British Open: Top Fantasy Golf Picks for Carnoustie on DraftKings

If you don’t know this about me by now, consider this your introduction: I’m all-in on the Paul Casey bandwagon. I feel like he’s still got a major left in him even now that he’s 40 years old, and that may come a lot sooner than you think.

Casey is running on four straight big years on the PGA TOUR, and he’s been reinvigorated despite the game’s decided youth movement in that same window. So far in 2018, he’s got 11 top-25 finishes in 13 starts, as well as five top-tens.

He won back in March at the Valspar Championship, and most recently he capped three strong weeks with a runner-up finish at the Travelers Championship. He gave himself as good a shot to win there as he possible could, opening a four-shot lead after a Saturday 62. Bubba Watson’s heroics, combined with an unfortunate Sunday 72 out of Casey, cost him that win, but you can’t discount the rest of his body of work.

Casey also has the benefit of his split European Tour schedule, which has seen him at the Dunhill Links a whopping 11 times. In his last round at Carnoustie – at the 2014 Dunhill Links – Casey shot 3-under 69, with five birdies, and eagle, and four bogeys. That’s a wildly inconsistent card, the type that Carnoustie will inevitably produce, but also not a bad one in DraftKings fantasy golf scoring, which heavily favors birdies and eagles.

Casey is a bit spendy at $8,700, but given that I like him as a potential top-ten play this week, that’s not an outrageous number by any means.