2023 AT&T Byron Nelson betting and DFS picks: Current form, course fit and horses for courses
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2023 AT&T Byron Nelson betting and DFS picks: Current form, course fit and horses for courses

A photo of golfer Scottie Scheffler AUSTIN, TEXAS - MARCH 27: Scottie Scheffler of the United States plays his shot from the first tee in his finals match against Kevin Kisner of the United States on the final day of the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club on March 27, 2022 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
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Each week, including this week's 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson, Golf News Net offers PGA Tour betting picks and daily fantasy sports (DFS) lineups using our proprietary model, which is weighted toward longer-term performance.

However, we don't just use our model when making these picks. We also need to look at current form, course fits and horses for courses. This data can and should help inform our decision making, including validating things we see in the model. If everything lines up, then a player can become an auto-play. If only some parts of the equation suggest a player will perform well this week, then we may look more tepidly at investing in a player.

2023 AT&T Byron Nelson history and current PGA Tour finish trends

Finish Trends

Recent PGA Tour Trends

We start by looking at the recent past, back at players who have finished inside the top 15 in the last five individual PGA Tour events.

  • Harry Hall - 2 - T-13 Corales Puntacana, T-10 Mexico Open
  • Scottie Scheffler - 2 - T-10 Masters, T-11 RBC Heritage
  • Jimmy Walker - 2 - T-15 Mexico Open, T-14 Wells Fargo Championship

Event Finish History

We like to look for potential horses for courses with most PGA Tour events, particularly those with regular host courses. We're typically looking at players who finished in the top 15 in this particular event in the last two years when played at TPC Craig Ranch.

  • KH Lee

Course Fits

A player is a course fit -- or a potential course fit, at least -- if their Strokes Gained breakout when they finish in the top 25 is similar to the average for top-25 finishers at this week's event.

Here's our breakdown:

Putting: 38%
Tee to Green: 62%
Off the Tee: 15%
Approach: 36%
Around the Green: 11%

Fits include:

Seamus Power
Jason Day
Henrik Norlander

Find course fits using our member-only tool which shows this week's course numbers relative to the field at Riviera.

I've also created a new listing which helps you find correlated courses by looking at the course fit breakdown for each recurring host course on the PGA Tour. You might be surprised to see which courses seem to relate to the Riv.

This week's model

Check out the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson generic model, which is available to GNN members.

My model weighs performance over multiple time frames (the last five events, 1 year and 2 years) with different weighting to strokes gained based on quality of competition.

We also have a tool for members which lays out the last field, our model and their results in the last five PGA Tour events and last five years of this week's event. Check it out!

We have also dramatically updated all of our tools with better data presentation, export and more to come soon!

Good luck this week!

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Ryan Ballengee

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