Wyndham Championship: Picks, Predictions and Odds

With the battle for gold, silver and bronze medals over for another four years, thoughts turn back to the PGA Tour this week with the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in North Carolina.

The main factor here is that this is the final opportunity for players to qualify for the lucrative end-of-season FedEx Cup playoffs, which start for the top 70 players in the standings next week.

Many of the game’s leading lights will be absent following their Paris exploits, but defending champion Lucas Glover is in attendance and South Korean hopeful Sungjae Im is favorite to come out on top at the 7,127-yard, par 70 test.

2024 Wyndham Championship betting picks and predictions

Sungjae Im to win (+1400)

It will be three years in October since Sungjae Im last tasted success on the PGA Tour at the Shriners Children’s Open, but the South Korean has been knocking on the door for weeks and this could finally be the event that he gets over the line.

Im has shown over the last few years that he can be a match for the world’s best players and that has been evident in recent weeks when he claimed fourth spot at the Scottish Open and then followed that with a highly respectable seventh at the Open Championship at Royal Troon.

The examination at Sedgefield Country Club will be different to those links tournaments in Scotland, but Im is an accurate player, who has flourished here before.

He has claimed three top-10 finishes at the North Carolina venue with a best performance coming two years ago when his fellow countryman Tom Kim stormed through the field with a closing 61 to take the prize.

Im has won recently on the Korean Tour so it is not as if he has forgotten how to triumph and he has to be respected with his recent regulation PGA Tour form figures reading an impressive 4-9-8-3-12.

With many of the big guns sitting out this week, those showing have to be respected and there is a strong chance that elusive victory will arrive on Sunday.

Billy Horschel to win (+2500)

Billy Horschel was another player who had an excellent Open - he was tied for second alongside England’s Justin Rose - and the man from Florida can gain a victory on his reappearance.

Horschel already knows what it is like to win this year after he claimed the Corales Puntacana Championship in April and he knows just what it takes to be at the top of the game at this time of year, as he celebrates 10 years since he won the FedEx Cup.

He also tends to flourish when presented with this particular test as he has finished in the top six in four of his last seven visits with his closest challenge coming in 2020 when he was second, a shot behind Jim Herman.

An eighth-placed finish in the PGA Championship should provide a further boost to his confidence and he can be expected to put up a strong challenge this week.

Davis Thompson to win (+3500)

While some American players flourish on the links of Scotland, appearances at the Scottish Open and the Open Championship were a real eye-opener for Davis Thompson, who found it all a bit of a struggle.

However, he has been making big moves on American soil in recent weeks and this looks like another tournament in which he can shine.

Thompson came out on top by four shots the last time he was on his home turf at the John Deere Classic, which made up for the disappointment he felt a week earlier when he was pipped to the post by just one shot at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

Before then, he was ninth at the US Open, so it is easy to put a line through the 46th he posted at the Scottish Open and his 66th at the Open because he is a different animal on his own side of the Atlantic.

His recent Stateside performances suggest he can improve greatly on the 22nd he carded at Sedgefield Country Club last year and he has a live chance of claiming another PGA Tour success.

2024 Wyndham Championship outright odds

Sungjae Im	+1400
Shane Lowry	+2200
Si Woo Kim	+2200
Billy Horschel	+2500
Cameron Young	+3000
Brian Harman	+3000
Christiaan Bezuidenhout	+3300
Akshay Bhatia	+3500
Davis Thompson	+3500

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This article was written by a partner sports writer via Spotlight Sports Group. All odds displayed on this page were correct at the time of writing and are subject to withdrawal or change at any time.