Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – Wyndham Championship

2020 Wyndham Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

You can spend hours each week analyzing stats and performance metrics in the hope of finding a winner – and we do!

And yet, occasionally it’s the simplest formula that yields the best results, and as Collin Morikawa showed at the PGA Championship last week often backing elite ball-strikers and hoping that their putter hots up can be a recipe for success.

That was exactly the scenario that played out for the 23-year-old, who outlasted a quality leaderboard to win his first major and his third PGA TOUR title all told in just his 29th appearance – a staggeringly good record. You wonder how many big crowns he will end up with come the end of his career.

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Morikawa will probably be looking to add the FedEx Cup crown to his burgeoning collection of honors, and he’ll only have to wait one more week for the playoffs to get started. In the meantime, we have the final regulation event of the PGA TOUR season to enjoy in the form of the Wyndham Championship.

It’s an almighty trip for those who contested the PGA Championship in California to head across the country to the east coast – Greensboro, North Carolina to be exact – for the challenge that awaits them at Sedgefield Country Club.

Happily for them, challenge is a word that can be used in inverted commas at Sedgefield, where there really is very little for the players to worry about. The fairways are of an average width and the rough is amenable anyway, while the greens aren’t really protected aside from the odd bunker here and there.

While smaller-then-average, the Bermuda greens aren’t particularly fast and their approachability will be enhanced yet further should the rain – as expected – fall on Greensboro this week. It may well turn into something of a putting shootout, with winning scores around the -21 mark pretty consistent here over the past few years.

Let’ just say that when famed course architect was drawing up the blueprints for Sedgefield CC, he must have been in a pretty good mood….

Take accurate enough driving, add in a dash of laser-like iron play and a hot hand with the putter and you will find your Wyndham Championship winner.

Could that individual be an outsider with the sportsbooks? It’s certainly possible, given that JT Poston was a 90/1 champion here a year ago and Davis Love III was a huge 350/1 in his surprise triumph back in 2015. With the big guns facing that huge cross-country travel, that may also act as something of a leveler too.

We’ll be hoping for a repeat this year certainly, and here are the main contenders on our Wyndham Championship 2020 sleeper shortlist.

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Wyndham Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

Brandt Snedeker – 50/1 – While current form trumps course form every time in shortlisting picks, it’s not a coincidence that some players continually perform well at the same tracks year in, year out.

Brandt Snedeker will have put a pin in his calendar for the Wyndham ever since the revised schedule was announced, and for one good reason – he absolutely loves it at Sedgefield CC.

A winner here in 2018, Sneds has three other top-five finishes to his name at this layout and a T8 – you can see why he’s itching to get back here.

Form has been hard to come by for the multiple-time PGA TOUR winner, but a second round of 66 at the PGA Championship – he fired no worse than 72 on the week – deserves respect.

Russell Henley – 50/1 – The ball-striking renaissance of Russell Henley continues quietly, and in elite company he ranked seventh for SG: Approach at the PGA Championship – if he rings that iron play to a soft Sedgefield, he could prove very dangerous indeed.

Putting remains a mystery, as it has all season long, but all three of Henley’s PGA TOUR wins have come on Bermuda, and so the hope is he can find an improvement with the flat stick this week.

T7 at the Workday Charity Open – a similarly easy, low-quality field event, we have to believe that Henley’s classy approach game will pay dividends against weak opposition this week.

Joaquin Niemann – 60/1 – In the fullness of time, it will surely prove laughable that Joaquin Niemann was once priced at 60/1 in this quality of field.

The young Chilean may have been usurped by his contemporaries like Morikawa, Matt Wolff and Cameron Champ, but Niemann is a quality operator in his own right – and he has already opened his PGA TOUR title account.

He’s a premium ball striker who can thrive in soft or fast conditions, and as a long as the flat stick behaves Niemann should go well – he’s simply a better player than the vast majority in this field.

Ryan Moore – 60/1 – There’s been plenty of positive developments in Ryan Moore’s game recently, and so he’s worth a second look here at a layout where he has enjoyed plenty of success in the past.

A winner of this event in 2009, Moore also has a couple of other top-10s in the Wyndham including a T6 in his last visit here in 2018.

T12 in the 3M Open and the same in the Barracuda Championship, Moore’s improvements are leading to higher finishes, and a player who isn’t afraid of winning – he’s five PGA TOUR titles to his name – should not be discounted in this ramshackle field.

Doc Redman – 70/1 – Much is made of Doc Redman’s premium ball-striking capabilities, but hard work on his short game seems to be yielding results too.

At the PGA Championship he gained +1.26 strokes on the field on the greens, which is highly unusual, and if he can connect both aspects of golf on the same week Redman could be a real contender indeed.

North Carolinans have a habit of doing well in this tournament, and so we have to respect the chances of the Chapel Hill man just a week after a top-30 in a major.

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Sleeper Report Predictions This Season (2019-2020)

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