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Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2015 WGC-Cadillac Championship

Published

9 years ago

March 3, 2015

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The Sleeper Report: Fantasy Golf Sleepers, Long Shots, and Undervalued Picks for the 2015 WGC-Cadillac Championship

Event Preview

The Second of four World Golf Championship events will be held this week as the top players from the PGA and other tours around the world converge on South Florida for the Cadillac Championship. The top-50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings as well as golfers who are heading the European Tour, Asian Tour, Japan Golf Tour, PGA Tour of Australia, and Sunshine Tour (as well as the top-30 from the FedEx Cup standings) will all be invited to participate. In total, this event encompasses around 70 players annually and has been regularly hosted by Trump National Doral in Miami, FL.

In the past Doral has allowed for some heavy scoring as the victors in each of the first seven trips to this venue put up scores that were at least 10-under par, but last year the newly renovated track wasn’t giving up nearly as many birdies as Patrick Reed became the youngest WGC winner at the age of 23 with a four round score of just four-under par. He had sole position or a tie for first place at the end of each round as the tourney ended with a mere three players—the others being Bubba Watson and Jamie Donaldson—finishing better than par.

The par-72, 7,481-yard course has hosted the WGC-Cadillac Championship for the past eight seasons and has seen just one repeat winner in Tiger Woods over that time. Traditionally, the end result tends to be close with only one of the first-place finishers winning by more than two strokes (Ernie Els 2010). In total, Woods was able to win in this event seven times out of the 15 years that it has been held, with Els being the only other player who has managed to grab the trophy more than once.

Now let’s take a look at a few golfers who could really put forth a big performance this week despite being lower in the odds.