How to watch the Wyndham Championship: Tee times, picks, odds before FedEx Cup playoffs start

New York Times

5 days ago

The PGA Tour's regular season closes with the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. It is the last stop before the FedEx Cup cutoff trims the field to 70 for next week's St. Jude Championship, making every birdie a playoff lifeline.
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Sedgefield's Donald Ross design is short on paper, long on nuance. At 7,131 yards and a par 70, its dogleg fairways funnel toward perched Bermuda greens; wedges that arrive without exact spin skid into collection areas and leave bombers counting wasted yardage instead of strokes.
The bubble watch frames the week. Matti Schmid holds 70th place, Nicolai Højgaard sits one spot outside and Joel Dahmen is scrambling from 101st. A top‑five finish can vault a player 30 spots; a missed cut can end a season. Billy Horschel showed the escape route in 2023, shooting 16 under par to finish fourth after a Saturday 63 and rescuing his status despite missing the playoffs.
Momentum matters. Aaron Rai arrived 53rd in points last year, shot 65‑65‑68‑64 to win at 18 under, and rocketed to 25th. Ryo Hisatsune's T‑3 on the same leaderboard jumped him 23 spots. One week can still rewrite a season. Local favorite Webb Simpson, whose daughter shares the tournament's name, treats the week like a hometown reunion and often plays above form on this turf.
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You can go low here, but only if the playoff pressure doesn't clamp your grip. The field averaged 68.95 in 2024, about a stroke under par. Expect similar this week unless Carolina storms barge in.
By Sunday night, only 70 cards will punch through. Everyone else reboots in January.
The complete list of tee times can be found here.
Courtesy of The Athletic's sports betting editor Vik Chokshi:
My outright bets are usually based on a couple of models I follow, and I take into account course history and form. I also love betting on long shots, so you'll usually see a bunch of golfers in the +2000 or longer range on my card every week.
Outright winner picks (odds via BetMGM)
Akshay Bhatia +4000
Max Greyserman +5000
Davis Thompson +6600
Tom Kim +6600
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