After a short one week break, the PGA Tour FedEx Fall series continues. Heading on down to sunny Cabo San Lucas, we head to El Cardonal, a Tiger Woods designed course that projects to lead to an absolute birdie-fest. With $6,000,000 up for grabs, at worst, we should get to watch some golf again with some great weather. 

Let’s dive in!

 

World Wide Technology Championship 2025: Daily Fantasy Golf Picks & Projections

Established in 2007 as an alternate event for the WGC Match Play event, the WWT has been a mainstay in the cycle for almost 20 years. Having switched from Mayakoba to El Cardonal at Diamante in 2023, we immediately saw the high scoring nature of this venue as Erik Van Rooyen immediately set the event record of 27 under par that year. This event is one that typically draws bigger names, probably due to the fact it’s in Cabo, but we should also consider that this course offers a good reset chance to some struggling pros. 

 

El Cardonal at Diamante: Course Breakdown This Week

Designed in 2014 by Tiger Woods and Davis Love, this is 100 percent one of the easiest courses we will see on tour in 2025. As this is a resort course more focused on public play, this venue features large wide fairways, large greens, and minimal rough coming into play. The only real defense of this course is coastal winds, but those have yet to be a factor in the initial hostings.

Measuring at just over 7,450 yards as a par 72 this venue is not long by modern standards by any means. The greens feature Paspalum grass, which is more unique that your traditional bermuda, poa, bentgrass we typically see. This grass can typically be cut shorter than most grasses, leading to faster greens on average. While the greens are large, they often have tight runoffs that we’ve seen at other venues, such as Kapalua and PGA National. These venues will serve as comparative courses for us this week as a result.

The par 3s at El Cardonal play between 150 and 210 yards, with 3 of them playing over 190 yards. The par 4s include the driveable (to some) 10th and 3rd holes, both playing right around 350 yards, and none of the par 4’s exceed 500 yards with the longest coming in at just 489 yards. The par 5s do play on the longer side, with the shortest playing 555 yards, all the way out to 600. These yardage buckets are clear for us to target for approach play and total length.

This venue has historically been an absolute birdie-fest, with the two winning scores here being -23 and -27 for reference. Given the lack of general defense on this course, we will focus more heavily on high scoring players, who have high levels of ball-striking and putting success as this tends to be the key to the venue. While driving distance can be a plus, we’ve also seen many shorter hitters succeed here due to the skill with the irons on approach as well as around the green.

When building the model this week, the focus stats are pretty clear off the rip. We’re going to focus heavily on Strokes Gained: Ball-Striking, Putting: Paspalum, Birdies or Better Gained, and Par-5 scoring. When factoring in approach play, the key buckets are a bit harder to find given the lack of ShotLink data for this venue. Additionally, there is a solid correlation seen with good play in the first two years of the event, with players like Carson Young finishing top 10 in both previous session at this venue.

 

World Wide Technology Championship 2025 Field: Golf DFS

After some of the weaker fields, we do see a slight increase in overall talent here. J.J. Spaun leads the way as the lone top 10 player in the field, joined by Ben Griffin as the other top 20 player. Perhaps more importantly, this field is more deep through the top 150 compared to some previous events. Previous winners of this venue Erik Van Rooyen and 2024 winner Austin Eckroast are in the field looking to capitalize on a win here. Almost the entire top 10 from 2024 are in the field as well, so many players have had some recent success in this field.

 

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PGA Best Bets & Predictions: 2025 World Wide Technology Championship (27-37 Overall, +15.15 Units)

  • Takumi Kanaya: Top 20 (+210)
  • Ben Griffin: Top 10 (+135) 
 

GOLF DFS PICKS THIS WEEK: Top Tier

Ben Griffin ($10,500 DraftKings/$11,900 FanDuel)

Griffin is arguably the best player in the field (depending on your thoughts on J.J. Spaun) and should be valued in lineups as such. Griffin ended 2025 5th in SG: Total, 24th in SG: Approach, and 18th in SG: Putting. He put all of his game together this season, and is in line to compete for yet another title to add to his mantle this year. He doesn’t score at a truly elite level, but he avoids bogeys (11th) and has one of the top 10 scoring averages on tour this year. He’s become an absolute star.

J.J. Spaun ($10,400 DraftKings/$12,000 FanDuel)

Spaun continued his hot 2025 season end in his first start in the fall, running to a 6th place finish at the Procore Championship. Spaun finished 7th in SG: Total, 5th on approach, and in the top half of the field in Putting and Off-The-Tee. Compared to Griffin, he’s both a worse scorer, and more likely to struggle to avoid bogeys, but he’s much more consistent on Par 4’s and his skill set around the green fits the venue more closely.

Rico Hoey ($10,000 DraftKings/$10,900 FanDuel)

Hoey might be the worst putter in professional golf, but he makes up for it with elite ball-striking and play off the tee. He can score well, but the struggles with the putter lead to roughly average bogey avoidance. I’m putting enough emphasis on his overall play, and his (relative) success on fast firm greens that I’m all in on Hoey in this matchup, especially after a 2nd place finish just two weeks ago.

 

GOLF DFS PICKS THIS WEEK: MID-TIER

Emilliano Grillo ($8,400 DraftKings/$10,100 FanDuel)

Grillo is a name that I haven’t found myself using much this season, but this is an event where it makes some sense. He’s above field average in all major statistics, which certainly helps his case. He doesn’t really shine in any category save for driving accuracy (where he ranks 15th overall), but he’s a comparatively strong putter in this field as he ranks well above field average in this metric. He may not win, but he can certainly content. 

Nick Taylor ($8,800 DraftKings/$10,400 FanDuel)

Taylor is solid all around, if you ignore his struggles off the tee. His struggles off the tee are mitigated this week, as he’s extremely accurate, just lacks the distance of other pros. Yet he ranks top 10 in the field in ball-striking metrics, and above field average in SG: Putting. Where he worries me is that he’s admittedly not a great scorer, but this venue should help.

Si Woo Kim ($9,700 DraftKings/$11,400 FanDuel)

You can basically copy and paste what I said about Rico Hoey into this section and it would be mostly accurate. Si Woo is a great ball-striker, great around the green, just struggles with the flat-stick. Where Si Woo is exciting though is he may have been bad overall with the putter this year, but ranks above field average in Putting Average, Putts Per Round, and One-Putt Percentage. There’s some signs that this could be a smash pick if all works out. 

 

GOLF DFS PICKS THIS WEEK: VALUE TIER

Austin Eckroat ($7,800 DraftKings/$9,700 FanDuel)

Eckroat is not the player he was when he won here last season, but I’m sticking with my trust that his success here will give him the confidence he’s lacked this season. He ranks below field average with the flat-stick this season, but ranks above field average in many metrics on approach, off the tee, and around the green. I’m believing in a bounce back for him this week.

Doug Ghim ($7,500 DraftKings/$9,600 FanDuel)

Ghim lines up so well for most of these FedEx Fall courses. He’s an accurate driver of the golf-ball, with solid ball-striking metrics, and solid play around the green. He performed well 2 weeks ago, and I believe that he can again.

Carson Young ($7,000 DraftKings/$8,600 FanDuel)

Young’s inclusion here is based almost entirely off his success at this venue. He finished T9th and 2nd here in his two starts. That’s enough for me to be excited at this price. Statistically he’s around field average, but I’m trusting the overall success. 

 

PGA DFS Picks This Week (Cheat Sheet)

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