial Tournament and then missed two straight cuts (U.S. Open and Genesis Scottish Open). He bounced back with a T4 at The Open and then started this season off with a dick-dragging T5 at the ZOZO Championship last week. He was near the top of strokes gained for the majority of last season. This is his week to win. Hovland and I heading into the weekend with a big lead in tournaments:

I’ll be back next week.

-CashGod-

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