Emiliano Grillo

33-Year-Old Golfer

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$2,248,443

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$86,479

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2026 Fantasy Outlook

Grillo had a breakout season in 2023 when he picked up his second PGA Tour win and over $5 million in earnings. He finished that season 14th on the FedEx Cup list, but that's the only time he's landed in the top 30 in 10 full seasons on the PGA Tour. Grillo is a solid player with generally a couple runs in him each season, but his past two seasons have been lacking those high-end finishes, and that has resulted in significantly reduced earnings. Grillo's number is pretty low for salary cap purposes, but outside of 2023, he hasn't really shown much upside. As such, he's not a great salary cap option this season. Read Past Outlooks

Handedness Right

Status Pro

Height 5'9"

Weight 174 lbs

DOB 9/14/1992

Birthplace Resistencia, Argentina

Country Argentina

Strong final round at Valspar

March 22, 2026

Grillo posted a six-under 65 in the final round of the Valspar Championship to finish with a seven-under cumulative score for a four-way tie of seventh.

ANALYSIS
Grillo was one-under through the first three rounds, but the 33-year-old Argentinian put it all together with a strong performance Sunday, which included three consecutive birdies from holes seven to nine. He finished the tournament T8 in birdies, ninth in SG: Off-the-Tee, T16 in GIR and T20 in SG: Approach. It was a much-needed performance from Grillo, who entered the Valspar Championship having finished T38 or worse in each of his first six PGA Tour tournaments of the season (including three missed cuts). He's in the field for the Texas Children's Houston Open, where he finished T47 in 2025, MC in 2020 and T3 in 2018.

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Past Fantasy Outlooks

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Grillo has spent the majority of his career hanging right around the top-70 with the exception of two seasons where he somehow cracked the top-15 at season's end. 2023 was one of those seasons where he landed in the top-15, but he failed to build upon that success in 2024. While his salary cap number is lower because of this, there are some injury concerns heading into 2025. Grillo was slated to play several tournaments in October, but managed to finish just one. The injury was not disclosed, but it did cause him to miss 2-3 events in October. This undisclosed injury may have led to his lack of success throughout the 2024 season, which would normally lead to a positive recommendation as a salary cap play for the upcoming season, but with little information on his injury and if he'll be healthy to start the year, it's impossible to recommend him in salary cap leagues this season.

Grillo earned his first PGA Tour win since his rookie year in 2015-16 when he held onto win the Charles Schwab Challenge in a playoff. His eight top-10 finishes were a career high for the 31-year-old. However, Grillo missed double-digit cuts for the fourth straight season going 23-for-33 in 2022-23. Grillo's high finishes helped him outweight what the strokes gained numbers say which is that he was outside the top-75 in SG: Total. His ball-striking was actually slightly down last season, but the putting numbers just weren't awful, which led to some better results. Grillo should be fighting for a Top 50 spot in the FedExCup in 2024.

It's amazing how many players on the PGA Tour got off to great starts as rookies and struggled to match or exceed their first-year production. Grillo falls into that camp, as his rookie season still ranks as the best of his now seven seasons on the PGA Tour. Ball-striking has never been an issue with the 29-year-old, but until he is able to find a solution to his short game problems and be a more consistent putter, it's going to be hard to Grillo to ever get his game to that next level. Those weeks that he has a decent go of it on the greens, Grillo logs some pretty impressive finishes, unfortunately it just doesn't happen regularly enough.

Grillo won as a rookie on the PGA Tour in 2016 and has battled to get back to those heights ever since. He suffered through a bit of a sophomore slump in 2017, but rebounded well in 2018. The two years that followed were up and down, but he managed to find some consistency in 2020-21. It wasn't his best season, but it was the best numbers he'd posted in three years. It's hard to tell if there's more to Grillo than what we saw as a rookie because he hasn't come anywhere near those numbers, but he hasn't fallen off the map either. Considering his upside appears to be in the mid-$3 million range, and he's only been there once in six seasons, it's probably wise to look elsewhere in salary cap leagues.

Grillo has now made the playoffs in all five seasons since he has been out on Tour. The 2019-20 season marked his lowest finish in the FedEx Cup standings, however, at 93. Grillo had a couple close calls with a pair of T3s, but ultimately 10 missed cuts was just too much to overcome. Grillo is still an excellent ball striker, ranking top 10 in both GIR percentage and proximity to the hole last season, which is a big reason why I see him having a bounce back year in 2020-21. He quite honestly would have to try hard to have as bad of a putting season as he had this past year.

Grillo set the bar pretty high as a rookie in 2013 as he picked-up an win and a runner-up finish on his way to over $3.3 million in earnings. He predictably fell-off a bit the following season, but bounced-back quite nicely in his third season. This past season, his fourth, Grillo's game again fell-off. It wasn't a dramatic drop in production, but it didn't exactly clear-up his situation. Grillo appears to have the potential to be a 2nd-tier guy, but his consistency is lacking. He's worth a look in salary cap formats, but he's no better than a coin flip.

Grillo has spent three seasons on the PGA Tour and he's fared well in all three. He's also only 26, which means he should be entering his peak pretty soon. If that's the case, Grillo should be in for some really big seasons soon. Grillo's best season was his first, when he picked-up his first win and more than $3 million in earnings. Although he peaked in his rookie season three years ago, he hasn't exactly embarrassed himself the last two seasons. In his rookie season, Grillo struck the ball very well, but couldn't putt. He somehow figured out how to putt last season and he still struck the ball as well. His stats would indicate that he had a great season last year, but the earnings number would beg to differ. That said, if he continues to putt well, he'll get the results. Grillo comes at a steep price this season, but he just might be worth it.

Grillo was fantastic in his rookie season of 2015-16 , capturing his first win and amassing more than $3 million in earnings. While his performance last season was good, it was nowhere near the standard he set in his rookie season and therefore, it felt like he underachieved. It's always difficult to judge a guy with just two seasons under his belt, and two very different seasons to boot. The good thing here is that Grillo's price for the upcoming season is relatively cheap when you consider he topped the $3 million mark just two years ago and as such, he's a good salary cap option this season.

Grillo wasted no time in acclimating to the PGA Tour last season. In his first full season on the PGA Tour, Grillo picked-up one win, one runner-up showing and perhaps most impressive for a rookie, he made the cut in 22 of his 25 starts. The future is certainly bright for Grillo, but this is another case where the bar is simply set too high for the upcoming season. Whether it will be a standard regression or a sophomore slump, something will keep Grillo from improving significantly on his number from last season. In draft leagues, he's a risky third-round pick because of the unknown, but a safe fourth-round pick.

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Struggles with putter at PGA National

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Grillo finished in a share of 56th place at the Cognizant Classic after shooting a two-under 69 in the final round.