Wyndham Championship 2026 Preview: Odds, How to Watch, and the Field at Sedgefield

The 2026 Wyndham Championship runs Thursday, August 6 through Sunday, August 9 at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, and it is the last door out of the regular season. The top 70 in FedExCup points move on to the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Everyone else is done until next year. Cameron Young comes back to defend the title that started everything for him, 21-year-old rookie Jackson Koivun arrives sitting in exactly 70th place, and a Donald Ross par 70 that has not been lengthened into submission decides all of it. Here is the full preview: how to watch, the field, what actually wins at Sedgefield, where the community board stands, and the case on each side of it.

Quick comparison: who to watch at Sedgefield

Player	Angle
Cameron Young	Defending champion and top-ranked player in the field, chasing a third win of 2026 after THE PLAYERS and the Cadillac Championship
Ben Griffin	Chapel Hill native and UNC product with three top-11 finishes in four Wyndham starts
Jackson Koivun	Won the 3M Open in his third pro start, now 70th on the points list with everything to lose
Justin Thomas	16-time Tour winner, 22nd in the world, still without a 2026 victory
Aaron Rai	2024 Wyndham champion and 2026 PGA Championship winner, one of the most accurate drivers alive
Patrick Cantlay	Elite tee-to-green profile, still chasing a first win since 2022

Event: 2026 Wyndham Championship, PGA Tour regular season finale, $8.5 million purse
Dates: Thursday, August 6 to Sunday, August 9, 2026
Venue: Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, North Carolina (par 70, 7,131 yards)
Watch: Golf Channel Thursday and Friday 3 to 6 p.m. ET, Golf Channel 1 to 3 p.m. ET and CBS 3 to 6 p.m. ET Saturday and Sunday
Stream: PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ from 6:45 a.m. ET Thursday and Friday and 7:45 a.m. ET on the weekend, with the CBS window simulcast on Paramount+

How to watch the 2026 Wyndham Championship

Sedgefield sits on the southwest side of Greensboro, and the tournament fills all four competition days from Thursday, August 6 through Sunday, August 9. Golf Channel owns the weekday windows and CBS takes the weekend afternoons.

Television: Golf Channel carries Thursday and Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. ET, which is 2 to 5 p.m. CT and noon to 3 p.m. PT. On Saturday and Sunday, Golf Channel opens from 1 to 3 p.m. ET (noon to 2 p.m. CT, 10 a.m. to noon PT), then CBS takes over from 3 to 6 p.m. ET (2 to 5 p.m. CT, noon to 3 p.m. PT).

Streaming: PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ runs from 6:45 a.m. ET on Thursday and Friday and 7:45 a.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday, through the end of play at 6 p.m. ET, with a main feed plus marquee group, featured groups and featured holes. Paramount+ simulcasts the CBS window, and Golf Channel's telecasts are also available on the Golf Channel app.

Tournament overview: the last exit before the playoffs

This is the 87th Wyndham Championship and the 20th consecutive year under the current title sponsor, played in the year Sedgefield Country Club turns 100. The purse is $8.5 million, with $1.53 million and 500 FedExCup points to the winner, and 147 players are in the field.

What makes the week different from a normal August stop is the cutline behind the cutline. The top 70 in FedExCup points advance to the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the top 50 from there reach the BMW Championship, and only 30 make the Tour Championship. Sunday evening in Greensboro is where that first number gets locked.

Jackson Koivun is the story. The 21-year-old won the 3M Open two weeks ago in his third start as a professional, setting the tournament record at 25 under and holding off Scottie Scheffler by three, and that result vaulted him from nowhere to 70th on the points list. He could not build a cushion at last week's Rocket Classic, finishing T31, so he arrives holding the final qualifying spot by 12 points over Mac Meissner and 18 over Keegan Bradley.

Behind them the math gets steep in a hurry. Andrew Putnam sits 73rd, Jason Day 75th, Stephan Jaeger 77th, Tom Hoge 79th and Matt Wallace 80th, and by the time you reach the low 80s a player needs something close to a top-10 just to have a mathematical path. Brooks Koepka is 86th after one top-10 in 15 starts this season, which in practice means he needs to contend, not cash. Justin Thomas is comfortably inside at 39th but has not won all year, with a T8 at THE PLAYERS and a T4 at the PGA Championship as his best work.

Jordan Spieth is making his fifth Wyndham start and his first since 2023, when he finished T12 and missed a birdie chip at the last that would have put him into the playoffs. Michael Thorbjornsen, who won the Rocket Classic on Sunday and secured his own place, withdrew from this week's field.

