
Wyndham Championship Tips: Five each-way picks in North Carolina

The PGA tour moves to North Carolina this week where players will compete in the Wyndham Championship. Our man Jamie Broadhurst returns with a preview for the event and his best bets including a 100/1 longshot.
A third week of being close but no cigar unfortunately, with yet another tip from the preview finishing one shot off the places, frustrating to say the least!
It was also the second week in a row of a 100/1+ winner and this week it was a debut winner in Lee Hodges, who impressively won by five strokes. Another week where you just have to step back and admire how well the winner played, where he shot two eagles in his final round with two unbelievable shots to set them up.
This is the final event on the PGA Tour schedule before the top 70 players in the standings head into the FedEx cup playoffs.
Wyndham Championship
Players travel to North Carolina where they will compete for the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro. Came into circulation in 1938 as the Greater Greensboro Open, what is now the Wyndham Championship is the longest running tournament to be held at the same venue on the PGA Tour.
Sedgefield Country Club
- Par 70, 7130 yards approx.
- Donald Ross Design
- Greens – Bermuda
- 4 x Par 3s – ranging from 174-235 yards
- 12 x Par 4s – ranging from 374-507 yards
- 2 x Par 5s – 545 and 529 yards
- Narrow/sloping fairways
- Thick Bermuda rough
- Small tricky Bermuda greens
Ladies and Gentlemen this week we have the ultimate plodders course. Driving Accuracy will be a premium and distance will give you no advantage whatsoever. Sloping fairways will put even more pressure on the players with their tee shots.
Being such a short course, approach play will always be magnified, with a lot of mid-range wedges being constantly used over and over again. So once more, we are faced with a second shot golf course. You only have to look at the previous winners to come to this conclusion.
The greens are tricky and small so the best putters will rise to the top for sure, with the likes of Kisner and Simpson winning here before just sums that one up.
Par 3s and 5s aren’t an issue here this week, with Two Par 3s over 220 yards granted, but they always play pretty straight forward for the ball strikers in the field.
Focus this week moves towards the Par 4s on offer, with 12 of them in total. eight of them fall between 400 and 450 yards, one under 400 yards and just three above 485 yards. An unusual amount of short Par 4s, meaning we must take a look at the players performances on similar holes this season to date.
So what are we looking for? Accurate drives, a good wedge game, a good scrambler out of thick rough and a guy that holds his fair share of putts regularly. Easy game right?
Last 6 winners and their stats
- 2022 winner – Tom Kim -20
- 2021 winner – Kevin Kisner -15
- 2020 winner – Jim Herman -21
- 2019 winner – J.T. Poston -22
- 2018 winner – Brandt Snedeker -21
- 2017 winner – Henrik Stenson -22
Average stats – Score -20
25th OTT 4th T2G 8th GIR 7th APP 38th SCR 10th Putting
Stats to consider this week
Mentioned a lot in the above paragraph but just to highlight the stats I will be basing my tips around this week;
- Driving Accuracy
- SG: Approach/Good iron play/T2G/Proximity
- SG: Putting
- Par 4 scoring – in particular Par 4s under 450 yards
The Field/Odds
One player in the field can be found in the World top 20, that being Sam Burns and then we have four others in the World’s top 30, these being; Justin Thomas, Sungjae Im, Hideki Matsuyama and Shane Lowry.
Hideki Matsuyama and Sungjae Im share the favourite spot in the market at 18/1. Massive odds usually for a favourite of a golf tournament, however with no standout quality of player in the field, I am not too surprised. Hideki is the pick for me out of the two. A 30th place finish last week at the 3M Open, where he gained strokes in every category with a highlight of finishing 5th in the field for Strokes Gained: Tee2Green and 3rd for Strokes Gained: Approach. 22 events played this season with 19 cuts made, 10 of these being top 25 finishes. He has had a consistent year for sure with no wins, but could go well for sure this week at a course where his best finish was a 3rd place in 2018.
