The PGA TOUR makes its final regular season stop this week as it heads to Sedgefield Country Club to play the Wyndham Championship. Located in Greensboro, N.C., the course opened in 1926 and was renovated in 2007.

Sedgefield Country Club is a Par 70 measuring at 7,127 yards. Sedgefield is a Donald Ross design. The layout features fast rolling bermudagrass greens.

The Wyndham Championship will play host to 156 golfers, many of whom will be looking to punch a ticket to the FedEx St. Jude Championship, where the top 70 players in the FedEx Cup rankings will earn a spot.

With many golfers having their spot locked up for the FedEx Cup playoffs, the field lacks some big names but is fairly solid overall. We will see the likes of Will Zalatoris, Shane Lowry, Sungjae Im, Robert MacIntyre, Sungjae Im, Billy Horschel, Brian Harman, Cameron Young, Justin Rose and Min Woo teeing it up.

Past Winners at The Wyndham Championship

• 2023: Lucas Glover (-20)
• 2022: Tom Kim (-20)
• 2021: Kevin Kisner (-15)
• 2020: Jim Herman (-21)
• 2019: J.T. Poston (-22)
• 2018: Brandt Snedeker (-21)
• 2017: Henrik Stenson (-22)
• 2016: Si Woo Kim (-21)

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Key Stats For Sedgefield Country Club

Let’s take a look at the key metrics for Sedgefield Country Club to determine which golfers boast top marks in each category over their last 24 rounds.

Strokes Gained: Approach

Approach rates out as the most important statistic for Sedgefield. Being a relatively short course with easy to hit fairways, it is most definitely a second shot golf course.

SG: App Over Past 24 Rounds

1. Keith Mitchell (+.98)
2. Doug Ghim (+.88) 
3. Ben Griffin (+.78)
4. J.J. Spaun (+.77)
5. Chez Reavie (+.73)

Birdie or Better: Gained

It is necessary for golfers to go low here at some point in the four rounds and birdie makers tend to play very well at Sedgefield. Seven of the past eight winners of the Wyndham Championship had a winning score of -20 or better.

Birdie or Better: Gained Over Past 24 Rounds

1. Luke Clanton (28.1%)
2. J.J. Spaun (27.7%)
3. Sungjae Im (26.6%)
4. Keith Mitchell (26.4%)
5. Michael Thorbjornsen (26.4%)

Strokes Gained: Putting (Bermuda)

Very good putters tend to be very successful at Sedgefield Country Club. The Bermudagrass greens typically play fast and should favor golfers who have had success on that type of surface throughout their careers.

Strokes Gained: Putting (Bermuda) Past 24 rounds:

1. Ben Griffin (+1.15)
2. Chesson Hadley (+0.91)
3. Erik Van Rooyen (+0.83)
4. Harris English (+0.81)
5. Maverick McNealy (+0.79)

Course History

This statistic will incorporate players who have performed well at Sedgefield Country Club in the past. 

Course History Over Past 36 Rounds

1. Webb Simpson (+2.27)
2. Sungjae Im (+2.22)
3. Cameron Davis (+1.98
4. Billy Horschel (+1.94)
5. Eric Cole (+1.89)

Strokes Gained: Total (Donald Ross Designs)

Donald Ross designs have challenging green complexes and a unique feel to them. We often see golfers who excel at Donald Ross designs do so on a regular basis throughout their career.

Strokes Gained: Total (Donald Ross Designs) Over Past 36 Rounds:

1. Min Woo Lee (+2.11)
2. Cameron Davis (+2.02)
3. Eric Cole (+1.85)
4. Aaron Rai (+1.42)
5. Davis Thompson (+1.27)

Wyndham Championship Model Rankings

Below, I’ve compiled overall model rankings using a combination of the five key statistical categories previously discussed — SG: Approach (27%), Birdie or Better (22%%), SG: Putting Bermuda Fast (18.4%), SG: Donald Ross (18.4%), and Course History (14.3%).

