2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: PGA Tour model and fantasy golf rankings
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2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: PGA Tour model and fantasy golf rankings

CHARLOTTE, NC - MAY 18: Scottie Scheffler (USA) plays his tee shot at the 10th hole during the final round of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Country Club on May 18, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)


Welcome to my weekly fantasy golf model for the 2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am!

Since March 2020, I've shared a weekly model which offers a clear-cut ranking system based on data points weighted in a formula. It's been a tremendous success. Winners typically rank inside the top 15 of our model, though, like any model, sometimes there are outlier champions.

Let me walk you through this week's results and how I get to them. You'll see our top 10 for free, and the rest of the model, including potential sleepers and value picks, is available for GNN members.

2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: Field | Tournament Model| Rankings | Betting Odds and First Looks | One and Done | Horses for Courses | DFS Picks | Course Breakdowns | Cheat Sheet | Tournament History | Recent Form | Finish Database

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How the rubric works

The biggest chunk of my rubric relies on strokes gained, as well our derivative, Quality Strokes Gained, which weights a player's strokes gained against the depth of field they face. The rubric looks at this data over the longer term and medium term to derive a player's quality across the tour and across different fields. I include specific weighting of strokes gained and Quality Strokes Gained against the field strength that week, creating a range of comparison to see how players do against particular competition.

Next, the rubric accounts for two factors I look at every week: current form in the last 10 PGA Tour events played and their average strokes gained on the host course in the last three years.

All told, the model is designed to point out quality players and boost those middling players who have good current form or good course history.

While I think a long-term view of a player's performance is the best way to measure their potential, there's no doubt that short-term heaters happen. To that end, for GNN members, I also have a short-term model that compares a player's performance to his peers over the last 10 PGA Tour events.

2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am rankings: Top 10

POS PLAYER PTS DK PRICE ODDS
1 Scheffler, Scottie 2.951 300 14000
2 McIlroy, Rory 1.857 1325 11500
3 Gotterup, Chris 1.68 3700 9000
4 Henley, Russell 1.512 3100 9200
5 Penge, Marco 1.5 17000 6700
6 McCarty, Matt 1.38 10500 6900
7 Fleetwood, Tommy 1.37 2600 10200
8 Schauffele, Xander 1.369 3300 9100
9 Spaun, J.J. 1.209 6000 7800
10 Straka, Sepp 1.156 7000 7700

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About the author

Ryan Ballengee

Ryan Ballengee is founder and editor of Golf News Net. He has been writing and broadcasting about golf for nearly 20 years. Ballengee lives in the Washington, D.C. area with his family. He is currently a +2.6 USGA handicap, and he talks about golf on various social platforms:

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