Scottie Scheffler’s incredible Sunday surge in Paris this past weekend not only won the event, but brought an end to the glamor events of the 2024 PGA Tour season. Now we have a one-week breather before the grind of the FedEx Cup Playoffs—which is where things got a little weird this time last year.
Lucas Glover came out of nowhere as a +10000 bet to win the Wyndham Championship, and punch his ticket into the first round of the playoffs—where inconceivably, he won again to pocket $3.6 million. Glover hadn’t won anywhere in over two years, and was ranked No. 117 in the world before beating Russell Henley and Ben An by two strokes at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C.
Could something similar happen this week at the Wyndham, which tees off Thursday? It’s hardly the strongest of fields, with world No. 15 Brian Harman the highest-ranked player on the entry list. There are just three players in the top 20, including opening odds favorite Sungjae Im. So there’s plenty of room for the rise of another Lucas Glover—who’s missed the cut in four of his past six starts, and is a +10000 bet to repeat this week.
2024 Wyndham Championship Odds
| Golfer | Odds |
|---|---|
| Sungjae Im | +1200 |
| Billy Horschel | +2250 |
| Si-Woo Kim | +2250 |
| Shane Lowry | +2250 |
| Brian Harman | +2700 |
| Cameron Young | +2900 |
| Aaron Rai | +3000 |
| Christiaan Bezuidenhout | +3300 |
| Akshay Bhatia | +3300 |
| Davis Thompson | +3300 |
| Cameron Davis | +3500 |
Odds as of August 6
Wyndham Championship Betting Picks
Davis Thompson To Win (+3300)
Thompson’s struggles on links courses across the pond (T46 in Scotland and T66 at Troon) belie how well he was playing in the U.S. before his U.K. swing. His previous three starts on American soil had been fantastic—win at the John Deere, T2 at the Rocket, T9 at the U.S. Open. His past nine rounds in the States have all been in the 60s. In a field with little star power, on a course where guys regularly go low, you can do far worse than backing a guy who plays target golf as well as anyone.
Sungjae Im Top-5 Finish (+335)
There’s a reason Sungjae opened as the odds favorite—he hasn’t missed a cut in five previous appearances at the Wyndham, where his average career finish is a tidy 11.0. His best finish was a T2 in 2022, and he’s never shot worse than 70 in 20 career rounds at Sedgefield. The issue is that Sungjae doesn’t win enough on the PGA Tour; the most recent of his two titles came in 2021, in the Shriners Childrens Open. The guy is famously a grinder, and clearly has a fondness for this event. But his inability to close leads us to look elsewhere for a winner.
Cameron Young Top-10 Finish (+350)
Speaking of a guy who struggles to close—meet the best American player without a victory on the PGA Tour. And yet Young continues to show up and post very good finishes, particularly on those layouts set up to maximize scoring opportunities. While his 59 at the Travelers in June needs an asterisk (it came under lift-clean-place), he still finished T9, and followed that with a T6 at the Rocket. Young’s early season also showed lots of potential in B-list events like the Valspar (solo second) and the Cognizant (T4). It all points to the kind of player who can make noise in a tournament largely bereft of star power.
PGA Tour Wyndham Championship Betting Tips
Sedgefield is a lovely Donald Ross design that opened in 1926, and what was long known as the Greater Greensboro Open has a legacy that dates back to inaugural winner Sam Snead in 1938. Things are very different now, with the Wyndham Championship caught on the wrong side of the Signature event divide, although its spot on the doorstep of the FedEx Cup does make it a last chance for players seeking to make the playoff.
That’s what’s happened the past two years, with both Glover in 2023 and Tom Kim in 2022 parlaying a Greensboro victory into a playoff spot. Those currently below the playoff cutline looking to make a move at the Wyndham include +7000-to-win Victor Perez, the Frenchman who finished fourth in Paris and was third at the Canadian Open in June; +5500 Kurt Kitayama, T6 at the 3M Open his last time out; and +20000 Davis Riley, who won the Charles Schwab Challenge in in May.
Value picks abound. Billy Horschel (+2500 to win) is coming off his T2 at the Open Championship, and owns four top-10s at the Wyndham including a runner-up in 2020. Aaron Rai (+4000) has been 19th or better in four straight North American starts, including a T2 in Detroit. Nicolai Hojgaard (+4500) was seventh in Paris had had a solo second on the PGA Tour early this season. Thomas Detry (+5000) finished T9 at the Olympics, was T4 at the PGA Championship, and has finished as high as T2 on the PGA Tour this year.
And if you’re backing some of the bigger names at the Wyndham, beware. Jordan Spieth (+3000) hasn’t won on the PGA Tour since the Heritage in 2022. Shane Lowry (+2500) hasn’t won an individual event in the U.S. since 2015—sorry, his victory with Rory McIlroy in the New Orleans team competition doesn’t count. And Harman (+3000) is still seeking his first victory since prevailing at the Open in 2023.
