Each week in this column, you’ll find my favorite pivot plays in DraftKings tournaments. This isn’t to say to eat some of the chalk — sometimes the popular plays tend to be popular for good reason, and you should use some of those players in your lineups. Remember, never pivot off a good play to a bad play just because they’re projected to be lower owned. That’s moronic. A shrinking of a lower-owned play or two, however, can grant you a lot of leverage in what a mostly coin-flip situations. 

Antoine Rozner, $7,600

It’s difficult to surmise how the Frenchman’s game is going to translate to the PGA Tour. It’s one thing to beat up on a scrub field in Qatar or post top results at a sub-7,000-yard course on the Canary Islands, it’s another to test your skills, not just against the upper crust of the world’s best, but even the grinders in the mid-tier of the PGA Tour, the Sepp Strakas and Tom Hoges of the world. We got a small taste at the Match Play when ROZ knocked off Bryson on the opening day, but that’s really about it. That was his first WGC and next week’s PGA Championship will be his debut major.

Now, all this mystery is resulting in no ownership for the world’s No. 70 player. I’m talking like 2% in DraftKings GPPs or less here. I have no clue how he’s going to fare on a PGA track, but his results have been too good to ignore. Since last year’s Italian Open, Rozner has made 12 of 13 cuts with two wins, four top-10s, and eight top-20s. Yes, a lot of those results were against weaker Euro fields, but his win at the Golf in Dubai Championship presented by DP World featured the best of the regular European Tour talent. And his T9 at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic in January came with Casey, Sergio, Fleetwood, Fitzpatrick, Westwood, C Bez, Hatton, Rose, Willett, Wallace, Morikawa and Poulter all in attendance. If he was uber-chalk, this would be an easy fade, yet we’re in a position where a top-10 finish from Rozner can be the key in separating your DraftKings rosters from the back at the Byron Nelson. 

Wyndham Clark, $7,000

Clark isn’t going unowned like Rozner, but for his recent results, in a field this weak, he should be the last man in on a lot of rosters. He hit a midseason rough patch missing three consecutive cuts in Florida but had made five straight before and three in a row since. The results have been middling on his current streak however that’s something that can be attributed to his putting. He’s making cut despite not sinking anything. After gaining on the greens in 10 of 11 starts, he’s now lost in all three of his most recent made cuts. And the losses haven’t treading water, it’s been an average of -3.3 SG: Putting per start. Now back on Bentgrass, where he’s historically gaining +0.5 SG: PUTT/Round, Clark can try to bomb and gouge the hell out of the shorter holes at TPC Craig Ranch.