Fantasy Focus – From Spain to Quail Hollow

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This week the Fantasy Game concentrates on the Open de Espana and the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow, take a look at who our tipster has picked with this Fantasy Focus column

Rory McIlroy (above) won his first PGA Tour event at Quail Hollow in 2010 (Getty Images)

Fantasy Focus – From Spain to Quail Hollow

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Again there are two tournaments to concentrate on at the moment, with the PGA Tour have the Wells Fargo Championship and the European Tour having the Open de Espana.

With both tournaments offering an equal share of points it is vital to tr and have a balance between your team for those playing in the US and Spain.

GM tips for this week:

 

USA1 – Jim FurykWon only a couple of weeks ago and has a quite phenomenal record around Quail Hollow.

 

USA2 – Phil Mickelson – played here 11 times and has 9 top 15 finishes includeding five top 5.

 

GB – Tommy Fleetwood – The Englishman has a win in him and this could be the week, 11th on the Race To Dubai for a reason.

 

Ireland – Rory McIlroy – Well the World Number One won his first PGA Tour event here in 2010 and is simply playing too well to leave out.

 

Scandinavia – Thorbjorn Oleson – It was brilliant ot see the Dane playing somewhere near his best last week after a season of injuries. Reckon he will do well again this week in Spain

 

Rest of Europe – Alexander Levy – Decided against the Spaniards and instead go for the inform Frenchman who finished 3rd in his last strokeplay tournament. **LEVY HAS NOW WITHDRAWN PICK PABLO LARRAZABAL INSTEAD**

 

Asia – Hideki Matsuyama – Playing so well, six straight Top 25 finishes and led after round one at The Players Championship last week.

 

South Africa – Thomas Aiken – Finished 4th last week in Mauritius and is on a run of good results.

 

Australasia – Adam Scott – Hasn’t hit the heights that his game can this season, but his best form is only just around the corner.

 

South America – Emiliano Grillo The Argentine is playing some very solid golf of late and will make it into many people’s teams this week.

 

Captain – Rory is playing very solid golf as ever at the moment, so will stick with him as skipper of my ship.

 

Head to the fantasy section of the Golf Monthly website each week to read this blog and the round-up.

 

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Thomas Patrick Clarke
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Tom Clarke joined Golf Monthly as a sub editor in 2009 being promoted to content editor in 2012 and then senior content editor in 2014, before becoming Sports Digital Editor for the Sport Vertical within Future in 2022. Tom currently looks after all the digital products that Golf Monthly produce including Strategy and Content Planning for the website and social media - Tom also assists the Cycling, Football, Rugby and Marine titles at Future. Tom plays off 16 and lists Augusta National (name drop), Old Head and Le Touessrok as the favourite courses he has played. Tom is an avid viewer of all golf content with a particularly in depth knowledge of the pro tour.