2024 Wyndham Championship Preview: Everything To Know About Sedgefield Country Club

The Wyndham Championship is the final stop on the 2024 PGA TOUR regular season schedule. We’ll head to Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, as many of the world’s best jockeys for position in FedEx Cup playoffs. Find golf odds at the best sports betting sites to increase your potential payouts. Sungjae Im, Brian Harman, and Shane Lowry are the favorites for this year’s Wyndham Championship odds.

For most golf fans, the most anticipated event of the year is likely a major. For me, the Wyndham Championship is the event I mark my calendar for and clear out my weekend plans. It’s taken the entire 2024 PGA TOUR season, but the main event has finally arrived as the PGA TOUR heads to Greensboro, N.C. at Sedgefield Country Club. It’s the final PGA TOUR event before the FedEx Cup Playoffs begin. Let’s start our weekly preview with a look at Wyndham Championship odds. 

The Wyndham Championship really does lend itself to confident betting. Its high concentration of eight par 4s in the 400-450 yard range, funneled approach shots from the 100-175 yard range, and nuanced, undulated Donald-Ross designed Bermuda greens have produced repeatable results for accurate putting specialists. It’s a great week to lean heavily on course and comp course history. As we’ve seen at recent summer birdie fests, it should reward elite putters and wedge players with emphasis especially on Driving Accuracy and Bermuda Putting. We’ll run through the key facts and info about Sedgefield CC for the 2024 Wyndham Championship.

WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP ODDS: THE FAVORITES

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THE FIELD AT A GLANCE

With the beginning of the FedEx Cup Playoffs looming next week, most elite players have opted to skip this week and instead rest up before the three-week playoff push, which starts in Memphis. However, with the new FedEx Cup Playoff qualifications reducing from the top 125 to the top 70, we’ll see a far more competitive middle tier of talent than ever before at this event.

The Wyndham Championship lacks a headliner without any OWGR top-15 players present, but Sungjae Im, Brian Harman, Robert MacIntyre, Keegan Bradley, Cameron Young, Akshay Bhatia, and Shane Lowry represent a solid contingent of top-30 OWGR players. Sungjae Im, a top-25 finisher in each of his first five Wyndham Championship appearances, will be the expected favorite when odds open on Monday.

2023 champion, Lucas Glover is back for his title defense. Other past winners of the Wyndham Championship joining him this week include JT Poston, Kevin Kisner, Si Woo Kim, Webb Simpson, and Ryan Moore.

INTRODUCTION To sedgefield cc

As a par 70, Sedgefield CC features a standard mix of two par 5s, four par 3s, and 12 par 4s. The 7,131 yardage falls just below TOUR average from a per-hole standpoint. What makes Sedgefield CC so unique, and so repeatable for top course horses, is its concentration of short par 4s. Eight par-4s measure between 400-450 yards. That in turn has produced an average of nearly 30% of approach shots from 150-175 yards, well above the TOUR average.

Beyond the par 4s, the course features two very reachable par 5s and two short par 3s under 175 yards. Contenders have historically capitalized and scored in what has typically been known as a birdie-fest most years.

Just six holes at Sedgefield CC have a scoring average above par. That includes the two 500+ yard par 4s and two 225+ yard par 3s. The 507 yard par-4 18th is the most difficult hole on the course. It has produced some very exciting finishes on Sundays, recently including the six-man playoff in 2021.

For Sedgefield CC course specs, hole-by-hole breakdown with yardages, and past Wyndham Championship winners with their pre-tournament odds, visit our Wyndham Championship odds page.

Editor’s Note

COURSE HISTORY AND COURSE COMPS

Similar to Donald Ross’ Detroit Golf Club, I’m viewing long-term putting — especially on Bermuda greens — as a prerequisite skillset for success at this event. On the complete other side of the putting spectrum, compared to an event like the 3M Open, this is not a week where any given player can catch a streaky putter and win. Combine that putting emphasis with a concentration of wedge shots and a premium on driving accuracy, and we start to see a very repeatable list of names in contention year over year.

