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Kurt Kitayama

33-Year-Old Golfer
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2025 Stats
Rank
35
Winnings
$3,360,156
Winnings/Entry
$146,094
Entries
23
Rounds
74
2025 Fantasy Outlook
Kitayama started fast in his rookie season of 2022, earning over $2.5 million and landing in the top 50 at season's end. His second season was even better as he picked up his first PGA Tour win, earned over $6 million and made the TOUR Championship. Season three saw some regression, but he worked his way back this past season and looks to be on track again. A win at the 3M Open certainly helped in his effort to get back on track, and perhaps now that he's got win number two under his belt, he can think about getting back to the TOUR Championship. A promising sign for Kitayama is how he played down the stretch after he won at the 3M Open. Kitayama posted a top 10 at the St. Jude Championship and he followed that up with a top 20 at the BMW Championship. Kitayama has enough upside to be considered as a salary cap play this season and could be a sneaky play as someone who is generally under the radar. Read Past Outlooks
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Handedness Right
Status Pro
Height 5'7"
Weight 170 lbs
DOB 1/14/1993
Birthplace Chico, California
College UNLV
Country USA
Sixth in SG: OTT at Bay Hill
March 9, 2026
Kitayama closed with a one-under 71 on Sunday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational to finish three-under and tied for 18th.
ANALYSIS
Kitayama ultimately ranked fifth among the Signature Event field in scrambling and sixth in SG: Off-the-Tee, but he ultimately tallied just nine total birdies across 72 holes at Bay Hill. Nonetheless, Kitayama has now gained strokes with his ball striking in each of his first six starts of the 2026 season, and he currently resides top-20 in the FedExCup standings. He'll be in the field again this week at TPC Sawgrass where he placed T33-T19 the past two years.
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FanDuel PGA DFS Picks: THE PLAYERS Championship Cash and GPP Strategy
FanDuel PGA DFS Picks: THE PLAYERS Championship Cash and GPP Strategy
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Scottie Scheffler has not been as sharp as usual, but that does not cost him a spot among Ryan Andrade's picks for this week's PGA DFS contests on FanDuel.
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Underdog PGA Draft Strategy: Arnold Palmer Invitational
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The best strategy and picks for Underdog PGA Drafts at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, including why Cullum Brownbridge thinks Keith Mitchell makes for a strong late-round target.
2026 Arnold Palmer Invitational Betting: Picks, Odds, Predictions and Best Bets
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7 days ago
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The best bets and picks for the Arnold Palmer Invitational, including why Ryan Pohle likes the odds on Chris Kirk to cash in a top-10 finish at Bay Hill this week.
FanDuel PGA DFS Picks: Arnold Palmer Invitational Cash and GPP Strategy
FanDuel PGA DFS Picks: Arnold Palmer Invitational Cash and GPP Strategy
8 days ago
8 days ago
Kurt Kitayama has a couple things going for him this week, and he finds himself among Ryan Andrade's recommendations for the latest PGA DFS contests on FanDuel.
Past Fantasy Outlooks
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2023
2022
The majority of Kitayama's earnings in the 2022-23 season came in four starts. Those were a runner-up at the CJ Cup, win at the API, T5 at the WGC-Match Play and a T4 at the PGA Championship. Kitayama had just three other top-25s along with 10 missed cuts. He ended up just barely inside the top-100 in SG: Total and was outside the top-50 in scoring average. The 30-year-old is simply too inconsistent to project him to finish anywhere close to the $6.8 million he made in 2022-23.
Kitayama's success as a rookie on the PGA Tour came as a bit of a surprise this past season. After all, he was a 29 year-old rookie that was lacking much success on the lower tours, so when he posted two runner-ups in the span of a couple months this past season, it caught some attention. There's nothing wrong with being a late bloomer, there's no reason that Kitayama can't be wildly successful on the PGA Tour, it's just creates a little doubt when looking ahead. Kitayama got off to a very slow start this past season, but his play from February on was pretty solid. As such. he looks like a decent salary cap candidate this season.
The American-born UNLV product has won twice on the European Tour since 2018, but he'll now be eligible for more stateside events after securing a PGA Tour card via the Korn Ferry Tour Finals. Kitayama was ranked as high as 66th in the Official World Golf Ranking in early 2020, but he's since fallen just outside the top 150.
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Makes things interesting at Genesis
February 22, 2026
Kitayama fired a seven-under 64 in the final round of The Genesis Invitational to finish tied with Rory McIlroy for second behind winner Jacob Bridgeman.
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Struggles around green at Pebble
February 16, 2026
Kitayama posted a nine-under cumulative score at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am to finish tied for 48th.
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Cracks top-25 at WM Open
February 8, 2026
Kitayama fired a five-under 66 in the final round of the WM Phoenix Open to finish in a four-way tie for 24th.
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Ties for 40th in Hawaii
January 20, 2026
Kitayama closed with a two-under 68 on Sunday at the Sony Open in Hawaii to finish five-under and tied for 40th.
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T15 at Bank of Utah Championship
October 28, 2025
Kitayama fired a seven-under 64 on Sunday at the Bank of Utah Championship to finish 13-under and tied for 15th.
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