British Open winner Zach Johnson is part of the Bridgestone Invitational field. (Getty)
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Heavy’s partners at DraftKings have created a low buy-in contest for this week’s World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational in which one fantasy player will take home $100,000.
For a $3 entry fee, you get your shot at the top prize of $100,000, but DraftKings is paying out $400K total in the contest. Second place brings home $20,000 and third $10,000. Over 34,300 entered teams will collect.
The contest gets started at 6 a.m. Eastern on Thursday, August 6, so lineups must be set by then.
The rules are simple: With a fixed salary cap of $50,000, choose 6 golfers you feel have the best chance to do well at Firestone Country Club South course in Akron, Ohio. The better your selected players do on the course, the better your fantasy team does, the more money you make. The idea is to not only pick golfers who can make the birdies and pars, but play the entire 4 rounds. Picking a pro who misses the cut isn’t going to help.
The WGC’s fields are always resemble a major with the top players in the world taking to the course. And this week’s tournament is no different.
Jason Day ($11,200), Dustin Johnson ($10,800), Justin Rose ($10,600) and Rickie Fowler ($10,500) are just a few of the superstars teeing it up.
But I’m not using any of them this week. I’m using a very balanced lineup where just one player (British Open winner Zach Johnson has a $9,000 salary).
Usually in the golf contests you can find bargain players with salaries under $6K. Not this week. The lowest salaries are $7,000. So I stayed away from the 5-figure players because I believe my $8K-range guys have just a good a shot to win.
Here my’s lineup:
First off, Johnson obviously on top of his game and has had time to rest from the emotional victory at St. Andrews. Johnson has a T4 and T6 in recent years at the Bridgestone.
Keegan Bradley is a former winner and finished tied for 4th last year here. His name has also been near the top of the leaderboard in this event.
As for the rest of my team — Branden Grace, Jimmy Walker, Patrick Reed and Robert Streb — they are all playing well and/or have had past success on this course.
Grace just steps up in big tournaments and Reed tied for 5th here a year ago.
