6 picks our expert loves this week

Welcome to our weekly PGA Tour gambling-tips column, that includes picks from GOLF.com’s expert prognosticator Brady Kannon. A seasoned golf bettor and commentator, Kannon is an everyday visitor on SportsGrid, a syndicated audio community dedicated to sports activities and sport betting. You can observe on Twitter at @LasVegasGolfer, and you may learn his picks beneath for the Wyndham Championship, which will get underway Thursday in Greensboro, N.C.. Along with Kannon’s really useful performs, you’ll additionally see information from Chirp Golf, a cell app that options each Free-To-Play and Daily Fantasy golf contests the place you’ll be able to win money and prizes with every spherical and event.

The Wyndham Championship is the ultimate regular-season event of the 2024 PGA Tour season. How it performs out will decide the highest 70 gamers for the 12 months within the FedEx Cup factors standings. Those high 70 gamers then advance to the FedEx Cup Playoffs, starting subsequent week in Memphis, Tenn. — and so they additionally lock up a Tour card for 2025. There’s so much on the road this week in Greensboro, North Carolina.

There can be fairly a little bit of climate within the space as Hurricane Debby continues to hammer the Southeastern United States. Rain is predicted in Greensboro Tuesday by way of Friday of this week, with the wind kicking up on Thursday. The present forecast is asking for a relaxed over the weekend however regardless of the case could also be, it appears sure that Sedgefield Country Club can be a moist and delicate host course this week.

Sedgefield CC is a par-70 Donald Ross design that stretches to simply over 7,100 yards. It was the unique host course for this occasion for fairly a while earlier than the event moved to Forest Oaks Country Club in 1977. The Wyndham Championship returned to Sedgefield in 2008.

The course options small, quick, Bermudagrass greens with the standard Ross shaved run-off areas across the edges, making scrambling an essential issue. Driving Accuracy trumps Driving Distance this week. Approach play is essential and virtually all of it’s going to come from a window of 100-175 yards out. Dialing in these brief irons and making putts will go a good distance at this observe. I additionally checked out Par 4 Scoring and particularly those who measure 400-450 yards as eight of the 12 fall into that bucket.

The event has been a little bit of a birdie fest with the typical profitable rating over the previous eight editions being barely higher than 20 underneath par. Players could go even decrease this 12 months with the delicate situations however it’s going to depend upon how a lot wind hits the realm too.

Course type, course historical past, and efficiency on the correlated programs are robust indicators at Sedgefield CC. Players that play properly in this occasion have a tendency to take action usually and achieve this on the associated golf programs as properly. Sure, we’ve regarded on the stats as we at all times do, however previous success is a degree of emphasis this week as properly.

As for these comparable programs, I checked out TPC Sawgrass (Players Championship), TPC River Highlands (Travelers Championship), East Lake Golf Club (a Donald Ross design the place they maintain the Tour Championship), Harbour Town (RBC Heritage), and the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook, residence to the Valspar Championship.

Despite our choose of Jon Rahm not getting residence in Paris final week, it was a superb run as we had three of our 5 picks end inside the highest 10.

We’re again to the standard performs this week on an outright win and a top-20 end.

Si Woo Kim (25-1)

Kim has been a monster at this course and those who examine, having received right here in 2016 and completed top-5 three further instances. He’s additionally received at TPC Sawgrass and completed runner-up at Harbour Town. He has not had an enormous 12 months on Tour however he’s been awfully regular, having missed just one reduce all season — and of the 20 occasions wherein he has performed, Kim has completed high 25 in half of them. He is great on strategy, lethal correct off the tee, scrambles properly, and ranks twentieth in this subject for Hole Proximity from 150-175 yards during the last 36 rounds. It’s a pleasant worth for a man that has been such a horse for the course.

Brian Harman (30-1)

Very related right here as Harman has each a 3rd and a sixth place end on the Wyndham, 5 top-10 finishes on the Players Championship, (together with runner-up earlier this season), seven top-10 finishes at TPC River Highlands, and 5 on the RBC Heritage. He’s a superb putter, has an awesome brief sport, and during the last 36 rounds, he ranks second in this subject on the Par 4s measuring 400-450 yards. Like Kim, Harman has been a mannequin of consistency this 12 months, lacking just one reduce on the season and ending high 25 in 10 of 19 tournaments performed. Now put him on a course that basically fits his sport and let’s see what occurs.

Christiaan Bezuidenhout (35-1)

I really feel like this man goes to win quickly. He’s a cut-making machine on all the correlated programs, was ninth on the Valspar earlier this 12 months and has back-to-back Thirteenth-place finishes at TPC Sawgrass. He simply completed high 20 on the world stage in Paris. Bezuidenhout owns the most effective brief video games on the earth and he can dial within the wedges, rating eighth in this subject for Hole Proximity from 100-125 yards out during the last 36 rounds.

Thomas Detry (50-1)

Detry was a man we have been on final week on the Olympics and he was wonderful, ending ninth. Like Bezuidenhout, this is one other participant I really feel goes to get his first PGA Tour win someday quickly and I need to be round when he does. He’s incredible on and across the greens and he makes a bunch of birdies. Coming over from the DP World Tour, Detry is comparatively new stateside. He performed right here for the primary time final 12 months and completed twenty first. I consider he can go even higher right here this 12 months and the worth may be very honest.

Seamus Power (90-1)

Here is a participant that’s proper on the borderline of creating or lacking the FedEx Cup Playoffs, at present sitting 69th within the factors — so Power is certainly conscious of the truth that he wants to carry serve right here and play properly. He has prior to now, making 4 out of 5 cuts in prior visits to Sedgefield. He’s made three of 4 cuts on the Players Championship and he’s made 5 of seven on the Travelers. Power has additionally completed as excessive as sixth and twelfth on the RBC Heritage. Over the final 36 rounds, he ranks fifteenth in this subject for SG: Approach and is particularly robust with the shorter irons. I be ok with a high 20 end for Power right here this week, and if that’s the case, then he ought to have an opportunity to win it too.

Mac Meissner (100-1)

I’m going with yet another lengthy bomb to wrap up this week’s card. Meissner is a rookie and this can be his first journey to the Wyndham Championship however I like the best way his talent units appears to be a match for this course. Over the final 36 rounds, he’s No. 1 in this subject on the Par 4s measuring 400-450 yards and he’s seventh in Hole Proximity from 150-175 yards. He’s very robust on strategy and has a strong brief sport. He additionally has two top-20 finishes and a high 5 in his final 4 begins, and was twenty sixth on the Valspar earlier this 12 months. At 93rd within the FedEx Cup standings, he’ll have to make a transfer right here, however hailing from South Carolina, he should be very snug on this sort after all.

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