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Fantasy Golf Picks, Odds, and Predictions – The Wyndham Championship
Fantasy Golf Picks, Odds, and Predictions for the Wyndham Championship
2019 Wyndham Championship Fantasy Preview
What a gift it must be to be the best in the world at something.
The best golfer that Planet Earth has to offer is Brooks Koepka, a man who seemingly wins at will when the mood takes him.
He hasn’t won a regular PGA TOUR event on US soil since 2015, but here’s a guy with four majors and now a WGC win to call his own. A man for the big occasion? You bet.
Koepka won the inaugural WGC-FedEx St Jude Invitational by powering his way to the top of the leaderboard on Sunday, posting a bogey-free round of -5 while others – principally Rory McIlroy, who had done so well to bounce back from his British Open disappointment – floundered.
Winners are not born but made, and the way the 29-year-old gets stronger with the finishing line in sight suggests that if he stays fit and healthy he will win tons more silverware….whether that’s from regular Tour events remains to be seen!
People throw the m-word around – motivation – when it comes to Koepka, but there’s another m-word that doesn’t seem to stimulate him: money.
The world number one also tops the Wyndham Rewards leaderboard, the winner of which will claim a handsome $2.5 million prize at the end of Sunday’s play.
But Koepka has declined the invitation – who cares about 2.5 million big ones anyway, and that gives others a chance to take full advantage at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina this week.
Last Week’s Fantasy Results
Our guy JT performed well but ultimately fell to T12 while Brooks dominated again.
In the end it was Koepka who earned his 7th PGA TOUR victory after crushing Rory in the final round on Sunday.
Despite not getting the win, we ended up with four total T12 finishes including a T9 from Billy Ho.
The 2019 Wyndham Championship Field
With the FedExCup playoffs just around the corner, the great and the good have largely decided to stay at home despite the lure of the Wyndham Rewards millions.
Indeed, with a top three at the sportsbooks of Webb Simpson, Hideki Matsuyama and Collin Morikawa, you get a flavour of what to expect at Sedgefield Country Club.
The likes of Jordan Spieth, Paul Casey and defending champion Brandt Snedeker will be looking to find some form ahead of the run-in, while the likes of Sungjae Im, Viktor Hovland and Cameron Smith will be looking for their maiden PGA TOUR win to replicate the efforts of fellow youngsters Matt Wolff and Morikawa, who triumphed at the Barracuda Championship last week.
For interested parties, the final 125 for the FedExCup finals will be confirmed in Greensboro, with Aaron Wise (120), Pat Perez (122), Alex Noren (125), Austin Cook (126), Daniel Berger (131) and Jason Dufner (136) all hoping to do enough to book their spot at next week’s The Northern Trust.
This Week’s Course Preview
Donald Ross’s footprint is indelibly linked to the PGA TOUR at this time of year – his East Lake creation hosts the TOUR Championship, and he is also the architect responsible for this week’s host Sedgefield CC.
Happily for the players, Sedgefield is a lot more agreeable than East Lake, and the emphasis is very much on fun here with each of the last three winners tallying a score of -21.
The Bermuda greens are smaller than the Tour average, but really there is very little to trouble the players here – especially given the rainy forecast.
Measuring 7,127 yards off the pegs for its Par of 70, Sedgefield only serves up a pair of Par 5s for the field to exploit, but there are plenty of other options for red numbers on the Par 4s too.
We have to refer back to the rain, which will surely slow these greens that normally run at 12 on the stimp, and it is with the flat stick where our champion will make the bulk of their money this week.
This is an easy track where the emphasis is on fun and low scoring – who will get their eye in ahead of the FedExCup finale?
Weather Forecast for Greensboro, NC
The dreaded ‘scattered thunderstorms’ feature liberally in this week’s forecast for Greensboro.
Those look set to sweep in on Wednesday, so there could be some soft conditions abounding in time for the first tee.
The same thunderstorms are en vogue for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, although happily the weather won’t be completely wild with wind speeds averaging at a steady 6 mph for the three days.
Sunday could serve up some sunny spells and a top temperature of 86°F, so any grandstand finish that might be forthcoming will at least be played in pristine conditions.
Last Year’s Results from the Wyndham Championship
Brandt Snedeker became the latest inductee to the PGA TOUR’s ’59 Club’ in the first round here 12 months ago, and he never looked back from that point onward.
