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European Tour Fantasy Golf Picks & Predictions – Turkish Airlines Open

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Fantasy Golf Picks and Predictions for the 2017 Turkish Airlines Open

2017 Turkish Airlines Open Fantasy Preview

The WGC sanctioned HSBC Champions looked set to have an American feel to it last week when first Brooks Koepka and then Dustin Johnson romped into the lead, but DJ’s remarkable collapse on Sunday ensured a couple of European enforcers took over: Henrik Stenson chasing home his good friend Justin Rose, who played the back nine at -5 to claim his first title since the Olympic games of 2016.

Both Rose and Stenson will participate in the first Road to Dubai event this week; the European Tour’s own version of the FedExCup. The top 60 players in the standings are in Turkey for the Turkish Airlines Open, and all will be looking to land some big points ahead of the final two events in South Africa and Dubai.

This tournament switched hosts from the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course to this, the Regnum Carya Golf Resort, prior to last year’s edition, and that means DFS gamers only have one set of data to work with.

More annoyingly, the statistics from 2016 don’t really shed any light on the profile of player we should be looking at drafting, as all different types prospered.

Thorbjorn Olesen of Denmark celebrates after making a birdie on the…

Thorbjorn Olesen of Denmark celebrates after making a birdie on the 18th hole to win the tournament during day four of the World Cup of Golf at Kingston Heath Golf Club on November 27, 2016 in… Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

So we had event winner Thorbjorn Olesen, who found just 53.6% of fairways off the tee. Yet, he ranked eighth and ninth for Greens in Regulation and Putts per Round respectively.

Then there’s David Horsey in T2: he found plenty of fairways but had an average drive length of just 274.9 yards. He too putted excellently.

And how about Bernd Wiesberger in solo fourth: he played superbly from tee-to-green but ranked just 30th for Putts per Round.

Maybe there’s another angle for gamers to consider….perhaps all of the above players were in form heading to Turkey? Not a bit of it: Olesen had missed seven of his previous nine cuts, with a best finish of T30. It’s not as if we can say the Dane was striping it heading into the tournament.

But there is, arguably, a correlation between Regnum Carya and a trio of other tree-lined European courses. The KLM Open has been held at The Dutch since 2016, while the BMW International is held on a rotational basis at Eichenreid and Larchenhof. Olesen, David Horsey, Bernd Wiesberger, George Coetzee, Haotong Li, Joakim Lagergren, and David Lipsky – who were the first seven players home at the Turkish Open last year – have all recorded top-20s in at least one of those other events named above, and in some cases two. It’s a possible angle worthy of further exploration.

With that in mind, who are we drafting for the Turkish Airlines Open?

This Week’s Turkish Airlines Open Fantasy Picks & Predictions

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