We commence one of the best two-week stretches on the PGA Tour on Thursday, with the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational before the pros travel to Whistling Straits for the year’s final major.

DraftKings has taken note of this week’s stellar field (48 of the top 50 in the world) and is offering a $400,000 contest. First place gets the usual $100,000, but runner-up takes home $20,000 and a bronze showing garners a whopping $10,000.

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Next week’s PGA Championship is offering $1 million to the winner, so for this two-week stretch, it’s definitely time to dial in your fantasy picks and earn some big money.

Let’s start with my advice for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.

The Course

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A par-70 that plays 7,400 yards, the South Course at Firestone Country Club is a long layout that some say tends to favor bombers. But the fairways here are tree-lined and the rough is no joke, so accurate drivers have been known to excel here, too.

Actually, combine those two and you see the long, accurate hitter really finds himself at a distinct advantage at Firestone. As Keegan Bradley noted, you have to hit a lot of drivers here and getting in the fairway is key.

Otherwise, Firestone has been characterized as a ball-striker’s layout, further promoting the idea of driving’s importance as well as trumpeting great iron play.

I created a five-year, top-10 sample at this event from 2010-2014 to check these assumptions, though.

What I found: Approach play and driving were paramount in the sample. Short game and putting mattered but not nearly to the same extent. Accurate hitters were advantaged, but short hitters fared just as well as bombers.

If you can hit it long and straight at Firestone, that’s still huge, but’s it certainly more important to be accurate than long.

This is indeed a ball-striking layout, where precision counts the most.

My Underrated Players

With the heightened and condensed field, the lowest DraftKings total for a given player is $7,000 — that figure is also inflated by this being a no-cut event. Consequently, I have several players in the $7,000s this week who I feel are underpriced.

With that caveat, here we go…

Keegan Bradley ($8,800)

Bradley had a miserable Open Championship (75-72 and a MC) but he had put together a great stretch previously.

He’s also a perfect course fit as one of the premier long, accurate drivers in the world with a robust approach game. Combine that with his results to show for it (1-T2-T4 in his past three Firestone starts) and he’s a no-brainer pick at any price this week.

Billy Horschel ($7,900)

The former Gator is a borderline long-hitter but commands outstanding accuracy. Horschel’s transformed into a great putter but he retains his roots as the precise tee-to-green player that the South Course favors.

Billy Ho has also put together an extended run of great golf since the Players Championship. All that’s missing from that run is a really high finish, and it’s time to capitalize on this week’s attractive layout.

Branden Grace ($7,800)

His play is all just too good right now to ignore; Grace has top-20s in five of his past seven starts, and at varied layouts as well. He should definitely be at a higher price given his form, we’re happily taking him here.

Ryan Moore ($7,600)

A T16-T23-T33-T8 slate at Firestone is honestly a pretty good one, but Moore should be better.

After all, he possesses a really accurate game tee-to-green that screams for Firestone. He really started to work off that in last year’s T8, but there’s still room to grow.

Moore’s play is up-and-down at the moment, but I have to go with a guy who’s bound to break out on this course quite soon. It should only help that Moore is overdue for a big performance this season.

J.B. Holmes ($7,500)

This is a total flyer pick. His course fit is pretty bad (not accurate and a poor approach player) and his last two events are CUT-MDF.

Holmes’ game was on point just last month, though, and when things have been clicking for him in 2015, the results have been wildly successful. I have a hunch his game returns this week. If it does, it will in a big way, enough to overcome poor course fit.

Shane Lowry ($7,500)

The Irishman really did have a good stretch going before a missed cut at the Open Championship.

And even then a fluke quadruple-bogey was really the only thing that stilted his week.

I just like the way he’s playing, which means I’ll gladly scoop him up here.

Ben Martin ($7,300)

The recent results (CUT-T64-T74) are misleading. Martin was near the halfway lead at the U.S. Open before faltering to T64 and was in line for a potential top-20 at the Open Championship before a final-day 77.

So he’s playing a lot better than you may think.

Martin’s first appearance at this event comes this week, but Firestone is the exact type of classic accuracy-based ball-striker’s course where his game excels.

Even if they’re buried, the positive signs for Martin at Firestone are overwhelming.

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