2021 Wyndham Championship: PGA Tour Betting Odds
Webb Simpson enters the 2021 Wyndham Championship as the favourite on the golf odds.
Only the Top 125 in the FedExCup points after this week qualify for the three-event PGA Tour playoffs to wrap up the 2020-21 season (although the new wraparound season then starts almost immediately). Thus, many guys who are comfortably inside the Top 125 are skipping this week. Nearly all the players around the cut-off point will be playing if they are healthy/eligible to play.
If you are wondering, and I was, Bo Hoag is currently sitting at No. 125. Rickie Fowler is just outside the playoffs at 130th and is +5000 to win. He’s having a lousy season but has never failed to make the playoffs. Scott Piercy is the first man out at No. 126. Here are few other notable names outside the Top 125: Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, Francesco Molinari, Jason Dufner, Jimmy Walker, Luke Donald and Henrik Stenson.
The Wyndham Championship is played at Sedgefield Country Club’s Ross Course in Greensboro, a par 70 at around 7,130 yards. It’s a pretty easy track as the last five winners of the Wyndham Championship have all shot 20-under or better. Brandt Snedeker shot a 59 here in the first round three years ago on the way to winning the event for the second time.
The defending champion is relative unknown American Jim Herman. He entered last year’s tournament way down at No. 192 in the points but jumped all the way up to No. 54 with his third career PGA Tour win. Herman, who barely made the cut, overcame a four-stroke deficit in the final round by shooting a 7-under 63 to finish at 21-under 259 and one up on Billy Horschel, who had a chance to force a playoff on the 72nd hole but missed an 8-foot birdie putt. Herman is a +10000 long shot to repeat and sits 170th in the points. He’s having an awful season.
This tournament dates to 1938. Sam Snead won it eight times, tied with Tiger Woods at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and now-defunct WGC-Bridgestone Invitational for the most victories at one tournament. Tiger never won this but rarely played it.
There are a handful of guys who competed in the Olympics playing here, including silver medalist Rory Sabbatini, who is 138th in the points and +10000 to win. Mexico’s Abraham Ancer, who won the WGC-St. Jude Invitational on Sunday in Memphis for his first PGA Tour title, isn’t playing.
Wyndham Championship Golf Betting Odds
Webb Simpson, who is from that area of the country and always seems to play well in any events in his native North Carolina, is the +1200 favorite. He won this tournament in 2011, was runner-up in 2018 & ’19 and T3 last year.
Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama is +1400 with Louis Oosthuizen +1800 and Patrick Reed +2200. Matsuyama’s best result here is a T3 in 2016. He lost in a playoff alongside Sam Burns to Abraham Ancer in Memphis on Sunday. Oosthuizen makes his tournament debut and comes off a T17 at the WGC-St. Jude. Reed won here in 2013 and was T31 on Sunday.
The lone Canadian to win the tournament was Stan Leonard in 1957, which would be the first of his three career PGA Tour victories.
Last year, Roger Sloan was T31 and Michael Gligic T59, while Corey Conners and David Hearn missed the cut. Conners is 27th in points and not playing this week. Mackenzie Hughes is +6600 and 67th in points. Sloan is +12500 and 131st in points. Adam Hadwin also +12500 and 112th. Nick Taylor +20000 and 149th. Gligic +40000 and 145th. Hearn isn’t in the field and thus will miss the playoffs at No. 160.
Wyndham Championship Golf Predictions
Take Simpson and former champion Si Woo Kim for Top 10s, but the winner is Kim’s fellow South Korean Sungjae Im at +5000. He has played here twice and been T9 & T6.