 The PGA Tour's FedExCup playoffs get underway this week as the tour returns to Liberty National for the Northern Trust. The PGA Tour season is down to the final 125 in the FedExCup standing, so we're dealing with the best of the best, all of whom are eyeing up that massive first place prize. I am Brandon Gadolet, managing editor at numberfire.com and I will be breaking down three of my favorite golfers for the Northern Trust on Fandle. I won't fault anybody for starting their lineups with one of the superstars this week, such as John Rom at a salary of $12,000 or Jordan Spieth just below that, but I'm actually going to start off with someone in that $10,000 range this week and that's Victor Hovland at a salary of $10,500. That's such a good salary for a golfer as good as Victor Hovland and we see a lot of that this week because the field is so good and so deep. But Hovland's T-degreeing game is as strong as anyone's and he ranks in the 93rd percentile in this field over the past year in stroke-skained T-degreeing. Once you account for recency, once you account for field strength, according to my database, Hovland is just one of the best T-degreeing golfers in the world. Now the short game is a bit of a concern, sure, but the putting is trending up long-term for Hovland and the three winners that we've had at Liberty National in 2009, 2013, and 2019 have only ranked 26th on average that week in stroke-skained putting. That's a mark that Hovland can reach. This event has been won by T-degreeing play, not putting in the past. There are small greens here this week, really nice salary for Hovland. So I think that someone with Hovland's ball striking just makes him an easy justification for the salary for the Northern Trust. Now in the mid-range we have a name we rarely see with a nine in front of his name and that's Patrick Reed whose financial salary is $9,900 for this week. Reed has played Liberty National in 2019, so he does have course experience and that course experience actually is a win. Reed ranked fourth that year among cut makers at the Northern Trust in stroke-skained T-degreeing. He was abnormally good with the driver ranking second in stroke-skained off the tee. That's not usually how he thrives, but he put it together that week at the Northern Trust and that's actually doable at this course because it doesn't demand golfers to pound a driver and rate out really well in overall driving distance. That's not Reed's game. That is not a must here this week at Liberty National, so that sets up really well for Patrick Reed. Reed actually is in the 99th percentile in this field in adjusted stroke-skained if you ignore off the tee play and look just at the iron play, the around the green play, and the putting. So he's one of the best. He gets one of the biggest boosts whenever a driver is not an absolute must. He's also 90th percentile in scrambling, so a lot is pointing to Patrick Reed at a course where historically the winners have been between 9 and 11 under par, not looking at 20 under par, not looking at a birdie fest, so a lot pointing to Patrick Reed for this week. Now, this week it is vital that we get six out of six golfers in our lineups through the cut with just 124 golfers in the field. The odds of a made cut do go up substantially compared to a full field of 156 golfers, but we cannot get careless and Charlie Hoffman has made plenty of cuts at Liberty National. His size is 8,300 and Hoffman is one of four players in this field to make all three cuts at Liberty National since 2009 that is digging back pretty far. Again, 2009, 2013, and 2019, but that's really just an added benefit to what we're getting from Charlie Hoffman in his current profile, which is really quite strong. Hoffman is strong in three of the four stroke-skinned areas, the weakness being around the green play, but that's always the one that we can overlook. Most easily and more importantly, Hoffman is in the 93rd percentile in this field and adjusted stroke-skinned approach over the past year with the field strength adjustments, with the recency adjustments, so he's basically one of the best in the most importance that for this week has good form at the course, so a lot is pointing to Charlie Hoffman for the week, but that's going to do it for me for this week on the Fando Hurryup. Best of luck with your bets and your Fando lineups for the Northern Trust.