Reigning champion JT Poston will be reviewed on Tuesday’s Fantasy Insider alongside fellow Sedgefield champions Sergio Garcia (2012) and Brandt Snedeker (2018). Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood and Sungjae Im will also be included among the notables.
The Wyndham Rewards season ends this week. The top 10 in the final ranking earn bonus (unofficial) prizes. All but position number 1 (held by Justin Thomas) are indeterminate. As of noon on Monday, eight of the 29 who are mathematically alive to finish in the top 10 are scheduled to compete in the Wyndham Championship.
Meanwhile, like detailed on April 30, all jobs are safe for the 2020-21 season due to the pandemic, but qualifying for the playoffs can elevate the status of dozens of golfers who currently don’t have strong enough status to advance to last season’s playoffs. As a result, the action around the bubble in the top 125 is much more volatile than it is around the top 10. From Graeme McDowell in 108th in points to Rob Oppenheim in 145th, every golfer is committed to the championship. by Wyndham. Many others under Oppenheim are also at stake.
For those who finish 126-200 in the FedExCup, they will ensure eligibility for the 2021 Korn Ferry Tour Finals. With what hopes to be a full season on the deck, and with all cards retained, that advantage may not seem essential now. , but it will probably matter for a handful.
Sedgefield looks like a speed track to the finish. Since it began hosting the Wyndham Championship in 2008, it has been the easiest par 70 or second easiest of every season except one (2013). Last year’s average score of 68,175 was its all-time low.
While it’s useful to split fairways, there’s not enough of it to penalize wayward shots, so it’s a bomb and gouge opportunity even if the rankings don’t reflect that profile overall. Because the score is so low, the goal is to hit as many Champion bermudagrass greens as possible and trust the putter.
Now, what’s a little funny about believing in yourself to prevail and convert the many benefits that come with winning is that JT Poston not only played video games golf, he was cheat code stuff. En route to his stunning win in 2019, he ranked at T2 in fairway hit (45 out of 56), co-guided in greens in regulations (62 out of 72) and ran the course in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green . Most impressive is that he got up and down all 10 times to complete the tournament without bogey, 22 under 258 (in comparison, Scott Stallings was also perfect in scrambling for the week – he went 14 out of 14 – but he three putts five times, each resulting in a bugbear.He finished T31.
Sedgefield has a new overall yardage for the first time since 2012. It’s just a couple of steps longer at 7,131 yards, all four extra yards as a result of a new tee on the par-4 14th hole, which now points to 505 yards . Greens are selected to measure 12 feet on the Stimpmeter. The longest rough will exceed the usual two and a half inches.
It’s mid-August in the Triad, so it would only be a surprise if rain wasn’t in the forecast. And, well, it is. Storms could also break out with daytime warming. The sticky conditions will be the constant. Wind will not be a factor.
