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Former U.S. Junior Amateur (2018) champion Michael Thorbjornsen was promoted to the PGA Tour two years ago for finishing atop the PGA Tour University rankings from his time at Stanford. He got his first tour victory on Sunday at the Rocket Classic courtesy of a 30 on the back nine to shoot 63 for a winning score of -18 to win the event by two strokes at a pre-tournament price of 45-1.
Xander Schauffele finished two back at -16 for outright second. Davis Riley (-15) was the 54-hole leader but settled for solo third after carding three bogeys in his first six holes and letting the field back into the tournament. Rasmus Højgaard finished fourth at -14, and a four-way tie rounded out the top 5 at -13 with Hideki Matsuyama, Matt Wallace and Kris Ventura.
Thorbjornsen was at No. 69 in the FedExCup points and now does not have to concern himself with making the playoffs as he vaulted to No. 38.
This week is the final event in the chase to get into the FedExCup Playoffs as the PGA Tour heads to Greensboro, N.C., for the Wyndham Championship.
Cameron Young (+850), who played his college golf at nearby Wake Forest, won his long-awaited first PGA Tour event last year here.
Like Thorbjornsen, Jackson Koivun (20-1) earned his tour card through PGA Tour University, but he got his first victory in just his third tour start at the 3M Open two weeks ago.
Matsuyama (25-1) comes into this week with consecutive top-5 finishes in both the 3M Open and Rocket Classic.
Ben Griffin (28-1) finished fourth here at the Wyndham in 2022 and seventh in 2024.
Ryan Gerard (30-1) was our nearest contender last week, finishing T-8.
At 33-1 are Justin Thomas and reigning PGA Champion Aaron Rai, who won at the Wyndham two years ago.
Scottish Open winner Tom Kim (36-1) won his first PGA Tour event four years ago here at the Wyndham.
Other former Wyndham champions in the field this week include 2023 winner Lucas Glover (150-1), 2019 winner J.T. Poston (66-1), 2007 and 2018 winner Brandt Snedeker (250-1), 2014 winner Camilo Villegas (600-1) and 2011 winner Webb Simpson (250-1), a North Carolinian who also played at nearby Wake Forest and named one of his daughters Wyndham in honor of the event that was the site of his first PGA Tour victory.
The Event
The Wyndham Championship was established in 1938 as the Greater Greensboro Open (Wyndham Hotels & Resorts took over as sponsor in 2007). The event has a lengthy history and has been the site for several PGA Tour records. In 1965, Sam Snead set PGA Tour records for being the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event (age 52) and for most wins at a sole event (eighth win). Fifty years later, in 2015, Davis Love III won here at age 51 and became the oldest player to win on the PGA Tour in the Senior/Champions Tour era (1980).
The Field
147 players are in this week’s Wyndham Championship field playing for an $8.5 million purse, with $1.53 million going to the winner.
However, most of these players are playing for FedExCup points. The following players are on the bubble to make it into the FedExCup Playoffs. Here are the scenarios for each of these players:
The following players must win this week to qualify for the playoffs: Max McGreevy, Beau Hossler, Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Jesper Svensson, Matthieu Pavon, Chris Kirk, Karl Vilips, Haotong Li, Gordon Sargent, Brice Garnett, Chad Ramey, Pontus Nyholm, Hayden Springer, Jimmy Stanger, Ben Silverman, Hank Lebioda, Davis Chatfield, Ben James, Matt Kuchar, Takumi Kanaya, David Skinns, Patrick Fishburn, Erik van Rooyen, Luke Clanton, Aaron Wise, Joe Highsmith, Kevin Streelman, Paul Peterson, Lanto Griffin, Trace Crowe, Adam Schenk, Ben Martin, Danny Walker, Dylan Wu, Brian Campbell, Jeffrey Kang, Garrick Higgo, Patton Kizzire, Nick Dunlap, Thorbjørn Olesen, Kensei Hirata, John VanDerLaan, Vince Whaley, Peter Malnati, Will Gordon, Tyler Duncan, Justin Lower, Rafael Campos, Adam Svensson, Chan Kim, Adrien Saddier, Webb Simpson and Danny Willett.
The stakes are high for advancing in the FedExCup Playoffs — but the first step is simply getting in.
