Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – The Greenbrier Classic 2015

The Sleeper Report: Fantasy Golf Sleepers, Long Shots, and Undervalued Picks for The Greenbrier Classic from The Old White TPC

The Greenbrier Classic 2015 Preview

Following a great week at the Travelers Championship, the tour will now head south to West Virginia for the Greenbrier Classic, one of the newest events on the PGA TOUR after first being established in 2010 and taking place at the par-70, 7,287-yard course each year.

This event is one of three sandwiched in between the U.S. Open and the Open Championship and is typically not attended by many of the top foreign players in the world as they prep overseas for the next big major.  However, many of the players in this group will be competing for a spot at the Open Championship as the PGA saw Graham DeLaet, Brian Harman, Luke Donald and Carl Pettersson earn spots at the major with their finishes.

Overall, there are seven players from the top-25 heading to The Greenbrier Classic with No. 18 Louis Oosthuizen and No. 23 Paul Casey being the only two from outside of the United States.  Leading the field will be No. 3 Bubba Watson who is coming off his eighth victory since 2010 when he took home the trophy in playoff against Paul Casey last week at the Travelers Championship.  Also joining the field will be Tiger Woods as he hopes to rebound from a terrible performance at Chambers Bay in the midst of a horrid 2015.  Woods missed the cut here in his one visit back in 2012.

There is typically a ton of scoring done at this course which features plenty of European style holes as each of the winners since 2010 have been in double-digits under par, and Stuart Appleby was the first victor here behind a score of 22-under-par—including a Sunday score of 59.

Last year, Angel Cabrera gave foreign players their third win in the five installments of this event when he shot a combined 12-under-par over the weekend and held off George McNeill’s Sunday 61 to win by two-strokes.  Through the five years that this event has taken place, the average winning score has been 15.4 strokes under par with two of those years needing a playoff to decide the victory.

There will be plenty of scoring to be done this week and with some solid players joining the field it could be a fun one to watch, so let’s take a look at a few golfers outside of the normal fantasy buzz who could get it done at The Old White TPC.

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Mix and match these players with your usual rosters (or play them separately) to get the most out of your picks this week.

• Seung Yul-Noh – 66/1: It seems like the odds for Noh are far too good considering the Korean-born player has made the cut in just 9-of-17 events (53%) and has also withdrawn once, but he has found his groove in the past few weeks and ranked in the top-20 at each of his last two tournaments.  He followed up a tie for third at the St. Jude Classic with a tie for 20th last week in the Travelers Championship where he opened with a Thursday 64 and finished the week with 76.4% of green hit in regulation.  The 24-year-old is 1-for-2 in cuts made at this event with his one solid showing coming in 2012 when he shot seven-under-par to tie for 27th as he posted three rounds of 68 or better.  Noh ranks sixth on TOUR in birdie or better scoring when going for the green (65.8%) and seems to putt well under pressure with 27.38 putts per round on Sundays.  So if he is able to make it deep into this week, he should have no issues competing right up to the end.
• Carl Pettersson – 66/1: Pettersson will look to become the second Swedish-born player to win this event in the past three years as Jonas Blixt did so in 2013.  He has had some success when at the Old White Course, making the cut in each of the five years since the tournament’s inception in 2010 and has two top-20s during that stretch.  He’s been slightly inconsistent on TOUR in 2015, going 16-for-24 (67%) in cuts made, but is currently riding a streak of four consecutive events in which he has made it to the weekend and is coming off of his best showing of the year when he ended in fifth at the Travelers Championship with three rounds of 66 or better.  Pettersson is a great scrambler (62.7%, 28th on TOUR) and has the experience here to put up some nice scores and impress many with his play.
• Charlie Beljan – 100/1: It hasn’t exactly been an exceptional 2015 campaign for Beljan, missing more cuts (11) than he’s made, but he does have a third place finish already this season and was solid at the U.S. Open (18th).  He has also been great at this event in the last three years, getting a top-11 twice and was close to grabbing the win in 2011 when he shot 14-under-par and finished in a tie for third thanks to his Friday 62.  Beljan has shown he can post some very low scores here and besides that 62 he showed up with a Sunday 65 last year which aided him in a tie for 11th as he hit 75% of GIR.  He’s also huge off the tee, averaging 309.7 yard per (2nd on TOUR) and as a result ranks 28th in going for the green (61.7%).  The long hitter has had success here in the past and should put himself in a position to contend on Sunday.
• Scott Stallings – 125/1: These odds are just too nice to pass up on a player who has taken home the trophy in the past at this tournament when he scored 10-under-par and defeated both Bob Estes and Bill Haas in a playoff during the 2011 tournament.  It was one of three PGA victories that Stallings has tallied since the 2011 season and the 30-year-old nearly added another one to his resume with a playoff loss at the Farmers Insurance Open earlier this year.  Since his 2011 victory, Stallings has been able to make the cut here in each of the three seasons and last year he hit better than 66% of both GIR and fairways, but struggled with putting (-.591 strokes gained putting) ending in a tie for 35th.  He’s made 10-of-18 (56%) cuts in 2015 and besides his runners-up at the Farmers Insurance has placed in the top-25 four other times.  Look for Stallings to shake off his recent poor play and make it to the weekend with a nice showing in West Virginia.
• Chez Reavie – 200/1: Reavie is one of the more accurate drivers on TOUR (71%, 9th on TOUR) and despite making a mere 5-of-15 cuts (33%), the former Sun Devil has put up nice showings each of his last two events, posting a top-25 in each.  He shot a 68 or better in four of the eight rounds during that time and was able to hit 77.8% of GIR last week at the Travelers Championship.  Although he has made very few cuts in 2015, the 33-year-old has made it to the weekend in each of his two visits to the Greenbrier Classic and looks poised to continue a recent hot streak when he hits the course on Thursday.

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