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Fantasy Golf Picks and Predictions – Puerto Rico Open

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2019 Puerto Rico Open Preview

With no European Tour tournament this week, the DFS sites are serving up the PGA TOUR’s alternate event – the Puerto Rico Open – as their appetizer course.

This is your classic alternate, which attracts a strange field of formerly quality operators looking to find some form, talented youngsters, and Web.com Tour graduates seeking their maiden PGA TOUR victory, as well as a few grizzled old veterans perhaps seeking one last major payday before the Champions Tour comes a-calling.

The leaderboards of this event generally back up that notion. There was no edition in 2018, but a year prior to that D.A. Points roused himself from cold storage to win by two strokes from 48-year-old Retief Goosen, 41-year-old Bill Lunde and some young whippersnapper by the name of Bryson DeChambeau.

Corey Conners of Canada plays his shot from the bunker on the 14th…

Corey Conners of Canada plays his shot from the bunker on the 14th hole during the final round of the Sanderson Farms Championship at The Country Club of Jackson on October 28, 2018 in Jackson,… Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

In 2016, Tony Finau won his maiden – and still only – PGA TOUR title here against Steve Marino, a player that hadn’t contended in an event for more than seven years.

And in 2015, the 45-year-old Alex Cejka finally landed his first PGA TOUR win in a five-man playoff that also included then 23-year-old Emiliano Grillo and Sam Saunders.

So, there is a narrative, as such, to how the Puerto Rico Open pans out; that’s the good news. The bad news is that finding out who the protagonists might be is a hefty mystery to unravel.

When the sportsbooks have Daniel Berger and Peter Uihlein as their favorites at sub 20/1 prices, you know you’re going to have to get your thinking cap on.

What else do we know? Well, the event will unfold at the Coco Beach Golf and Country Club in the suburb of Rio Grande, with the course being a composite of four mini courses designed by former US Open champion Tom Kite.

Happily, any notions of this playing like a US Open track can be quickly extinguished, with plenty of room off the tee and minimal rough in play. There are water hazards, but these are mostly for aesthetic purposes rather than gobbling up errant golf balls.

The course’s key defense is its length (7,569 yards for its Par 72), particularly as the fairways are largely flat and there isn’t much run to them. Also, there is some rain in the forecast which will lengthen proceedings further.

Oh, and the wind is another defense mechanism: we may get gusts of up to 16mph, which is significant.

The greens are of an average size and the same Seashore Paspalum strain used at the Mayakoba Classic and CIMB Classic. And if you’re looking for another course correlation, the Corales Punta Cana Championship is played just across the water in the Dominican Republic.

It’s a tough nut to crack, but here are six plays that might just work at the Puerto Rico Open.

This Week’s Puerto Rico Open Fantasy Picks & Predictions

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