The new season is almost upon us and, although we have to wait a little longer this year due to The Sentry falling off the schedule, that allows further opportunity to do some planning for the latest offering from FanTeam.

The PGA Tour 2026 Season Game offers a Prizepool of £10,000.00 and has a £20.00 buy-in.

Any new customers signing up through my link can:

– Enter the £20 golf season game
– Get another entry free!

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Let’s firstly get into some rules

The tournament is played over 32 Gameweeks. It runs from the Sony Open in Hawaii to the season-ending Tour Championship in late August.

You have a budget of 100M to build a squad of 10 players.

6 golfers are in play each week while 4 players are selected for the bench. 

Your captain each week scores x1.25 points.

Your cheapest player each week will be automatically assigned as your Underdog, and will score x1.25 points.

Every Gameweek you will receive 1 Free Transfer.

That can be rolled so, in theory, you can accumulate 31 Free Transfers during the season.

Transfers beyond the available Free Transfers will cost -20 points each.

Prize money

10% of entries get paid from the 10k prizepool

Strategy

Player schedules

For starters, it’s worth considering players who tee it up an awful lot. They can be used from week to week as opposed to those with much lighter schedules who will need to be transferred in and out more.

Looking at the top 100 on the FedEx Cup standings in 2025, these were the golfers who played most:

32 Eric Cole
31 Sam Stevens, Joe Highsmith, Patrick Rodgers, Mark Hubbard, Max McGreevy
30 Ben Griffin, Si Woo Kim, Jacob Bridgeman, Ryo Hisatsune, David Lipsky, Patrick Fishburn
29 Tom Hoge, Ryan Gerard, Davis Riley, Kevin Yu, Kevin Roy, Beau Hossler
28 Chris Gotterup, Sungjae Im, Max Greyserman, Emiliano Grillo, Alex Smalley, Joel Dahmen, Andrew Putnam

Notable names who played under 20 times:

16 Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele
17 Jason Day
18 Viktor Hovland, Justin Rose

Schauffele was injured in 2025 so that number is misleading. He teed it up 22 times in 2024.

Transfers

How big a hit is that -20 for going over the 1 free transfer limit per week?

To gauge it, here are managers’ winning scores from a cross-section of tournaments. The figures in brackets are the scores for each of the six players on the team. Note: sometimes they’re inflated by being captain/underdog.

In other words, to challenge for the top prizes, you usually need all of your players getting around at least 70-80 points. 

Arnold Palmer – 548 (116, 97, 91, 85, 82, 75)
Houston Open – 674 (161, 143, 106, 90, 88, 84)
Masters – 585 (123, 112, 97, 96, 85, 69)
Heritage – 573 (156, 143, 88, 79, 76, 72)

That means, being active with transfers pays off. Take some -20 hits rather than settle for players you don’t really want.

And absolutely make sure you have six active players each week. 

Keeping top players because they’re due to play next week or the one after will work sometimes if you have enough support from the bench but, in general, it will pay to twist rather than stick.

Week 1 line-up for Sony Open

I built this team with Scottie Scheffler in it despite him not playing the Sony Open.

Then, just prior to pressing ‘enter’, I switched him out for the most expensive player in the game contesting the Sony – Russell Henley.

The thinking? Scheffler is 16M and, in my view, needs to be part of your team whenever he plays. A reminder that he has 13 PGA Tour wins in the last two seasons!

But if you don’t build around or factor in the World No.1 now but want to sign him up soon, it’ll create all sorts of chaos and multiple transfers to try and get to Scheffler when he does play.

Scheffler will actually start 2026 in Week 2 as he’s signed up for the American Express. After that he’ll be playing Week 4 (Phoenix) as well as Weeks 5 (Pebble Beach) and 6 (Genesis). 

Rather than fiddling about trying to find mid-range value, my plan is to have as many elite players as possible who can contend for wins.

To facilitate that, I’ll need to have several players at the minimum price of 7.5M or just above. These enablers will obviously be warming the bench plenty.

So, overall, it’s a “Studs and Duds” strategy.  

It leaves plenty of salary in the bank for transfers down the line – the key one being getting Scheffler on board next week.

Henley, Matsuyama, Griffin, Si Woo Kim and Gotterup can challenge for early-season wins while Michael Kim plans to play the opening six events of the campaign so is useful to have on board given how well he played in 2025.

Starters

12.5M Russell Henley
12M Ben Griffin
11.4M Hideki Matsuyama
10.6M Si Woo Kim
10M Chris Gotterup
9.3M Michael Kim (UD)

Bench

7.9M Ryo Hisatsune
7.6M David Ford
7.5M Gordon Sargent
7.5M Danny Walker

Salary remaining: 3.7m

With 3.7M still in the bank, that allows me to get to 16M Scheffler in one move next week by selling 12.5 Henley.

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