By Landon Silinsky

The PGA TOUR heads to Scottsdale, Arizona this week for the WM Phoenix Open. TPC Scottsdale will be the host course and measures as a 7,261-yard par 71 with Poa greens.

While this is not technically a Signature Event, the WMPO is always one of the most exciting events on the PGA TOUR calendar, largely due to the fans. The field is also quite strong this week, as world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will be teeing it up for a second straight week, along with the likes of Justin Thomas, Hideki Matsuyama and Sam Burns.

Below, I have outlined three of my favorite DraftKings plays for the week.

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Scottie Scheffler ($12,000)

It’s pretty simple, if Scottie Scheffler is in the field and isn’t so exorbitantly overpriced, he absolutely must be rostered. He made his debut at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am last week and was a bit rusty, but still finished T9. The scariest part is, despite not having his A-game, he still led the entire field in SG: Approach, gaining 6.8 strokes with his irons on the week.

It wasn’t all roses, as Scheffler uncharacteristically lost 1.6 strokes around the green for the week, which is obviously jarring considering he boasts the best short game in the world. With a full event now under his belt, I have no doubt his usual Midas touch around the short grass will return in short order.

Scheffler is of course elite at every golf course he tees it up at, but is almost impossible to stop on courses that he’s won at before, and TPC Scottsdale fits that bill. The world No. 1 has a pair of wins at this event across his past four starts, which are sandwiched between a T3 and T7.

With his price only rising $100 from last week, Scheffler is a no-brainer option in all contest formats this week.

Maverick McNealy ($8,800)

McNealy had a dominant fall swing, as he picked up his first career PGA TOUR win at the RSM Classic, while posting a T6 at the World Wide Technology Championship and an additional two top-17 finishes in Bermuda and at the Shriners. He then parlayed that into a T8 at Kapalua to open the 2025 season, before hitting a bit of a malaise these past few weeks.

McNealy is quite close to snapping out of that funk, however, as he gained 4.9 strokes on approach last week at Pebble Beach and an additional 1.5 off the tee. He unfortunately lost 4.7 on the greens and had to settle for a T40 finish, but we know that he’s an elite putter, so there is no cause for concern there.

The fact he struck it so well one week before an event that saw him finish T6 last year is a pretty encouraging, and this $8,800 price tag is not reflective of his overall upside. McNealy likely will not be too popular this week, and is an elite tournament option at a course where he gained 4.3 strokes ball-striking and 7.7 from tee-to-green one year ago.

Lucas Glover ($7,400)

Glover’s history at TPC Scottsdale is nothing to write home about, but he has played this event seven of the past 10 years, and made the cut in six of those. He’s also coming off a ball-striking masterclass last week at Pebble Beach, where gained six strokes on approach, including 2.4 on Sunday alone, which catapulted him to a T3 finish and $1.2 million payday.

Like McNealy, Glover also had a fantastic fall swing, posting a pair of T3 finishes to go along with a T13 and T24 across his six starts. He’s been so good, as a matter of fact, that if you run back the past 24 rounds for everyone in this field, you’d find that the Glove ranks second in Total Strokes Gained behind only Scottie Scheffler, while sitting No. 1 in SG: Approach and No. 3 in SG: Ball-Striking.

Glover is simply too cheap for the way he’s been hitting the ball lately.