Course history has proven highly predictive of future success at this event. Course stalwarts like Webb Simpson, Si Woo Kim, Patrick Reed, Billy Horschel, and Kevin Kisner have each done well regardless of preceding form. That group alone has accounted for 24 top-10 finishes and four wins over the last nine years.

Of that group, Webb Simpson still stands out as the king of Sedgefield CC. He’s finished inside the top 10 in 12 out of 14 career appearances, including a current stretch of six consecutive finishes of T7 or better prior to his withdrawal from the 2022 Wyndham Championship. It is one of, if not the, most dominant displays of course history by any individual on the PGA TOUR. Expectations will be more tempered for Webb leading into this week as he has not posted a top-20 finish in the past year, however he did enter the 2023 Wyndham in similar form and still managed a T5 finish.

There are 12 players who have avoided missing the cut here over the last five years with a minimum of three appearances: Christian Bezuidenhout, Si Woo Kim, Billy Horschel, Adam Svensson, Shane Lowry, Chesson Hadley, CT Pan, Sungjae Im, Seamus Power, Webb Simpson, Cam Davis, and Nate Lashley.

Only seven players have recorded multiple top-10 finishes over the last five years: Sungjae Im, Webb Simpson, Kevin Kisner, Billy Horschel, Si Woo Kim, JT Poston, and Brendon Todd. A few other notables with recent top-15 finishes include Nicolai Hojgaard, Eric Cole, Stephan Jaeger, Ben Griffin, Adam Svensson, and Michael Kim.

Course Comps

I always weigh comp course history highly in my weekly models, but the correlation on comp short, easy, Bermuda tracks is as strong here as any other course on the PGA TOUR. So, I’ll put a significant premium on comp course history this week in an effort to overlook results on driver-heavy or difficult scoring venues.

We have many options for comps to Sedgefield CC, but Harbour Town, Waialae CC, and Sea Island Resort stand out as the three best. All fit the sub-7,200 yardage, Bermuda greens, easy scoring conditions, emphasis on driving accuracy, and overlapping success from players like Webb Simpson, Russell Henley, and Kevin Kisner. 

In addition to these, I also like TPC River Highlands, TPC Deere Run, and Colonial CC as angular, positional courses that emphasize accuracy and precision with short-to-mid irons.

Detroit Golf Club and East Lake each share the same Donald Ross connection and are also worth a closer look, particularly for reference, putting on similarly designed greens. Oak Hill and Pinehurst are also worth referencing from a short-game perspective as recent Donald Ross venues.

Combine performance across this list, and the top-10 players in Comp Course History here are Justin Thomas, Russell Henley, Alex Smalley, Keith Mitchell, Sungjae Im, Hideki Matsuyama, Mark Hubbard, Brendon Todd, Shane Lowry, and JT Poston.

KEY STATS TO CONSIDER WITH wyndham championship ODDS

• SG: APP
• Fairways Gained
• Prox 100-175
• SG: Putting (L36) / SG: P (Bermuda) / 3-Putt Avoidance
• Birdies or Better Gained 
• Par-4 Scoring: 400-450 Yards
• SG: Ball Striking (<7,200 Yard Courses)
• Course & Comp Course History

Although Sedgefield CC has proven the easiest course on the PGA TOUR to gain strokes on approach, it’s still very much a point-and-shoot golf course. The best iron players in the field have typically contended. The top-10 players in SG: APP entering this week are Keith Mitchell, Luke Clanton, JJ Spaun, Aaron Rai, Doug Ghim, Ben Griffin, Shane Lowry, Si Woo Kim, Jhonattan Vegas, and Kevin Yu.

While SG: OTT has proven relatively inconsequential at this event, strength in positioning on a shorter course goes a long way in maximizing scoring opportunities for contenders. The top-10 in SG: OTT on short, positional courses this week are Luke Clanton, Kevin Dougherty, Min Woo Lee, Keith Mitchell, Jhonattan Vegas, Rico Hoey, Jordan Spieth, Davis Thompson, Kevin Yu, and Kurt Kitayama.

