Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2024 Wyndham Championship

2024 Wyndham Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

He’s got trophies galore, two replica Green Jackets, and now an Olympic gold medal to add to his incredible collection.

Seeing Scottie Scheffler’s name vaulting up the leaderboard in round four must strike fear into the hearts of those leading the players home, and you could almost see from Jon Rahm and Tommy Fleetwood’s back nine on Sunday the pressure they were feeling – of winning gold, sure, but also the terror of a Scheffler birdie assault.

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He made Le Golf National look like child’s play, while all around them were begging, stealing, and borrowing par at any given opportunity.

In the end, it was inevitable that Scheffler would poach the gold. He is inevitable.

There’ll be no medals or trophies for Scheffler this week – he’s keeping his powder dry for the first week of the FedEx Cup playoffs (the St Jude Championship). In the interim, we’ve got the Wyndham Championship; the last chance saloon for those aiming to break into the all-important top 70 of the FedEx standings.

Sedgefield Country Club, in Greensboro, North Carolina, is our host, and this is a fun track in an unusual kinda way: there’s plenty of birdie chances out there, but only two Par 5s (this is a Par 70 course measuring around 7,130 yards) and, historically, you’ve needed to be hitting approaches from the fairway to have any success here.

Lucas Glover is our defending champion – he beat Russell Henley and Byeong Hun An by two strokes, while the likes of Tom Kim, Sungjae Im, Kevin Kisner, Si-Woo Kim, Kevin Na, Jim Herman, Billy Horschel, J.T. Poston, and Webb Simpson have all enjoyed success here within the past five years.

The takeaway point: finding fairways is of paramount importance this week. Bombers need not apply.

That said, there’s some rain in the forecast that may just soften the course and ensure less ball-run for the big hitters. But even so, our betting roster is stocked with players who, when dialled in, are as accurate as it gets off the tee.

So, without further ado, let’s dive into our sleeper shortlist for the 2024 Wyndham Championship.

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Jhonattan Vegas – 60/1 – Normally, you might be inclined to swerve a guy that had won for the first time in seven years last time out.

But that victory at the 3M Open was well deserved for Jhonattan Vegas, whose putter change has yielded remarkable results – always handy when you’re already a high calibre ball-striker.

The reason why we can expect Vegas to give it a darn good go this week is that he ranks 67th in the FedEx Cup standings – a missed cut at Sedgefield would likely see him drop out of the playoffs.

Accurate off the tee and hitting his approaches beautifully of late, Vegas returns as a newly-minted PGA TOUR winner to a layout where he finished T15 in 2021, recording rounds of 63 and 65 as he went.

Justin Rose – 70/1 – It’s no coincidence that Justin Rose two top-10s this year have come in majors – at the age of 43, he evidently needs motivation or inspiration to produce his best work.

Whether his friend Tommy Fleetwood’s silver medal at the Olympics helps in that regards we can only guess, or perhaps the possibility of playing well and making it all the way to the TOUR Championship – Rose is currently 52 in the FedEx Cup standings.

T10 at Sedgefield in 2021, Rose’s precise, plodding game is ideal for this particular stretch – can he find the motivation to contend just like he did last time out, in stronger company, at the British Open?

Seamus Power – 90/1 – It’s something of a concern that Seamus Power has stayed away from Sedgefield since finishing T60 here in 2021.

But the Irishman does have a nice game for this layout: he generally drives the ball accurately (and certainly has been doing so lately), is excellent through the bag on approach, and typically saves his best putting performances for Bermuda greens.

His form is there or thereabouts too, with two top-20s in his last four starts – T37 last time out at the 3M Open was hampered by a poor week on the greens, but that was the first time he had lost strokes to the field putting in six outings. 

Therefore, we expect Power to regress back to his mean, i.e. very good, putting performance this week.

Matt Kuchar – 90/1 – Just how well did Matt Kuchar play at the 3M Open!?

Kooch rolled back the years in that T3 finish, and while that doesn’t automatically mean he will play well this week, the fundamentals were solid – accurate driving matched by a mammoth +2.42 strokes gained on the field on approach.

His approach play numbers have been on the up and up for a while, and it’s amazing to see that he finished T3 at the 3M Open while losing -0.60 strokes to the field putting – a poor week with the flatstick is a rarity for Kuchar.

Whether he has the FedEx Cup playoffs in mind or not only he knows, but if Kuchar plays with freedom – like he did at the 3M Open – there’s no reason why he can’t go close again at a course that suits.

J.J. Spaun – 100/1 – Although his season-long stats make for wretched reading, the recent improvements in J.J. Spaun’s game mean that he heads for North Carolina with confidence.

He rode a hot putter to T10 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, but it was T9 last time out at the 3M Open that really caught our eye – he hit plenty of fairways, gained +1.31 strokes on the field on approach, and once again made some putts.

Spaun’s approach play numbers lately are such that if he replicates them here, he will set up plenty of birdie looks – his recent uptick with the flatstick also suggests he’s well placed to take plenty of them, too.

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