Week #16 ~ Fantasy Golf ~ RBC Heritage - April 17-23, 2014

Top Picks

Matt's Picks: Jim Furyk, Luke Donald, Matt Kuchar
Chuck's Picks: Luke Donald, Jim Furyk, Zach Johnson
Jeremy's Picks:  Jim Furyk, Jordan Spieth, Brandt Snedeker
Drew's Picks: Matt Kuchar, Graeme McDowell, Luke Donald
Cathy's Picks:  Matt Kuchar, Hunter Mahan, Billy Horschel

Dark Horses (dark horse criteria= outside top 50 on OWGR as of 2/24/14)

Matt's Picks:  Brice Garnett, Jerry Kelly, Will McKenzie
Chuck's Picks: Boo Weekley, Kevin Na, Stewart Cink
Jeremy's Picks: Cameron Tringale, Boo Weekley, Charley Hoffman
Drew's Picks: Will McKenzie, Cameron Tringale, Kevin Na
Cathy's Picks: Brendon deJonge, Erik Compton, Will McKenzie

Read here to see why we picked who we did!

Chuck's Picks:Luke Donald – Perfect game for this course. Two 2nds and two 3rds at Harbour town. Well rested after an early exit at Augusta. Overdue for the Tartan jacket.

Jim Furyk – Harbour Town is a ball strikers course and Furyk fits the bill. 2010 winner here and coming off a solid effort at The Masters last week. I’d be very surprised if he’s not in the mix come Sunday

Zach Johnson – Tough call here over Speith. I’m giving the edge to Zach because his game is better suited for Harbour Town. Plays well on Pete Dye courses and length is not much help this week.

Dark Horses:

Boo Weekly – Two time winner at this event. Current form doesn’t seem to matter. Boo is a horse for this course and should be in contention once again.

Kevin Na – Has been playing great golf recently and has success around this track. Top tens in his last two starts here.

Stewart Cink – Another two time champion here and may be starting to put the pieces together after a closing 68 at Augusta last week.

Drew's Picks:

Matt's Picks:
Jim Furyk  
In fifteen trips to this event, Jim Furyk has made the cut twelve times, earned six top tens, two runner-ups, and a victory. He is seven for seven on the season, with five top twenty-five finishes. He recently finished T6 at the Valero Texas Open and T14 at the Masters.
 
Luke Donald  
Luke Donald may have missed the cut last week at Augusta, but had four consecutive top twenty-fives in the four starts before. He finished T4 at the Valspar Championship and T8 at the Honda Classic. In his last five starts in the Heritage, Donald has two runner-ups and two third place finishes.  

Matt Kuchar  
This has been a regular stop on Kuchar's schedule over the years, but he only has two top tens in ten trips. Even with mediocre results at the Heritage, you can't ignore is recent play. Kuchar has three top fives in his last three starts and leads the PGA Tour with seven top tens. 

Dark Horses:

Brice Garnett  
Brice Garnett has played in thirteen events on the 2013-2014 PGA Tour season. In those thirteen events, he has earned eleven paychecks. Garnett is coming off a T7 performance in his most recent start at the Shell Houston Open. This will be his first trip to the Heritage. 

Jerry Kelly  
The grizzled veteran is a ball striker that excels on short tracks in his older age. Kelly had success here in the mid-2000's finishing T5 in 2006 and was the 54-hole leader in 2007 before finishing T8. Kelly had a strong showing last year finishing solo 5th. He finished T6 in his last start at Valero which was his 3rd top 10 of 2014.  

Will MacKenzie
MacKenzie has a streak of eight consecutive cuts made coming into this event.  In his last four events, MacKenzie has a runner-up, a T4, and a T6 finish.  MacKenzie currently ranks 3rd and all-around, 4th in scoring average, and 11th in strokes gained putting.  In five starts in the Heritage Willy Mac has earned five paychecks.

Jeremy's Picks:Jim Furyk - Furyk is playing excellent golf so far this year and I believe the RBC might be a chance for him to pick up his first win since 2010, a year that he also won this tournment.
 
Jordan Spieth - His play speaks for itself.  I'm starting to look at him as free points because I'm not sure he can play bad enough to finish outside of the top 20.
 
Brandt Snedeker - Snedeker is usually a mark of consistency.

Dark Horses:
Cameron Tringale - I leave him out of my dark horse lineup and he places 4th.  That gets him off the bench.
 
Boo Weekley - A 2 time winner of this event, he has had great success here in the past.
 
Charley Hoffman - Finished in the top 10 his past two trips to Harbour Town.

Cathy's Picks: