PGSF FedEx Cup Week 20 The Wyndham Championship

[NoleinATL]

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  ROUND RECAPS
  J.T. Poston wins the Wyndham Championship

Former FedExCup champions Justin Rose and Jordan Spieth, as well as Brooks Koepka, winner of the inaugural Wyndham Rewards Top 10, highlight the field at the Wyndham Championship. J.T. Poston will be there to defend his title in the final event before the FedExCup Playoffs.

FIELD NOTES: Koepka, who held the top spot in the FedExCup entering last year’s Playoffs, will look to build on the progress he showed at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational and PGA Championship. He was outside the top 125 in the standings before his runner-up in Memphis… Spieth and Patrick Reed, who had a thrilling playoff duel in 2013, are both back in the field… Former FedExCup champ Brandt Snedeker returns to a tournament he has won twice, including his first TOUR win and a victory two years ago that included a first-round 59…Four golfers in the top-10 of the FedExCup standings will tee it up at Sedgefield CC, including reigning Rookie of the Year Sungjae Im, past Wyndham winner Webb Simpson and his former junior-golf rival from nearby Raleigh, Brendon Todd… Teen-aged pro Akshay Bhatia and past Wyndham champion Arjun Atwal are among the sponsor exemptions… World No. 13 Tommy Fleetwood will make his fourth straight start in the Return to Golf.

FEDEXCUP: Winner gets 500 FedExCup points.

COURSE: Sedgefield Country Club (Ross), 7,127 yards, par 70. Opened in 1926, Sedgefield is the only Donald Ross original that serves as a regular PGA TOUR venue. The course features Ross’ signature small and undulating greens.

STORYLINES: The Wyndham Championship marks the final week of the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 competition. No. 1 on the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 is Justin Thomas, who is not in the field in North Carolina, but entered the PGA Championship with a commanding 713-point lead in the standings. Webb Simpson sits at No. 2 as of the PGA Championship and will be playing… Im, Reed, and Todd are the other three inside the top-10 of the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 competition that are playing Sedgefield… As of the PGA Championship, Chase Seiffert sits at No. 125 in the FedExCup standings and holds the final spot in the FedExCup Playoffs… Nick Watney is just one FedExCup point back and sits at 126th while Bronson Burgoon is just one FedExCup point ahead at 124th… Two golfers jumped inside the top 125 at the 2019 Wyndham Championship (Andrew Landry and Patton Kizzire)… The last four winners of the Wyndham Championship have all shot 20-under or better.


72-HOLE RECORD: 258, Henrik Stenson (2017), JT Poston (2019)

18-HOLE RECORD: 59, Brandt Snedeker (1st round, 2018).

LAST TIME: J.T. Poston, who grew up just 90 minutes from Greensboro, North Carolina, fired a sizzling 8-under-par 62 on Sunday at the Wyndham Championship a year ago to win his first PGA TOUR title. In the process, Poston became the first golfer on TOUR since Lee Trevino in 1974 to capture a 72-hole tournament without making any bogeys or worse. Poston also matched Henrik Stenson’s tournament record 22-under 258. Poston nipped fellow North Carolinian Webb Simpson by one shot. Simpson finished runner-up while Byeong Hun An (who matched Poston’s 8-under 62 as the round of the week in the first round), Viktor Hovland, and Si Woo Kim rounded out the top five.


Congratulations again to last weeks winner @cmanole

@Nolerball maintains overall season lead

Good luck to everyone this week

 

[NoleinATL]

 

[NoleLizards]

Let's see if I can top that whopping double nickel score from last week


English
Fleetwood
Simpson
Todd

 

[seminoleed]

I sarcastically needled DFS about picking all those "fliers". Like Brooks, shoulda kept my mouth shut.

 

[NoleinATL]

Morikawa could be the next big star in the game. He seems like a really nice guy , handles himself well on camera and of course he plays lights out. Imagine he will be getting quite a few offers from big time sponsors

 

[Nolerball]

I sarcastically needled DFS about picking all those "fliers". Like Brooks, shoulda kept my mouth shut.