Between these two and the 30/1 mark we have six guys; Russ Henley, Shane Lowry, Adam Scott, Ludvig Aberg and Si Woo Kim. Course form wise, Henley is the best of the bunch with three top 10 finishes at Sedgefield in his last three starts, closely followed by Si Woo Kim who has three top-10 ‘sin his last four starts here and actually won the Wyndham in 2016. Shane Lowry has the best and most consistent recent form out of the bunch but I would not touch any at this range due to the type of players they are and the odds they have this week, all being too short in the market for me.
This week is all about getting inside the top-70 in the FedEx cup for the guys and that means it can bring outsiders to the forefront of our card this week. Let’s look at the guys on and around the top-70 mark.
75. Davis Thompson
74. David Lingmerth
73. K.H Lee
72. Garrick Higgo
71. Ben Taylor
70. Austin Eckroat
69. Cam Davis
68. Ben Griffin
67. J.J Spaun
66. Vincent Norrman
65. Matt NeSmith
An interesting spread of players with one or two of these in some really solid form which I will definitely consider when building my card for this week.
Wyndham Championship Tips
Denny McCarthy 35/1
Recent Form – MC-6-7-20-2
Course Form – MC-15-9-22-36
Looking at guys above Denny in the market, I would class him as a tad overpriced this week for a guy that before his missed cut at The Open Championship two weeks back had four top-20 finishes in a row. This included a playoff loss at the Memorial Tournament, oh and the fact he also clearly relishes the challenges of Sedgefield where he averages a score of 67.33 per round in his five visits. Denny does not do much wrong in the game of golf, gaining strokes in every category possible shows he does not have a weakness. His powers come around and on the greens however, where he ranks 18th for Scrambling this season and third for Strokes Gained: Putting, if his Tee2Green game is even half decent this week, he will compete.
Chris Kirk 50/1
Course Form – 29-51-11-46-65-22-MC-MC
Recent Form – MC-21-14-MC
Kirk has now played at Sedgefield competitively eight times, missed his first two cuts here but has made the last six, with 11th being his best finish. He won earlier in the year when I tipped him up at The Honda Classic at a very similar course to Sedgefield that required positional excellence throughout the week. Like Denny McCarthy, Kirk gains strokes in all areas showing not much of a weakness in his game. Approaches and Scrambling is where he excels however. 38th for Approach, 24th for Proximity, top-10 for Approaches between 100-150 yards and top 50 for all Scrambling stats will put him right in the mix this week if he shakes off the missed cut on his last start at The Open.
Brendan Todd 75/1
Recent Course Form – 36-10-MC
Recent Form - 49-2-56-MC-34
The Todd Father. Massive odds on a multiple PGA Tour winner whose game is very suited to Sedgefield for sure. A very accurate driver (10th for Driving Accuracy this year) who will take advantage of these narrow fairways for sure who can give himself the best chance of optimising scoring opportunities on the approach into the greens.
Miss the greens in regulation and one of his key strengths will be handy in his scrambling where he ranks 19th this year on Tour. On the greens is also not a problem for Todd, as he is renowned for his putting antics year after year, he ranks 20th for Strokes Gained: Putting and 12th for Putting Averages this season to date. A sneakily good price in my opinion.
Lucas Glover 90/1
Recent Course Form – 54-MC-MC-28-22-18
Recent Form – MC-5-6-4-MC
The most experienced golfer this week at Sedgefield, teeing it up a massive 18 times here, this week being his 19th occasion! Only missing the cut twice here and averaging a score of 68.5 is not bad at all and has managed to card six top-20 finishes in that time. Glover has also enjoyed a pretty successful July, missing the cut last week on the number but before that came three top-6 finishes on the bounce. 11th for Driving Accuracy, 19th for Greens in Regulation and first for Proximity to the hole is great readings for a 90/1 shout for us this week.
Chez Reavie 100/1
Course Form - 47-MC-MC-48-37
Recent Form – MC-55-35-29-4
Another golfer like Todd that only suits a certain type of set up, a short track that rewards accurate play and tight approaches. Reavie fits the bill for me. Accurate with the driver (18th on tour) and is very accurate with his approach (ranks 6th for proximity to the hole this season). Anytime you have decent stats to make a case for a triple figure odds in the market, you have to pull the trigger on him.

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