The 2023 Zurich Classic will take place at TPC Louisiana from Thursday through Sunday and the season’s most unique PGA Tour event will feature 80 teams playing two rounds of best ball and two rounds of alternate shot. There will be 400 FedEx Cup points, a two-year PGA Tour exemption and an $8.3 million purse on the line with a winner’s share of nearly $2.4 million. It’s been a busy stretch for the world’s top golfers but top-five players Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay will be back in action to defend their crown after winning last season.
Schauffele and Cantlay beat Sam Burns and Billy Horschel by two shots a season ago and they’re the 4-1 favorites in the 2023 Zurich Classic odds from Caesars Sportsbook. Can they go back-to-back for another victory with both players coming off top-five finishes at the RBC Heritage? Or should you look elsewhere when crafting your 2023 Zurich Classic fantasy golf picks? Before setting your fantasy golf rankings or making any 2023 Zurich Classic picks, you need to see the fantasy golf projections and lineup advice from SportsLine golf expert Eric Cohen.
Cohen is an avid golf bettor who correctly predicted the pre-tournament outright winner of the 2023 Honda Classic (Chris Kirk +3500), 2022 Open Championship (Cameron Smith +2200), 2022 U.S. Open (Matt Fitzpatrick +2500), and 2022 Phoenix Open (Scottie Scheffler’s first career victory +2800).
He is a daily contributor to SportsLine’s YouTube Show “Early Edge in 5” and is a guest on “The Early Wedge” SportsLine’s YouTube golf show hosted by Jonathan Coachman. Anyone who has followed Cohen’s picks for those events is way up.
Now, Cohen has ranked his top golfers from the 2023 Zurich Classic field. You can only see his fantasy golf rankings and Zurich Classic picks at SportsLine.
2023 Zurich Classic fantasy golf picks
Now, Cohen has ranked his top pairings for the 2023 Zurich Classic, and the expert is strongly backing Doc Redman and Sam Ryder at 50-1. The two veterans finished third in this event a season ago thanks to a couple of strong 67s during the alternate shot portion of the tournament. The duo could both benefit enormously from a win this week in New Orleans.
Ryder is currently 42nd in the 2023 FedEx Cup standings, while Redman is 167th. The 400 FedEx Cup points on the line this week could give them a significant boost and the two-year exemptions would ensure both keep their tour cards regardless of the rest of the season. This pairing clearly get around this golf course well and both are among the best putters on tour. Redman ranks 64th on tour in strokes gained: putting (.206), while Ryder ranks inside the top five in total putting (39.9), putting average (1.679) and putts per round (27.60).
On the other hand, Cohen is slightly fading brother tandem Matthew Fitzpatrick and Alex Fitzpatrick, even though Matthew is coming off a win last week at the RBC Heritage. They’re priced among the favorites at 22-1, but Cohen barely has them cracking his top 10.
Fitzpatrick capitalized on a few solid breaks during a playoff with Jordan Spieth in Hilton Head and won on the third playoff hole by hitting his approach to just over a foot. However, his brother is ranked 706th in the world and this will be his first PGA Tour event since the Valspar Championship last spring. You can see who else to back this week at SportsLine.
How to set your 2023 Zurich Classic golf rankings
For the Zurich Classic 2023, Cohen is backing several longshots at TPC Louisiana, with six of the pairs returning 18-1 or more. You can find out who they are, and check out all of Cohen’s PGA picks, only at SportsLine.
Who wins the 2023 Zurich Classic? Who are the top PGA Tour players to target for your Zurich Classic fantasy picks? And which overlooked players can help you win your league this week? Visit SportsLine now to get Eric Cohen’s fantasy golf rankings for the 2023 Zurich Classic, all from the fantasy expert with his finger on the pulse of the game, and find out.
2023 Zurich Classic odds, field
See the full Zurich Classic 2023 picks, best bets, and predictions here.
Xander Schauffele/Patrick Cantlay +400
Collin Morikawa/Max Homa +850
Sungjae Im/Keith Mitchell +1400
Si Woo Kim/Tom Kim +1600
Sam Burns/Billy Horschel +1800
Taylor Montgomery/Kurt Kitayama +2200
Justin Suh/Sahith Theegala +2200
Matt Fitzpatrick/Alex Fitzpatrick +2200
Beau Hossler/Wyndham Clark +2500
Victor Perez/Thomas Detry +2800
Nick Taylor/Adam Hadwin +2800
Thorbjorn Olesen/Nicolai Hojgaard +3000
Harris English/Tom Hoge +3000
Byeong Hun An/S.H. Kim +3000
J.J. Spaun/Hayden Buckley +3500
Denny McCarthy/Joel Dahmen +3500
Will Gordon/Davis Thompson +3500
Matthew NeSmith/Taylor Moore +4000
Davis Riley/Nick Hardy +4000
Callum Shinkwin/Matt Wallace +4000
Robby Shelton/Lee Hodges +4500
Brendon Todd/Patton Kizire +4500
Ben Griffin/Ryan Gerard +4500
Scott Stallings/Trey Mullinax +4500
Ben Martin/Chesson Hadley +5000
Doc Redman/Sam Ryder +5000
Brandon Wu/Joseph Bramlett +5500
Akshay Bhatia/Harry Hall +5500
Erik van Rooyen/MJ Daffue +6000
Luke List/Henrik Norlander +6500
Aaron Rai/David Lipsky +6500
Scott Piercy/Ryan Palmer +7000
Michael Kim/S.Y. Noh +7000
Ben Taylor/Callum Tarren +7000
Justin Lower/Dylan Wu +7500
Sam Saunders/Eric Cole +8000
Hank Lebioda/Tyler Duncan +8000
Doug Ghim/Kramer Hickok +8000
Vincent Norman/Matthias Schwab +9000