Golfers with the Hottest Starts to the 2015-16 PGA Tour Season
Who's hot? It's one of the key questions daily fantasy golf players need the answer to when setting their lineups.
And while different DFSers assign different weights to recent play versus, say, a larger sample or a player's course history, most ignore torrid players at their own peril.
We'll take a look at number of starts, number of top-25 finishes, number of top-10 finishes and wins in this young season to bring you the PGA Tour's hottest golfers.
Jordan Spieth
1 of 8
Starts: 3
Top-25 finishes: 3
Top-10 finishes: 3
Wins: 1 (Hyundai Tournament of Champions)
Earnings: $1,353,750
Jordan Spieth has had three solid starts on the PGA Tour, including a resounding triumph at the Hyundai TOC. He also finished fifth at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship and second at the SMBC Singapore Open amid a stretch of serious globetrotting.
Jason Dufner
2 of 8
Starts: 7
Top-25 finishes: 3
Top-10 finishes: 3
Wins: 1 (CareerBuilder Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation)
Earnings: $1,380,025
Although he missed the cut at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, Jason Dufner has finished inside the top 10 in his last four starts, including a win at the CareerBuilder Challenge and an unofficial win at the Franklin Templeton Shootout.
Graeme McDowell
3 of 8
Starts: 4
Top-25 finishes: 2
Top-10 finishes: 2
Wins: 1 (OHL Classic at Mayakoba)
Earnings: $1,565,100
Graeme McDowell has cooled a bit in recent starts, but he began the season with a win and a third-place finish at the RSM Classic.
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Justin Thomas
4 of 8
Starts: 7
Top-25 finishes: 3
Top-10 finishes: 2
Wins: 1 (CIMB Classic)
Earnings: $1,734,873
Similar to G-Mac, Justin Thomas has cooled a bit recently, but he also started the season with a win at the CIMB Classic and a third-place finish at the Frys.com Open.
Kevin Na
5 of 8
Starts: 7
Top-25 finishes: 5
Top-10 finishes: 4
Wins: 0
Earnings: $1,797,273
Kevin Na has finished inside the top 10 in more than half of his starts on tour this season. That's pretty impressive stuff. And while he hasn't won, he did record second-place finishes at the Frys.com Open and the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open to start the season.
Russell Knox
6 of 8
Starts: 7
Top-25 finishes: 3
Top-10 finishes: 2
Wins: 1 (World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions)
Earnings: $2,118,160
A winner in November, Russell Knox missed the cut in his most recent start at the Sony Open in Hawaii. Still, a WGC Championships-HSBC Champions win and two consecutive second-place finishes at the OHL Classic at Mayakoba and the Hyundai Tournament of Champions are signs of the strength of Knox's play to start the season.
Brandt Snedeker
7 of 8
Starts: 7
Top-25 finishes: 4
Top-10 finishes: 3
Wins: 1 (Farmers Insurance Open)
Earnings: $2,250,733
After a few substandard campaigns, Brandt Snedeker has begun the 2015-16 PGA Tour season as a man inspired. He has three top-10 finishes and a win in seven starts. Snedeker had 3-2-1 finishes in a recent stretch between the Hyundai Tournament of Champions and the Farmers Insurance Open.
Kevin Kisner
8 of 8
Starts: 7
Top-25 finishes: 5
Top-10 finishes: 4
Wins: 1 (RSM Classic)
Earnings: $2,350,032
A winner with four top-10 finishes in seven starts, Kevin Kisner has as many wins as anyone else (1) and more top-25 finishes.
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