Wyndham Championship
The PGA Tour's regular season concludes this week at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro. There will be plenty of focus all tournament on the players on the bubble of the Top 70 in the FedExCup that make the playoffs, with the first leg coming at next week's FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis. Matti Schmid holds the No. 70 spot coming into Sedgefield Country Club with Nicolai Hojgaard not far behind. Of course plenty of other players much further back could crack the playoffs with a victory and the 500 FedExCup points that come with it, similar to what Kurt Kitayama accomplished last week at the 3M Open.
While PGA Tour players are trying to make the postseason, One and Done players are also looking to close the season strong. Unfortunately, the Wyndham Championship has the second-smallest purse at $8.2 million of any non-alternate event on the PGA Tour. It will be hard to make a big move if your are further back in the standings, but those fighting towards the top will want to make sure they maintain their position heading into the playoffs where there will be some hefty purses available for OAD. There's also some strategy to be played at the Wyndham Championship to possibly preserve some of those bigger names in the field this week to be able to use at some point during the playoffs.
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Course Tidbits
- Course: Sedgefield Country Club (7,131 yards, par 70)
- Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
- Purse: $8.2 million ($1.476 million to winner)
- Defending Champion: Aaron Rai (-18)
- 2024 Scoring Average: 69.95 (-1.05)
- 2024 36-Hole Cutline: -4
- Average Winning Score Last 5 Years: -18.8
Sedgefield Country Club has hosted the Wyndham Championship since 2008. It is a classic Donald Ross design with tree-lined fairways and undulating greens. While the rough is not overly long here, driving accuracy still has reigned supreme over the years as opposed to distance. Just look down the list of champions here over the years and you'll see plenty of shorter hitters who are accurate off the tee. There's also a solid mix of players who are known as elite putters and elite iron players. Both of those areas will be critical to success. The GIR percentage for the field is typically pretty high around Sedgefield, but there are so many slopes on these greens that being precise on approach will be important to find the right segments, which will also lead to easier putts. These bermuda greens are a favorite among PGA Tour players.
Weather always seems to be a factor at the Wyndham Championship. There's usually a storm that rolls through at some point that affects the tournament and we likely will see that again this week. Afternoon storms are in the forecast for both Thursday and Friday. The weekend looks better from a weather standpoint in regards to potential storms. The temperature is expected to drop into the upper-70s as well, which will bring some slightly stronger winds. Gusts should reach over 20 mph on the weekend after a pretty mild first two days from a wind perspective. In the last 17 years since this event moved to Sedgefield, the winning score has been at least 14-under-par on every occasion, and reached at least 20-under nine times. The greens will once again be receptive and we should see plenty of low numbers again this week.
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Wyndham Championship: One and Done Picks
You'd be hard pressed to find a hotter golfer in the field as Knapp was in contention to win late at TPC Twin Cities but ultimately settled for a T3 result for his second top-5 across his last four events and fourth consecutive top-25. He'll be making his debut at Sedgefield Country Club this week, and when you combine elite driving and putting, your game is going to translate most places. He has a high ceiling when he's in form and with probably only three events left to use him, I'm firing up Knapp here. --Ryan Pohle
I really wanted to use Ryan Gerard in this spot, but I used him earlier in the season. Then I wanted to shift to Keegan Bradley, but you guess it, already gone. That left me with just a few desirable options, with Knapp at the top of the list. I have no interest in the favorites this week, so Knapp fits perfectly into my plan. Knapp has been hanging around the top of the leaderboard a lot this season, but he's been unable to close. I'm hoping that changes this week. --Greg Vara
Very accurate driver, gained strokes on approach in his last four starts, ranks 12th this season in SG: Putting, sounds like the exact type of player that has enjoyed success at Sedgefield Country Club over the years. Bezuidenhout has racked up four top-20 finishes over his last eight starts, including last week at the 3M Open. This seems like the perfect place for it all to click and for the South African to challenge for his first PGA Tour win. Bezuidenhout also needs a good showing coming into the week 74th in the FedExCup standings. --Ryan Andrade
If you're near the top of your pool's standings and still have Matt Fitzpatrick available, you're fine to play the chalk this week, given his combination of great recent form and course fit as the outright betting favorite. However, if you're playing from further back in the pack, you definitely need a contrarian selection with only four events remaining on the schedule. A player like Hall can step in as that low-owned pivot. He's arguably the hottest putter in the world right now, which can allow him to convert enough of these birdie-or-better chances to contend at a low-scoring affair like the Wyndham Championship, while Sedgefield's short-and-straight blueprint also sets up well for the Englishman. --Bryce Danielson
This week is such a crapshoot with so many different forces at work. Guys want to win the tournament but they also want to secure playoff position and maybe not jeopardize that with a risky play down the stretch. If you haven't used Matt Fitzpatrick (I have), this is a good week. You could go Keegan Bradley or Ben Griffin or Jordan Spieth - they should be fairly popular. But if you're way behind like, um, some of us, maybe just go for it. How about Rickie Fowler? Playing pretty well. Makes more than his share birdies. Fun to root for. --Len Hochberg
Wyndham Championship: One and Done Fades
I'm a little surprised Bradley is teeing-it-up considering he's locked into the Tour Championship, but maybe he just wants to see the form of some potential Ryder Cup picks? He's only played the event three times in his lengthy career with a best result of T22 last year. Since winning the Travelers, he's had modest T41 and T30 finishes, and it seems like he's made the decision to play at Bethpage. You could potentially save him for the playoffs if you still have him, where he has two wins in his career. --Ryan Pohle
Rai's spot as the second-favorite this week is a bit odd. Yes, he won this event this past year, but it's not like he has a long history of playing well on this course. The win last year was his only good showing in three starts at this event. Couple that with a lack of high-end finishes this year (only one top-10 in 2025) and you have the makings of an underperformer this week. --Greg Vara
Im has had one of the strongest records of any player in the field at Sedgefield, making the cut in all six starts with four top-15s. That said, 2025 just hasn't been his year and he comes into the week having finished T52-or-worse in his last seven starts. Im sits 30th in the FedExCup standings purely on the fact that he had three top-five finishes early in the season. He ranks second-to-last among qualified players in SG: Approach this season. Not a great recipe for success at this venue. --Ryan Andrade
Knapp is on a roll with five consecutive top-30s dating back to the RBC Canadian Open, but he's doing most of his damage off the tee, and that massive driving advantage could be somewhat silenced on a track like Sedgefield in his Wyndham Championship debut. Over his last 24 measured rounds, he ranks just 126th in Prox: 125-150, 98th in Prox: 150-175 and 127th in Prox: 175-200 yards, so there are definitely better short-to-mid iron players to consider with less ownership. --Bryce Danielson
Matsuyama is the second-highest-ranked guy in the field after Keegan Bradley, somehow. He has one top 10 all year and it came in Week 1 when he won the Sentry. He's had only one other top 15 and that came in February. Things were looking good back then so there's good chance you've used him already. If not, best to keep it that way. --Len Hochberg
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