This tournament is the warm up to the FedEx Cup playoffs which starts next week at THE NORTHERN TRUST.  This week will be the last chance for a lot of players to get into the Top 125 of the FedEx Cup standings and play in next week’s first event.  The winner of the FedEx Cup takes home $15 million dollars, so the cup might not really mean a lot to these players but that prize definitely does.  I’ll probably mention a few guys in the playbook who are on that cut line of making it to next week’s tournament as extra motivation.  So with that in mind, one of my key stats this week is the FedEx Cup standings.  When you look at the field, it’s pretty weak especially when compared to what we’ve seen recently.  You’ve got a few stand outs like Hideki Matsuyama, Louis Oosthuizen, Webb Simpson, Will Zalatoris, and Patrick Reed.  This tournament will be a battle of the mid-tier PGA Tour players.    

The Wyndham Championship is held at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina.  That means a few of these players will be playing back to back weeks on opposite coasts.  The course is 7,131 yards and plays as a Par 70.  The yardage is deceiving on this course because there are a lot of uphill and downhill holes.  You really don’t have to be accurate off the tee on this track because of the length.  Nine of the 18 holes will probably only require the players to hit a wedge into the greens which is an obviously advantage whether you're hitting from the fairway or the rough.  That does mean though that once again I’ll be putting an emphasis on Strokes Gained: Approach.  I’m also going to look at proximity because you need to go low this weekend, the last five winners of this event have gone 21 under par or lower.  Players will have to hit these small greens in regulation (GIR) but 73 percent (as of last year) have hit them since 2008 which is just off the charts for a PGA Tour golf course.  Once again we’ve got a course with an abundance of Par 4s with length ranging between 450-500 yards, eight to be exact.  That means we’re bringing back Par 4 Efficiency.  Strokes Gained: Putting will be added to the mix as the greens are known for their undulation and we need birdies this week.  Also, when you look over the history of this event, when a golfer plays well here, that's a common theme when you look through their course history.  You'll see a bunch of players in my playbook that have had success here multiple times. 

The forecast is full of mystery this weekend in Greensboro. We’ve got isolated thunderstorms in the forecast throughout the weekend but the percent chance is under 50 percent. Being an east coaster myself, most likely we’ll see some afternoon passing storms with all that humidity in the air.  I think all players will have to deal with some rain.  The only good news is that the winds will be relatively tame in the single digits throughout the weekend.  

The playbooks will slowly shrink as we move into the playoffs over the next few weeks. The Tour Championship will just be core plays that week because of the small field that will participate.

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