Tournament Wins
0No. 14 in PS&T2026 Post-Season Report
Don Tipton
S O S
A fast start that faded
S O S, managed by Don Tipton, finished tied for 5th Place overall with 609 points. Scottie Scheffler led the roster with 131 PS&T points, and a B+ team grade closed the book on 2026.
Season GradeB+Final Rank T5
Final RankT5
Season Points609
Points Back57
Weekly Winnings$0.00
The Season Story
How 2026 unfolded
S O S finished in the league's top half in a tie for 5th Place with 609 points. The season had enough quality to stay relevant, but not quite enough sustained production to break into the podium fight.
Scottie Scheffler was the team MVP with 131 points, finishing 1st Place among all PS&T golfers. Matt Fitzpatrick supplied another 74 points, while Cameron Young emerged as one of the roster's most efficient value picks.
The high-water mark came at THE PLAYERS Championship, where the team scored 42 points and finished tied for 2nd Place for the week. The low point was Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches at just 1 point. The roster did more of its damage early, scoring 320 points in the first half before cooling to 289 in the second.
Top-Half Finishes became the clearest team signature: 22, good for T2 in PS&T. The four majors produced 113 points (4th Place), while the three playoff events produced 68 (13th Place).
Roster Report Card
All 11 golfers, graded
| Golfer | Pool | Pts | Scoring Wks | PS&T Rank | Pool Finish* | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scottie Scheffler | A | 131 | 19 | 1 | Only drafted golfer | A++ |
| Matt Fitzpatrick | E | 74 | 19 | 3 | 2nd of 10 | A+ |
| Cameron Young | C | 72 | 19 | 4 | 1st of 8 | A+ |
| Ludvig Åberg | C | 67 | 17 | T6 | 2nd of 8 | A |
| Sam Burns | D | 58 | 17 | 9 | 2nd of 6 | A |
| Xander Schauffele | F | 56 | 18 | 12 | 1st of 9 | A |
| Akshay Bhatia | E | 43 | 14 | T15 | 4th of 10 | A- |
| Ben Griffin | B | 35 | 18 | T21 | 3rd of 4 | B |
| Max Homa | WC | 25 | 14 | T32 | Wildcard | C+ |
| Tom Hoge | F | 25 | 15 | T32 | 5th of 9 | C+ |
| Corey Conners | D | 23 | 19 | T37 | 6th of 6 | C |
* Pool Finish compares a golfer with the other golfers from that same draft pool who were selected by at least one PS&T team.
League Profile
What defined this team
Podium Finishes
8T6 in PS&TTop-Five Finishes
16T3 in PS&TTop-Half Finishes
22T2 in PS&TThe Full Review
The season, unpacked
The numbers above are the quick read. This is the deeper story of the picks, the roster construction, the standings race, and the moments that actually shaped the season.
Pick of the Year
Scottie Scheffler set the pace
Scottie Scheffler was the roster's most productive golfer from start to finish: 131 PS&T points, 1st Place overall, and points scored in 19 of the 32 events.
27 of those points came in the four majors. He also produced 13 top-10 scoring finishes and 3 full 11-point performances. This was the kind of pick that gave the entire roster a dependable ceiling every time he entered the field.
Best Value
Cameron Young beat the price tag
Cameron Young delivered 72 points and finished 4th Place among every PS&T golfer. Among Pool C golfers, he ranked 1st Place out of 8 in season scoring.
The value was not just one hot tournament. He scored in 19 events and supplied 8 top-10 scoring finishes. For a season-long league, that steady return from a non-premium roster slot is exactly the kind of production that changes a team's floor.
The Supporting Cast
How the roster was really built
This was a top-heavy roster: the five leading golfers accounted for 66% of all team scoring. Together they produced 402 points. Behind the MVP, Matt Fitzpatrick, Cameron Young, Ludvig Åberg and Sam Burns formed the core that determined whether the team could turn a star season into a strong fantasy finish.
The fifth-best scorer still contributed 58 points, which is a useful shorthand for the roster's depth. In a 32-event format, those middle-roster contributions matter almost as much as the headline names because zeroes and one-point weeks accumulate quickly.
