Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2016 Wells Fargo Championship

The Sleeper Report: Fantasy Golf Sleepers, Long Shots, and Undervalued Picks for the 2016 Wells Fargo Championship

2016 Wells Fargo Championship Fantasy Sleeper Preview

The stars will be out in big numbers this week at the Wells Fargo Championship following a couple of weeks with the fields being rather thin.  As the players head to Quail Hollow Club, a 7,575-yard, par-72 course in Charlotte, North Carolina, many will be looking to gain an edge on future events like the PGA Championship (2017) and President’s Cup (2021)—both of which will be held here at Quail Hollow.

This tournament is one of the newest on the TOUR, starting up in 2003 as the Wachovia Championship, and then taking on Wells Fargo as the title sponsor in 2009.  As always with this course, much of the success over the week will come from how the golfers adjust to the “Green Mile,” the venues’ final three holes which are often considered one of the toughest stretches of golf played throughout the year.

As mentioned previously, the field will be stacked with name after name of top-tier golfers, most notably being the No. 3 player in the world according to the Official World Golf Rankings; Rory McIlroy.  Not only is he the top ranked player among the large field, he has also won here twice (2010, 2015) and he destroyed the 72-hole scoring record last season.  Aiming their sights at him will be another seven players from the top-15 including Rickie Fowler, Henrik Stenson, Adam Scott, Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose, Patrick Reed, and Hideki Matsuyama as well as world No. 86 Webb Simpson who calls this course home and has shown plenty of past success here in the past.

Last year, McIlroy put on quite a show when he teed it up at Quail Hollow, dominating every aspect of the club en route to a massive score of 21-under-par; a course record which beat out the next best score by Anthony Kim in 2008 by five strokes.  His score was able to go so low thanks to an incredible Saturday 61 in which he birdied six of the final nine holes.  The victory made him the first multiple time winner in this event while he left runners-up Patrick Rodgers and Webb Simpson seven strokes back.  Despite last year’s huge win, this tourney is typically close, and in its 13 years of existence, there has been six playoffs and another two conclusions determined by a single stroke.

The last couple of weeks have seen Charley Hoffman and Brian Stuard take home trophies, but with all the big-time players going to Charlotte it is going to much harder for an underdog to beat out the field.  With that said, let’s now feature a few names that could accomplish this tough feat and come out with an unexpected high standing at the challenging Quail Hollow.

2016 Wells Fargo Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

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