Golf Glance: Final playoff push at Wyndham Championship

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PGA TOUR

LAST TOURNAMENT: Olympic Men’s Golf Competition (Scottie Scheffler)

THIS WEEK: Wyndham Championship, Greensboro, N.C., Aug. 8-11

Course: Sedgefield Country Club (Par 70, 7,131 Yards)

Purse: $7.9M (Winner: $1.422M)

Defending Champion: Lucas Glover

FedEx Cup Leader: Scottie Scheffler

HOW TO FOLLOW

TV: Thursday-Friday: 3-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday: 1-3 p.m. (GC), 3-6 p.m. (CBS)

Streaming (ESPN+): Thursday-Friday, 6:45 a.m.-6 p.m. ET; Saturday-Sunday, 7:45 a.m.-6 p.m.

X: @WyndhamChamp

NOTES: This is the regular-season finale, with players inside the top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings following this event earning spots into the first leg of the playoffs. Nos. 68-70 entering the tournament are Emiliano Grillo, Seamus Power and Brendon Todd, while Nos. 71-73 are Victor Perez, Davis Riley and Andrew Putnam. … Matt Kuchar, the only player who has qualified for the playoffs in every season since its inception in 2007, enters the week No. 111 in the standings. He needs a win in order to qualify for the FedEx St. Jude Championship. … The field includes eight of the top 30 in the FedEx Cup standings and 21 of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking, led by No. 15 Brian Harman. … Twenty-one players in the field also competed in last week’s Men’s Olympic Golf Competition, including six who currently are between Nos. 61-90 in the standings: No. 61 Min Woo Lee, No. 67 Grillo, No. 70 Perez, No. 79 Nicolai Højgaard, No. 86 Kevin Yu and No. 88 C.T. Pan. … Glover, No. 76 in the standings, seeks to become the first player to successfully defend at the event since Sam Snead in the 1950s.

BEST BETS: Sungjae Im (+1200 at DraftKings) is the highest-ranked player in the field in the FedEx Cup standings at No. 9. He has finished T12 or better in four consecutive starts, including a T7 at The Open Championship. … Billy Horschel (+2200) finished T2 at The Open in his most recent start, and finished solo fourth here in 2023. … Shane Lowry (+2500) is 10th in the FedEx Cup standings. He had a streak of three consecutive top-20s snapped with a T26 at The Open. … Cameron Young (+2800) is still seeking his maiden PGA Tour victory. He followed up a T9 at the Travelers and a T6 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic with a T31 at The Open. … Akshay Bhatia (+3000) has an MC and T64 in his past two starts. But that followed a pair of top-5s for winner of this year’s Valero Texas Open. … Robert MacIntyre (+5000) has won two of his past seven starts and is the second highest ranked player in the field at No. 16.

NEXT TOURNAMENT: FedEx Cup Championship, Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 15-18

LPGA Tour

LAST TOURNAMENT: Portland Classic (Moriya Jutanugarn)

THIS WEEK: Olympic Women’s Golf Competition, Paris, Aug. 7-11

Race to the CME Globe leader: Nelly Korda

NEXT TOURNAMENT: Women’s Scottish Open, Ayrshire, Scotland, Aug. 15-18

PGA Tour Champions

LAST TOURNAMENT: The Senior Open Championship (K.J. Choi)

THIS WEEK: Boeing Classic, Snoqualmie, Wash., Aug. 9-11

Course: The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge (Par 72, 7,217 Yards)

Purse: $2.2M (Winner: $330,000)

Defending Champion: Stephen Ames

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Ernie Els

HOW TO FOLLOW

TV: Friday-Sunday, 6-8 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)

X: @ChampionsTour

NOTES: The field includes the top five players in the Charles Schwab Cup standings: No. 1 Els, No. 2 Ames, No. 3 Steven Alker, No. 4 Richard Green and No. 5 Choi. Els is joined in the field by fellow World Golf Hall of Fame members Bernhard Langer, who won the event in 2010 and 2016, Fred Couples and Vijay Singh. … Ames tied the tournament scoring record of 19-under 197 last year.

NEXT TOURNAMENT: Rogers Charity Classic, Calgary, Aug. 16-18

LIV Golf League

LAST TOURNAMENT: LIV Golf UK (Individual: Jon Rahm; Team: Legion XIII)

THIS WEEK: OFF.

2024 Leaders: Players, Joaquin Niemann; Team, Crushers GC

NEXT TOURNAMENT: Greenbrier, WVa., Aug. 16-18

–Field Level Media