Such imagery, Ed, that I can't shake - happens to us all, but I pictured you with one small figure, (O-rod) in white, on your right shoulder...and one (anti-O-rod) in a hideous orange & blue on the left shoulder...sometimes the dark-side gets the best of us...

 

[NoleinATL]

so Morikawa is living his best life

 

[seminoleed]

Lanto Griffin
Si Woo Kim
Kevin Kisner
Brendon Todd

 

[fsukenny]

• 
  
  
  ROUND RECAPS
  J.T. Poston wins the Wyndham Championship

Former FedExCup champions Justin Rose and Jordan Spieth, as well as Brooks Koepka, winner of the inaugural Wyndham Rewards Top 10, highlight the field at the Wyndham Championship. J.T. Poston will be there to defend his title in the final event before the FedExCup Playoffs.

FIELD NOTES: Koepka, who held the top spot in the FedExCup entering last year’s Playoffs, will look to build on the progress he showed at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational and PGA Championship. He was outside the top 125 in the standings before his runner-up in Memphis… Spieth and Patrick Reed, who had a thrilling playoff duel in 2013, are both back in the field… Former FedExCup champ Brandt Snedeker returns to a tournament he has won twice, including his first TOUR win and a victory two years ago that included a first-round 59…Four golfers in the top-10 of the FedExCup standings will tee it up at Sedgefield CC, including reigning Rookie of the Year Sungjae Im, past Wyndham winner Webb Simpson and his former junior-golf rival from nearby Raleigh, Brendon Todd… Teen-aged pro Akshay Bhatia and past Wyndham champion Arjun Atwal are among the sponsor exemptions… World No. 13 Tommy Fleetwood will make his fourth straight start in the Return to Golf.

FEDEXCUP: Winner gets 500 FedExCup points.

COURSE: Sedgefield Country Club (Ross), 7,127 yards, par 70. Opened in 1926, Sedgefield is the only Donald Ross original that serves as a regular PGA TOUR venue. The course features Ross’ signature small and undulating greens.

STORYLINES: The Wyndham Championship marks the final week of the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 competition. No. 1 on the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 is Justin Thomas, who is not in the field in North Carolina, but entered the PGA Championship with a commanding 713-point lead in the standings. Webb Simpson sits at No. 2 as of the PGA Championship and will be playing… Im, Reed, and Todd are the other three inside the top-10 of the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 competition that are playing Sedgefield… As of the PGA Championship, Chase Seiffert sits at No. 125 in the FedExCup standings and holds the final spot in the FedExCup Playoffs… Nick Watney is just one FedExCup point back and sits at 126th while Bronson Burgoon is just one FedExCup point ahead at 124th… Two golfers jumped inside the top 125 at the 2019 Wyndham Championship (Andrew Landry and Patton Kizzire)… The last four winners of the Wyndham Championship have all shot 20-under or better.


72-HOLE RECORD: 258, Henrik Stenson (2017), JT Poston (2019)

18-HOLE RECORD: 59, Brandt Snedeker (1st round, 2018).

LAST TIME: J.T. Poston, who grew up just 90 minutes from Greensboro, North Carolina, fired a sizzling 8-under-par 62 on Sunday at the Wyndham Championship a year ago to win his first PGA TOUR title. In the process, Poston became the first golfer on TOUR since Lee Trevino in 1974 to capture a 72-hole tournament without making any bogeys or worse. Poston also matched Henrik Stenson’s tournament record 22-under 258. Poston nipped fellow North Carolinian Webb Simpson by one shot. Simpson finished runner-up while Byeong Hun An (who matched Poston’s 8-under 62 as the round of the week in the first round), Viktor Hovland, and Si Woo Kim rounded out the top five.


Congratulations again to last weeks winner @cmanole

@Nolerball maintains overall season lead

Good luck to everyone this week

93 points.....93 ?.....Damn I really killed it last week !! Thank God Rory went birdie =eagle on 15 and 16. That really saved my bacon !