The top 50 after the FedEx St. Jude Championship will also qualify for all Signature Events in 2027, and the top 30 after the BMW Championship will additionally qualify for the 2027 Masters, U.S. Open and Open Championship.
Those who finish Nos. 71-100 in the standings will have full PGA Tour status for 2027, while players Nos. 101-125 will retain conditional status, although the top 100 and top 125 will not be finalized until after the FedExCup Fall concludes with The RSM Classic in November.
The Course
Sedgefield Country Club, in Greensboro, N.C., took over hosting the Wyndham Championship in 2008. The Wyndham is held at the Ross Course, named for its designer Donald Ross, which opened in 1926. After renovations conducted in 2007 by Kris Spence, a golf course architect based in Greensboro, who worked as the course superintendent at nearby Forest Oaks Country Club, which hosted the Wyndham from 1977-2007.
Sedgefield is a par-70 of 7,131 yards. It is a typical Carolina course with tree-lined fairways, pine straw and Champion Bermudagrass throughout. The course is a par-70 with only two par-5s and four par-3s. Nine of the 12 par-4s are less than 450 yards.
The fairways are narrow (29-yard average — 9th narrowest on tour) and the rough measures at 2.5 inches. There are five water hazards in play on six holes, and the layout is not all that heavily bunkered (52 on course — seventh fewest on tour); however, the fairway bunkers at Sedgefield are tough to reach the greens in regulation. The Champion Bermuda greens (avg 6,000 square feet) undulate and are fast (12.5 stimpmeter).
This is a scoreable course. Brandt Snedeker shot 59 here for the course record on his way to victory at the 2018 Wyndham.
Here is the official scorecard for the 2026 Wyndham Championship courtesy of PGATOUR.com:
McConnell Golf LLC owns 16 golf and country clubs throughout the Southeast, including Sedgefield. Their site provides an aerial view of the course.
Correlated courses to Sedgefield include Waialae, TPC River Highlands, and Colonial (shorter par-70s), Detroit GC (Ross design), Harbour Town, Sea Island (Seaside course), TPC Sawgrass and East Lake (Ross design).
Weather
The AccuWeather forecast shows a humid week in Greensboro with very light winds and chances of small thunderstorms in the late afternoon all four days.
Wyndham Championship Recent History
2025: Cameron Young (-22/258); 55-1
2024: Aaron Rai (-18/262); 35-1
2023: Lucas Glover (-20/260); 90-1
2022: Tom Kim (-20/260); 35-1
2021: Kevin Kisner (-15/265); 55-1*
2020: Jim Herman (-21/259); 600-1
2019: J.T. Poston (-22/258); 100-1
2018: Brandt Snedeker (-21/259); 28-1
2017: Henrik Stenson (-22/258); 14-1
2016: Si Woo Kim (-21/259); 150-1
2015: Davis Love III (-17/263); 500-1
2014: Camilo Villegas (-17/263); 125-1
2013: Patrick Reed (-14/266); 80-1**
2012: Sergio Garcia (-18/262); 40-1
2011: Webb Simpson (-18/262); 20-1
2010: Arjun Atwal (-20/260); 200-1
Playoff win over Branden Grace, Si Woo Kim, Kevin Na, Adam Scott, Roger Sloan – *
Playoff win over Jordan Spieth – **
Wyndham Championship Recent Trends
- Each of the last five Wyndham Championship winners had at least one top-5 finish within five starts leading into the event.
Statistical Analysis
Two of the last three Wyndham winners — Aaron Rai and Lucas Glover — both led the field for Strokes Gained: Approach during their respective winning weeks. Last year, 13 of the top 18 finishers gained over two strokes on approach for the tournament.
