Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – The BMW Championship

2019 BMW Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

We are edging ever closer to the end of the 2018/19 PGA TOUR season, which may seem rather premature but that is the re-jigged schedule the organization has served up this term.

And so we enter the penultimate event of the campaign, and get a step closer to finding out the identity of this year’s FedExCup champion, with this week’s BMW Championship.

There are a number of different players that can still take the spoils, and one of those that has crashed into the reckoning is Patrick Reed, who triumphed in the Northern Trust last week.

It had been a season to forget for Captain America, but a moment of reflection and perspective-seeking in the spring has turned his whole campaign – and possibly career – around.

Reed could now walk away from the season as FedExCup champion, gatecrashing the party much like Billy Horschel did late in the day back in 2014.

To do so he will need a positive result at Medinah Country Club, the scene of the famous Team America collapse on the last day of the 2012 Ryder Cup.

That is something that all involved will be looking to eradicate from their minds, but there are gremlins at this layout and it will take a classy performance to get the job done in this corner of Illinois.

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When we say gremlins, we mean trees: lots of them. More than 4,700 in fact, and these line the fairways in a manner which makes this golf course wholly unforgiving off the tee – especially when you factor in the juicy rough as well.

From fairway to green Medinah is straightforward enough, so this is a golf event that can be won or lost off the tee. Given the length – this track can play at between 7,400-7,650 yards depending on which tees are used – we have to favor those who can go long but keep their ball in play at the same time.

Intriguingly, all four of the Par 5s are reachable in two for most in the field, so making red numbers on the long holes is absolutely imperative this week. To do so, you will need to be playing out of the short grass.

So there you have it: Medinah, in a nutshell, is the winding, doglegging, tree-lined track that will deliver the top 25 players to go on to the TOUR Championship next week.

This is a high-quality field of 70, and that means we can back some classy operators at mouth-watering prices. So who has made our shortlist of BMW Championship sleepers?

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