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The field at Sedgefield includes 53 of the top 100 in the latest Official World Rankings, with 15 of those inside the top 50. The headliners are defending champion Cameron Young at No. 3, Aaron Rai at No. 19, Ben Griffin at No. 20, Justin Thomas at No. 22, and Hideki Matsuyama at No. 24. That is a slight step back from last year, when 56 top-100 players and 21 top-50 players teed it up.

The field also includes four of the top 30 on the FedEx Cup points standings for 2026.

Eight past champions are in the field: Cameron Young (2025), Aaron Rai (2024), Lucas Glover (2023), Tom Kim (2022), J.T. Poston (2019), Brandt Snedeker (2018 and 2007), Camilo Villegas (2014), and Webb Simpson (2011).

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For some players, the Wyndham is the last way into the playoffs. In years past, this was also the last regular Tour event of the season, but that has changed with eight PGA Tour events on the calendar after the playoffs conclude. So this week is about cracking the top 70 and playing on. For those already inside that number, there are still events left to protect a top-100 spot and keep a Tour card for 2027.

Last week's winner, Michael Thorbjornsen, earned far more than a trophy. He jumped from 69th to 38th and locked up a playoff spot. He withdrew from the Wyndham on Monday, but it hardly matters. He will play the St. Jude and BMW with a real shot at reaching the top 30 for East Lake. An even bigger leap came the week before at the 3M Open, where Jackson Koivun went from 194th to 70th. His T-31st at the Rocket held that number, and now he needs to make the cut and finish in the top 25 to hang on to it.

One player has to be kicking himself. Davis Riley led most of Sunday at the Rocket, made bogey on 17, and watched Xander Schauffele birdie 18 to grab second. Riley finished third and banked 190 FedEx points, but only climbed from 146th to 108th. Instead of fighting for a playoff spot, he is fighting to save his card for 2027. Michael Brennan can relate. He came into Detroit 106th, sat a shot off the lead entering Sunday, shot 73, tumbled to a T-15th worth 51 points, and arrives at Sedgefield right back at 106th.

That is the weight this event carries. Of the 147 players in the field, 28 sit between 7th and 66th and are already safely into the playoffs. Behind them is a cluster ranked from 66th through 90th, all entered and all playing, with real names in the mix: Keegan Bradley, Jason Day, Denny McCarthy, Taylor Pendrith, Brooks Koepka, and Tony Finau.

We know the Bradley and Day story as they head toward the sunset of their careers, where missing the playoffs is not the end of the world. Pendrith is a different case. He was at the top of his game in 2024, won the Byron Nelson, and finished 14th on the FedEx Cup list before landing 33rd in 2025. Back and wrist injuries have knocked him sideways since. He nearly got it back at the ISCO Championship last month before losing a playoff to Steven Fisk, and now he probably needs a top five here to reach the top 70. Koepka's comeback season has stalled, and Finau, who spent 2017 through 2024 near the top of the golf world, has just two top tens across 2025 and 2026, the best a T-5th at the Genesis. Golf is a fickle game.

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Created in 1938, the 2026 edition will be the 87th Wyndham Championship. Originally the Greater Greensboro Open, the event was the vision of the Greensboro Jaycees Chapter, barely a year old when the idea came up. Plenty of people liked the concept, but nobody moved on it until a summer 1937 meeting where Joseph Bryan put up the capital. The PGA Tour slotted it onto the 1938 schedule.

If Bryan is the backer, Sam Snead is the owner. His eight victories at Greensboro, including the inaugural, stood as the record for most wins by a player at a single event until Tiger tied him at several stops. The tournament has been played every year since except 1943 and 1944, when World War II paused it.

The original name held until 1988, when Kmart came aboard as title sponsor. Chrysler took over in 1996, the "Greater" was dropped in 2003, and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts stepped in for 2006. Starting in 2014 it became the last event before the playoffs, and it remains the final chance to earn points for FedEx Cup positioning.

Now the bad news. According to several reports, including Josh Carpenter of Sports Business Journal, this is year 20 of Wyndham's sponsorship, the contract expires after this week, and the company will not renew. The good news is the PGA Tour is involved and close to lining up a replacement. The event returns to Sedgefield in 2027, but after that the Tour could look at stops outside Greensboro. The North Carolina General Assembly is offering up to $40 million to keep it in the area for at least four years, so 2028 and beyond is a wait-and-see.

Sedgefield Country Club
Greensboro, N.C.
7,131 yards, Par 35-35 / 70

Between 1938 and 1976, Sedgefield hosted this tournament 26 times and was considered a tremendous old Donald Ross layout. It was also short and cramped for galleries, so the event moved to Forest Oaks in 1977 and stayed there for 31 years. Forest Oaks was never especially fan-friendly or memorable, and the Sedgefield membership never stopped lobbying to get the tournament back. With Wyndham taking over sponsorship and offices nearby, the club invested $3 million in a renovation. The course reopened in 2007 to rave reviews, and the event returned in 2008.

Founded in 1925, Sedgefield sits in the rolling hills of Greensboro's Sedgefield neighborhood. Beyond the Ross design, the club is known for its Tudor-style clubhouse, built inside the framework of the original Sedgefield Inn, where the Atlantic Coast Conference was founded in 1953. A few years back the club handed North Carolina architect Kris Spence the job of restoring the original Ross design while updating it for the modern game. Spence added roughly 400 yards, pushing the course to 7,131, and par came down to 70 when the 18th was converted to a par 4.

The emphasis here is on ball placement. Find the right spot in the fairway and you get the angle you need into greens that are severely undulating, slope from back to front, and fall off the edges into collection areas. Challenging, yes, but the scores will still be low. The players will also get a useful Ross primer three weeks ahead of the Tour Championship at East Lake, another Ross design.

Here are some of the secrets to playing well at the Wyndham Championship. Check the full Key Fantasy Stats breakdown for more.

Ball Control and Accuracy: At 7,131 yards, Sedgefield sits just below the PGA Tour average, so length is not the deciding factor. That opens things up. Players can go driver or long iron off the tee, and the winner is usually the one who settles for control rather than muscling up. Managing the slopes is the whole assignment, and that starts with putting the ball in the correct half of the fairway.

Greens in Regulation: Hitting greens at this Ross gem is at a premium, just as it was last week at Detroit Golf Club. Look for the winner to hit them in bunches. Past champions read like a list of the best iron players of their era, including Henrik Stenson, Brandt Snedeker, Sergio Garcia, Webb Simpson, Mark O'Meara, Davis Love III, and Steve Elkington.

Experience: There is a reason Davis Love III won here at 51. Apart from Tom Kim in 2022, J.T. Poston in 2019, and Arjun Atwal in 2010, every Sedgefield-era winner has been a seasoned player. Bet accordingly.

Weather: Greensboro summers bring heat and humidity, which normally bakes the Bermudagrass greens and makes those undulations even nastier. Not this year. Afternoon thunderstorms are forecast Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, with rain and storms continuing through the weekend. The course should play soft rather than dry and fast like past years.

One more resource worth a look: our Composite Rankings pull together the major ranking systems into a single sortable list, giving you a fast read on where every player in the field stands before you lock in your card.

Below the break: our full Who to Watch breakdown for Sedgefield.