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The Wanamaker Trophy is on the line for the 102nd time this week as the first round of the 2020 PGA Championship rolls on Thursday at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. Though there is no crowd in attendance the coronavirus pandemic, creating a bit of a strange atmosphere for those competing in this event, 95 of the top 100 golfers in the world will take the course in perfect golf weather looking to pick up a major championship before the COVID-19-shortened season closes out.

Along with the best active golfers, there will be 20 PGA of America amateurs will be attempting to make some waves this week. Whether they will be able to stand up to the likes of Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka and Tiger Woods … well, that remains to be seen. Check out when your favorite golfers will begin Round 1 action with our full slate of PGA Championship tee times.

The lone major to be contested as part of the 2019-20 season allows the grandeur of the PGA Championship to stand out even more than it already does in a regular year. With so many storylines to consider Koepka’s potential three peat and Jordan Spieth finishing out the career grand slam, just to name a couple this will be a PGA Championship to remember. Will Tiger Woods continue inching closer to Jack Nicklaus? Can Rory McIlroy break out of his funk?

This all remains to be seen, but Round 1 has been relatively friendly thus far. Through most of the day, it’s clear there are low scores to be had at TPC Harding Park with Jason Day sitting as the leader in the clubhouse at 5 under and some big names like Brooks Koepka just one shot behind him after 18 holes.

This week’s PGA Championship field will be similar to last week at the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, with most of the top 50 in attendance — along with Tiger Woods, making his first start since finishing T-40 at the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide and his second appearance since the resumption of the TOUR season. He and Rory McIlroy are the most recent winners at TPC Harding Park. Woods won the 2005 WGC-American Express Championship, and Rory claimed the top spot at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in 2015. They’ll both be looking to dethrone the back-to-back champ, Brooks Koepka, who finished T2 last week in Memphis.

Although TPC Harding Park plays shorter in pure distance than the previous two PGA Championships (Bellerive CC, Bethpage Black), it will be a behemoth with seven par 4s measuring over 460 yards and a 251-yard par 3, one of the longest on the PGA TOUR. The PGA Championship played as one of the hardest courses in scoring relative to par last season and ranked 14th the previous year. Even though longshots like Y.E. Yang and Shaun Micheel have won the PGA Championship, it has mostly been the top-ranked players who have hoisted the Wanamaker Trophy.

Distance will be significant this week, and while it’s advantageous most weeks, we should also be focusing profoundly on accuracy. The two water hazards on TPC Harding Park will not be in play, so the course’s primary defense against the golfers are 47 bunkers and very thick rough off the fairway and around the greens. We’ll also see a few tee boxes that’ll increase the course close to 7,400 yards in some cases.

Our lineups will need to focus more on Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green this week as opposed to just extrapolating either off-the-tee or approach. In 2018, over their previous 12 rounds leading into the tournament, the average tee-to-green rank of the golfers who finished inside the top 10 was 24th, and last season it was 33rd. Still, approach will be essential this week, especially from 175-plus yards away with golfers most likely prioritizing accuracy over distance off-the-tee this week, forcing them to lay back and have longer approach shots into these bentgrass green complexes.

The term “stacking” in golf DFS isn’t used much, and if it is, it often refers to rostering golfers during similar tee draws due to weather concerns early or late in the day. Another definition refers to rostering players of the same skill set. Targeting players who can hit it long off-the-tee is a prudent strategy this week, and rostering six players who have a proclivity to pull driver off-the-tee may be successful. There should also be a consideration to fill your roster spots with the shorter hitters/elite iron-players as the contrarian strategy. The overarching consensus is the course will play long and fast, and while that’s true, we’ve seen players like Webb Simpson, Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth rank inside the top 12 in Strokes Gained: Total at the PGA Championship since 2014.