Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play

2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play Fantasy Sleeper Report

Golf is, by its very nature, a game of inches.

An inch to the left or right and some of the most legendary moments in the sport would never have happened – conversely, there will be some that would have won majors had their putts just started out an extra inch one way or the other.

The irony that will not have been lost on Davis Riley at the Valspar Championship. After 72 holes of regulation action and the first playoff hole against defending champion Sam Burns, Riley hit an approach shot that had pretty much the same line and weight as his opponents.

And while Burns iron just nestled into the fringe of the eighteenth green, Riley’s took one or two extra bounces and ended up in the rough around the dancefloor.

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The rookie could then only watch as Burns’ putt caught the left-most edge of the bucket to drop for his birdie, before his own chip-in attempt dribbled just wide of the target.

Like we say….inches are everything in golf.

So Burns hoisted the trophy aloft and then declared his intention to skip this week’s event, the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. It’s a rare outing for the ‘mano a mano’ format, but one that is relatively well received by TV viewers, bettors and DFS gamers who enjoy a change of scene once in a while – especially given the quality strokeplay events that are just around the corner.

Burns, Rory, Cameron Smith….some have chosen not to make the trip to Austin, Texas, but the good news is that plenty have – 64 of the world’s top 70 players, to be exact. The field has that major-like feel to it, and it’s always intriguing to see how the best in the business set about their work in the match play format.

One thing that is for sure – the Austin Country Club is not the most forgiving of playgrounds. One of Pete Dye’s devilish designs, this layout is incredibly short (just 7,082 yards for its Par 71) and so you know there are obstacles galore to protect Dye’s legacy. Those include tree-lined fairways, stacks of pot bunkers, elevation changes, small but speedy overseeded Bermuda greens….oh, and we forgot to mention the often cruel Texan breeze.

The fact that Billy Horschel and Kevin Kisner are the two most recent winners at Austin CC speaks volumes – this is a layout where accuracy and strategy are prized just as highly as bombs and wedges, and that only serves to make the match play format all the more exciting to watch.

So who have we got our eyes on for this notoriously unpredictable event? Let’s take a look in our WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play 2022 sleeper report.

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