Fantasy Golf Picks, Odds, and Predictions for the Wyndham Championship

2019 Wyndham Championship Fantasy Preview

What a gift it must be to be the best in the world at something.

The best golfer that Planet Earth has to offer is Brooks Koepka, a man who seemingly wins at will when the mood takes him.

He hasn’t won a regular PGA TOUR event on US soil since 2015, but here’s a guy with four majors and now a WGC win to call his own. A man for the big occasion? You bet.

Koepka won the inaugural WGC-FedEx St Jude Invitational by powering his way to the top of the leaderboard on Sunday, posting a bogey-free round of -5 while others – principally Rory McIlroy, who had done so well to bounce back from his British Open disappointment – floundered.

Winners are not born but made, and the way the 29-year-old gets stronger with the finishing line in sight suggests that if he stays fit and healthy he will win tons more silverware….whether that’s from regular Tour events remains to be seen!

People throw the m-word around – motivation – when it comes to Koepka, but there’s another m-word that doesn’t seem to stimulate him: money.

The world number one also tops the Wyndham Rewards leaderboard, the winner of which will claim a handsome $2.5 million prize at the end of Sunday’s play.

But Koepka has declined the invitation – who cares about 2.5 million big ones anyway, and that gives others a chance to take full advantage at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina this week.

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Last Week’s Fantasy Results

Our guy JT performed well but ultimately fell to T12 while Brooks dominated again. 

In the end it was Koepka who earned his 7th PGA TOUR victory after crushing Rory in the final round on Sunday. 

Despite not getting the win, we ended up with four total T12 finishes including a T9 from Billy Ho.

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The 2019 Wyndham Championship Field

With the FedExCup playoffs just around the corner, the great and the good have largely decided to stay at home despite the lure of the Wyndham Rewards millions.

Indeed, with a top three at the sportsbooks of Webb Simpson, Hideki Matsuyama and Collin Morikawa, you get a flavour of what to expect at Sedgefield Country Club.

The likes of Jordan Spieth, Paul Casey and defending champion Brandt Snedeker will be looking to find some form ahead of the run-in, while the likes of Sungjae Im, Viktor Hovland and Cameron Smith will be looking for their maiden PGA TOUR win to replicate the efforts of fellow youngsters Matt Wolff and Morikawa, who triumphed at the Barracuda Championship last week.

For interested parties, the final 125 for the FedExCup finals will be confirmed in Greensboro, with Aaron Wise (120), Pat Perez (122), Alex Noren (125), Austin Cook (126), Daniel Berger (131) and Jason Dufner (136) all hoping to do enough to book their spot at next week’s The Northern Trust.

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This Week’s Course Preview

Donald Ross’s footprint is indelibly linked to the PGA TOUR at this time of year – his East Lake creation hosts the TOUR Championship, and he is also the architect responsible for this week’s host Sedgefield CC.

Happily for the players, Sedgefield is a lot more agreeable than East Lake, and the emphasis is very much on fun here with each of the last three winners tallying a score of -21.

The Bermuda greens are smaller than the Tour average, but really there is very little to trouble the players here – especially given the rainy forecast.

Measuring 7,127 yards off the pegs for its Par of 70, Sedgefield only serves up a pair of Par 5s for the field to exploit, but there are plenty of other options for red numbers on the Par 4s too.

We have to refer back to the rain, which will surely slow these greens that normally run at 12 on the stimp, and it is with the flat stick where our champion will make the bulk of their money this week.

This is an easy track where the emphasis is on fun and low scoring – who will get their eye in ahead of the FedExCup finale?

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Weather Forecast for Greensboro, NC

The dreaded ‘scattered thunderstorms’ feature liberally in this week’s forecast for Greensboro.

Those look set to sweep in on Wednesday, so there could be some soft conditions abounding in time for the first tee.

The same thunderstorms are en vogue for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, although happily the weather won’t be completely wild with wind speeds averaging at a steady 6 mph for the three days.

Sunday could serve up some sunny spells and a top temperature of 86°F, so any grandstand finish that might be forthcoming will at least be played in pristine conditions.

Last Year’s Results from the Wyndham Championship

Brandt Snedeker became the latest inductee to the PGA TOUR’s ’59 Club’ in the first round here 12 months ago, and he never looked back from that point onward.

He led through the second round – most hotly chased by the veteran D.A. Points, and heading into Sunday too, although his lead had been cut to one shot by the chasing Brian Gay and David Hearn.

But Snedeker showed his class with a supreme round of 65 to take the spoils by three shots to the field, with Webb Simpson and C.T. Pan offering Sunday’s most competitive opposition – the former posting a 62 on his way to a tie for T2 with the Chinese Taipei star.

Where to Play Fantasy Golf for the Wyndham Championship this Week

DraftKings has launched their ‘Champ Series’ in time for the FedExCup hurrah, and the action kicks off this week with a varied slate. There’s bigger cash prizes and more crowns to earn, if you’re into that sort of thing, but it’s exciting that DK has at least noticed that the PGA TOUR season is entering its final throes.

• PGA $1M Champ Series Mini Main Event: Why play the lottery when you can attempt to win the $200k top prize here for an $8 stake, and have lots of fun cheering your boys home into the bargain?
• PGA $400k Club Twirl: The Champ Series might swallow up lots of the whales’ cash this week, so why not give a DK classic a try: for $44 entry, you could trouser the winner’s cheque of a cool $100k!

This Week’s Fantasy Notes for the Wyndham Championship

With rain in the offing at an already easy layout, there is a likelihood that the Wyndham Championship will simply descend into a putting contest this week.

There doesn’t appear to be any barriers to entry as far as crowning a winner is concerned. We’ve had young guns (Si-Woo Kim), classy operators (Henrik Stenson and Snedeker), old timers (Sam Snead and Davis Love III both won here in their fifties), while five of the last ten Wyndham champions were picking up their maiden PGA TOUR title.

It just has a feel of one of those ‘on the day’ type events, where someone can get hot with the flat stick and post a round somewhere around the 60 mark – who that might be, well, that’s the fun part trying to guess.

We can hit fairways ‘til we’re blue in the face, but if we don’t make putts at Sedgefield then we aren’t going to win.

Driving distance doesn’t seem to be any real advantage – Snedeker, Stenson, Kim and Love III is not exactly a winner’s rollcall that is a love letter to the bombers, and it really is as simple as making lots of red numbers on Par 4s that gets the job done.

You may want to take a look at form on Donald Ross tracks: East Lake, Detroit GC (host of this year’s Rocket Mortgage Classic) and Aronimink, home to the 2018 BMW Championship among other things, are all worthy of your time.

And if you like to take these things to the next level, the Wells Fargo Championship is played at the Quail Hollow club in North Carolina as well.

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