The PGA Tour took off last week for the Olympics. While the field this week at the Wyndham Championship is not overly star-studded like last weekend’s events in Paris, it is one of the more important tournaments of the season as it is the last chance for players to reach the Top 70 for the FedEx Cup Playoffs starting next week.

Sungjae Im (14-1) is the shortest price on the board coming in with five top-10 finishes in his last seven starts. He was also runner-up at the Wyndham two years ago and has two other top-10 finishes here in Greensboro, N.C.

Billy Horschel (25-1) tees it up for the first time since his runner-up at the British Open, his career-best finish in a major championship, three weeks ago. He was also runner-up at the Wyndham in 2020 and has finished in the top six in four of his last seven starts at the Wyndham.

Shane Lowry (25-1) makes his return stateside after being Ireland’s flag bearer in the Olympics opening ceremony. He is 10th in the FedEx Cup standings.

Also at 25-1 is Si Woo Kim, the 2016 Wyndham champion and 2021 runner-up.

Brian Harman (30-1) is the highest-ranked player in the OWGR (15th) for this field.

Cameron Young (30-1) played his collegiate golf at nearby Wake Forest and still seeks his first PGA Tour victory.

The players at 35-1 include Aaron Rai, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, John Deere Classic winner Davis Thompson and Jordan Spieth.

Sedgefield Country Club, in Greensboro, N.C., took over as host of the Wyndham Championship in 2008. The Wyndham is held at the Ross Course, named for its designer Donald Ross, which opened in 1926. After renovations conducted in 2007 by Kris Spence, a golf course architect based in Greensboro, who worked as the course superintendent at nearby Forest Oaks Country Club, which hosted the Wyndham from 1977 to 2007.

Sedgefield is a par-70 of 7,131 yards. It is a typical Carolina course with tree-lined fairways, pine straw and Champion Bermudagrass throughout. The course is a par-70 with only two par-5s and four par-3s. Nine of the 12 par-4s are less than 450 yards.

The fairways are narrow (29-yard average — ninth narrowest on tour) and the rough measures at 2.5 inches. Five water hazards are in play on six holes and the layout is not all that heavily bunkered (52 on the course — seventh fewest on tour); however, the fairway bunkers at Sedgefield are tough to reach the greens in regulation. The Champion Bermuda greens (average 6,000 square feet) undulate and are fast (12.5 stimpmeter) but could be a bit slower with the expected weather (more on that below).

This is a scoreable course. Brandt Snedeker shot 59 here for the course record on his way to victory at the 2018 Wyndham.

Tropical Storm Debby is on the move along the East Coast, so the tournament will likely have several weather delays, and we could see a potential Monday finish. The event will likely not have to be shortened, and the PGA Tour will make every effort to play all 72 holes so that every player gets a fair opportunity in the last chance to make next week’s start of the FedEx Cup Playoffs.

Christiaan Bezuidenhout (35-1, FanDuel)

Bezuidenhout finished 16th last week, which included Saturday’s second-lowest round of 64 while representing South Africa at the Olympics.

He has one of the best short games on the PGA Tour and will be able to navigate these greens, which may be a bit slower because of the incoming rain.

Aaron Rai (35-1, BetMGM)

Rai has had a very good summer and has not missed a cut since April. Those finishes include a T-2 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, a T-4 at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, a T-4 at the Genesis Scottish Open, a T-7 at the John Deere Classic and his best career major championship finish at the U.S. Open (T-19).

He is one of the best drivers on the tour from an accuracy standpoint. Rai is a fairway and green finder and on a soft course, that can lead him to victory.

Eric Cole (70-1, FanDuel)

Last year’s PGA Tour Rookie of the Year had a disappointing season in 2024 but is solidly in the Top 70.

Back-to-back recent top-10s at the Rocket Mortgage and John Deere plus a T-14 here last year on debut indicate a player that can contend.

Matt Kuchar (80-1, FanDuel)

Kuchar is the only player on the PGA Tour to make the FedEx Cup Playoffs each year since they began in 2007. He is 111th in the standings and would need a win here, but he is off his first top-10 since last November after being in the mix for the win at the 3M Open.

He led the field there for Approach and Greens In Regulation and his putting is still near the top of the PGA Tour.

Odds to win Wyndham Championship at BetMGM

Sungjae Im +1400
Billy Horschel +2500
Shane Lowry +2500
Si Woo Kim +2500
Brian Harman +2800
Cameron Young +2800
Aaron Rai +3000
Christian Bezuidenhout +3300

The first round of the Wyndham Championship is postponed to Friday, August 9, due to Tropical Storm Debby.