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PGA Tour: Wyndham Championship

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GREENSBORO – Chances are – for this weekend – you win and you’re in. The Wyndham Championship marks the final regular season event of the PGA Tour’s regular season schedule. After conclusion of play Sunday, the FedEx Cup standings will determine qualification for the players positioned in the Top 70 of FedEx Cup points.

Two players have qualified for the FedEx Cup Playoffs in each season since the inception of the FedExCup in 2007: Matt Kuchar, who enters the week No. 59 in the standings, and Adam Scott (No. 81). Scott needs a minimum of a two-way T-9 to have a chance to move into the Top 70 and a three-way T-3 or better based on the TOUR’s projection.

Justin Thomas sits at No. 79 in the FedEx Cup standings and will make his first start at the Wyndham Championship since 2016 (MC), the site of his PGA TOUR debut in 2009 (T-78) as a 16-year-old. The 15-time PGA Tour winner is in his ninth season as a TOUR member and has never missed the Playoffs. He has advanced to the TOUR Championship in each of the last seven seasons and finished in the top 10 in the standings in the last six, including his FedExCup title in 2017. Thomas has three top-10s (his fewest in a season) in 19 starts and enters the week after consecutive missed cuts (The Open Championship, 3M Open). Thomas needs a solo-18th or better to have a chance to move into the Top 70 and a 3-way T-4 or better to reach the Top 70 based on the TOUR’s projection.

The 2019 Wyndham Championship winner J.T. Poston enters the week off a runner-up finish at last week’s 3M Open. The last time Poston finished runner-up (2022 Travelers Championship), he went on to win the following week at the 2022 John Deere Classic.

Lee Hodges, last week’s winner of the 3M Open withdrew from the Wyndham.

Sam Burns has five Top-10s this season, highlighted by a win at the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play. The five-time PGA TOUR winner will be making his second start at the Wyndham Championship (T-13/2020) and would move into the Comcast Business TOUR TOP 10 with a win this week.

After the weekend, the Top 70 players in the FedEx Cup standings will qualify for the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Aug. 10-13 at TPC Southwind in Germantown, Tennessee, near Memphis.

FedEx Cup Playoffs Schedule

FedEx St. Jude Championship – August 7-13

BMW Championship – August 14-20

TOUR Championship – August 21-27

Wyndham Championship | Tournament Facts

COURSE: Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, North Carolina

YARDS/PAR: 7,131 yards/Par 70

ARCHITECT: Donald Ross

PRIZE Money/Winner’s Share – Purse: $7,600,000/$1,368,000

DEFENDING CHAMPION: Joohyung Kim

PAST RESULTS: (link)

FEDEx CUP Points to Winner: 500

SOCIAL MEDIA: #PGATour #FedExCup @WyndhamChamp