Preview

Starts: 8th August 2024
Course: Sedgefield Country Club, NC
Par: 70
Length: 7,131 yards
2023 Champion: Lucas Glover

2024 Wyndham Championship Tips

2024 Wyndham Championship Course Info

Designer: Donald Ross
Used Since: 2008
Fairways: Average
Greens: Small - Bermudagrass
Water Hazards: On 6 holes
Par 5's: 5th and 15th
Premium on: Approach play and Putting
 

Significant Info

The 2019 Wyndham Championship was notable as the first PGA Tour event since 1974 where the winner did not record a bogey or worse.  The course has also seen a 59 with Brandt Snedeker having achieved this feat in 2018.  

Players from North Carolina have a strong record here with J.T. Poston winning in 2019 and Webb Simpson being somewhat of a course specialist.  Carl Pettersson is another past champion with North Carolina links. 

2024 Wyndham Championship Trends

Winning Score
For each of the last two years, the winning score has been -20. However, in 2021 it was only -15. With the exception of 2015, the winning score has been between -20 or -22 between 2016 and 2023.

Course Form
A mixed bag, course form isn't essential.  Lucas Glover had a mixed record at Sedgefield prior to his win last year. Tom Kim won as debutant in 2022. Prior to that, three of the past six champions had no course form to speak of prior to winning (Si Woo Kim, Henrik Stenson and JT Poston).  However, 2018, 2020 and 2021 champions - Brandt Snedeker, Jim Herman, and Kevin Kisner - had both posted top 12 finishes prior to winning.

Recent Form
Lucas Glover came into the event with three top six finishes in his previous four starts.  Champion in 2022, Tom Kim, was 7th at the Rocket Mortgage in his previous start. Winner in 2021, Kevin Kisner, had two top 10's in his last four starts but two most recent starts had been mediocre

2020 champion Jim Herman, had no form whatsoever coming into the tournament.  However, the previous four champions had each posted a top 45 finish the week before (three of those four had recorded a top 30 the week before). Recent form looks a bonus here. 

World Ranking
The last eight winners have ranked 117-34-52-318-158-88-9-114.  Outsiders do win here.

Correlating Courses
Four of the last five winners of the Wyndham Championship had recorded a top 11 finish at the Rocket Mortgage Classic earlier that year.  The only player who didn't?  Jim Herman in 2020, with Herman not participating in the 2020 Rocket Mortgage Classic.  Given that the Rocket Mortgage Classic is played on another Donald Ross designed course, it looks to be a strong correlating course.  

2024 Wyndham Championship Stats Analysis

SG: Off The Tee
The last eight winners have ranked 6-35-34-7-44-83-55-1. Not an essential stat. 

Driving Accuracy
The last eight winners have ranked 1-7-60-5-4-86-9-6.  Accuracy is preferred over length.

Driving Distance
The last eight winners have ranked 27-80-137-98-101-41-130-86.  Distance is not essential!

SG: Approach
The last eight winners have ranked 1-19-12-4-1-4-3-2. Approach play is very important.

Greens In Regulation
The last eight winners have ranked 1-20-8-1-3-23-3-8.  As indicated above, approach play is key.

SG: Around The Green
The last eight winners have ranked 52-108-26-94-28-10-47-63.  We don't need to focus on this category this week.

SG: Putting
The last eight winners have ranked 15-1-8-3-17-24-3-56.  A hot putter has been key in recent years.

2024 Wyndham Championship In Play Tips

Tough Holes
The 14th and 18th play as the hardest holes, both are par 4s measuring over 500 yards.

Birdie Holes
The two par 5's are ranked as the easiest holes on the course.  The short par 4, 8th hole plays as the 3rd easiest on the course.

Closing Stretch
The 16th and 17th, averaged around 0.1 strokes under par last year but the 18th played 0.14 stokes over par.

Fast or Slow Start
You can recover from a slow start here.  Winners in the last eight years have placed 7th, 23rd, 9th, 13th, 16th, 1st, 2nd and 41st after Round 1.

Two winners in the last eight years has been outside the top 10 at halfway (Jim Herman 2020 and Kevin Kisner 2021).

Every winner in the last eight years has been inside the top 5 through 54 holes.  Four of those eight have led with 18 holes to go. It should be noted Si Woo Kim got into a playoff in 2021 from 15th place in round 3.

2024 Wyndham Championship Tips