Strokes Gained: Approach — Average Per Round (2026 PGA Tour season)
- Alex Fitzpatrick 0.954
- Ben Kohles 0.850
- Tom Kim 0.679
- Jackson Koivun 0.649
- Zac Blair 0.638
- Austin Smotherman 0.624
- Blades Brown 0.610
- Brooks Koepka 0.606
- Joel Dahmen 0.577
- Daniel Berger 0.562
- Stefano Mazzoli 0.492
- William Mouw 0.460
- Cameron Young 0.458
- Davis Thompson 0.451
- Jackson Suber 0.440
- Chris Kirk 0.437
- Ryan Gerard 0.431
- Aaron Rai 0.427
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout 0.416
- Hideki Matsuyama 0.397
- Luke Clanton 0.383
- Max McGreevy 0.376
- John Parry 0.375
- Jordan Smith 0.374
- Johnny Keefer 0.354
- Austin Eckroat 0.341
- Matt Wallace 0.339
- Tom Hoge 0.326
- Ryo Hisatsune 0.320
- Bud Cauley 0.312
- Alex Smalley 0.310
- Keith Mitchell 0.301
With some blind tee shots, some fairways on the narrow side, tricky Bermuda rough, and tree-lined fairways, hitting fairways takes on added importance this week.
Hit Fairway Percentage (2026 PGA Tour season)
- Ben Kohles 76.39%
- Ben James 75.50
- Davis Chatfield 72.32
- Jackson Koivun 72.22
- Zac Blair 70.61
- Aaron Rai 70.30
- Lucas Glover 70.09
- Joel Dahmen 70.05
- Justin Lower 69.62
- Marcelo Rozo 69.62
- Brandt Snedeker 69.62
- Kensei Hirata 69.28
- Neal Shipley 68.81
- Emiliano Grillo 68.63
- Andrew Putnam 67.97
- Chandler Blanchet 67.61
- Ben Silverman 67.60
- Lee Hodges 67.32
- Max McGreevy 66.96
- Brice Garnett 66.67
- Brian Campbell 66.41
- Austin Smotherman 66.27
- Doug Ghim 65.16
- Blades Brown 65.00
- Alex Fitzpatrick 64.98
- Alex Noren 64.82
- Jordan Smith 64.61
- Tom Kim 64.59
- Takumi Kanaya 64.43
- Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen 64.12
- J.T. Poston 63.29
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout 63.25
- William Mouw 63.16
- Ryo Hisatsune 63.00
Good Drive Percentage indicates when you can still hit the green without hitting the fairway, plus hitting fairways.
Good Drive Percentage (2026 PGA Tour season)
- Ben Kohles 89.91%
- Stefano Mazzoli 87.90
- Jackson Koivun 87.30
- Joel Dahmen 86.99
- Lucas Glover 86.74
- Alex Fitzpatrick 86.60
- Aaron Rai 85.95
- Zac Blair 85.20
- Tom Kim 85.06
- Austin Smotherman 84.86
- Ben Silverman 84.70
- Jackson Suber 84.68
- Justin Lower 84.66
- Lanto Griffin 84.40
- Max McGreevy 84.37
- Marcelo Rozo 84.34
- Johnny Keefer 84.33
- Ryo Hisatsune 84.30
- Jordan Smith 84.15
- Davis Chatfield 84.06
- Ben James 83.80
- Aaron Wise 83.80
- Neal Shipley 83.75
- William Mouw 83.72
- Rico Hoey 83.40
- Emiliano Grillo 83.29
- Doug Ghim 83.28
- John Perry 83.25
- Chandler Blanchet 83.16
- Ryan Gerard 83.15
- Ben Griffin 83.15
- Kris Ventura 83.14
- Alex Smalley 83.06
Twelve of the 18 holes are par-4s and nine of the 12 are par-4s that range from 400-450 yards.
Strokes Gained Par 4s 400-450 — Average Per Round (Last 50 rounds)
- Cameron Young 0.18
- Alex Fitzpatrick 0.12
- Stefano Mazzoli 0.12
- Ben Kohles 0.11
- Tom Kim 0.11
- Ben Griffin 0.10
- Jackson Koivun 0.09
- Aaron Rai 0.09
- Brian Harman 0.09
- Doug Ghim 0.08
- Michael Kim 0.08
- Haotong Li 0.08
- Zac Blair 0.07
- Blades Brown 0.06
- Alex Smalley 0.06
- Hideki Matsuyama 0.06
- Steven Fisk 0.06
- Zach Bauchou 0.06
- Ricky Castillo 0.06
- Matthieu Pavon 0.06
- Erik van Rooyen 0.06
Many of the greens at Sedgefield have sharp ridges and will run faster (12.5-13 feet) on the stimpmeter, so putting on this Bermuda can be tricky.
