Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2025 Wyndham Championship

Wyndham Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

With his regular caddie away on duty with Bryson DeChambeau, Kurt Kitayama turned to his brother Daniel to carry his bag at the 3M Open.

And they joined forces to propel Kitayama to the second PGA TOUR title of his career.

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They threatened to break 60 on Saturday and Sunday, such was Kitayama’s mastery of the TPC Twin Cities layout, and showed no nerves at all in the final round as the former Arnold Palmer Invitational winner fired six birdies in his opening eight holes.

Even a potentially tricky situation on the final hole, with Kurt dumped in a bunker with an awkward stance, was dealt with courtesy of a few choice words from Daniel and then a rock-solid chip from his younger brother.

Safely up and down, Kitayama tapped in for the victory.

That secures his place for the FedEx Cup playoffs, which will get underway next week at the St. Jude Championship. Only the top 70 in the standings will qualify, so there’s plenty of turmoil to be expected this week at the Wyndham Championship.

The likes of Keegan Bradley, Hideki Matsuyama, Robert MacIntyre, Ben Griffin, and Sungjae Im are all guaranteed to qualify – they’re teeing up at Sedgefield Country Club this week as a means of fine tuning their games, while the likes of Jordan Spieth and defending champion Aaron Rai are also likely to make the grade.

But there’s still work to be done for Tony Finau, Rickie Fowler, Adam Scott, and Tom Kim, amongst many others, as they look to avoid an early finish to their seasons.

Kim is a former winner at Sedgefield, which helps to explain the kind of assignment the players can expect this week. Accuracy off the tee is an absolute prerequisite – the likes of Rai, Lucas Glover, Kevin Kisner, and Jim Herman have all won here since 2020… this is positional golf at its best.

But plenty of birdies will have to be made at this Par 70 track, which also helps to explain just how important second shot precision is too.

Once the players are safely on the dancefloor, smooth Bermuda greens will greet them, so winning scores of between -18 and -20 are commonplace at Sedgefield… it’s just that the tools required to unlock this layout are a little unusual compared to the norm on the PGA TOUR from one week to the next.

Extreme heat, at least in the early part of the week, means that Sedgefield will likely play firm and fast – there is the possibility of some rain on Thursday and Friday, but the advantage for the most accurate is clear for all to see.

So that explains why we have built our Wyndham Championship sleeper shortlist for 2025 around some reliably accurate types…

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Davis Thompson – 66/1 – Having the weekend off at the 3M Open may be a blessing in disguise for Davis Thompson.

He missed the cut there, driving the ball beautifully but doing little else well, to go with his missed cut at the British Open, where Thompson somehow managed to gain +2.01 on the field putting over the first two rounds.

Prior to that, his ball-striking was excellent at the likes of the Travelers Championship and Rocket Classic, but his putting was simply not up to the mark.

There’s a slightly schizophrenic nature to his play at the minute, but one thing we do know is that Thompson has a fine record at Sedgefield: his last two starts yielding 12-22 finishes, with plenty of low rounds within those trips. 

Tom Kim – 70/1 – One visit, one win… you can’t really argue with Tom Kim’s record at Sedgefield.

This is exactly the type of place you’d expect the Korean to enjoy when playing his best, and while it’s been some time since he was striking the ball smoothly, there have been positive signs of late.

Kim has started to hit fairways again – the foundation of his past success, and has now posted gains on the field on approach in three of his last four outings.

He closed out his 3M campaign with a round of 66 on Sunday – bettered only by a handful of players on the day, so he will return to a happy hunting ground with confidence just starting to course through his veins once more.

Emiliano Grillo – 70/1 – Grillo was well backed at the 3M Open and in truth did little wrong: gaining strokes on the field off the tee, on approach, and putting. It was therefore the odd moment here and there that prevented him from improving on a T20 finish.

Maybe that will come this week, with Grillo’s natural accuracy an ideal skillset for the test on display at Sedgefield. 

His form at the Sony Open certainly catches the eye, while that playoff defeat at the John Deere Classic earlier in July suggests the Argentine is very much there or thereabouts.

Bud Cauley – 75/1 – A tough time on the Links Swing comes as no surprise as far as Bud Cauley is concerned, and it’s back on positional golf courses on American soil where we can expect him to return to form.

Solo third at the Charles Schwab Challenge and T6 at the PLAYERS this season, Cauley has shown an appetite for plotting his way around tight venues like Colonial and TPC Sawgrass.

His accurate stylings have revealed themselves at Sedgefield too, with finishes of T3, T10, T15, and T22 here – this is a career, you’ll recall, that was waylaid for a number of years after Cauley suffered a near fatal car crash.

But he’s showing signs of lifting up to his early promise… and Sedgefield seems as likely a venue as any for him to lift a trophy.

Christiaan Bezuidenhout – 80/1 – T12 at the U.S. Open, T13 at the Scottish Open, T34 at the British Open… Christian Bezuidenhout has been playing excellent golf in stellar company recently.

He’ll take a step down in grade this week, where we would expect him to improve upon a curious record at Sedgefield, in which he’s finished between T22 and T51 in each of his four starts.

The South African is accurate off the tee, has shown improved form on approach, and generally putts very well – South Africans tend to love golf on Bermuda greens, and Bezuidenhout can continue that fine tradition this week.

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