Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report: The 2016 BMW Championship

The Sleeper Report: Fantasy Golf Sleepers, Long Shots, and Undervalued Picks for the BMW Championship

The BMW Championship 2016 Fantasy Sleeper Preview

With a mere two events left on the PGA TOUR, the fields are getting tough and the race for the FedExCup is heating up. Following a tremendous come-from-behind victory by Official World Golf Rankings No. 2 golfer, Rory McIlroy, in the Deutsche Bank Championship, the top-70 golfers from the FedExCup standings head to Carmel, Indiana for the BMW Championship at Crooked Stick Golf Club. The long par-72, 7,516-yard course will bring out the best in some of the elite players in the world as they set their sights on the Tour Championship and $10 million grand prize for the victor. Of course winning here will go a long way to achieving that goal as the man who goes out on top this week will gain a whopping 2,000 FedExCup points and certainly be a lock, if not the front-runner to win it all, in the big event in a couple of weeks time.

Of course with the best players in the World competing in the same event, there have been plenty of big names to come away with this trophy. The list includes the likes of Tiger Woods (2007, 2009), Dustin Johnson (2010), Justin Rose (2011), Rory McIlroy (2012), and defending champion Jason Day. Of the past champions here, only Woods in both of his winning years and Billy Horschel (2014) have went on to take home the illustrious top spot in the FedExCup standings at the end of the playoffs. Some pretty impressive scores have been put up over the course of this event, which has been played at five different venues since 2007, with three players going for 20 strokes under-par or better; including Day last year with a final tally of 22-under. His defeat of runner-up Daniel Berger by six strokes was outmatched only by Woods in 2009 when he defeated the likes of Jim Furyk and Marc Leishman by an astonishing eight strokes. McIlory should feel a ton of confidence coming off of his 12^th PGA TOUR win as he was the man who dominated this course in this tournament’s last visit here in 2012 with a two-stroke win over runners-up Phil Mickelson and Lee Westwood behind his 20-under score.

With the field diminishing to the best players from this year, there are of course some tremendous names to watch out for when the players hit the fairways on Thursday. The top-five in the standings really present some of the heavyweights of the game with Patrick Reed continuing to lead while being followed by Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, and Adam Scott. Each of these golfers is currently in the top-eight of the OWGR and it is very likely the final winner will come from this handful of golfers. The current field is set at 69 for this week with the one omission being Henrik Stenson who is dealing with an injury and will likely miss out on the TOUR Championship with his current standing of 24^th. Two rookies will be making their way to Indiana, and both have a strong chance at competing again the following week with Smylie Kaufman sitting at 33^rd and Emiliano Grillo joining the party in eighth.

The group of players each week is getting smaller and there is less of a chance that one of the men with high odds will be competitive throughout the four days, but once again there were plenty of sleepers at the top of the leaderboard at the Deutsche Bank Championships last week. Paul Casey and Ryan Moore finished second and eighth respectively after being featured in this article while names such as Fabian Gomez, James Hahn, Billy Hurley III, and David Hearn were in the top-10 as well. Below are a few of the players who have a solid chance at staying with some of those top golfers already mentioned and make their way to the TOUR Championship.

The BMW Championship 2016 Fantasy Sleeper Report

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