The recipe for success at Sedgefield CC simply boils down to hitting a high clip of fairways and greens in regulation and then making putts. Total SG: Putting, SG: Putting (Bermuda), and 3-Putt Avoidance have all been highly predictive. The top-10 putters weighted across those key categories are Mackenzie Hughes, Thomas Detry, Denny McCarthy, Robert MacIntyre, Max Greyserman, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Pierceson Coody, SH Kim, Jacob Bridgeman, and Justin Suh.

Looking broadly across these three key categories of Driving Accuracy, SG: APP, and Weighted Putting, just six players rank top-50 in each: Keegan Bradley, Akshay Bhatia, Brian Harman, Andrew Putnam, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, and Ben Kohles.

Honing in on the key categories of Prox: 100-175, Comp Course History, Fairways Gained, Par-4: 400-450, SG: OTT, (Positional Courses) and Weighted Putting, nine players rate above average: Keegan Bradley, Davis Thompson, Troy Merritt, Adam Schenk, Bud Cauley, and Ryo Hisatsune.

Correlations

Looking at the correlation charts this week, there is a clear emphasis on approach play and putting when compared to the TOUR average. SG: APP, Total Proximity, SG: Short Game and SG: P each make significant jumps inside the top 10 of importance at Sedgefield CC. Further, the next stat just outside the top 10 at Sedgefield CC is 3-Putt Avoidance, a testament to the severely undulated and sloping Donald Ross greens. On the other hand, Par-3 Scoring, Par-5 Scoring and Par-4: 450-500 take the largest steps back in terms of importance.

Only 10 players in the field rank above average in each of the above 10 key stat categories: Aaron Rai, Sungjae Im, Davis Thompson, Brian Harman, Ben Silverman, Maverick McNealy, Akshay Bhatia, and Chandler Phillips.

2024 WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP ODDS: DFS PLAYER POOL

With all the course-fit profiles in mind, I’m leaning early toward the below player pool. Naturally, I’m looking their way in the 2024 Wyndham Championship odds as well. I’ve broken the list down by projected pricing/odds tier for DraftKings.  

UNDERDOG GOLF DRAFT RANKINGS TIERS

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Tier 1

Sungjae Im

Tier 2

Aaron Rai
Si Woo Kim
Davis Thompson
Brian Harman
Akshay Bhatia

Tier 3

Mac Meisner
Andrew Novak
Keegan Bradley
Ben Griffin
Christiaan Bezuidenhout

Tier 4

Patton Kizzire
Doug Ghim
Troy Merritt
Mackenzie Hughes

Tier 5

Ben Kohles
Ryo Hisatsune

WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP ODDS: MODEL RESULTS & BREAKDOWN

2024 Wyndham Championship Model Breakdown

In my model, I’m emphasizing SG: APP, Comp Course History, Par-4 400-450, Prox: 100-175, and Weighted Putting (L36, Bermuda, and 3-Putt Avoidance), followed by a more balanced mix of  SG: Ball Striking (<7,200 Yard Courses), Fairways Gained and Birdie or Better Gained.

Model Favorites

In a week where driving accuracy and precise approach play from inside 175 yards are at a premium, it’s not too surprising to see Aaron Rai pop as No. 1 in my model. Prior to his setback at The Open, Rai had strung together a stretch of five consecutive top-20 finishes, including a runner-up at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Rai ranks top-10 in Comp Course History, SG: APP, Greens In Regulation, and Fairways Gained, making for an ideal fit to score at Sedgefield Country Club in his current form.

After Rai, the rest of my model’s top 10 features Jhonattan Vegas, Mac Meissner, Sungjae Im, Davis Thompson, Ben Griffin, JJ Spaun, Brian Harman, Keith Mitchell, and Patton Kizzire.

When odds open on Monday, I’ll center my card around the man I expect to win the 2024 Wyndham Championship, Aaron Rai, but will also leave room on the card for players like Si Woo Kim, Keegan Bradley, and Andrew Novak if odds are appealing. 

Check back in later this week for more updates, and best of luck navigating the 2024 Wyndham Championship odds!

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