Fantasy Alarm is taking a different approach to help our subscribers build successful DFS lineups.  I will be giving you my personal core plays for this weekend's tournament.  These players listed below are my three favorite top tier, middle tier and value tier players for both DraftKings and Fanduel.  They will be at the core of all my lineups for this weekend's American Express and then I'll use my playbook to fill out the remaining spots in my lineup. 

Make sure you read my full PGA DFS Playbook for the Sony Open before using these core plays.  You can also take a look at my Weekly Tournament Projections at any time.

The weather forecast looks pretty awful this weekend and my first piece of advice would be to play less than your normal amount.  There could be all sorts of delays and golfers playing multiple rounds in one day.  I know I’m personally going to play about 50% of what I normally enter. 

When you are building those lineups, I’m going to take more of a balanced approach especially with Dustin Johnson withdrawing from the tournament.  The field is pretty weak overall which makes it more likely that an underdog will take home the title.  I mean Nick Taylor is the defending champ, that’s your first hint right there.  I’ll be starting the majority of my lineups with either Daniel Berger, Jason Day or Francesco Molinari.  I’m even willing to start with Max Homa and build a lineup with nothing but 8 & 7K players.  I have this gut feeling that someone in that range is going to win this weekend.    

This new format of core plays I think is way more valuable to our subscribers because it lends more to teaching than just copy and pasting.  A set of these players will be in each one of my lineups this weekend and then a mix of players from my playbook will fill out the rest.  

Good Luck!

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