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2022 Wyndham Championship: Outright Betting Picks

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The PGA TOUR makes its final regular season stop this week as we head to Sedgefield Country Club to play the 2022 Wyndham Championship. Located in Greensboro, N.C., the course opened in 1926 and was renovated in 2007.

Sedgefield Country Club is a Par 70 measuring 7,127 yards. Just as we saw last week at Detroit Golf Club, Sedgefield is a Donald Ross design. The course features fast rolling bermudagrass greens.

The Wyndham Championship will play host to 156 golfers this week, many of whom will be looking punch a ticket to the Fed Ex St. Jude Championship, where the top 125 players in the FedEx Cup rankings will earn a spot. With many golfers having their spot locked up for the FedEx Cup playoffs, the field lacks some big names but is fairly solid overall. We will see the likes of Will Zalatoris, Shane Lowry, Webb Simpson, Corey Conners, Sungjae Im, Billy Horschel, Russell Henley and Davis Riley in Greensboro.

Wyndham Championship Outright Bets

Sungjae Im (+1800)

In his most recent start at the 3m Open, Im had the best ball striking week of his career to date, gaining 5.5 strokes off the tee and 5.2 strokes on approach.

In addition to the immaculate statistics at TPC Twin Cities, the South Korean profiles as a prototypical Wyndham Championship winner. He ranks in the top-15 in his past 24 rounds in both Good Drives Gained and Fairways Gained.

Putting the ball in the fairway will be of extreme importance, as the rough appears to be quite lush at Sedgefield Country Club this year. Sungjae is also a great Bermudagrass putter and has done a lot of his best work on shorter Par 70 tracks throughout his career.

Im also has some encouraging course history at Sedgfield. In his three starts at the course, he has two top ten finishes and has never finished worse than 24th place. The 24-year-old is seeking his first win of 2022, so I believe the Wyndham Championship is the ideal spot for him to get it done.

Si Woo Kim (+2800)

Course History tends to be incredibly important at the Wyndham Championship, and it could be argued that no player in the field has better course history at Sedgefield Country Club than Kim. He won the event in 2016, and has finishes of fifth, third and second in his past three trips to the course.

The 27-year-old had been struggling a bit but has really turned it around in his past two starts. He finished in 15th at The Open Championship and followed it up with a 14th-place finish last week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

With three PGA TOUR wins on his résumé, Kim undoubtedly has a good deal of win equity and has shown when he gets into contention, he has no issue closing it out.

Kim seems to be rounding into form at the perfect time to contend at his self-described favorite course on TOUR.

Russell Henley (+2800)

Both Henley and his backers built some serious scar tissue at last year’s Wyndham Championship. The 33-year-old had a four-shot lead when he made the turn but faltered down the stretch and missed the six-man playoff in heart-breaking fashion.

At the risk of another agonizing defeat, I’m going back to him once again this year. There’s a reason why he built such a big lead last season. Sedgefield Country Club is a perfect fit for Henley’s skill set. He consistently hits the fairway and is one of the best mid to short iron players on TOUR. After struggling for a stretch, he finally found some consistency last week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, where he gained 5.2 strokes on approach.

There are only a handful of courses on TOUR where I believe that Henley can actually win, but this is undoubtedly one of them. If he can shake off what’s happened the last few times, he’s been in contention he has a good shot to avenge his 2021 defeat.

Keith Mitchell (+6600)

Mitchell was in excellent form prior to the Scottish Open and Open Championship, which are events that really don’t fit his skill set. In his three starts prior, the 30-year-old finished 18th at The Memorial; seventh at the RBC Canadian Open; and, sixth at The Travelers Championship.

While Sedgefield Country Club doesn’t seem like an obvious fit at first glance, I believe Mitchell’s talent is superior to most of the players priced in his range on the betting board. He also might be a better fit for the course than it appears.

Mitchell hits the ball a long way, but when he’s played well on TOUR this season, it usually is because of his ability to have a really hot putting week. In his past four measured events, Mitchell is gaining an average of 3.53 strokes putting on the field per event.

There also seems to be a strong connection between golfers who reside in the Sea Island area and have done well at the Wyndham Championship. Davis Love III (three-time winner), Kevin Kisner and J.T. Poston are all golfers who either live or have lived in the area where Mitchell resides. The style of golf course is certainly something golfers from South Carolina and Georgia like.

Mitchell’s only career win thus far has come at a Par 70 course featuring Bermudagrass greens, and he certainly has the talent required to become a two-time PGA TOUR winner.

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  1. Mark Barry

    Aug 4, 2022 at 8:27 pm

    May I ask:

    1. why the PGA tour schedules three tournaments in the south during August? After Detroit wouldn’t it make sense to distribute tournaments in other major northern markets? Why are there no tournaments in Chicago or New York?

    2. Why not add a major to the August schedule? Couldn’t the majors be decompressed a bit for the players that way? Look at how pro cycling spaces out their “majors”….Flanders in early spring, Italy in May, France in late June/July, Spain in September…

    3. Why not do the TPC in August and move it around? Does the TPC have to be played at sawgrass?

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