Fantasy golf is a game in which the participants assemble virtual teams of professional golfers.
[1] Fantasy points are awarded based on those golfers' real-life performance in tournaments; many formats exist both for scoring and player selection.
In the 1950s, Oakland, California businessman Wilfred "Bill" Winkenbach developed a fantasy golf game in which participants would select a roster of professional golfers and compare their scores at the end of a given tournament, with the lowest combined total of strokes winning.
In 2015, DraftKings co-founder Matt Kalish stated that golf was the fastest-growing sport on the site aside from football, basketball, and baseball.
[1] Leagues may compete across an entire year or a single tournament; under the "one-and-done" format, the league is contested across a full season, but each participant selects a single golfer to accrue points in each week's tournament, providing players the with opportunity to select a different golfer every week.