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Fantasy Golf Predictions – 2017 BMW South Africa Open

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European Tour Fantasy Golf Picks and Predictions for the BMW SA Open hosted by City of Ekurhuleni

The 2017 SA Open Fantasy Preview

The BMW SA Open is one of the longest standing tournaments out there with the first event coming near the beginning of the 20th century in 1903.  It became co-sanctioned with the European Tour in 1997, but still saw a strong contingency of South Africans taking home the trophy.

The players will be teeing it up at Glendower Golf Club for the fifth consecutive year where the par-72 course maintains 7,564 yards with 64 bunkers and water hazards on a majority of the holes.

The big news is the No. 2 golfer in the world, Rory McIlroy, leading the entrants list and looking to build on his 2016 season in which he won the TOUR Championship and finished in the top-10 at both the Masters and Open Championship.  He ended the year fifth in the Race to Dubai, failing to win the season long championship for the first time since 2013, but nailed down his first FedExCup Championship on the PGA TOUR.

McIlory is the clear favorite, but will be faced with some difficult competition in former champions Andy Sullivan (2015) and Brandon Stone (2016) as well as a slew of South African’s aiming to hold down their countries’ Open.  Richard Sterne, Dean Burmester, Hayden Porteous, and Thomas Aiken are among the best representing South Africa, but joining McIlroy and Sullivan from Europe will be a trio of big names in David Horsey, Matthew Southgate, and Richard Bland.

Last year, Brandon Stone snapped a three year run in which players from outside of South Africa went home the champion with his 14-under, two-stroke win over runner-up Christiaan Bezuidenhout.  His finishing score was right in line with past victors as the average mark is 15.5 shots under par over the last decade.  At a mere 22-years-old, this was Stone’s first career victory on the European Tour and it did not come without an up-and-down final day which saw the champion get seven birdies, but also six bogeys.

Stone became the 13th South African to win the tournament in the 20 years since it became a mainstay on the European Tour and will look to join a group of 18 other golfers to win the event on at least two occasions.  It is no surprise that the man with the most wins here is Gary Player who won an astonishing 13 times between 1956 and 1981.

This will be the second season that DraftKings is hosting games for the European Tour and that means there will be more fantasy players out there with experience and knowledge of the ins and outs of golf overseas.  So, you’ll have to dig a bit deeper to be successful in European Tour DFS this year.  But fear not because we’ve done the leg work for you by outlining a few players we believe could take to Glendower with ease and perform well at all different price levels.

Our 2017 SA Open Fantasy Picks and Predictions

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