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Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – The Honda Classic

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4 years ago

February 25, 2020

2020 Honda Classic Fantasy Sleeper Report

Did golf’s unlikeliest of bromances blossom in Mexico last week?

Patrick Reed and Bryson DeChambeau, much-maligned and often misunderstood according to the duo themselves, duked it out for supremacy at the WGC-Mexico Championship and it was Captain America who came out on top with a flurry of late birdies.

He and DeChambeau spoke favorably about one another after the completion of their rounds, with Bryson even congratulating Reed on the eighteenth green.

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Both, you suspect, enjoyed outfoxing a member of the popular ‘Frat Pack’ of U.S. golf in Justin Thomas, and you wonder how far this reign of terror from two of golf’s most unconventional characters might go. Could this be a Ryder Cup pairing for the ages?

We won’t find out this week because neither are making the journey to PGA National, host of the Honda Classic, where the PGA TOUR’s Florida Swing begins in earnest this week.

Gone are the happy-go-lucky birdie-fests of California, and it’s straight into the dragon’s lair with PGA National playing as one of the hardest courses on the rotation outside of the majors.

The winning score in four of the last five years has been single digits under par, and that gives an idea of how tricky this layout – as does the fact that the stretch of holes from 15-17 is known as ‘The Bear Trap’, a nod to the Golden Bear, Jack Nicklaus, who refurbished this course in 1990.

Nicklaus must have been in a bad mood when he set about reinventing PGA National, because this trio of holes in particular features some devilish tests of ball striking. The rough is left to grow thick and juicy, while the large Bermuda greens have tiers and undulations that can bring a grown man to his knees.

Happily for the players, the eighteenth is the easiest hole on the course, so we should be in for a cracking finale come Sunday.

This Par 70 layout features just two Par 5s and plays into a serious wind – gusts of 17mph are expected in Palm Beach this week – so whoever grinds out the win will have well and truly earned their spoils in Florida.

This isn’t the strongest of field in the world, with many perhaps choosing to save themselves for the Arnold Palmer Invitational and PLAYERS Championship, both of which are incoming, and that hopefully opens the door to a sleeper winner – as it did with Keith Mitchell, who won from nowhere as a 200/1 outsider.

Could we see a repeat in 2020? Let’s see if we can unearth some value with our shortlist of Honda Classic sleeper picks.

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Sleeper Report Predictions This Season (2019-2020)

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