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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Brian Harman is coming off his best season on the PGA Tour – winning the Wells Fargo Championship, taking the 54-hole lead in the U.S. Open and finishing runner-up for his best result in a major, and finally making it to the Tour Championship.

The letdown occurred immediately after the season when he didn’t make the Presidents Cup team. Harman had only one top-10 finish, and one other finish in the top 20, after the U.S. Open and wound up 12th in the standings.

He approaches the biggest part of this season at No. 10 in the Ryder Cup standings, a chance for redemption.

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”I would be lying if I said I wasn’t thinking about it a lot,” Harman said Tuesday ahead of the Wells Fargo Championship. ”The team stuff has always really kind of excited me. I love match play. It’s just a different kind of golf. I feel like I’ve done pretty well in match play, and it’s definitely on my radar. It’s something I’ve really circled this year, and I’m tryin..

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) The question Justin Thomas faced seven months ago was how to follow a season that featured five PGA Tour victories, his first major championship, the FedEx Cup and all the awards that go along with the best year in golf.

One solution was to avoid comparisons along the way, which was never going to be easy.

Quail Hollow presents one of those challenges.

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Thomas played nine holes Tuesday with Tiger Woods, Bryson DeChambeau and Dru Love. It was the first time he set foot on Quail Hollow since the PGA Championship, when he holed a 15-foot putt on the first hole of the final round to escape with bogey, watched a birdie putt hang on the edge of the cup at No. 10 for the longest time before dropping, chipped in for birdie on the 13th hole and hit the best shot of his life – a 7-iron on the par-3 17th – for a birdie that clinched his first major.

These are memories, and how he plays this week at the Wells Fargo Championship has no bearing on..

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The foundation of every strong daily fantasy baseball lineup starts at the pitcher slot. Starting pitchers are often the most expensive and projected to earn the most points on any given day, making it the most important lineup decision for daily fantasy players.

Focusing on strikeouts can help you make the right choice. In particular, strikeouts per dollar spent. Starting pitchers that generate value there often represent the best value overall at the position.

Strikeouts are king in daily contests because they’re worth the equivalent of an earned run allowed, and they’re the most predictable pitching statistic compared with innings, runs, hits and wins. The best combination is a strikeout pitcher facing a lineup of strikeout-prone hitters.

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While it’s often easy to identify which starting pitchers are most capable of generating strikeouts on a daily basis, sometimes it’s less obvious to identify the best matchups for strikeouts. The best approach is to ..

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