Each week, including this week's 2024 The Genesis Invitational, 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.
2024 The Genesis Invitational: Tournament Model | Field | Rankings | Horses for Courses | DFS Picks | Betting Odds | One and Done | Past Results | Cheat Sheet | Recent Form | Finish Database
GNN Members-Only Tools
- PGA Tour results database
- Cheat Sheet
- PGA Tour top-15 trends
- Short-term model
- Quality Strokes Gained
- Strokes gained by round
- Course fit: Player vs. course
- Course fit: Course comparison
- SG:T2G trends
- SG:T2G variance
- Strokes gained by grass
- Strokes gained by course length
- Strokes gained by par
2024 The Genesis Invitational 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.
- Ludvig Aberg - 2 - T-9 Farmers Insurance Open, 2nd Pebble Beach
- Akshay Bhatia - 3 - T-14 The Sentry, T-13 Sony Open, T-13 Farmers Insurance Open
- Keegan Bradley - 2 - P-2 Sony Open, T-11 Pebble Beach
- Sam Burns - 2 - T-6 American Express, T-10 Pebble Beach, T-3 Phoenix Open
- Eric Cole - 2 - T-13 Sony Open, T-14 Pebble Beach
- Emiliano Grillo - 2 - T-7 Sony Open, T-14 Pebble Beach
- Beau Hossler - 2 - T-6 Farmers Insurance Open, T-14 Pebble Beach
- Si Woo Kim - 2 - T-14 Pebble Beach, T-12 Phoenix Open
- Taylor Montgomery - 2 - T-13 Sony Open, T-13 Farmers Insurance Open
- Matthieu Pavon - 3 - T-7 Sony Open, WIN Farmers Insurance Open, T-3 Pebble Beach
- JT Poston - 2 - T-6 Sony Open, T-11 American Express
- Xander Schauffele - 2 - T-3 American Express, T-9 Farmers Insurance Open
- Scottie Scheffler - 2 - T-6 Pebble Beach, T-3 Phoenix Open
- Nick Taylor - 2 - T-7 Sony Open, WIN Phoenix Open
- Justin Thomas - 3 - T-3 American Express, T-6 Pebble Beach, T-12 Phoenix Open
- Kevin Yu - 2 - T-3 American Express, T-6 Farmers Insurance Open
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 five years, keeping in mind that this is a new venue we've not seen.
Here are those players:
- Patrick Cantlay - 3
- Tony Finau - 2
- Max Homa - 4
- Viktor Hovland - 2
- Matt Kuchar - 2
- Hideki Matsuyama - 2
- Rory McIlroy - 3
- Collin Morikawa - 2
- Patrick Rodgers - 2
- Xander Schauffele - 3
- Scottie Scheffler - 2
- Adam Scott - 3
- Justin Thomas - 2
- Will Zalatoris - 2
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 is the breakdown:
- Putting: 35%
- Tee to Green: 65%
- Off the Tee: 16%
- Approach: 30%
- Around the Green: 19%
Potential fits include:
- Adam Hadwin
- Sam Burns
- Jason Day
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Cam Davis
- JT Poston
Find course fits using our member-only tool which shows this week's course numbers relative to the field.
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.
This week's model
Check out the 2024 The Genesis Invitational generic model, as well as our NEW short-term 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!