The course: the only Donald Ross left on the regular rotation

Sedgefield opened in 1926 and is the only Donald Ross design the PGA Tour visits in its regular schedule. It plays as a par 70 at 7,131 yards, which by 2026 standards is short, and it is short on purpose. There are 12 par 4s, four par 3s and just two par 5s, and the two par 5s measure 529 and 545 yards, meaning both are reachable for most of this field.

The real character sits in the par 4s. Eight of the twelve measure between 400 and 450 yards, which funnels an enormous share of the week's approach shots into the 100 to 175 yard band. Three others stretch past 485 yards, and the par 3s run 174, 175, 223 and 235, so the long clubs do get used, just not off the tee on most holes. Roughly 25 of the property's 130 acres are maintained as fairway, with about 75 acres in rough, and the rough is up to about two and three quarter inches this week.

Then there are the greens. They are Champion Bermuda, they average around 6,000 square feet, they carry the original Ross tilt and interior movement, and they are running near 12 and a half feet on the Stimpmeter. Small, fast, sloped and grainy is a specific test, and it is why the long-term Bermuda putters tend to keep showing up on this leaderboard.

Scoring history says it yields. The winning score has been 20 under or better in eight of the last ten editions: Si Woo Kim at 21 under in 2016, Henrik Stenson at 22 under in 2017, Brandt Snedeker at 21 under in 2018, J.T. Poston at 22 under in 2019, Jim Herman at 21 under in 2020, Kevin Kisner at 15 under in 2021, Tom Kim at 20 under in 2022, Lucas Glover at 20 under in 2023, Aaron Rai at 18 under in 2024 and Cameron Young at 22 under last year. The 72-hole tournament record of 258 is shared three ways by Stenson, Poston and Young. Snedeker shot 59 here in the opening round of 2018.

Weather: warm, soft, and the storms are the variable

The Greensboro forecast points to a classic Carolina August: highs in the mid to upper 80s, wind mostly in the 5 to 10 mph range, and pop-up afternoon thunderstorms in play during the opening two rounds before things dry out for the weekend. Wind is not expected to be a real defense at any point, and the course is expected to stay soft. Soft and calm on a short par 70 with receptive greens is exactly the recipe that has produced eight 20-under weeks in ten years. The one thing worth tracking is the storm risk, because a delay reshuffles tee times and wave advantage more here than a stiff breeze would.

The field and the favorites

Cameron Young: the defending champion who changed everything here

Young is the highest-ranked player in the field and the reason the top of the board looks the way it does. His 2025 win at Sedgefield was his first on the PGA Tour, and it was not close. He opened 63 to 62, ran away to a six-shot win over Mac Meissner, matched the tournament record at 22 under 258, and became the 1,000th different winner in PGA Tour history in the process.

What he did next is the part that matters for this week. He won THE PLAYERS Championship in March by a shot over Matt Fitzpatrick, then won the Cadillac Championship in early May by six over Scottie Scheffler, and he has spent the season as one of the two or three best players in the world. A Wake Forest man returning to a North Carolina golf course where he broke through, hunting a third win of the year, is about as clean a narrative as this event ever gets.

The counterweight is history. Only Sam Snead has ever won this tournament in consecutive years, in 1954 and 1955, and no player has won it twice since it moved to Sedgefield in 2008. Nobody repeats here, and the reason is structural rather than mystical: a short course with a soft setup compresses the field, and a compressed field is where the second-best 30 players in the tournament all get a live chance on Sunday.

Ben Griffin: the local with the receipts

Griffin grew up in Chapel Hill, about an hour down the road, and played his college golf at North Carolina. In four Wyndham starts he has finished fourth in 2022, T7 in 2024 and T11 last year, which is three top-11s in four tries at a venue where course history genuinely correlates. He missed the cut at the Rocket Classic last week, but he has four top-10 finishes since late April.

Proximity matters more at this event than at most. Wake Forest's Cameron Young and Webb Simpson both won here, and a player who has spent a lifetime putting on Bermuda in North Carolina heat is not learning anything new on Thursday morning.

Jackson Koivun: the bubble boy with a trophy

Koivun is 21, he has been a professional for about six weeks, and he has already won a PGA Tour event by holding off the world No. 1. He is also playing for his season. Sitting 70th with a 12-point margin means a missed cut can end his playoff run outright, and the pressure of that is genuinely different from the pressure of trying to win.

His approach numbers are the reason he is priced near the top of the board rather than in the pack. On a course that hands out short and mid irons all day, a player who is elite from 100 to 175 yards is in the right room. Whether a 21-year-old in his fourth pro start handles a course he has never seen, with his season on the line, is the honest open question.

