Fantasy Golf Round Up: Dustin Johnson Does It Again

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By Elliott Heath

published 13 September 2016

Dustin Johnson won his third tournament of the year at the BMW Championship to pick up 607 fantasy golf points

Fantasy Golf Round Up: DJ Does It Again

This week in Fantasy Golf Dustin Johnson was the big winner after he won the BMW Championship at Crooked Stick.

DJ picked up 607 points, with 50% on offer, after beating Paul Casey by three shots.

Casey earned 517 points for his efforts and also moved up to 5th in the FedEx Cup standings, meaning if he wins the Tour Championship next week he will win the FedEx Cup and $10m prize.

Related: Previous FedEx Cup winners

On the European Tour, Joost Luiten produced a stunning final round of eight under par to win the KLM Open in Holland for the second time. He won 405 fantasy golf points to be the leading continental European.

Related: Joost Luiten wins KLM Open

Each week the GM Tipster posts his betting tips. He’s picked 13 winners this season and stands at over 750 points up.

Think you can pick better than him? Then prove it! Sign up to our FREE Fantasy Game and join the Take On The GM Tipster mini league.

League Name: Take On The GM Tipster League password: gmtipster2016

There are great prizes from Puma Cobra Golf to be won each and every week. This week’s prize is a Cobra F6 stand/cart bag and the prize for the month is a golf travel bag and duffle bag, perfect for a golf break.

The leading fantasy golf points scorers this week:

USA 1: Dustin Johnson - 607 points

USA 2: Ryan Palmer - 442 points

GB: Paul Casey - 517 points

Ireland: Paul Dunne - 75 points

Scandinavia: Joakim Lagergren - 41 points

Rest of Europe: Joost Luiten - 405 points

Asia: Byeong-Hun An - 315 points

Australasia: Adam Scott - 442 points

South America: Jhonattan Vegas - 31 points

Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!

Elliott is currently playing:

Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV

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