The Zurich Classic annually arrives at a pretty poor time in the calendar, but there’s some serious star power this year.

Dustin Johnson and Jason Day, both top 10 in the world, return to the event for the first time in a number of years, and they will be joined by the likes of Keegan Bradley, Rickie Fowler, Justin Rose and Billy Horschel.

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Last week, my main lineup scored 399.5 points and finished 9,460 of 35,328 teams. My alternate roster scored 354 points and finished 18,502 of 35,328 teams.

Anyway onto my picks…

The Course

The TPC Louisiana seems to get the reputation as a second-shot golf course, but I couldn’t find much else. My weekly research via the tournament’s top-10 finishers over the last five years had less to do with checking in on assumptions and more on configuring an accurate account of TPC Louisiana.

Anyway, the results here proved beneficial for ball strikers. Good drivers have contended here the most over the last five years with good approach players coming second.

Short game and putting weren’t useless, though. Having touch on and around the greens is far from neutralized but we are looking for excellent drivers first, excellent approach players second and excellent players on and around the greens a distant third.

As for specific characteristics within these aspects, the results showed that this course favors long drivers to a good degree. But driving accuracy was still quite important, so we’re looking for those bombers who have some sort of control off the tee.

There are reports of lush conditions and some rainy weather in the forecast, which means a wet course and an even bigger advantage for bombers than usual. The rough is back up to its usual solid standards at the course, though, so accuracy off the tee is even more imperative.

I would also say approach play from more than 200 yards is highly important (all four par-3s are 200+) and if short game is to play a role it is for shots around the green from fringe/fairway areas (as these extend well around these surfaces).

Six-Man Roster

• Dustin Johnson, $13,000
• Keegan Bradley, $10,500
• John Peterson, $8,900
• Kevin Chappell, $6,900
• Charlie Beljan, $5,200
• Tony Finau, $5,100

I don’t usually like to pay for the highest-priced player, but Johnson is just too obvious a choice.

OK, his accuracy off the tee is poor, but he is a bomber of the highest order and an unbelievable approach player, most pointedly from 200+ away. And he’s been very good this year chipping from fringe/fairway areas off the green. Johnson’s missed two cuts, but his other five finishes are all top-6s. His form at the moment and his course fit are terrific. Take him.

Bradley is an even better match for this softened course. Pretty much ideal, actually. He’s maybe the game’s premier long, accurate driver, possesses a top-tier approach play game and excels in short game from those fringe/fairway areas.

The American seems to be getting more comfortable with that short putter too in building some recent form and he was in position to win here last year before faltering to a T8.

Although Peterson has really found his stride in Year Two on the PGA Tour with 13-of-14 made cuts and five top-25s, this is a hefty price for him. I’m not wavering, though. The LSU grad will be playing in front of a home crowd, already top-tenned here in 2013 and is a great accurate driver and fantastic approach player.

Zurich has a reputation for being the site of initial PGA Tour victories, as seven of the last 10 winners at the event were first-time Tour champions.

Peterson is a good candidate to join that list, but watch out for Chappell here.

I’ll admit, this is a big risk, especially with Chappell having welcomed a baby to the world last week.

But the UCLA product is a seriously underrated golfer who is one of the best on Tour at the moment without a win. His play has been brutal of late (missed four of five cuts), but he checks off all the categories at this course. He’s a very accurate long hitter, tends to be a gifted approach player and has the short game prowess in fringe/fairway areas. And he’s proven a few times before that he can rise to form out of nowhere.

Beljan is a decent course fit who’s found his game a bit of late. He also likes to go low and this is a track that suits this desire.

Finau has floundered a bit since an electrifying autumn, but this may be a course where he can put his immense power to use. If he can just reign in his misses some, combine that with his solid work from 200+ yards on approaches and he could be dangerous here.

Ultimate Sleeper Roster 

• John Senden, $6,700
• Erik Compton, $5,800
• Mark Wilson, $5,400
• Robert Garrigus, $5,300
• Charlie Beljan, $5,200
• Tony Finau, $5,100

Who symbolizes a pure ball striker more than John Senden? He’s had some good results here and the course fits him well.

I’m just taking a couple of flyers on Compton and Wilson. Neither really meshes with this course, but Wilson’s shown some good flashes of play recently. And after a string of missed cuts, Compton is climbing his way back — plus he has good memories from a top-5 here last year.

Garrigus fits the Senden mold of pure ball striking, except he has massive power off the tee as well. He’s a mystery with his recent poor play and a big risk.

Alternate Six-Man Roster

• Justin Rose, $11,900
• Charles Howell, $8,600
• Jason Bohn, $7,900
• Scott Piercy, $7,800
• Boo Weekley, $7,400
• Erik Compton, $5,800

People forget Rose had a pretty good showing at the Shell Houston Open before his Masters runner up, and this is an awesome course for Rose’s game. He’s a top-notch long, accurate driver, an even better approach play golfer and has a dynamite short game from pretty much wherever you ask.

Oh, and he has finished in the top 15 his last three trips to TPC Louisiana.

Weekley isn’t a power player like Rose, but he nails all other criteria for a course fit basically just as well, if not better. He also possess two top-10s here since 2010. Despite his horrible form (three missed cuts and 75th in last four starts) all of this is too enticing not to take him.

I really don’t think Howell or Piercy have games that suit this course incredibly well, but both are on excellent terms with their games of late. Howell also seems to be ready to contend here again after a steady but unspectacular set of performances since his T2 in 2009.

Bohn has played sneaky well of late and contains some good characteristics for this course (accurate driving, formidable approach play). He has done little at TPC Louisiana since his win in 2010, but that didn’t seem to hurt Johnson Wagner at the Shell Houston Open a few weeks ago.