Daily Fantasy Golf: PGA Championship expert picks

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As part of ESPN Fantasy’s efforts to give daily gamers intel on whom to target in DFS, our fantasy golf experts are here to share which players they view as building blocks for this week’s PGA Championship.

The panel for the final major of 2016 features ESPN.com’s Jason Sobel, Bob Harig, Jonathan Coachman, Kevin Maguire, Matt Barrie and Will Harris, and FantasyGolfInsider’s Jeff Bergerson, Zach Turcotte, Taras Pitra and Jason Rouslin, as well as Dailyfantasybootcamp.com’s David Jayne.

Note: Golfer salaries listed are for DraftKings.

Jason Sobel — Sergio Garcia ($9,400)

Each of this year’s first three major champions have been top-12 players who hadn’t previously won a major. Keeping with that theme, we’ve got three potential candidates at Baltusrol: Rickie Fowler, Branden Grace and, yes, the long-suffering Garcia. I’ve picked him to win majors before and have (obviously) been wrong, but this might finally be his time. If nothing else, he fits the pattern.

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Bob Harig — Rory McIlroy ($11,400)

The two-time PGA champ should be right in his element on a course that could be softened by thunderstorms and hot temperatures. Not fully fit last year at Whistling Straits in his return from an ankle injury, McIlroy nonetheless has four top-5 finishes in seven appearances in the tournament.

Jonathan Coachman — Dustin Johnson ($11,600)

This is a tough pick, because so many guys are playing well. But over the past two years, a red-hot golfer has won at the beginning of August and then at the PGA Championship (Rory McIlroy and then Jason Day). So if I go by that logic, I have to pick Dustin Johnson. Not only did he win the U.S. Open, but then again at Firestone. And this week he finished in a tie for second in Canada without having even his B-game. And his A-game right now is better than everybody else.

Kevin Maguire — J.B. Holmes ($7,700)

The man who will be a trivia question answer some day (as in … who finished third when Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson ran away with the 2016 Open at Troon) likes big ballparks and …

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