HP 🍑 for the 2024 Wyndham Championship

First Look: Sedgefield CC @ Greensboro, North Carolina

After a phenomenal week in Paris for the Olympics, professional golf returns to its regularly scheduled programming as we begin the home stretch of the 2024 PGA TOUR season. The Wyndham is the final event before the FedEx Cup Playoffs begin next week, and every golfer near the top 70 in the season-long points list will need a strong showing to live to fight another day. It was here in 2023 that Lucas Glover picked off the first of two late wins to propel himself all the way to East Lake, but who will be the surprise player this time around?

Let’s get into it!

1. SG: Off the Tee Leaders last 36 rounds: 1. Clanton 2. Dougherty 3. Champ 4. Lee, M.W. 5. Mitchell  6. Fishburn 7. Vegas 8. Hoey 9. Spieth 10. Thompson

2. SG: Approach Leaders last 36 rounds: 1. Mitchell  2. Clanton 3. Spaun 4. Rai 5. Ghim 6. Griffin, Ben 7. Lowry  8. Kim, S.W. 9. Vegas 10. Norlander

3. SG: ARG Leaders on Bermuda last 36 rounds:  1. Sloan 2. Haas 3. Todd 4. Cink 5. Spieth 6. Lashley 7. Thompson  8. Kim, S.W. 9. Bezuidenhout 10. Kim, S.H.

4. SG: Putting on Bermuda last 20 rounds:  1. Gotterup 2. McNealy 3. Hadley 4. Griffin, Ben 5. Detry 6. Oleson 7. Hisatsune 8. Dunlap 9. Dumont de Chassart 10. Horschel

5. SG: APP from 110-190 yds last 36 rounds: 1. Cauley 2. Vegas 3. Kizzire 4. Holmes  5. Wallace 6. van Rooyen 7. McCormick 8. Jaeger 9. Gordon 10. Villegas

6. SG: APP from Bermuda Rough last 12 rounds: 1. Lowry 2. Taylor 3. Highsmith 4. Dougherty  5. Spaun 6. Zalatoris 7. Hughes 8. Oleson  9. Dunlap 10. Holmes

7. Top 10 in Birdie or Better % last 36 rounds: 1. Oleson 2. Clanton 3. Im 4. Mitchell 5. Novak  6. Coody, Pierceson 7. Hall 8. Vegas 9. McNealy 10. Lower

8. Top 10 in Driving Accuracy % last 36 rounds: 1. Kohles 2. Rai  3. Todd 4. Garnett  5. Clanton 6. Young, Carson 7. Svensson  8. Berger  9. Hubbard 10. Musselman

9. SG: Total at Sedgefield CC last 12 rounds: 1. Horschel 2. Im  3. Simpson 4. Davis 5. Kisner 6. Moore, Taylor 7. Todd 8. Jaeger 9. Hadley 10. Zalatoris

10. Top 10 in DataGolf Course History vs Expectation: 1. Schmid 2. Davis 3. Hojgaard, Nicolai  4. Griffin, Ben 5. Brehm 6. Cole 7. Moore, Taylor 8. Detry 9. Im 10. Kisner

Over/Unders for the Wyndham Championship

Tropical storm Debbie rolling through the Southeast makes this week’s handicap a bit trickier. On one hand, soft conditions would mean even lower scores than the low-twenties / high-teens we’ve seen win here in the past. But high winds are also expected, and playing from the rough at Sedgefield can add up to big numbers in a hurry.

That said, I’m rolling with a trio of mudders / strong course history picks to break par 70 amid the elements in round one for this uninsured play.