The regular season ends Thursday in Greensboro. The PGA Tour heads to Sedgefield Country Club for the Wyndham Championship, featuring a 144-player field as players battle in the final event of the regular season before the FedExCup Playoffs begin next week. With only the top 70 players in the FedExCup standings advancing to next week's FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis, every point is crucial. The $8.5 million purse matters, but the pressure of playoff qualification defines this week.
The Wyndham Championship is the rare PGA Tour event where two leaderboards matter equally. One will determine who wins the tournament. The other will decide who gets to keep playing. That dynamic separates this tournament from every other regular-season stop.
The Donald Ross Test at Sedgefield
The course was designed by Donald Ross and opened for play in 1926. It is a par 70 measuring 7,127 yards. The Donald Ross design stretches to 7,131 yards for this week's Wyndham Championship, a modest number in modern PGA Tour golf. Yet only 25 of the property's 130 acres are maintained as fairway.
Sedgefield Country Club is your prototypical positional golf course, which rewards players for hitting fairways and penalizes any wayward tee shots with thick rough and tricky angles from tight tree lines. The greens are small and undulating, and the significant run-offs are one of the course's stronger defences. Accurate hitters have tended to flourish on what looks a comfortable assignment for PGA Tour players. Its high concentration of eight par 4s in the 400-450 yard range, funneled approach shots from the 100-175 yard range, and nuanced, undulated Donald Ross-designed Bermuda greens have produced repeatable results for accurate putting specialists.
Scoring can reach extreme levels. The tournament record winning score is 258, achieved by Stenson and Poston, so get ready to see some very low scores. Ball-strikers who control trajectory and hit fairways consistently will separate from the field, but a hot putter becomes essential at this scoring pace.
Players to Watch
World No. 3 Cameron Young headlines the field as he returns to Greensboro looking to successfully defend the title he captured here last season. It was won in 2025 by Cameron Young. The Wyndham Championship represents the last-chance saloon for many as Cameron Young defends his title. It is a special tournament for the American. After a series of near-misses he finally won his first tournament here 12 months ago. Young's accurate iron play and improved putting make him the favorite on a course that fits his strengths.
Aaron Rai, winner of the 2026 PGA Championship, will compete in the Wyndham Championship in August. Rai will make his fifth-consecutive Wyndham Championship appearance; he finished tied for fifth last year after winning in 2024. The 19th-ranked player in the world knows Sedgefield intimately and brings major championship confidence into this week.
These players join two-time Major winner Justin Thomas, World No. 3 and defending champion Cam Young, three-time Major winner Jordan Spieth, five-time Major winner Brooks Koepka, 2025 Ryder Cup Captain Keegan Bradley, reigning PGA Championship winner and 2024 Wyndham winner Aaron Rai. Thomas struggled early in 2026 but has shown improvement recently. Justin Thomas had a disappointing pair of tournaments across the pond, finishing T50 at the Scottish Open and T65 at the British Open. Before that, Thomas's game was rounding into form, posting six straight top 20 finishes, including a T4 finish at the PGA Championship. His ball-striking has never been in question, and if the putter cooperates, the 22nd-ranked player can contend.
Japanese superstar Hideki Matsuyama, Daniel Berger and Tony Finau are late additions and will play next week's Wyndham Championship. Matsuyama, ranked 24th in the world, adds significant firepower to the field. His precise iron play suits Sedgefield's demands, and his recent major championship pedigree makes him a threat whenever he tees it up.
Pool Picks Strategy
The bubble pressure creates volatility. Players ranked in the 60s through low 80s in FedExCup points face the most stress, which can produce unlikely winners or spectacular collapses. Focus on ball-striking consistency over recent hot streaks. Course history matters at Sedgefield (multiple past champions are in the field), and players with Bermuda grass experience and ties to the Carolinas have historically outperformed. Stuck between players? Our player comparison tool uses real PGA Tour strokes-gained data and weights each category by what this course rewards, then names the pick with a probability score.
By Sunday evening at Sedgefield Country Club, the top 70 players in the FedExCup standings will advance to the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Everyone else will leave Greensboro with the regular season complete and the three-event playoff run moving on without them. If you're running a pool for this final regular-season event, set up your scoring on our platform at /event/wyndham-championship-2026. Ready to launch your own pool for the playoffs or next season? Head to /login?next=/admin/create-pool and have it running in under three minutes.