Strokes Gained: Putting — Bermuda Greens — Average Per Round (Last 50 rounds)
- Webb Simpson 1.95
- Kevin Roy 1.79
- Mark Hubbard 1.27
- Eric Cole 1.18
- Brandt Snedeker 1.17
- Cameron Young 1.09
- Peter Malnati 1.08
- Ben Griffin 1.06
- William Mouw 1.03
- Mackenzie Hughes 0.99
- Blades Brown 0.94
- Patrick Fishburn 0.93
- Matt Wallace 0.93
- Matthieu Pavon 0.87
- Billy Horschel 0.80
- Takumi Kanaya 0.79
- Erik van Rooyen 0.77
- Lanto Griffin 0.76
- Nico Echavarria 0.71
- Beau Hossler 0.68
- Vince Whaley 0.65
- Brice Garnett 0.60
- Maverick McNealy 0.60
- Taylor Moore 0.58
- Patrick Rodgers 0.54
- Seamus Power 0.52
- Ben Kohles 0.51
- Harry Hall 0.51
- Matt McCarty 0.50
Donald Ross designs feature elevated and sloping putting surfaces with multiple run-off locations. Three-putts and bogeys can happen here frequently on these faster greens.
Three-Putt Percentage (2026 PGA Tour season)
- Webb Simpson 0.58%
- Blades Brown 0.85
- Luke List 1.23
- Jackson Koivun 1.23
- Beau Hossler 1.27
- Eric Cole 1.31
- Austin Eckroat 1.32
- Nick Taylor 1.32
- Jacob Bridgeman 1.42
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1.51
- Mackenzie Hughes 1.55
- Kris Ventura 1.55
- Davis Chatfield 1.56
- Adrien Dumont De Chassart 1.63
- Taylor Moore 1.67
- Stefano Mazzoli 1.67
- Karl Vilips 1.71
- Takumi Kanaya 1.73
- Seamus Power 1.82
- Denny McCarthy 1.88
- Ben Silverman 1.91
- Ben James 1.92
- Ryan Gerard 1.92
- Nico Echavarria 1.93
- Matt McCarty 1.93
- Lee Hodges 1.96
- Chad Ramey 1.97
Somewhere in the 20-under-par range is likely to win here, so avoiding bogeys and making plenty of birdies and eagles will just keep players in contention, particularly on what could be a soft course with all the rain.
Bogey Avoidance (2026 PGA Tour season)
- Blades Brown 9.60%
- Ben Kohles 11.90
- Luke List 12.00
- Beau Hossler 12.18
- Doug Ghim 12.53
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout 12.54
- Tom Kim 12.66
- Jackson Koivun 12.70
- Cameron Young 12.76
- Ben Silverman 13.00
- A.J. Ewart 13.13
- Kris Ventura 13.18
- Mackenzie Hughes 13.39
- Zac Blair 13.40
- Steven Fisk 13.48
- Davis Thompson 13.48
- Ben Griffin 13.66
- Mac Meissner 13.72
- Zecheng Dou 13.80
- John Parry 13.81
- Zach Bauchou 13.89
- Seamus Power 13.94
- Kevin Streelman 13.96
- Davis Chatfield 14.00
Birdie Or Better Percentage (2026 PGA Tour season)
- Blades Brown 25.20%
- Kevin Yu 24.56
- Jackson Koivun 24.40
- Hayden Springer 24.40
- Keith Mitchell 24.10
- Ryan Gerard 23.93
- Stefano Mazzoli 23.90
- Maverick McNealy 23.77
- Eric Cole 23.69
- Cameron Young 23.44
- Stephan Jaeger 23.39
- Pierceson Coody 23.33
- Mac Meissner 23.32
- Ben Kohles 23.30
- Aaron Wise 23.30
- Tony Finau 23.24
- Michael Brennan 23.21
- Jackson Suber 23.20
- Austin Eckroat 23.19
- Zach Bauchou 23.15
- Harris English 22.96
- Tom Hoge 22.88
- Hideki Matsuyama 22.88
- Luke List 22.80
- Doug Ghim 22.73
- Brooks Koepka 22.70
Selections
Hideki Matsuyama (+2350, DraftKings)
Matsuyama finished T-5 last week in Detroit but led the field for Strokes Gained: Tee-To-Green and was second for Strokes Gained: Approach.