The One That Missed
Corey Conners was the toughest roster spot
No 11-player fantasy roster is perfect, and Corey Conners was the least productive slot here. He finished with 23 points, T37 overall, and scored in 19 events. He ranked 6th Place out of 6 within Pool D.
That does not erase the useful weeks he did provide, but over an entire season this was the spot that gave the team the least return. On a contender, stronger production here can turn a close race into breathing room; on a lower-finishing team, it is exactly the kind of roster hole that becomes difficult to hide.
What Really Defined This Team
Top-Half Finishes told the clearest story
The strongest league-wide indicator was top-half finishes: 22, ranking T2 in PS&T. That is more revealing than any single hot week because it shows what the team repeatedly did well across the schedule.
At the other end, tournament wins was the softer spot at 0, ranking 14th Place. The majors produced 113 points and the playoffs produced 68, so the biggest stages either reinforced the team's identity or exposed the gap between its best and worst stretches.
On the Biggest Stages
Majors and playoffs exposed the roster's ceiling
The four majors were their own mini-season. This roster scored 113 major points, good for 4th Place in PS&T. The biggest individual contributors were Scottie Scheffler (27), Sam Burns (25), Cameron Young (21).
The three-event playoff run produced 68 points and a 13th Place league ranking. Scottie Scheffler (23), Ludvig Åberg (14), Sam Burns (11) led that closing stretch. For teams in contention, those seven high-pressure events often decided the final tier of the standings; for everyone else, they showed which roster pieces still had enough form to finish the year strongly.
The Standings Race
A season that peaked in 3rd Place
The team climbed as high as 3rd Place after Travelers Championship, before settling back to its final position. The path through 32 events was not linear; good weeks moved the team into range, while quiet weeks quickly gave those gains back.
It finished 12 points clear of The Bourbon Apocalypse immediately behind. That final spacing is useful context: it shows whether one additional strong tournament could have changed the finishing tier or whether the roster needed a more fundamental scoring lift.
Season Turning Points
The weeks that changed the story
Event 9Best scoring week
THE PLAYERS Championship
- Week
- 42 pts
- Season Total
- 170
- Standing
- T4
42 points and a tie for 2nd Place in the weekly standings pushed the season total to 170.
Event 23High-water mark
Travelers Championship
- Week
- 37 pts
- Season Total
- 457
- Standing
- 3
Travelers Championship put the team in 3rd Place in the season standings.
Event 8Biggest move
Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard
- Week
- 33 pts
- Season Total
- 128
- Standing
- T6
A 33-point week improved the season position by 5 places.
Final Assessment
Good enough to matter, short of the podium
S O S finished with 609 points in a tie for 5th Place overall. The top five golfers accounted for 66% of the scoring, while Corey Conners represented the lowest-return roster slot. Those two facts explain a lot about both the ceiling and the limitations of the team.
There was enough here to be competitive. The next step is turning top-half finishes into a broader weekly identity and reducing the number of low-return roster spots. A few more dependable middle-roster contributions would have changed the ceiling of this team.
AI Commissioner After Dark · The Roast
You literally named the team after a distress signal.
Read the part you’re probably going to wish you hadn’t
Don Tipton named this thing S O S before the season even started. That is not a team name; that's advance notice to the rest of the league that rescue equipment may be required. Don eventually landed in a tie for 5th place with 609 points, so at least nobody can accuse him of hiding the fucking warning label.
S O S climbed to 3rd place after Travelers Championship, then drifted back to a tie for fifth. The best week produced 42 points at THE PLAYERS Championship; the worst produced 1 at Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches. No zero-point weeks, though — Don's distress beacon always managed at least one pathetic little blink.
Scottie Scheffler supplied 131 points and 21.5% of the total. Corey Conners brought 23, was tied for 37th overall, and a dead-last finish among drafted Pool D golfers. The top five handled 66% of the work. The bottom of the roster mostly stood on deck waving both arms at passing ships.
The majors delivered 113 points and the first half built 320. Then the playoffs arrived with only 68, ranked 13th in the league, and the second half slid to 289. The team won exactly 0 tournaments. Don did not collect a single weekly crown, but he did collect a tie for fifth and enough emergency-flare material for the whole offseason.
S O S wasn't branding. It was a preseason emergency broadcast for the roster.
Fantasy-golf decisions only. Everybody's dignity was left on the first tee.