The PGA TOUR is in Greensboro, North Carolina, this week for the final tournament of the regular season. The Wyndham Championship always delivers plenty of drama, both at the top of the leaderboard and in the FedExCup points race, as the top 70 look to advance to next week’s playoffs. It’s the last full-field event on the PGA TOUR until mid-September, so be sure to get your lineups ready for a great week of GPP contests available on DraftKings. As you set your tournament lineups this week, check out my top three fantasy golf pivot plays for the week. This week, I’m looking at Harry Hall ($9,200), Si Woo Kim ($8,700) and William Mouw ($7,100) as my top under-the-radar options who have the potential to exceed salary-based expectations.
Let’s be sure to define our terms before we jump into this week’s picks. A “fantasy golf pivot play” is a golfer with low ownership and high upside. Typically, they come with major risk factors compared to more popular options that are available around the same DFS salary. Even though these plays are NOT the safest options in their price range, they have enough potential upside to be worth the sweat since they come with lower ownership. Be sure to check out my companion post to this one that highlights my picks for cash lineups if you’re looking for safer options that raise the floor of your lineup.
Let’s break down why I like each of my top three pivot plays this week.
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Harry Hall ($9,200)
The three players over $10,000 in salary are getting plenty of attention as Matt Fitzpatrick ($10,600), Ben Griffin ($10,100) and Keegan Bradley ($10,300) all have strong cases to be good plays this week. None offers great leverage, though, since all will be popular, but Hall is coming in under the radar, with popular options Jake Knapp ($9,100) and Aaron Rai ($9,300) sandwiching him in the salary structure.
Hall is playing this event for the third straight season but has missed the cut each of the last two years (which is why the public is focusing elsewhere). This year, though, Hall has put together an impressive season overall with 11 top-25 finishes and 18 made cuts in his 21 events. He is just inside the top 50 in the FedExCup standings coming into the week, meaning he will likely make the playoffs but could use some points to help him progress deeper into the three-tournament playoffs.
Hall comes back to Sedgefield on an impressive roll. He has finished in the top 30 in eight straight events. During that run, his best finish was a T-6 at the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Hall has especially excelled on the greens and leads the entire field in Strokes Gained: Putting over the last 36 rounds and ranks second in Total Strokes Gained. Hall’s recent momentum has been enough to give him a high enough ceiling for GPP lineups, even though his course history is definitely a red flag.
Si Woo Kim ($8,700)
Kim is the opposite of Hall in several ways this week, since he brings loads of good course history but shaky recent form. He also benefits as one of my fantasy golf pivot plays from his salary landing in between popular options in Kurt Kitayama ($8,800) and Rickie Fowler ($8,500), who are both getting lots of attention this week.
Coming to Sedgefield, Kim needs to find a spark after missing the cut at The Open Championship and the 3M Open in his last two starts. He did post some strong results earlier this season, though, with nine top-25 finishes in his 25 events helping him to start the week at No. 45 in the FedExCup standings. He was T-11 at the John Deere Classic, T-8 at the PGA Championship and T-8 at the RBC Heritage, showing he has a high ceiling when he’s at the top of his game.
The 30-year-old from Seoul has shown that he can reach that high ceiling at Sedgefield, posting four top-five finishes at this event, including a win in 2016 and a runner-up finish in 2021. He was forced to withdraw in 2022 and missed the cut last year, so it hasn’t all been good, but the upside is definitely there.
Kim is too boom-or-bust to be safe enough for cash lineups, but as a fantasy golf pivot play, he brings enough upside to be a solid option to consider as a leverage play in the midrange this week.
William Mouw ($7,100)
Mouw is making a late run at the PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year award and could further secure the inside track for that honor with a strong run in the playoffs. More established players like Ryan Fox ($7,300), Andrew Putnam ($7,100) and Andrew Novak ($7,300) are getting much more attention in this price range this week than the 24-year-old rookie.
Mouw broke through for his first PGA TOUR win at the ISCO Championship earlier this month, the same event Harry Hall won in 2024. Mouw began the Final Round seven strokes off the lead, but he stormed to the win by posting the lowest round of the day by four strokes. After his win, he opted to skip the Barracuda Championship, but he was back in action last week at the 3M Open with another strong finish. He ended up T-7 after four rounds of 67 or better.
Mouw begins the week at No. 80 in the FedExCup standings, so he’ll need to post a strong finish to qualify for the playoffs. He’ll be making his debut at this track but comes in with good momentum, ranking in the top 10 in Total Strokes Gained, Strokes Gained Tee-to-Green, and Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee over the last 16 rounds while leading the field in Total Strokes Gained over the last eight rounds.
