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Anyone who thinks they’ve got a magic formula for picking the player who will adorn the green jacket on Sunday ought to be put in a straight jacket before Thursday.

When it comes to the Masters, or really, any golf tournament with 89 of the world’s best gathering in one place, picking an individual champion, let alone betting on one … well, let’s just say there are longer odds but not this side of Donald Trump doing prison time.

Remember Danny Willett in 2016? Charl Schwartzel in 2011?

Thankfully, we have the Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) lineup and, guess what Floridians, it’s legal here! That’s right, you can spend the evening this Easter Sunday, washing down ham and deviled eggs with Pepto Bismol just like anybody else, only your indigestion will be equal parts junk food, equal parts bettors’ remorse.

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Let’s see if we can save your esophagus, shall we?

We’ll use the DraftKings app for this exercise, and for those of you who have never put together a DFS, or who simply aren't degenerates, it's a lineup of six players, drivers, or in this case, golfers, put together with a fictional salary cap of $50,000. Each golfer costs a set amount, starting with the tournament favorite (Scottie Scheffler is $11,100 this week) and descending through the field.

For the record, the group of five Masters Mr. Irrelevants this year are comprised of the older, former-champion crowd including Sandy Lyle (1988), Jose Maria Olazabal (1994 and 1999), Mike Weir (2003), Fred Couples (1992) and Vijay Singh (2000). Any of them can be had for a bargain-basement $6,000 and if you have the Pro V1s to take one from this group, DraftKings ought to send you a free bottle of Bayer Aspirin, a pair of New Balances and some jean shorts.

Points are accumulated hole-by-hole with the following totals:

Points are also awarded by finish at the end of the tournament with the following structure:

As you can see, while picking the winner would certainly be a big feather in the cap, the ultimate leg up is picking six guys that all make the 50-player cut. The extra two days of points accumulation is just too valuable.

So, while picking Scheffler is certainly not a bad idea, his top salary may cripple your budget when it comes to assembling the bottom of your roster. And there lies the rub.

Not to worry, like Sunday dinner at the in-laws’, we’re going to get through this.

Without further ado, here’s how we spent our Monopoly money.

Rory McIlroy, $10,600

It’s going to happen one of these years, right? It’s got to. McIlroy will take his ninth crack at completing the career slam and we'll continue to pick him until it happens. For our money, fake or real, when he’s on his A-game, he’s the best player on the planet. All the credentials are there — he’s made the cut 12 out of 14 times at Augusta National with seven top 10s in his last nine starts, including coming in as the runner up last year. And he's in top form, having just finished third at the WGC Match Play two weeks ago.

But this pick is about gut instinct and motivation. How fitting would it be for the PGA Tour’s unquestioned leader and spokesman to win this tournament with LIV golfers mixed into the field for the first time in a long time? This is Rory’s chance to draw an ultimate line in the bunker. I’ll take him to anchor my lineup, gladly.

Jason Day, $8,700

Day has been quietly spinning one of the great golf redemption yarns in recent memory and Augusta and us have one thing in common — we both love a good story. Yeah, Day, a former World No. 1 and the 2015 Wannamaker Trophy lifter, fell on hard times in recent years and that included missing the cut at the Masters in 2020 and 2021 before not making the field at all last year.

But his form now is much more reminiscent of years past when he made eight out of eight cuts with three top fives and four top 10s (2011-2019, withdrew from 2012 tournament). And he’s hot, riding into Georgia having finished in the top 10 in five of his last six starts. He’s also made 12 of 14 cuts this season, finishing no worse than tied for 21st in those tournaments. Day is a spicy and sentimental dark-horse pick this week.

Sungjae Im, $8,100

We're big believers in guys knowing how to get around Augusta National. Over the last three years, six players have finished in the top eight at least twice — Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Will Zalatoris, Cam Smith, Justin Thomas and Sungjae Im. Now compare Im's price tag to the rest of that group.

And sure, sandwiched in between a runner up in 2020 and an eighth-place finish last year was a missed cut, but we’re going glass half full. Im was the leader after the first round last year but a final-round, 3-over 75 relegated him to a tie for eighth. He’s missed but one cut in 14 outings this year with five top 10s, but it’s a T-6 at The Players Championship, the most pressure-packed and prestigious event thus far, that has us convinced he's ready to be a factor again.

At this price, he's a steal, arguably, the best theft to be found in the pool.

Min Woo Lee, $7,600

Here’s our best bet on a young hotshot that makes a serious push into Sunday. It’s certainly not anything we haven’t seen before. Lee also turned in a T-6 at the Sawgrass TPC, putting him on our radar and Augusta doesn’t seem to be too big for him either as the 24-year-old Australian brought it home tied for 14th last year in his only start at the Masters.

He’s still looking for his first win in America and while we won’t go as far as to say it will come on Sunday, we think he’ll be around to try come Saturday and Sunday.

Adam Scott, $7,500

Remember what we said about guys knowing how to get around Augusta? Consider sweet-swingin’ Scottie squarely in that group.

This will be the 42-year-old’s 22nd start in the Masters and he’s missed just two cuts and that includes an active string of 12 in a row. Scott has six top 10s at Augusta, including his lone major win in 2013 and though it’s been a while since he’s contended for a win at the Masters, he seems as good a bet as any, especially in this price range, to safely manage his way through the first couple of rounds.

Tiger Woods, $7,300

Remember what we said about guys knowing how to get around Augusta? His only missed cut came in 1996 as an amateur and since, he’s made it 22 times in a row with five wins, 14 top 10s and, yeah, we get it.

Obviously, none of that is in question this week. Can Woods hold up physically again and is his game in good enough shape after just one start this year to make the weekend or, gasp, even contend? Well, with the money we have left, here are the other feasible options — Bryson DeChambeau, Sahith Theegala, Keegan Bradley, Abraham Ancer, Si Woo Kim, Patrick Reed, Louis Oosthuizen, Mito Pereira, etc. If you’d rather take one of them, have at it, hoss.

But whether it’s $50,000 in fake money or an Abe Lincoln-adorned, honest-to-God, five spot, you won’t catch us betting against this guy. Ever.

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Masters DFS lineup: Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods on our six-golfer lineup