1. Sungjae Im
2. Ben Griffin
3. Shane Lowry
4. Eric Cole
5. J.J. Spaun
6. Cameron Davis
7. Brian Harman
8. Troy Merritt
9. Billy Horschel
10. Thomas Detry

2024 Wyndham Championship Picks

Sungjae Im +1600 (FanDuel)

It’s been a long time since Sungjae Im has won a PGA Tour event (October 2021). Over the past few months, we’ve seen the South Korean regain the form that made him one of the most exciting young players in the world when he burst onto the scene in 2019. 

Every year, there are a few betting spots on the calendar that I have circled in red ink, and Sungjae at the Wyndham fits the bill perhaps more so than any bet I’ve made this season.

Over his past nine starts, Im has finished in the top 12 seven times, including three finishes in the top five. Not only is he performing well, but he’s doing so in big events against the best of the best. He finished T3 at the Travelers (signature event), T4 at the Scottish Open in a stacked field and T7 in the Open Championship. In his past 24 rounds, Sungjae ranks 7th in the field in Strokes Gained: Approach and 3rd in Birdie or Better percentage. 

Sungjae now takes his spectacular form to Sedgefield Country Club where he’s been incredible over the course of his career. In five starts at the course, he has three top 10 finishes and is yet to finish worse than 24th. In the past 36 rounds, he ranks 2nd in Strokes Gained: Total at Sedgefield. Im isn’t long off the tee, which is not a major detriment at the course and putts extremely well on Bermudagrass greens.

It’s been a long time coming for Im, but I believe he finally breaks the seal at this week’s Wyndham Championship.

Eric Cole +7000 (FanDuel)

Eric Cole was one of the most interesting stories of 2023, winning the 2022-2023 Rookie of the Year Award and becoming the oldest player (35) to do so since Todd Hamilton in 2004.

Cole started the season off playing well once again, but his performance really tailed off from March to June. Over the past four weeks, he’s rounded into form once again. With finishes of T6 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic and T7 at the John Deere Classic, Cole once again seems as if he can be a contender in the regular season finale. Last season, he finished T14 at the Wyndham Championship.

Over his past 24 rounds, Cole ranks 7th in the field in Birdie or Better Percentage. With soft conditions expected this week, it will be important for players to make birdie in bunches. He also ranks 4th in Strokes Gained: Total at Donald Ross designed courses, showing he enjoys this type of setup.

Longshots and veterans have both been commonplace on the leaderboard of past Wyndham Championships, and Cole fits the bill for both this week.

Ben Griffin +8000 (FanDuel)

Ben Griffin is the type of player who can compete on certain courses utilized on the PGA Tour due to his ability to score with short irons and his putter. With speed and distance playing an important factor at many of the Tour stops, players of his ilk will have a hard time putting it all together to win. However, Sedgefield Country Club is a course that cannot be overpowered and players like Griffin can compete.

In 2022, the UNC graduate finished 4th at this event, gaining significant strokes in every major statistical category with the exception of off the tee, where he was slightly below field average. Throughout the past few seasons, Griffin has been a specialist at short courses that feature Bermudagrass greens.

Over his past 24 rounds, Griffin leads the field in Strokes Gained: Putting on Bermudagrass greens and 3rd in Strokes Gained: Approach. If this event turns into an iron and putting contest, the 28-year-old will have a chance to win.

Matt Kuchar +12000 (FanDuel)

Last year, a resurgent veteran in Lucas Glover won this event, and I believe Matt Kuchar is a player in a similar mold that could make some noise attempting to earn his way into the FedEx Cup playoffs.

The 46-year-old has a streak of 17 consecutive years making the playoffs, and it would take an extraordinary performance to earn his way into St. Jude. After contending deep into the final round of his most recent start at the 3M Open, I wouldn’t rule him out just yet.

At TPC Twin Cities, Kuchar gained 9.68 strokes on approach, which led the field and was the most he’s gained in an event since the 2011 (!) Bob Hope Classic. Of course, the performance could have been an aberration, but his approach numbers have been steadily rising over his past five starts. At the John Deere Classic the week prior to the 3M, he gained 2.90 strokes on approach in two rounds.

A Kuchar bet is more of a “course fit” play rather than a “course history” play considering he’s only played the course twice. However, there is no reason why the Georgia Tech product shouldn’t play great a course like Sedgefield. I believe the savvy veteran has one more run of great golf left in him.