2023 Wyndham Championship: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds
Hideki Matsuyama and Sungjae Im are co-favoured on the golf odds at the Wyndham.
Like last year, the Wyndham Championship is the last event before the playoffs, but what is new in 2023 is that instead of the Top 125 points in FedExCup points advancing to the PGA Tour’s postseason, now it’s down to Top 70. Thus, basically every healthy player below 70 is teeing it up this week. American Austin Eckroat currently sits at No. 70 and England’s Ben Taylor at 71.
Perhaps the biggest name who might miss the playoffs is Justin Thomas, who also is trying to prove he belongs on the US Ryder Cup team. The two-time PGA Championship winner and one-time Players Championship winner is having a really down season, including missing the cut in three of the four majors. Thomas is 78th in points and +2900 this week. He made his Tour debut as a 16-year-old at this tournament in 2009.
The Wyndham Championship has been played since 1938 with a break for World War II. This is where Sam Snead won a record eight times, which Tiger Woods later tied elsewhere for the most victories by a player at a single tournament, but Woods never won this event.
Sedgefield Country Club’s Ross Course in Greensboro, N.C., is the host and is a par 70 at 7,130 yards. Sedgefield opened in the 1920s. It has hosted continuously since 2008. It will definitely take double-digits under par to win unless some strange weather is headed that way.
The defending champion is South Korea’s Tom Kim, now one of the top young guys on Tour. Then age 20, Kim shot a final-round 9-under 61 last year for a five-shot victory, making him the second-youngest winner on Tour since World War II. Kim also became the first PGA Tour winner born after 2000. Kim has since followed up with win No. 2 this season but will not defend this title due to a Grade 1 tear in his right ankle that he suffered at British Open.
Several players have won this event at least twice but only Snead repeated (twice). Americans have won it the vast majority of the time and had four straight years before Kim’s breakthrough. Both of this year’s Ryder Cup captains, Luke Donald and Zach Johnson, are in the field.
Wyndham Championship Golf Odds
Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama and South Korea’s Sungjae Im are each +1900 favourites. Neither has won here and both are comfortably inside the Top 70 in points. Matsuyama has a best finish of third in this tournament, and Im was one of two runners-up last year, his fourth straight Top 25 at the event. He missed the cut over the weekend at the 3M Open, while Matsuyama was T30.
JT Poston is +2000, with Sam Burns +2100 and Russell Henley +2300. Poston won here in 2019 at 22-under 258 and was one of three runners-up at the 3M Open on Sunday. Burns was 13th in his only trip here previously and didn’t play last week. Neither did Henley, who has three straight Top 10s here. Lee Hodges, who got his first PGA Tour win Sunday in Minnesota, isn’t playing this week.
The lone Canadian to win the tournament was Stan Leonard in 1957, which would be the first of his three career PGA Tour victories. Taylor Pendrith was the top finisher last year at T13, followed by Corey Conners at T21, Michael Gligic at T61, Adam Svensson at T78 and Nick Taylor at T81. Roger Sloan and Mackenzie Hughes missed the cut.
Adam Hadwin is +5400 this week with Svensson +6200, Pendrith +6500 and Hughes +8600. Taylor is well inside the Top 70 and not playing this week. Ditto Corey Conners.
Wyndham Championship Golf Predictions
Like an American at -167 as the winning nationality and Russell Henley at +2300 as the individual winner — he hasn’t been worse than ninth here in his past three.
