Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – the Memorial Tournament 2015

The Sleeper Report: Fantasy Golf Sleepers, Long Shots, and Undervalued Picks for the Memorial Tournament 2015 from Muirfield Village

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The PGA TOUR members continue to recover from a wet weekend at the Byron Nelson as they now set their sights on the Memorial Tournament in Jack Nicklaus’ hometown this weekend.  The field will head to Muirfield Golf Club for the event which was first established by “The Golden Bear” in 1976 with large hopes of bringing professional golf at a high level to his beloved town.  Needless to say, Jack was quite successful in his mission as the venue has hosted such prominent events as the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup in the past and typically has one of the strongest non-major fields of the year.

The field this week will be just as strong as usual with six of the top-10 players and another nine from the top-25 of the Official World Golf Rankings making an appearance.  They are lead by phenom 21-year-old and world No. 2 Jordan Spieth with last year’s winner, No. 14 Hideki Matsuyama, looking to become the seventh player in the tourneys history to win multiple times.

Leading the group of multiple-time winners at “Jack’s Place” is unsurprisingly Tiger Woods who has taken home the trophy here five times in the past with the most recent coming in 2012.

Matsuyama was exceptional last year with his score of 13-under-par and was able to narrowly fend off Kevin Na’s Sunday 64 with a playoff victory on the first extra hole.  He had some stiff competition that week as the next three players on the leaderboard were Bubba Watson, Chris Kirk and Adam Scott—all current top-17 golfers according to the OWGR.  It was just the second time in the past seven installments of this event that a foreign-born player had won as Woods, Stricker, Kuchar, and Kenny Perry were responsible for taking the other five tournament wins.

Despite the rough weather heading into last week’s Byron Nelson Championship, many players were able to put up some big numbers and underdog Stephen Bowditch (250/1) dominated the field with a score of 18-under-par, holding off his next closest competitors, Jimmy Walker, Charley Hoffman and Scott Pinckney, by four strokes.  Pinckney (200/1) and Jon Curran (200/1) along with Bowditch are reminders of how well underdogs can perform on a week-to-week basis as they were all in the top-10 come Sunday afternoon.

So let’s look at the field 120-man field at the Memorial and see if we can find some of those “sleeper” players that will outperform their odds this week.

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