The 2024 golf season is upon us! I spent last week breaking down one and done strategy, an incredibly popular game for golf fans. Another emerging format that we have devoted energy to covering at RickRunGood is season long fantasy. PGA Tour season long fantasy is not all that dissimilar from NFL fantasy, and golf is actually rather conducive to this format. Just like in football, eight to 12 man leagues are a popular starting point. Each team will typically draft 10-16 players, and start six to eight for every event of the 2024 PGA Tour season, which runs from the Sentry Tournament of Champions to the FedEx Cup playoffs.
As I wrote about in the One and Done article, not all PGA Tour events are created equally, and it’s paramount to identify players who are automatically qualified for the Signature Events, the biggest money makers. The LIV element also adds another wrinkle. Jon Rahm will only be available for four events this year, the majors. But he’s also Jon Rahm. The recent LIV defect will still be under 20/1 at all majors, and even if he earns around a million dollar or two dollars combined through those four events, he still could be more profitable than a middle of the road Tour player. Slotting where to select the LIV players was undeniably the most challenging aspect of this exercise. Outside of LIV, it’s also important to be cognizant of what players are eligible for each events. In my rankings, I laid out the eligibility of every player.
- Top 125: Entry into most regular events and the PLAYERS Championship
- Top 70: Qualified for the 2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs, but not exempt into every Signature Event in 2024
- Top 50: Eligible for all Signature Events in 2024
- Top 30: Exempt into all tournaments before the Playoffs except the PGA Championship
- Top 30 (2022): Only Aaron Wise, who is fully exempt through 2024 for reaching the 2022 Tour Championship
- Multi-year: Winners prior to 2022-2023 who didn’t finish inside the top-125 of the FedEx Cup last year, but still have fully exempt status
- Non-member top-125: Min Woo Lee and Nicolai Hojgaard. Fully exempt members
- DPWT: 2023 DP World Tour Race to Dubai Top-10. Fully exempt members
- KFT (Rookies): Korn Ferry Tour graduates (30 golfers)
- Q-School: PGA Tour Qualifying School (5 golfers)
- Conditional: Numbers 126-150 in the 2022-2023 FedEx Cup
Also, I added their Data Golf Ranking, a far more accurate hierarchy at this point than the OWGR. Without further ado, here is my 2024 Season Long Fantasy Top 100 Draft Guide.
- Scottie Scheffler (27 YO, Top 30, DG: 1)
- Viktor Hovland (26 YO, Top 30, DG: 2)
- Rory McIlroy (34 YO, Top 30, DG: 3)
- Patrick Cantlay (31 YO, Top 30, DG: 7)
- Collin Morikawa (26 YO, Top 30, DG: 4)
- Justin Thomas (30 YO, Top 125, DG: 20)
- Ludvig Aberg (24 YO, Top 125, DG: 13)
- Xander Schauffele (30 YO, Top 30, DG: 5)
- Max Homa (33 YO, Top 30, DG: 8)
- Matt Fitzpatrick (29 YO, Top 30, DG: 12)
- Tyrrell Hatton (32 YO, Top 30, DG: 11)
- Jordan Spieth (30 YO, Top 30, DG: 18)
- Sam Burns (27 YO, Top 30, DG: 22)
- Cameron Young (26 YO, Top 50, DG: 34)
- Tom Kim (21 YO, Top 30, DG: 14)
- Tony Finau (34 YO, Top 30: DG: 21)
- Tommy Fleetwood (32 YO, Top 30: DG: 9)
- Will Zalatoris (27 YO, Multi-year, DG: 44)
- Min Woo Lee (25 YO, Non-member 125, DG: 19)
- Sungjae Im (25 YO, Top 30, DG: 17)
- Rickie Fowler (35 YO, Top 30, DG: 24)