Last week’s result followed up a T-3 the week prior in Minneapolis.
Even with the no-cut provisions in Signature Events, Matsuyama has gone 19-for-19 in making the weekend this season and has made 34 in a row dating to May 2025.
The driver has been what has held him back a bit this season, but he has gained strokes off the tee in each of his last four, and Sedgefield is not a place that provides much trouble off the tee.
Ryan Gerard (29-1, DraftKings)
Gerard was one of the selections last week and will be so once again off a T-8 in Detroit.
At No. 16 in the FedExCup standings, Gerard is likely to play all three FedExCup Playoff events, but his goal is to get the victory that has eluded him in the 2026 season and make the Presidents Cup team later this fall.
He has three runner-up finishes this season, including the Sony Open (Waialae historically a strong correlation to Sedgefield), The American Express and the Memorial Tournament.
This week is also the closest event to a home game for Gerard, who grew up in Raleigh and played his college golf in Chapel Hill at the University of North Carolina.
Tom Kim (36-1, DraftKings)
Kim broke a near three-year winless streak last month with a victory at the Genesis Scottish Open last month.
This week, he returns to the site of his first career tour victory (August 2022) at the Wyndham Championship and Sedgefield has produced a couple of winners (Davis Love III, Brandt Snedeker) who have won the Wyndham multiple times.
His iron play has stood out, as he ranks fifth in Strokes Gained: Approach, while he’s also fifth in Proximity from 125-150 yards, where most of the approaches will come from this week.
The putting has shown an uptick of late, with three of his best putting performances coming in his last six events.
Davis Thompson (55-1, DraftKings)
Thompson comes into this week at the Wyndham on the back of two top-10 finishes in a row at the 3M Open and Rocket Classic.
He has gotten progressively better at the Wyndham over the last three years, finishing 22nd in 2023, 12th in 2024 and 11th in 2025.
Two years ago, he finished runner-up at Detroit GC, so he has shown well at Donald Ross designs.
The former John Deere Classic winner is a good fit here.
Ben Kohles (60-1, BetRivers)
We had some heartbreak with Kohles a few weeks back at the John Deere Classic when he looked like the clear winner but hit his approach into the water at 18 to end up finishing third. Undaunted, we are back for more.
Kohles, a winner earlier this summer on the Korn Ferry Tour, is likely to get his PGA Tour card via that route but is also 95th in FedExCup points and the top 100 gain full tour status as well.
He has been up and down from the Korn Ferry to PGA Tour on several occasions and is likely to be back again next year, but he has some unfinished business to get that first victory on the big tour and the Wyndham is a perfect site for him to do it, considering he made his first PGA Tour start right here at Sedgefield in 2012.
Ryo Hisatsune (60-1, DraftKings)
Hisatsune finished third on debut at the Wyndham in 2024.
He has not missed a cut since the season opener in Hawaii, so the form has been consistent throughout the season.
The man from Japan arrives off a T-50 last week in Detroit but was second in the field for Greens In Regulation but struggled on the greens, so he might relish the switch to Bermuda here.
Blades Brown (66-1, Bet Rivers)
Brown, 19, bypassed college to turn professional and is playing on the Korn Ferry Tour, where he is 9th on the KFT points list (the top 20 at season’s end get PGA Tour cards), but could skip that like he did college with a victory here.
Three years ago, at age 16, Brown became the youngest medalist in stroke play at the U.S. Amateur, breaking the record of the legendary Bobby Jones.
Brown has four top-6 finishes on the KFT plus a third at the Puerto Rico Open earlier this spring.
With the recent victories of Jackson Koivun and Michael Thorbjornsen over the last two weeks, young players are showing they are capable of winning on the PGA Tour and Brown has the obvious form and pedigree.
Ben James (80-1, Caesars Sportsbook)
Like Koivun and Thorbjornsen, Ben James was recently promoted to the PGA Tour via PGA Tour U.
Since this promotion, James has made seven of eight cuts, including a T-4 at the Corales Puntacana Championship last month.
James just wrapped a career at the University of Virginia, where he became just the fifth player ever to be a first-team All-American in all four years of his career.
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