He led through the second round – most hotly chased by the veteran D.A. Points, and heading into Sunday too, although his lead had been cut to one shot by the chasing Brian Gay and David Hearn.
But Snedeker showed his class with a supreme round of 65 to take the spoils by three shots to the field, with Webb Simpson and C.T. Pan offering Sunday’s most competitive opposition – the former posting a 62 on his way to a tie for T2 with the Chinese Taipei star.
Brandt Snedeker’s Highlights | Round 4 | Wyndham 2018
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Where to Play Fantasy Golf for the Wyndham Championship this Week
DraftKings has launched their ‘Champ Series’ in time for the FedExCup hurrah, and the action kicks off this week with a varied slate. There’s bigger cash prizes and more crowns to earn, if you’re into that sort of thing, but it’s exciting that DK has at least noticed that the PGA TOUR season is entering its final throes.
- PGA $1M Champ Series Mini Main Event: Why play the lottery when you can attempt to win the $200k top prize here for an $8 stake, and have lots of fun cheering your boys home into the bargain?
- PGA $400k Club Twirl: The Champ Series might swallow up lots of the whales’ cash this week, so why not give a DK classic a try: for $44 entry, you could trouser the winner’s cheque of a cool $100k!
This Week’s Fantasy Notes for the Wyndham Championship
With rain in the offing at an already easy layout, there is a likelihood that the Wyndham Championship will simply descend into a putting contest this week.
There doesn’t appear to be any barriers to entry as far as crowning a winner is concerned. We’ve had young guns (Si-Woo Kim), classy operators (Henrik Stenson and Snedeker), old timers (Sam Snead and Davis Love III both won here in their fifties), while five of the last ten Wyndham champions were picking up their maiden PGA TOUR title.
It just has a feel of one of those ‘on the day’ type events, where someone can get hot with the flat stick and post a round somewhere around the 60 mark – who that might be, well, that’s the fun part trying to guess.
We can hit fairways ‘til we’re blue in the face, but if we don’t make putts at Sedgefield then we aren’t going to win.
Driving distance doesn’t seem to be any real advantage – Snedeker, Stenson, Kim and Love III is not exactly a winner’s rollcall that is a love letter to the bombers, and it really is as simple as making lots of red numbers on Par 4s that gets the job done.
You may want to take a look at form on Donald Ross tracks: East Lake, Detroit GC (host of this year’s Rocket Mortgage Classic) and Aronimink, home to the 2018 BMW Championship among other things, are all worthy of your time.
And if you like to take these things to the next level, the Wells Fargo Championship is played at the Quail Hollow club in North Carolina as well.
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Our Top 5 (and Top 2 Sleeper) Fantasy Picks and Odds to Win the Wyndham Championship
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Top 5 Picks/Odds to Win the Wyndham Championship
Top Tier Pick #1:
Webb Simpson (Odds: 11/1, FPPG: 78.1, GPFP: 89.80 Salary: $11,200)
For some, it is odd to see Webb Simpson listed as the most expensive player on the slate, and perhaps even odder to see us drafting him as our headline act.
That’s understandable – he isn’t the most prolific winner in the world – but all the evidence suggests he is knocking on the door of another elusive triumph.
Generally accepted as one of the best ball-strikers in the sport, Simpson has shown genuine improvements with the putter of late, and when you put those two things together magic is the obvious outcome.
He has finished either solo second or T2 in a pair of his last four starts, with top-30 finishes in both the US and British Opens sandwiched in-between, and it’s the kind of profile we would be mad to miss out on in such a thin field.
A return to his native North Carolina and a Sedgefield track he won at back in 2011 confirms that Webb is ticking plenty of boxes this week.
Key Stats:
- Scoring Average – 4th
- SG: Putting – 12th
- SG: Tee-to-Green – 17th
Top-Tier Pick #2:
Billy Horschel (Odds: 33/1, FPPG: 64.8, GPFP: 70.02 Salary: $9,600)
The former FedExCup champion has a habit of performing well at this point of the season – it’s no coincidence that such a renaissance comes as the Tour returns to Bermuda-grassed golf courses.
A player with a stellar record at another of Donald Ross’s courses at East Lake, Horschel has previous at Sedgefield too and is somebody that can generally be relied upon to perform year-on-year at tracks he loves.
