GOLFICITY BETS: The 2020 Wyndham Championship Gambling Guide

2020 Wyndham Championship Tournament Preview

After the frantic finale at the PGA Championship last week, it’s going to be very difficult for the Wyndham Championship to live up to the billing as the appetizer for the FedExCup playoffs.

With six players tied for the lead on Sunday at one point, followed by a jaw-dropping show of courage and straight hitting from Collin Morikawa, the year’s first major served up all of the excitement and drama we were hoping for.

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We’re on the downward slope towards the TOUR Championship now, and the Wyndham this week represents the last regular season event of the 2020 campaign.

So players a little lower down the standings will be desperately scrambling for much-needed points, while those towards the summit will be looking to find form ahead of the money-spinning end to the campaign.

2020 Wyndham Championship Course Preview

While TPC Harding Park lived up to its billing as a tough but fair test of golf last week, this week’s host – Sedgefield Country Club – is rather less taxing.

Playing 7,127 yards for its Par of 70, Sedgefield features little to no defenses to speak of – there’s just five water hazards on the whole property, rough is kept to a minimum and there’s just a handful of bunkers here and there. Is it any wonder that the winning score for the past four years here has been either -21 or -22?

The ease might be increased yet further given the weather forecast for Greensboro, North Carolina. It will be warm and wet, with scattered thunderstorms softening the surfaces. With wind speeds at a minimum, Sedgefield is there to be taken to shreds.

Brandt Snedeker fired a 59 here once upon a time, and despite there being just two Par 5s on the property a winning score of -25 is not out of the question – even if the assembled field is of a lower quality than we might like.

2020 Wyndham Championship Outright Winner

There is a case to be made for and against many of the players at the head of the market this week.

Brooks Koepka, with just three ‘regular PGA TOUR titles to his name and nursing a bad knee, is one to avoid while Webb Simpson and Tommy Fleetwood, while both premium operators, have question marks about their iron game right now.

Patrick Reed’s short game mastery might not be a factor at a soft and easy Sedgefield, and so we turn to Paul Casey – not our favorite type of bet, by any means, but his form at the PGA Championship was hard to ignore.

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His ball-striking was elite, and the typical achilles heel for the Englishman – that putting stroke – was also in okay, if not exceptional, order.

But if he strikes the ball this week as well as he did last week, Casey could leave himself a series of six footers – maybe, just maybe, he will have enough confidence on the greens to take care of business.

2020 Wyndham Championship Top 5 Finish Pick

What a career renaissance Brendon Todd has enjoyed!

If he’d gone away, battled the yips, found his swing and gone and won the Bermuda Championship, that would have been a fantastic story in itself.

But he doubled up at the Mayakoba, nearly tripled up at the RSM and was in the mix at the Travelers Championship just a few weeks ago.

Todd’s putting is so good he should contend in shootouts like this at will, and his tee-to-green game is strong enough to create opportunities – as it was when he took joint first-round leader honors at the PGA Championship last time out.

2020 Wyndham Championship Top 10 Finish Pick

One of the grittiest performers on Tour, Kevin Kisner did something he very rarely does anywhere at the PGA Championship – he delivered an iron game masterclass.

Hopefully that will travel, because he continues to putt well and will surely be dangerous on his preferred Bermuda greens.

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Kisner will benefit from being on the east coast too, and in a field not stacked with proven champions he has to be fancied to go very close indeed.

2020 Wyndham Championship Top 20 Finish Pick

Simpson, Poston, Love III….North Carolinans have a habit of doing the business at Sedgefield CC.

Maybe that will be the missing piece in the jigsaw for Doc Redman, a fantastic ball-striker who appears to be on the fringes of a major breakthrough.

Intriguingly, he putted very well at the PGA Championship, and so if there is a harmony between iron and putter this week Redman could be a very live contender.

A top-30 last week, in elite company, was eye-catching indeed heading into this parlous company.

2020 Wyndham Championship Match-up to Watch

For reasons unique to each, this is a field with some pretty weak favorites in it.

As we’ve explored already, Paul Casey is an interesting play this week and he will be available at odds-against prices versus any of his peers at the head of the betting – Koepka, Reed, Fleetwood and co.

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We’ll take him over his compatriot Tommy Fleetwood here. The likeable Brit is a fantastic driver of the golf ball but he lost 0.80 strokes to the field on approach last week, and that’s not a recipe for success at a course where every single shot is going to count. 

Who to Fade this Week

It’s hard to get excited about the chances of Brooks Koepka this week, a player with a really poor conversion rate in standard PGA TOUR events.

His knee is clearly a factor too – he was receiving treatment on the course at times last week, and in his final round at TPC Harding Park you saw how much he was struggling. What a difference a week can make!

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