 

[fsukenny]

I'm so bad I'll just pick guys I like.
1. Webb Simpson
2. Paul Casey
3. Matthew Wolff
4. Victor Hovland

 

[Nolerball]

I'm so bad I'll just pick guys I like.
1. Webb Simpson
2. Paul Casey
3. Matthew Wolff
4. Victor Hovland

Kenny - good on ya - but I know that if I did that, I'd pick Spieth and my wife would have me pick Spieth, and I'd be thin-as-a-razor's-edge lucky if my other two choices left me any shot to get points.

 

[FSUdawg]

I'm so bad I'll just pick guys I like.
1. Webb Simpson
2. Paul Casey
3. Matthew Wolff
4. Victor Hovland

Hmmm, I'll have to give some more thought to my selections. I was planning to pick 3 of those guys, lol.

 

[NoleinATL]

 

[NoleLizards]

@NoleinATL

Please replace Noren with Todd. Turns out the former's not in the field after all. @fsukenny and @seminoleed may want to double check their guys, as well....

 

[seminoleed]

Thanks Liz; he was there early this morning. Oh well.

@NIA please drop Griffin and replace him with...ummmm.....jeez......Tom Lewis, I guess.

Thanks.

 

[Nolerball]

Justin Rose
Webb Simpson
Si Woo Kim
Henrik Norlander

 

[fsukenny]

Hmmm, I'll have to give some more thought to my selections. I was planning to pick 3 of those guys, lol.

They have been officially cursed !

 

[fsukenny]

Kenny - good on ya - but I know that if I did that, I'd pick Spieth and my wife would have me pick Spieth, and I'd be thin-as-a-razor's-edge lucky if my other two choices left me any shot to get points.

I'm so bad I'll just pick guys I like.
1. Webb Simpson
2. Paul Casey
3. Matthew Wolff
4. Victor Hovland

Please replace Wolff and Hovland with Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose. What the Hell is going on here.Guys are near rookies and taking weeks off.

 

[Tom81]

Todd
Casey
Koepka
Rose

 

[cmanole]

Webb, Reed, Rose, Casey

 

[Bill From Tampa]

Paul Casey
Harris English
Justin Rose
Webb Simpson

 

[NoleinATL]

 

[Bobcat07]

Webb Simpson
Brendon Todd
Doc Redman
Harold Varner III

 

[FSUdawg]

Webb Simpson
Justin Rose
Brandt Snedeker
Harold Varner III

 

[Nolerball]

Dang, might be something to that Varner pick.... Had him on my list, but went with the Swede.

 

[NoleinATL]

 

[NoleinATL]

 

[NoleinATL]

W Simpson
D Frittelli
P Casey
J Rose

 

[fsu67810]

Paul Casey
Henrik Norlander
Webb Simpson
Brendan Todd

 

[NoleinATL]

Fyi

 

[Tom81]

I'll do the Casey for Simpson switch as well. good intel vapor.
I'll edit my above picks.

 

[NoleinATL]

Follow up to the Phil in the booth conversation last week.

comments from yesterday

 

[NoleLizards]

Dang, might be something to that Varner pick...

I didn't take him. It's a solid pick.

 

[Bobcat07]

Dang, might be something to that Varner pick.... Had him on my list, but went with the Swede.

I hope so. Finishing strong on Sunday has been his biggest issue, but I really like him and want him to breakthrough. It's obvious he's one of the most liked players on tour.

 

[Nolerball]

Apologies to the current tourney (and the Chairman for this aside...couldn't help it, NiA) - we're still 3 months (give or take a day) shy of them teeing it up in Augusta, but dang, I was listening to some of the intros run for the final round broadcasts of the past several years and you can't help but get chills, goose bumps and darn near speechless with these things. This is why I LOVE golf so much...can't hit a long iron worth a d@mn, but I sure do enjoy the montage and music of the openings they pull together. Sorry, its a very slow (remote) work day.

 

[Bill From Tampa]

For those who picked Varner, that is looking like a really bad pick right now .................... for everyone else who did not select him.

 

[Nolerball]

I didn't take him. It's a solid pick.

 

[NoleinATL]

 

[NoleinATL]

Caddie speaks. Damn

 

[Bill From Tampa]

Not sure how he can claim he did not touch the sand.

Frankly I was not aware that rule of testing the sand applied to caddies. I suppose because I never use one when playing so it never occurred to me.