Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2015 Wyndham Championship

The Sleeper Report: Fantasy Golf Sleepers, Long Shots, and Undervalued Picks for the 2015 Wyndham Championship from Sedgefield CC

The 2015 Wyndham Championship Fantasy Sleeper Preview

The final stop of the PGA TOUR’s regular season will be in Greensboro, North Carolina this week as the players tee it up at Sedgefield Country Club on Thursday afternoon.  This tournament was first established in 1938 and has taken place at Sedgefield for each of the previous seven seasons.  The event is notorious for last minute jockeying as the players who are not currently in the top-125 of the FedEx Cup standings get a final attempt to make it into the playoffs.

The par-70, 7,130-yard course has given way to plenty of scoring since moving to Sedgefield, as the venue has yielded a winning score of 14-under or better each season—including a tournament record aggregate score of 259 by Carl Pettersson in 2008.

Plenty of non-American golfers have been able to take down the trophy here in the last seven years, with four of winners coming from outside of the United States.  The most recent of the bunch was Camilo Villegas who ended a four-year winning drought with a come-from-behind win in 2014, outlasting Bill Haas and Freddie Jacobson by posting 63s on both Thursday and Sunday.

In the 2014 installment of the event, only one player (Sangmoon Bae) moved into the top-125 with his performance here and plenty of men will be looking to do that once again this week.  Scott Langley (126), S.J. Park (128), the aforementioned Villegas (129), and Ryo Ishikawa (130) stand the best chance of punching their ticket to The Barclays this week as they currently sit on the bubble.  On the other hand, there will be some big names attempting, but likely missing, to get to the playoffs as K.J. Choi (147), Martin Kaymer (149), Graeme McDowell (156), Ernie Els (170) and Tiger Woods (187) are all long shots.

The field will feature just one top-15 player from the Official World Golf Rankings in No. 12 Adam Scott and will have another eight from the top-30, including No. 16 Hideki Matsuyama, No. 17 Brooks Koepka, South African No. 20 Branden Grace, and a couple of Europeans in No. 21 Martin Kaymer and No. 27 Paul Casey.  Many of these players are running hot after a solid showing at the PGA Championship last week where Grace and Koepka finished in the top-five and Kaymer, Brandt Snedeker and Billy Horschel grabbed top-25s.

Although there are plenty of big names at the top of this entrant list, a few sleepers will surely come to the top of the leaderboard and compete for a win this week, so let’s take a look at a few names that could really excel on this Donald Ross course over the four days.

The 2015 Wyndham Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

You must be a Premium Member to view our exclusive fantasy golf picks.

Already a member?  Sign in Here.

Want more of this week’s fantasy predictions?  Check out our full fantasy preview for the 2015 Wyndham Championship here.

Cover photo by Jerome Carpenter on Flickr