Fantasy Golf Value Picks: The Best DraftKings PGA TOUR DFS Bargains for the Rocket Mortgage Classic

After Scottie Scheffler won the Travelers Championship for the sixth time this season, the PGA TOUR heads to Detroit Golf Club (par 72, 7,370 yards, bentgrass/POA blended greens) for the Rocket Mortgage Classic. This event was added to the PGA TOUR calendar six years ago and the Donald Ross-designed Detroit Golf Club has hosted every edition of the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Last year, Rickie Fowler ended a four-year winless streak by winning this tournament at -24, defeating Adam Hadwin and Collin Morikawa in a playoff. This week’s field includes 156 golfers and there will be a normal top-65 standings and ties will be broken after the first two rounds.

Detroit Golf Club is a playable par 72, with wide fairways, thin rough, small greens, 87 bunkers and only one water hole. With four of the five champions of this Ross design shooting -23 or better, it’s safe to say Detroit Golf Club is one of the easiest courses on the annual PGA TOUR calendar. We’ve seen both long and short hitters win on this course and any player can be targeted this week.

Our priority must be golfers who are in great shape with their irons and putter, with Detroit Golf Club being a typical second-shot course. Of the five winners on this stretch, three finished the event T14 or better in both the SG APP and SGP. We must also target strong par-5 scorers in this birdie-fest, particularly golfers who are efficient on par 5s from 500 to 550 yards. Three of the four par 5s at Detroit Golf Club are in this range, and every Rocket Mortgage Classic champion has finished the tournament in the top four in efficiency on those particular holes.

Below, I’ll outline four of my favorite DraftKings deals under $7.5k for the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

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Matt Wallace ($7,400) – Wallace has been great at Detroit Golf Club. The English pro has never missed a cut on par 72 in three starts and two of those finishes were top-12 results. Wallace now returns to the Motor City having made six of his last seven cuts worldwide and has five top-30 finishes in that span, most notably a T4 at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson last month.

Wallace’s irons have been sensational, gaining strokes on approach shots in four consecutive events. He also ranks 17th in SGP when we compare the last 50 rounds of this field. Wallace checks all the boxes this week and is a top-notch value player at this affordable salary.

Lee Hodges ($7,100) – Hodges is a very attractive target at this low price. The 29-year-old has made the cut in each of his last six solo starts and finished tied for 31st or better in four of those tournaments, including a tie for 12th at the PGA Championship, which is his best major finish to date. Hodges finished last Sunday’s Travelers Championship with a 65 and his shooting has been great of late, ranking seventh in the last 24 rounds at the SG APP.

Hodges finished tied for 44th at Detroit Golf Club two years ago and, given his excellent form, is likely to surpass himself and achieve an even better result this time.

Daniel Berger ($7,000) – Berger has never played at Detroit Golf Club, but the veteran is way too cheap for his talent and should succeed in this weak field. After missing about a year and a half with a back injury, Berger returned to the PGA TOUR this season and is finally looking like the player who was ranked 12th in the world just a few years ago.

Berger is coming off an impressive T21 at the US Open, which was played on the very demanding Pinehurst No. 2. In that finish, the 31-year-old was an excellent ball-striking player, ending the major sixth and third in SGT2G and SG APP, respectively. Berger has made it to the weekend in six of his last seven solo starts and is ranked 14th in SG APP this season. Including a win at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in 2021 – where he finished -18 – Berger has had success in low-scoring tournaments in the past, and his excellent iron play should help him to a top-25 finish this weekend in Detroit.

Neal Shipley ($6,300) – After finishing as the top amateur at the Masters with a T53 finish at Augusta National, Shipley finished T26 at the U.S. Open two weeks ago at Pinehurst No. 2, which was also the best finish by an amateur at the major. Shipley is only the seventh golfer ever to finish as the top amateur at both the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year – he is the first to do so since Viktor Hovland in 2019 – and it was after those impressive major finishes that Shipley turned pro. He made his professional debut last week at the PGA TOUR America Beachlands Victoria Open and continued to impress with a T9 finish. Now, Shipley will make his debut in a PGA TOUR Standard event this week at Detroit Golf Club, which should get him off to a good start considering Shipley just finished T26 at another Ross-designed event two weeks ago at Pinehurst No. 2.

Shipley is grossly undervalued for his potential in this weak field and is unlikely to be an owner since he is an unknown name to casual golf fans. Additionally, Shipley is a very enticing bet to finish in the top 20 at +600 in the DraftKings Sportsbook.

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