Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2024 Wells Fargo Championship

2024 Wells Fargo Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

There’s something quite masochistically entertaining about watching two maidens going at it down the back nine on a Sunday.

You just never quite know what’s going to happen….and in the case of the CJ CUP Byron Nelson, one maiden would fall short while the other would stand tall.

Ben Kohles would perform admirably to take a one-shot lead into the final hole, but his rather torturous route to the flag – bunker, rough, heavy-handed chip – left him needing to make a short-range putt to force a playoff with Taylor Pendrith, who would birdie that 72nd hole.

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Kohles would miss, unfortunately for him, and so the Canadian was left to celebrate his first PGA TOUR win and the various perks that brings – not least a place in the field for the Signature Event this week, the CJ CUP Byron Nelson.

As ever, these big bucks tournaments attract a stellar field of the best players on the PGA TOUR – although there’s one major exception this week, with Scottie Scheffler choosing to sit out the trip to Charlotte, North Carolina to stay at home with his heavily-pregnant wife.

That’s good news for everyone else, of course, as it gives the rest of the field a chance to battle it out for the huge cash prize. Wyndham Clark will be our defending champion, while the likes of Rory McIlroy, Max Homa, Justin Thomas, and Jason Day – all former Quail Hollow winners – will be hoping that lightning strikes for them again.

But not in the literal sense, of course. There are some thunderstorms in the forecast for Thursday, plus some strong winds, but otherwise the players should have easy enough conditions at a layout that is governed by the weather as to how easy it plays.

McIlroy won here in 2021 with a score of -10, whereas in 2023 (Quail Hollow hosted the President’s Cup in 2022 so skipped a year) Clark won with -19 – six players also bettering McIlroy’s score from two years before.

In benign conditions, Quail Hollow is tameable, although its length – more than 7,500 yards make up its Par 71, with only three Par 5s – is made all the harder if rain falls and softens the going.

Long drives are helpful, then, as are precise approach play from 175-225 yards – some of the Bermuda/Poa overseeded greens feature shelves and tiers, so getting up and down from greenside is not always that easy.

The players we back will also have to show a sure hand on the greens with flat stick in hand – it could take 20 or more birdies to win this week, which don’t come along too easy if you’re missing putts.

It’s a classy field at a quality venue that has previously hosted the PGA Championship, so you would imagine that a thoroughbred flusher will ultimately be crowned champion on Sunday.

Mind you, you’d have got sportsbook odds of around 70/1 on Clark’s triumph 12 months ago, while the then relatively unknown Max Homa was a 300/1 shot when he prevailed here in 2021.

So there’s scope, perhaps, for a long odds winner this week – but who will step up to the plate? Here’s five who might in our Wells Fargo Championship sleeper shortlist.

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