Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report -The Wyndham Championship

2019 Wyndham Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

Like a Brooks Koepka approach shot from 180 yards, all good things come to those who wait and here we are as the PGA TOUR season enters its final stages.

First up this week is the Wyndham Championship, where the field gets a chance to gatecrash the Wyndham Rewards top 10 and land themselves a share of the $10 million bonus payout. Not bad work if you can get it.

The top-125 players in the rankings will then make their way to The Northern Trust for the first of the FedExCup playoffs, with only the top-30 proceeding to the TOUR Championship in a month or so’s time.

So it’s all systems go then heading into the business end of the campaign, and while some can afford to have the week off – Koepka now leads the world rankings, the Wyndham Rewards and the FedExCup race after triumphing in last week’s WGC St Jude Invitational – others will be desperate to find some form and gain some points in what appears to be a wide open tournament.

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This is not a stellar field as Sedgefield Country Club might have hoped for, with most of the sport’s biggest names taking the week off. However, at least patrons have a local hero to cheer, as North Carolinan Webb Simpson looks for a second Wyndham Championship crown.

He will be joined by the likes of Hideki Matsuyama, Jordan Spieth, Paul Casey and Collin Morikawa, who won the alternate event at the Barracuda Championship last week. All have their eyes on a big week in Greensboro for wildly varying reasons.

At least the players can rely on friendly conditions. Sedgefield, designed by Donald Ross – known for East Lake and Aronimink, among other tracks – is easy enough with a winning mark of -21 getting the job done here in each of the last three years. Brandt Snedeker was the man who took care of business 12 months ago, and he certainly enjoyed himself on these slick Bermuda greens.

Mind you, they might be a touch sluggish this week with rain – or ‘scattered thunderstorms’ to be precise – in the forecast. If it rains significantly enough, the greens will soften to the extent where this well be a point-and-click putting contest, which in fairness nobody particularly enjoys.

Still, it gives bettors a few clues as to who might thrive, and so here are our Wyndham Championship sleepers.

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Wyndham Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

Lucas Glover – 50/1 – With three consecutive top-20 finishes, Lucas Glover appears to have found his mojo once more.

His return to form began at the 3M Open, where his flat stick absolutely caught light in the fourth round, and continued to the John Deere Classic, where this time he ranked fourth for SG: Tee-to-Green.

Ball striking and putting united in tough conditions at Royal Portrush, where the former US Open champion finished T20, and so there are lots of good signs at exactly the right time for Glover.

He’s showed bits and pieces of form at Sedgefield, with three consecutive top-30 returns, so maybe this is the week he kicks on and cashes in.

Charles Howell III – 50/1 – It’s once more unto the breach with Chucky Three-Sticks.

It’s a mystery why the wily old campaigner gets so routinely dismissed by the sportsbooks and the DFS salary-makers. Okay, so he’s not a prolific winner on Tour, but he boasts a top-10 collection – and bank balance – that most other players can only dream of.

A former runner-up at Donald Ross’s East Lake, Howell III was T6 last time out at the John Deere Classic to show that he’s moving in the right direction.

But it’s on Bermuda where he is most at home, particularly small green tracks where his precise approach play comes to the fore, and so here’s hoping that Sedgefield proves a decent fit for the consistent world number 57.

Joaquin Niemann – 50/1 – With the likes of Cameron Champ, Matthew Wolff and Collin Morikawa all winning on Tour this season, it feels like the next generation of young golfers is already here.

So spare a thought for Joaquin Niemann, who is roughly the same age as that much-vaunted trio but yet to get over the line for his maiden PGA TOUR win.

Whisper it, but for our money he’s just as talented as them, and the motivation of seeing his peers bank checks and lift trophies will surely fire the Chilean from here until the end of the season.

A missed cut at the British Open has massaged his odds with the sportsbook out to this agreeable price, because Niemann has three top-10s in his last five starts and surely should be shorter odds here.

No matter: we’re more than happy to have the 20-year-old on board at 50/1!

Cameron Smith – 50/1 – We’ve seen the Australian mix it with the best recently, and know is the time for him to cash in among much weaker company.

Smith showed his class at the British Open, where he found himself inside the top-five on the leaderboard before falling away to T20 over the weekend.

He started very nicely amongst the world’s best at the WGC St Jude, where again he looked to be in the hunt before settling for a T12 return.

In this scarce company he must surely be confident of completing his first strokeplay title win, and while the soft conditions might not be to his liking his exceptional short game will give him chances in a birdie-fest like the Wyndham.

Rory Sabbatini – 50/1 – He’s been knocking on the door for quite some time, so could this finally be the week that Sabbatini claims that long overdue victory?

It could well be, given that he’s banked top-fives at two Donald Ross tracks here at Sedgefield and also Detroit GC.

The adopted Slovak has served up four top-10 finishes in 2019, with a noteworthy T16 also coming last time out in the British Open.

With that form in the tank, we’ve just been waiting for the right track to come along to back Sabbatini at – Sedgefield may just be it.

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Sleeper Report Predictions This Season (2018-2019)

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