2024 Wyndham Championship Betting Picks, Odds, Course Preview and Prediction
2024 Wyndham Championship Betting Picks, Odds, Course Preview and Prediction
After a thrilling Olympic Men’s Golf event in Paris, France, the PGA Tour heads to Greensboro, North Carolina for the final event of the 2024 FedEx Cup regular season. The Wyndham Championship has been a staple on the PGA Tour since 1983 when it was founded as the Greater Greensboro Open. It has annually been played in April or May until 2003, when the PGA Tour altered the schedule and moved it to the end of the season.
The tournament has been hosted at several courses over the years before a permanent move to the Donald Ross-designed Sedgefield Country Club in 2008. This will be players' final opportunity to crack the top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings and continue their season next week in Memphis, and some notable names sit right on the bubble. Jordan Spieth, Keith Mitchell, Nicolai Hojgaard, and defending champion Lucas Glover all sit between 62nd and 75th in the standings with hopes of a strong finish to propel them into the playoffs.
2024 Wyndham Championship DATE, START TIME, AND WHERE TO WATCH
- Date: August 8-11, 2024
- Where: Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, North Carolina
- Where to Watch: Golf Channel, CBS
2024 Wyndham Championship ODDS
- Winner: Sungjae Im (+1200), Billy Horschel (+2200), Si Woo Kim (+2200)
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Wyndham Championship: Course Preview
Sedgefield Country Club
Sedgefield Country Club is a classical, Donald Ross design that features all the staples of a Carolina course. Narrow, tree-lined fairways, pine straw, unpredictable Bermuda-grass rough, and slick Bermuda-grass greens will provide a worthy challenge, especially under dry conditions. Sedgefield is also a prototypical, club-down, positional course that measures just a hair over 7,000 yards on the scorecard. Last year, Sedgefield ranked 24th out of 45 courses in scoring difficulty, and each of the last 10 years, it has ranked easier than average to around the 10th-easiest course on the schedule.
While two of the par threes play over 220 yards and rank as the fifth- and sixth-hardest holes on the course, Sedgefield still featured the fourth-easiest set of par threes on Tour last year. Both the par fives are incredibly benign as well, featuring over a 50% birdie rate and playing as the two easiest holes on the course.
The fifth hole is truly more of a long par four, yielding a scoring average of 4.36 and featuring a 56.1% birdie rate and a 6.3% eagle rate. Sedgefield also features a large plurality of short- to medium-length par fours, which explains why nearly two-thirds of all approach shots come from 125 to 200 yards. A whopping eight par fours measure between 400 and 450 yards on the scorecard, and controlling medium to short irons will be of paramount importance this week. Even the par five fifth hole is a middle iron for longer hitters these days.
The length of the course, coupled with the narrow fairways puts Sedgefield into the distinctive category of short, positional, often Bermuda-grass courses such as Harbour Town, Waialae, Sea Island, TPC Sawgrass, TPC River Highlands, etc. that diminish the skills of distance and long-iron play in exchange for an emphasis on accuracy, short-iron play, and putting. For this reason, it will be essential to identify the players who have performed the best on this style of golf course. Players such as Webb Simpson, Kevin Kisner, J.T. Poston, Russell Henley, Tom Kim, Brendon Todd, Sungjae Im, Jim Herman, etc. often find themselves behind the eight-ball on power-heavy courses where distance and long-iron play are required to produce elite ball-striking statistics. Yet when they travel to Sedgefield or any of the previously mentioned positional courses, their pathway to gaining from tee to green is far easier. Furthermore, when identifying the players who will succeed at Wyndham, they should not necessarily be penalized for their performance at 7,400-yard-plus golf courses.
Finally, there's always an added element of drama on the final week of the season, as players outside of the top-70 will look to stamp their ticket to Memphis, and the FedEx Cup bubble will be certainly enjoyable to monitor. This week, I will primarily be looking for accurate drivers of the ball, elite short to middle iron players with spike putting ability who have already experienced success both at Sedgefield and other similarly short, positional golf courses. Let's dive into the stats.
Wyndham Championship Key Stats
- Driving Accuracy
- Proximity 125-175 yards
- Strokes Gained Putting: Bermuda-grass
Wyndham Championship: Outright Picks
Brian Harman (+3500) Click here to see which sportsbook has the best odds
In a follow up to his 2023 Open Championship victory, Brian Harman has quietly put together a strong season, and he always seems to raise his baseline on shorter, positional golf courses. Over the last three years, the Champion Golfer of 2023 ranks first in this entire field on the comparative courses I am looking at this week, with an excellent track record at TPC Sawgrass, TPC River Highlands, and Sea Island, amongst others. Harman has also recorded two top-10 finishes already at Sedgefield, and he remains one of the best long-term wedge players and Bermuda putters in this field. Harman also ranks top-15 in this field in driving accuracy, strokes gained total on short golf courses, and strokes gained total on Bermuda golf courses, and he is primed for another strong performance in Greensboro.
Eric Cole +7000 Click here to see which sportsbook has the best odds
After a slow couple of months in the middle of the season, Eric Cole is beginning to play some excellent golf again. The 36-year-old recorded back-to-back top-10s at the Rocket Mortgage and John Deere, and he held his own in Scotland with a 31st at the Open where he gained over four strokes on approach. Now Cole returns back to America to a golf course that should be right up his alley. In fact, Cole finish 14th at the Wyndham Championship in his debut appearance last year, and he possesses the ideal skill set of elite short-iron play and Bermuda putting. Cole ranks top-25 in this field in proximity 125-175 yards, Bermuda-grass putting, and strokes gained total on short courses. He has recorded a ton of high-end finishes at similarly short, positional golf courses, and I expect Cole be fully in the mix again at Sedgefield.
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Article Author
Andy Lack is a PGA Tour writer and podcaster from Manhattan, New York. Andy came to OddsChecker in January 2022 after previously writing for Golf Digest, GolfWRX, Rotoballer, and the Score. Andy is also the host of a golf betting and daily fantasy podcast, Inside Golf Podcast, as well as "The Scramble” with Rick Gehman, and a recurring guest on the Pat Mayo Experience. In his free time, Andy is still grinding away at his lifelong dream of qualifying for the U.S. Amateur, and if not writing, can likely be found somewhere on a golf course.