Fantasy Golf Picks, Odds, and Predictions for the 2022 Wyndham Championship 

Wyndham Championship Fantasy Preview

Just call him Tony ‘The Killer’ Finau!

After being on the receiving end of taunts and jeers about his ability – or otherwise – to close out wins on the PGA TOUR, Finau has only gone and become the first man to win in back-to-back weeks on the TOUR since Brendon Todd in 2019.

If his previous victory at the 3M Open was revelatory, big Tony’s triumph at the Rocket Mortgage Classic a masterclass in control and poise – in the hunt from the get-go, Finau assumed the lead on Friday and never really looked like giving it up.

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Respect goes to Taylor Pendrith, the rookie who hung around manfully and who looks a real prospect, as well as Cameron Young and Patrick Cantlay, who finished fast to give themselves an outside chance at Detroit GC.

But Finau was not to be denied, and a rock-solid final effort of 67 was enough to open up a chasm of a five-shot margin of victory.

A player of undoubted ball-striking brilliance, Finau has – in the space of a fortnight – booked his spot amongst the true elite in world golf right now.

Up to seven in the FedEx Cup rankings, he’ll have another title on his mind before the season’s out – while those hovering around the 125 mark in the standings will know that time is of the essence. It’s that magic number that will press on to the St Jude Championship next week.

So, this week’s tournament, the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club, is a case of all-or-nothing for those looking to prolong their seasons.

Last Week’s Fantasy Results

Unfortunately we didn’t pull the trigger on running back-to-back with Finau but hey, even we get it wrong sometimes. 

Our top pick last week was Will Zalatoris, who ended the week T20.

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Wyndham Championship Field

The biggest names in PGA TOUR golf are timing their run to the FedEx Cup finals, and so many have chosen to take the week off rather than head to North Carolina.

Will Zalatoris, Billy Horschel and Shane Lowry are three of the most prominent names in the field, alongside Sungjae Im and defending champion Kevin Kisner.

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Justin Rose knows what it takes to win the FedEx Cup – he’ll be tuning up at Sedgefield, while a trio of players that lost out in a play-off to Kisner here 12 months ago (Adam Scott, Si-Woo Kim and Roger Sloan) will be hoping to go one better this time around.

Look out too for Joohyung ‘Tom’ Kim, the Korean starlet who has clinched a PGA TOUR card for next season after some outstanding recent performances. 

This Week’s Course Preview

We’re tucking into a Donald Ross sandwich on the PGA TOUR at the moment.

He designed Detroit GC, host of the Rocket Mortgage Classic, oversaw the build for Sedgefield and was the brains behind East Lake, home of the TOUR Championship finale in a few weeks’ time.

Ross is a guy who was well ahead of his time, designing courses that would still be used professionally a century later. But even so, he wasn’t able to fully see into the future, and now the players take Sedgefield Country Club apart with ease.

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Take the Par 5 fifth, for example. Back in the 1920s, when this layout first opened, it was probably a stiff – but birdieable – test at 529 yards, but fast forward to the 2021 edition of the Wyndham Championship and the numbers speak for themselves: 130 pars, 269 birdies and 51 eagles, with just ten bogeys or worse.

But that’s not to say this track is a complete gimmie, and the stretch between the eleventh and fourteen holes generally plays over par – the eighteenth, a 507-yard Par 4, also poses problems.

But for the most part the players will benefit from well-proportioned fairways and greens, forgiving rough and water in play on just six holes, while Ross must have struggled getting his hands on sand – there’s far less bunkering here than at Detroit GC or East Lake.

Even though there’s only two Par 5s on this Par 70 stretch of 7,131 yards, it will still take a winning mark of -20 you feel if the weather is fair throughout the week.

Weather Forecast for Greensboro, NC

On which note….

There is rain around in Greensboro this week, and the forecast suggests that Friday, Saturday and perhaps Sunday could see a sprinkling of the wet stuff.

If there’s any good news, it’s that Thursday looks to be set fair with sunny spells and temperatures around the 91˚F mark. 

The mercury doesn’t look set to drop all that much for the rest of the week, but the threat of ‘isolated’ or ‘scattered’ thunderstorms – to use meteorologist parlance – is clear for any forecast you see for Friday through Sunday.

The wind looks set in the single digits all week, so that shouldn’t propose too much of a problem.

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Last Year’s Results from the Wyndham Championship

The 2021 edition of the Wyndham Championship created a slice of PGA TOUR history, with the first six-man play-off in 20 years.

Kevin Kisner, Adam Scott, Kevin Na, Branden Grace, Si-Woo Kim and Roger Sloan were the protagonists of a battle that many thought would run and run.

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And yet it could have been over on the first extra hole – Scott sliding a four-footer agonizingly wide, before nobody could Kisner’s birdie at the second additional hole….his fourth PGA TOUR title and his first play-off victory in five attempts.

It could have been so different had Russell Henley not bogeyed four of his final eight holes to relinquish his 54-hole lead, and in the end it was down to the dirty half-dozen to battle it out after reaching -15 in normal time.

Where to Play Fantasy Golf for the Wyndham Championship this Week

With the desperate battle for FedEx Cup points and TOUR cards reaching fever pitch, there are plenty of interesting sub-plots at the Wyndham Championship. But we feel confident in the player profile that can thrive at Sedgefield, and so we’ll be playing these two contrasting contests:

• PGA $350k Drive the Green: There’s $50k to the winner in this $5 contest, and you can imagine that the winning lineup will feature a curveball sleeper or two. So, it’s a wide-open week….you could make your bankroll really sing come Sunday evening.

• PGA $60k Dogleg: If your favorite type of DFS contest is that which is one and done, all or nothing, risk and reward etc, this $60k Dogleg is an interesting proposition. It’s single entry at $33, but the winner – and there’s only 2,120 entries remember – trousers a cool $10k. 

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This Week’s Fantasy Notes for the Wyndham Championship

Here’s the SG Approach ranks for the week for the six players that made it to the play-off here last year: 2, 3, 5, 10, 12, 26.

It’s not rocket science, given that there’s stacks of birdieable Par 4s on this layout that offer the best reward to those blessed with quality with iron and edge in hand, and the putting ranks – only two of the half-dozen were inside the top-ten with their flat stick – confirm that Sedgefield is a second shot course in Donald Ross’ grand tradition.

His green complexes tend to have little undulations and peak/troughs though, while the tree-lined fairways need to be missed in the right places….if they are to be missed at all. It’s perhaps why course form has proven so important here – knowing the do’s and don’ts has proven very fruitful over the years.

Note that we switch to Bermuda greens this week for the first time in a while, and ever that will suit some more than others.

As far as correlating courses are concerned, Memorial Park (home to the 2020 and 2021 Houston Open) and TPC Craig Ranch (the contemporary home of the AT&T Byron Nelson) share a number of the same characteristics, while the form of repeat offenders at Sedgefield – think Si-Woo Kim, Webb Simpson, Russell Henley and co – suggests that their other favored events like the RBC Heritage and Sony Open can also be used as a guide.

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