- Sahith Theegala (26 YO, Top 50, DG: 40)
- Hideki Matsuyama (31 YO, Top 50, DG: 39)
- Wyndham Clark (30 YO, Top 30, DG: 38)
- Corey Conners (31 YO, Top 30, DG: 29)
- Cam Davis (28 YO, Top 50, DG: 37)
- Russell Henley (34 YO, Top 30, DG: 10)
- Keegan Bradley (37 YO, Top 30, DG: 23)
- Jason Day (36 YO, Top 30, DG: 35)
- Shane Lowry (36 YO, Top 125, DG: 33)
- Brian Harman (36 YO, Top 30, DG: 16)
- Eric Cole (35 YO, Top 50, DG: 15)
- Sepp Straka (30 YO, Top 30, DG: 27)
- Akshay Bhatia (21 YO, Top 125, DG: 113)
- Si Woo Kim (28 YO, Top 30, DG: 64)
- Denny McCarthy (30 YO, Top 50, DG: 26)
- Kurt Kitayama (30 YO, Top 50, DG: 109)
- Adam Scott (43 YO, Top 125, DG: 32)
- Justin Rose (43 YO, Top 50, DG: 41)
- Harris English (34 YO, Top 50, DG: 51)
- Billy Horschel (37 YO, Top 50, DG: 86)
- J.T. Poston (30 YO, Top 50, DG: 25)
- Stephan Jaeger (34 YO, Top 70, DG: 58)
- Emiliano Grillo (31 YO, Top 30, DG: 80)
- Adam Hadwin (36 YO, Top 50, DG: 61)
- Tom Hoge (34 YO, Top 50, DG: 127)
- Nick Taylor (35 YO, Top 30, DG: 72)
- Adam Schenk (31 YO, Top 30, DG: 56)
- Taylor Moore (30 YO, Top 30, DG: 111)
- Alex Smalley (27 YO, Top 70, DG: 108)
- Lucas Glover (44 YO, Top 30, DG: 59)
- Jon Rahm (29 YO, LIV, DG: 6)
- Bryson DeChambeau (28 YO, LIV, DG: 28)
- Brooks Koepka (33 YO, LIV, DG: 43)
- Vincent Norrman (26 YO, Top 70, DG: 81)
- Byeong Hun An (32 YO, Top 50, DG: 50)
- Adam Svensson (30 YO, Top 50, DG: 52)
- Justin Suh (26 YO, Top 125, DG: 94)
- Gary Woodland (39 YO, Top 125, DG: 89)
- Alex Noren (41 YO, Top 125, DG: 53)
- Chris Kirk (38 YO, Top 50, DG: 65)
- Nicolai Hojgaard (22 YO, Non-member Top 125, DG: 31)
- Adrian Meronk (30 YO, DPWT, DG: 75)
- Ryan Fox (36 YO, DPWT, DG: 74)
- Chris Gotterup (24 YO, Rookie, DG: 137)
- Aaron Rai (28 YO, Top 70, DG: 60)
- Keith Mitchell (31 YO, Top 70, DG: 126)
- Seamus Power (36 YO, Top 50, DG: 161)
- Thomas Detry (30 YO, Top 70, DG: 102)
- J.J. Spaun (33 YO, Top 70, DG: 54)
- Erik Van Rooyen (33 YO, Top 125, DG: 128)
- Cameron Smith (30 YO, LIV, DG: 36)
- Taylor Pendrith (32 YO, Top 125, DG: 116)
- Austin Eckroat (24 YO, Top 125, DG: 118)
- Davis Riley (27 YO, Top 70, DG: 159)
- Beau Hossler (28 YO, Top 70, DG: 42)
- Brandon Wu (26 YO, Top 70, DG: 157)
- Adrien Dumont De Chassart (23 YO, Rookie, DG: 167)
- Maverick McNealy (28 YO, Major Medical, DG: 163)
- Andrew Putnam (34 YO, Top 50, DG: 50)
- Ben Griffin (27 YO, Top 70, DG: 82)
- K.H. Lee (32 YO, Top 125, DG: 136)
- Robert MacIntyre (27 YO, DPWT, DG: 197)
- Luke List (38 YO, Top 125, DG: 71)
- Patrick Rodgers (31 YO, Top 50, DG: 79)
- Davis Thompson (24 YO, Top 125, DG: 115)
- Pierceson Coody (23 YO, Rookie, DG: 401)
- Brendon Todd (38 YO, Top 50, DG: 55)
- Mark Hubbard (34 YO, Top 70, DG: 87)
- Aaron Wise (27 YO, Top 30- 2022, DG: NR)
- Matt Kuchar (45 YO, Top 70, DG: 76)
- Ryo Hisatsune (21 YO, Rookie, DG: 95)
- Mackenzie Hughes (33 YO, Top 50, DG: 90)
- Parker Coody (23 YO, Rookie, DG: 250)
- Lucas Herbert (28 YO, Multi-year, DG: 106)
- Taylor Montgomery (28 YO, Top 70, DG: 99)
- Dustin Johnson (39 YO, LIV, DG: 48)
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout (29 YO, Top 125, DG: 63)
- Ben Kohles (33 YO, Rookie, DG: 69)
- Thorbjorn Olesen (34 YO, DPWT, DG: 70)
Honorable Mentions: Nicholas Lindheim, Sam Ryder, Lee Hodges, Joaquin Niemann, Patrick Reed, Nick Hardy, Matthew NeSmith, S.H. Kim, Jacob Bridgeman, Alejandro Tosti
Happy drafting – AL
