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⛳️ Preview & Picks: The Wyndham Championship

Plus: The Golf Swing Made Simple

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Josey Orr
August 06, 2024

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Good afternoon. Yeah, the US political landscape is a mess, but at least we have golf, ya know? It’s the little things.

Please enjoy your five minutes of politics-free distraction.

Here's what we've got for ya today:

  • The Golf Swing Made Simple

  • Preview & Picks: The Wyndham Championship

  • Shots Heard Round The World

  • How To Get Over A Bad Front Nine

  • Divots

  • Thing We’d Buy: Hanna

The Golf Swing Made Simple

Preview: The Wyndham Championship

And just like that, we’ve reached the final regular season tournament of the PGA Tour schedule.

All the majors are over, the Olympics have come and gone, and next week the Fedex Cup Playoffs begin.

But before that, you’ve got the Wyndham Championship.

It doesn’t have the most top-heavy field, due to most of the big players skipping out to take a break before playoffs, and it’s usually a birdie-fest due to it being a pretty short course by Tour standards.

However, it is a fun event to bet.

Unlike previous years with a field of 125, the playoffs only feature the top 70 players this year. We will get into that more next week, but it does add an intriguing element to The Wyndham Championship - because there’s a bunch of guys on the bubble.

Victor Perez, who put on a show for his home fans last week at the Olympics, is making the trip to Greensboro, North Carolina. He just so happens to be No. 70 in Fedex points.

🚩Location: Sedgefield Country Club

💰 Purse: $7.9 million ($1.422 million to winner)

👀Watch On: Golf Channel, CBS, ESPN+

👑Previous Winners:

  • 2021: Kevin Kisner

  • 2022: Tom Kim

  • 2023: Lucas Glover

What The Analytics Say: It’s one of the shortest courses on Tour and the cut has never been worse than 1-under.

What Our Guts Tell Us: 16 different winners in 16 years means it’s anyones game.

How To Watch The Wyndham Championship

Thursday-Friday, 3–6 p.m. (Golf Channel)

Saturday-Sunday, 1–3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS).

Weather Report - Greensboro, NC

Not looking great in terms of weather the first two days.

Favorites: Wyndham Championship

Sungjae Im at +1200, Billy Horschel and Si Woo Kim both at +2200, Brian Harman and Shane Lowry both at +2500, Cameron Young at +2800, Aaron Rai and Davis Thompson both at +3000, and Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Akshay Bhatia both at +3500.

Shanks Picks

We’re coming off a glorious weekend, where the whole card was +6.7 units. Since it’s the last regular season tournament of the year, we put together a juicy MTCP this week.

Win: Davis Thompson +3000
Top 10: Shane Lowry +240
Top 10: Akshay Bhatia +320
Top 20: Justin Rose +240
Top 20: JT Poston +280
Longshot: Nicolai Hojgaard +5500

Make The Cut Parlay: Robert MacIntyre, Justin Rose, Sungjae Im, Si Woo Kim, Aaron Rai, and Brian Harman to make the cut. +540

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Shots Heard Round The World

🩻 Jordan Spieth Hints At Wrist Surgery He hasn’t been himself in quite some time and his wrist injury could have a lot to do with it.  Read

🇺🇸 PGA Tour’s Wells Fargo Championship Is Now Truist Championship It’s coming to the Philadelphia area in 2025. Read

💰️ Women’s Olympic Golf: Tee Times, TV Coverage, and How To Watch Can Nelly Korda do what Scottie Scheffler just did? Read.

How To Get Over A Bad Front Nine

Divots…

Quote: “I'm here representing my country. I'm a two-time Olympian and I'm living out my dream." 

That’s Nelly Korda talking about defending her Olympic Title this week in Paris. Read More. (Update: she shot even par in round one.)

Goal: Last week, Scottie Scheffler said his goal was to have fun. This week, Nelly Korda said her goal was to eat a crookie.

Thing We’d Buy: Hanna

We are all about supporting small businesses here at Caddyshanks, since, you know, we are one ourselves…

Enter Hanna, a small batch putter company created by Jared Doerfler.

You can read his story of how and why he started Hanna here.

They just shipped their 100th putter and this is a great opportunity to support a small American business in it’s infancy.

That’s all folks! See you Saturday Morning.