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Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2015 PGA Championship

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The Sleeper Report: Fantasy Golf Sleepers, Long Shots, and Undervalued Picks for the 2015 PGA Championship from Whistling Straits

The 2015 PGA Championship Sleeper Preview

This week Whistling Straits will host the PGA Championship for the third time in the last 12 years.  In 1998 the former waste dump was resurrected as a beautiful European-style links course with plenty of sand and has quickly become one of the PGA’s favorite spots for big events.

The par-72, 7,514-yard course that sits along the banks of Lake Michigan will also play the host to the 2020 Ryder Cup and should have some more fireworks in store this year after sending the participants to a playoff in the last two installments the PGA Championship being played here (2004, 2010).

The first of those was won by Vijay Singh (-8) as he took down American’s Chris DiMarco and Justin Leonard in extra holes while Martin Kaymer earned the victory in 2010 with a score of 11-under, outlasting Bubba Watson in the three additional holes.  Since that 2010 event, world No. 1 Rory McIlroy has won this event twice (2012, 2014) as Keegan Bradley (2011) and Jason Dufner (2013) were victorious in the other two.

All but two of the last eight of these tournaments have been won by two strokes or fewer with McIlroy’s 2012 margin of victory of eight strokes being the largest in tournament history since they first began with stroke play in 1958.

The field is very deep with all but two of the top-100 players from the OWGR making the visit to Whistling Straits—No. 24 Chris Kirk (Hand) and No. 74 Alexander Noren (Rib) are held back by injury.

The Spieth watch will be on once again as the now 22-year-old looks to become just the third player in PGA history with three major victories in one year (the others being Ben Hogan in 1953 and Tiger Woods in 2000), after finishing in a tie for fourth at the Open Championship nearly a month ago.  Also gunning for the trophy will be Tiger Woods, who has won this major four times, but has not done so since 2007 and has seen his standing in the OWGR drop to No. 278 while sitting at 186th in the current FedEx Cup standings.

Let’s now breakdown a few players who could outperform their sleeper status and compete for a top spot at this week’s huge event in Wisconsin.

The 2015 PGA Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

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Want more of this week’s fantasy predictions?  Check out our full fantasy preview for the 2015 PGA Championship here.


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