6 picks our skilled loves this week

Welcome to our weekly PGA Tour gambling-tips column, that includes picks from GOLF.com’s skilled prognosticator Brady Kannon. A seasoned golf bettor and commentator, Kannon is a daily visitor on SportsGrid, a syndicated audio community dedicated to sports activities and sport betting. You may comply with on Twitter at @LasVegasGolfer, and you’ll learn his picks beneath for the Wyndham Championship, which will get underway Thursday in Greensboro, N.C.. Together with Kannon’s really helpful performs, you’ll additionally see information from Chirp Golf, a cell app that options each Free-To-Play and Each day 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. The way it performs out will decide the highest 70 gamers for the yr within the FedEx Cup factors standings. These prime 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 loads on the road this week in Greensboro, North Carolina.

There may be additionally fairly a little bit of climate within the space as Hurricane Debby continues to hammer the Southeastern United States. Rain is anticipated in Greensboro Tuesday by means of Friday of this week, with the wind kicking up on Thursday. The present forecast is looking for a relaxed over the weekend however regardless of the case could also be, it appears sure that Sedgefield Nation Membership shall be a moist and smooth 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 Nation Membership in 1977. The Wyndham Championship returned to Sedgefield in 2008.

The course options small, quick, Bermudagrass greens with the everyday Ross shaved run-off areas across the edges, making scrambling an vital issue. Driving Accuracy trumps Driving Distance this week. Strategy play is essential and nearly all of it should come from a window of 100-175 yards out. Dialing in these quick irons and making putts will go a good distance at this observe. I additionally checked out Par 4 Scoring and particularly people 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. Gamers might go even decrease this yr with the smooth situations however it should rely upon how a lot wind hits the world too.

Course kind, course historical past, and efficiency on the correlated programs are sturdy indicators at Sedgefield CC. Gamers that play effectively on this occasion have a tendency to take action usually and achieve this on the associated golf programs as effectively. Positive, we’ve appeared on the stats as we at all times do, however previous success is a degree of emphasis this week as effectively.

As for these comparable programs, I checked out TPC Sawgrass (Gamers Championship), TPC River Highlands (Vacationers Championship), East Lake Golf Membership (a Donald Ross design the place they maintain the Tour Championship), Harbour City (RBC Heritage), and the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook, house to the Valspar Championship.

Regardless of our decide of Jon Rahm not getting house in Paris final week, it was a superb run as we had three of our 5 alternatives 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 people who evaluate, having received right here in 2016 and completed top-5 three extra occasions. He’s additionally received at TPC Sawgrass and completed runner-up at Harbour City. He has not had an enormous yr on Tour however he’s been awfully regular, having missed just one lower all season — and of the 20 occasions by which he has performed, Kim has completed prime 25 in half of them. He’s wonderful on strategy, lethal correct off the tee, scrambles effectively, and ranks twentieth on this subject for Gap Proximity from 150-175 yards over the past 36 rounds. It’s a pleasant value for a man that has been such a horse for the course.

Brian Harman (30-1)

Very comparable right here as Harman has each a 3rd and a sixth place end on the Wyndham, 5 top-10 finishes on the Gamers 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 wonderful putter, has a terrific quick sport, and over the past 36 rounds, he ranks second on this subject on the Par 4s measuring 400-450 yards. Like Kim, Harman has been a mannequin of consistency this yr, lacking just one lower on the season and ending prime 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 yr and has back-to-back Thirteenth-place finishes at TPC Sawgrass. He simply completed prime 20 on the world stage in Paris. Bezuidenhout owns among the best quick video games on this planet and he can dial within the wedges, rating eighth on this subject for Gap Proximity from 100-125 yards out over the past 36 rounds.

Thomas Detry (50-1)

Detry was a man we had been on final week on the Olympics and he was wonderful, ending ninth. Like Bezuidenhout, that is one other participant I really feel goes to get his first PGA Tour win someday quickly and I wish to be round when he does. He’s implausible 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 yr and completed twenty first. I imagine he can go even higher right here this yr and the value could be very honest.

Seamus Energy (90-1)

Here’s a participant that’s proper on the borderline of constructing or lacking the FedEx Cup Playoffs, at the moment sitting 69th within the factors — so Energy is unquestionably conscious of the truth that he wants to carry serve right here and play effectively. He has up to now, making 4 out of 5 cuts in prior visits to Sedgefield. He’s made three of 4 cuts on the Gamers Championship and he’s made 5 of seven on the Vacationers. Energy has additionally completed as excessive as sixth and twelfth on the RBC Heritage. Over the past 36 rounds, he ranks fifteenth on this subject for SG: Strategy and is particularly sturdy with the shorter irons. I be ok with a prime 20 end for Energy 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 another lengthy bomb to wrap up this week’s card. Meissner is a rookie and this shall be his first journey to the Wyndham Championship however I like the best way his ability units appears to be a match for this course. Over the past 36 rounds, he’s No. 1 on this subject on the Par 4s measuring 400-450 yards and he’s seventh in Gap Proximity from 150-175 yards. He’s very sturdy on strategy and has a stable quick sport. He additionally has two top-20 finishes and a prime 5 in his final 4 begins, and was twenty sixth on the Valspar earlier this yr. At 93rd within the FedEx Cup standings, he’ll have to make a transfer right here, however hailing from South Carolina, he must be very snug on any such course.

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