Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2015 TOUR Championship

The Sleeper Report: Fantasy Golf Sleepers, Long Shots, and Undervalued Picks for the 2015 TOUR Championship from East Lake GC

2015 TOUR Championship Fantasy Sleeper Preview

Going into the TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, GA, the big question is whether anyone can catch the FedExCup leader and now World No. 1 golfer Jason Day.  The points will be reset going into this week, allowing anybody in the field to mathematically have a chance at grabbing the crown, but the top five players (Day, Spieth, Fowler, Stenson, Watson) can all still seal up the victory if they finish atop the leaderboard at East Lake.

Day has flown up to the top spot thanks to a recent tear in which he has won an amazing four times in his last six outings, one of which was the PGA Championship and two others which were FedExCup playoff matches.  He also finished in the top-10 at both the U.S Open and Open Championship over the summer.

The OWGR’s top golfer will be joined by 29 of the best players from this year’s PGA TOUR season each of who will be playing on the 7,307-yard, par-70 course for the 12th consecutive year dating back to 2004.  Since becoming the final event of the TOUR season, there has not been a single player to take down the trophy twice, with both Tiger Woods (1999, 2007) and Phil Mickelson (2000, 2009) being the only players to have won the FedExCup event on two separate occasions.  Both of those once elite players will not be in attendance as Jim Furyk, who is questionable to play at the time of this article, could surpass “Lefty” for the most consecutive starts here with 18 straight.

Last year it was a streaky player in Billy Horschel who was able to win for the second consecutive week when he grabbed the $10 million check after a three-shot victory over the likes of runners-up Furyk and McIlroy.  He used a score of 69 or better each day and won with a score of 11-under-par to be the third consecutive winner with a double-digit under par score after the victors from 2008-2011 failed to get out of single digits.

With the point reset there is a very likely chance that the person who wins this week will take home the ultimate crown, a feat that has been done so by the TOUR Championship winner at each of the past five installments.  It is not always the case, though, as evidenced by the last man that did it, Tiger Woods, with his runner-up finish in 2009, but it is a difficult task to complete.  In that scenario a player outside of the top-five would need all of the top guys to finish outside of the top-five, and with so much talent that will be tough.

Now let’s look at a few less popular names who could give a good run at completing this seemingly impossible task this week.

2015 TOUR Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

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