Indeed, his love of Donald Ross golf is confirmed by a T5 and a T3 at Aronimink, as well as a decent showing (T17) in his debut at Detroit GC earlier in the campaign.
A proven winner with a pair of top-10s within his last five starts, Horschel is trending very nicely.
Key Stats:
- SG: Putting – 32nd
- SG: Total – 33rd
- Approaches from 50-75 yards – 39th
Mid-Tier Pick #1:
Sungjae Im (Odds: 70/1, FPPG: 66.0, GPFP: 52.82 Salary: $8,300)
As one of the standout young talents in world golf, Im has been a no-brainer pick quite a few times this season, and the Wyndham is no exception.
We’re always willing to go into bat with someone who boasts an excellent record on Bermuda, and who boasts the outstanding stat of making more birdies on Tour this season than any other player.
You sense that for Im, that big win is just around the corner when he can bring all facets of his game to the table at once, and an out-and-out birdie-fest like this will allow the 21-year-old to swing with abandon as he looks to finish off a tremendous first season among the big boys.
Key Stats:
- Total Birdies – 1st
- Total Driving – 28th
- SG: Tee-to-Green – 30th
Mid-Tier Pick #2:
Abraham Ancer (Odds: 80/1, FPPG: 64.7, GPFP: 51.78 Salary: $7,700)
A return to his typically strong driving ways has gotten Abraham Ancer back in form.
Okay, he missed the cut at the British Open, but there’s no benefit to being able to hit the ball long and straight there, so no advantage was made.
There’s no real bonus to length at Sedgefield either, but hitting approaches from the short grass certainly does count and in ranking 15th on Tour for Driving Accuracy this is an area where the Mexican can thrive.
T8 at the Travelers Championship and T19 at a high quality Irish Open, Ancer will be looking to markedly improve on his T24 here a year ago.
Key Stats:
- Approaches from 150-175 yards – 7th
- Total Driving – 16th
- Birdie Average – 53rd
Low-Tier Pick:
Roger Sloan (Odds: 150/1, FPPG: 56.2, GPFP: 44.97 Salary: $7,100)
It’s been a strange old season for Roger Sloan – boom or bust we can call it – with 15/25 cuts made but seven of those transferred into top-25 finishes.
Indeed, he has three top-10s to his name this term, with two of those coming in consecutive weeks of late at the John Deere Classic and Barracuda Championship.
Those were preceded by T15 at the 3M Open and T21 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, so it would be fair to conclude that the Canadian is in the form of his life right now.
The soft and easy conditions should suit….
Key Stats:
- Par 4 Birdie or Better Leaders – 40th
- Total Driving – 75th
- SG: Approach – 93rd
Sleeper Pick for the Wyndham Championship
Bill Haas (Odds: 90/1, FPPG: 53.8, GPFP: 46.81 Salary: $7,600)
A return to traditional strokeplay golf will suit Bill Haas down to a tee in Greensboro.
He never got going at the attack-minded Barracuda Championship last week, but he had shown plenty of encouraging signs in T10 at the John Deere Classic and T11 at the Barbasol.
Some players absolutely thrive on being back on home soil – not all do, oddly – and Haas is in the former camp with four top-10s on his native North Carolinan soil.
A career beset by injuries and that earth-shattering car accident, Haas is a man looking to make up for lost time.
Key Stats:
- SG: Around-the-Green – 19th
- Par 5 Birdie or Better Leaders – 22nd
- Scrambling – 56th
Alternative Sleeper Pick for the Wyndham Championship
Vaughn Taylor (Odds: 100/1, FPPG: 62.4, GPFP: 51.38 Salary: $7,400)
An unstylish player by nature, it’s odd to consider Vaughn Taylor to be one of the most prolific birdie makers around.
But that’s what we have with a player ranked ninth on Tour for Total Birdies, and it’s testament to the 43-year-old that he can still hang with the young guns.
Just lately he’s been doing more than just hanging, with solo fourth at the Travelers Championship followed by T6 at the John Deere Classic.
If that flat stick heats up once more, expect Taylor to deliver yet another birdie-laden performance.
Key Stats:
- SG: Putting – 5th
- Driving Accuracy – 25th
- SG: Approach – 63rd
This Week’s Sample DraftKings Lineup
Note: Sample lineups provided as examples only. Be sure to mix-and-match players to best fit individual contests.
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