The Renowned Pebble Beach

Fenway Park, Lambeau Field, Madison Square Garden; every sport has a classic field that is uncanny because of it’s vast richness of a combination of history and memorable classics. For PGA, the golf course is Pebble Beach. Voted America’s Best Public Golf course the last two years (2015 and 2016) and being the annual host to the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AM; Pebble Beach is quite the venue. Overlooking the California Coast, the beautiful Pebble Beach has also hosted the PGA fantasy thriller, the U.S. Open, five times and is slted for it’s sixth in the upcoming years.

The PGA fantasy match that solidified this course for the history books was the 2010 U.S. Open. Legendary daily fantasy PGA players such as: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, and a young David Johnson made up of the pool of players competing this year. Was it one of Tiger’s three infamous U.S. Open titles? No it certainly wasn’t. The reason this championship is known the way it is because when you hear the winner’s name, the immediate reaction is always “Who?” Yes indeed, the winner of the U.S. Open this year was quite the fantasy sleeper and daily fantasy value play, and he is Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland.

Over his sixteen year career on the PGA tour, McDowell managed to win a total of three tournaments. Never known as a forcible player in the field, McDowell managed to defy the odds and capture the U.S. Open title in 2010 and effectively ended a 40 year drought of Europeans failing to claim the top prize. In terms of fantasy PGA analysis, this was a head scratcher. Yes Tiger and Phil tied for fourth and Dustin Johnson tied for eighth but Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland won! I think that just about says it.