The 2020 Northern Trust at TPC Boston begins the three-week FedExCup Playoffs, and each of the top 125 players from the season-long standings are in the field. Below, we look at the fantasy golf power rankings for the top 30 PGA Tour competitors in the 2020 Northern Trust at TPC Boston this week.
Along with trying to win the event, the bottom half of the field will be trying to crack the top 70 of the standings in order to advance to next week’s BMW Championship. From there, the top 30 will compete for the $15 million top prize at the Tour Championship from Sept. 4-7.
2020 Northern Trust: Fantasy Golf Top 30
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30. Justin Rose (+5000)
Missed the cut at even par in last week’s Wyndham Championship following his solo ninth-place finish at the PGA Championship. The recently-turned 40-year-old has played 44 career rounds at TPC Boston and has averaged 1.06 strokes gained per round, according to Data Golf.
29. Byeong Hun An (+9000)
Averaging 0.87 Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green in 2020, and he’s coming off a rare good putting performance with 0.99 SG: Putting per round at the PGA Championship. It has long been the missing piece to his game.
28. Louis Oosthuizen (+6600)
Has played 20 career rounds at TPC Boston with an average of 2.47 total strokes gained per round. Played six events since the PGA Tour’s restart with a top finish of T-6 at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational.
27. Billy Horschel (+5000)
Coming off a solo runner-up finish last week at the Wyndham, where he gained 1.73 strokes per round with the putter and 0.93 off-the-tee. The former FedExCup champion has a poor course history here with 0.18 strokes lost per round.
26. Tiger Woods (+4000)
Nobody in the field has gained more strokes per round at TPC Boston than Tiger’s 2.90 across 36 laps over his career. Tied for 24th at the 2018 Dell Technologies Championship in his last visit.
25. Matthew Wolff (+5000)
Wolff led the PGA Championship with 3.53 SG: Tee-to-Green per round and ranked second with 3.05 SG: Tee-to-Green.
24. Abraham Ancer (+6000)
Had a disappointing T-43 showing at the PGA Championship but is still gaining 1.78 strokes per round on the average Tour pro across his last 20 rounds.
23. Cameron Champ (+6600)
Ranks second on the PGA Tour in the 2019-20 season with 1.060 SG: Off-the-Tee per round across 51 measured rounds.
22. Scottie Scheffler (+5000)
The PGA Tour Rookie of the Year favorite took last week off following his breakout T-4 finish at the PGA Championship, where he gained 1.83 strokes per round from tee-to-green and 0.96 off-the-tee.
21. Tyrrell Hatton (+5500)
The Arnold Palmer Invitational winner tied for third at the RBC Heritage and tied for fourth at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, before a T-69 at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational and a missed cut at the PGA Championship. He’s still fourth on Tour this season with 0.830 SG: Approach per round.
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20. Tommy Fleetwood (+4500)
Enters the week ranked 89th in the FEC standings and needs a good showing to advance to the next event. Had a good performance on the greens last week but oddly struggled with his irons.
19. Gary Woodland (+5500)
Ranks 12th on Tour with .632 SG: Approach this season. The reigning US Open champ has six top-10 finishes but no victories and ranks 33rd in the FEC standings.
18. Sungjae Im (+5500)
Grabbed his fifth top-10 of 2020 with a T-9 last week at the Wyndham Championship. Gained 1.19 strokes per round off-the-tee while doing it.
17. Hideki Matsuyama (+4000)
Has finished T-22 or better in four of his last five events with a missed cut at the Memorial Tournament. Ranks third with 1.86: SG: Tee-to-Green through 18 events in 2020.
16. Paul Casey (+4000)
The Englishman struggled to a T-31 placing last week after finishing as the co-runner-up at the PGA Championship. Has gained 2.05 strokes per round across 20 trips around TPC Boston.
15. Webb Simpson (+3000)
Picked up yet another T-3 finish at the Wyndham Championship last week. His lone FedExCup Playoffs win came at the 2011 Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston.
14. Patrick Reed (+3000)
Won last year’s Northern Trust but at Liberty National in New Jersey. Earned a T-9 finish last week with a Sunday round of 64 and averaged 1.21 SG: Off-the-Tee for the tournament.
13. Adam Scott (+3500)
Ranks fifth in the field with 45 career rounds played at TPC Boston and has averaged 1.92 strokes gained per round. Finished T-22 at the PGA Championship in his first event since the season was paused for the COVID-19 pandemic.
12. Viktor Hovland (+5500)
Ranks 16th on Tour in SG: Off-the-Tee and 10th in SG: Approach for the season. At 28th in the FEC standings, he needs a couple of strong showings in the next two events to retain his ticket to the Tour Championship.
11. Jason Day (+2500)
Finished T-4 at the PGA Championship as part of an excellent run since golf returned. Ranked fourth in the field in SG: Tee-to-Green and was first among those to make the cut in SG: Approach.
10. Tony Finau (+3300)
Three top-10s and two top-5s in his four events. Tied for fourth at the 2018 Dell Technologies Championship.
9. Patrick Cantlay (+3000)
Struggled around the greens en route to a T-43 finish at TPC Harding Park, but still gained 0.46 strokes per round off-the-tee.
8. Collin Morikawa (+2200)
The latest major champion followed up his Workday Charity Open win with a T-48 finish at the Memorial Tournament. He has taken a week off, but he enters the week second in the FEC standings and won’t need to worry about his spot at the BMW or Tour Championships.
7. Daniel Berger (+3300)
No one has gained more strokes on the average pro over their last 20 rounds than Berger (2.79).
6. Xander Schauffele (+2000)
The winner of the 2017 Tour Championship has finished in the top three of the FedExCup standings in two of the last three years. He enters this week 11th in the standings without a win this season.
5. Jon Rahm (+1600)
The winner of the Memorial Tournament and champion of the second-strongest field we’ve seen this season, Rahm ranks fifth in SG: Off-off-Tee and seventh in SG: Tee-to-Green.
4. Justin Thomas (+1200)
The PGA Tour leader in SG: Tee-to-Green, Thomas is 25th in this week’s more important SG: Off-the-Tee metric. He enters the week atop the FEC standings and is looking for his second win in the last four years.
3. Dustin Johnson (+1800)
Johnson has won four FedExCup Playoffs events but never the Tour Championship or the grand prize. He has averaged 1.99 total strokes gained per round at TPC Boston.
2. Rory McIlroy (+1400)
The reigning FedExCup champ enters this week eighth in the standings with one win and six top-10s on the season. He twice won the Dell Technologies Championship at TPC Boston and finished T-12 in 2018.
1. Bryson DeChambeau (+1200)
DeChambeau sits fourth in the season-long standings. He’s the Tour leader in SG: Off-the-Tee and ranks eighth in SG: Tee-to-Green. He’s the tournament betting co-favorite and the reigning champ of TPC Boston.
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