Aaron Rai, Tom Kim and the past champions who fit

Rai won here in 2024 at 18 under, then won the 2026 PGA Championship at Aronimink by three over Jon Rahm and Alex Smalley to become the first English-born PGA Championship winner since Jim Barnes in 1919. He is one of the most accurate drivers in the sport, which is the single most on-profile skill for a course with 25 acres of fairway. Tom Kim won this event in 2022 at 20 under as a debutant, Lucas Glover won it in 2023, Si Woo Kim in 2016, J.T. Poston in 2019 and Webb Simpson in 2011, and all of them are in the field. Snedeker is here too.

The rest of the top of the board

Patrick Cantlay brings one of the best tee-to-green profiles in the field and a long wait for a win since 2022, with his putter the swing factor. Justin Thomas, Hideki Matsuyama, Sepp Straka, Brian Harman, Harris English, Ryan Gerard, Maverick McNealy, Alex Fitzpatrick, Alex Smalley, Tony Finau, Daniel Berger, Billy Horschel and Jason Day round out the recognizable names. Spieth and Koepka are the two biggest draws whose weeks are about qualification rather than contention.

What actually wins at Sedgefield

Start with what the course does not ask for. There is no premium on raw distance here. At 7,131 yards with only two par 5s, both reachable, the reward for an extra 20 yards off the tee is smaller than at any other stop in this stretch of the schedule, and the punishment for spraying it into two and three quarter inches of Bermuda rough is real.

What the course does ask for is a very specific stack: find the fairway, hit a short iron close, and putt well on small, fast, grainy Bermuda. Driving accuracy, strokes gained on approach, proximity from inside 175 yards and par-4 scoring are the categories that keep separating winners here, and none of them are the categories that separate winners at a 7,400-yard bomber's course.

A short par 70 does not make the tournament easier. It makes it narrower. Everyone gets a wedge, so the tournament gets decided by who does the most with the wedge and who holes the most 10-footers.

The scoring average at Sedgefield last year was 69.167, meaning the field played the course under par as a whole. That is the profile of a venue where the cut is deep, the leaderboard is crowded, and a player can go from 40th to fourth with one 62. It is also why the winning number tends to sit around 20 under and why a longshot with a hot putter is never out of the picture.

Wyndham Championship 2026 odds: where the community board stands

Straight with you: as of Tuesday, August 4, the BettorEdge community outright board for the Wyndham Championship had not posted live two-sided prices. The event is listed and the tournament winner market is open, but there was no priced book on it at the time of writing. Rather than dress up a placeholder as a real number, here is the shape of the board without one.

The market read has Cameron Young as the clear favorite and by a distance, with Patrick Cantlay, Jackson Koivun, Justin Thomas and Ben Griffin forming the next tier, then Maverick McNealy, Hideki Matsuyama, Ryan Gerard and Keegan Bradley behind them, and a long tail from there.

It is worth grounding that in probability rather than vibes. Even a dominant favorite in a 147-player field is rarely better than a 10 to 12 percent shot to win, which is roughly a +750 to +900 price. A second-tier name in that same field is usually a 3 to 5 percent proposition, or +1900 to +3200. If you see a number implying much more than 12 percent on a non-signature Tour stop, the price has run ahead of the reality, no matter whose name is attached. Run whatever prices do post through the implied probability calculator before you back anything.

The case on each side of the board

For Cameron Young: the best player in the field by ranking, two wins already in 2026, a six-shot win at this exact venue last year, a course that rewards the iron play he is elite at, and a comfort level with the region going back to college. Course history correlates at Sedgefield more than at most venues, and his is a 22-under blowout.

Against Cameron Young: he will be the shortest price on the board in a 147-man field on a course where the winning score is usually around 20 under and 15 players are within three shots on Sunday morning. Only Sam Snead has ever gone back to back here. Being right about the golfer and wrong about the number is still a losing bet.

For the accuracy tier (Rai, Griffin, Cantlay): the skills that predict Sedgefield are driving accuracy, short-iron proximity and Bermuda putting, and these are the players who own those numbers. Griffin has the local knowledge and three top-11s here, Rai has a win here and the most accurate driver profile in the field, and Cantlay has been gaining more than a stroke and a half tee to green in his best stretches this season.

Against the accuracy tier: accuracy gets you into the tournament, it does not close it. Every one of these names needs a hot putting week on greens that reward feel over mechanics, and none of them have won recently enough to make that a safe assumption. Cantlay has not won since 2022.

For Jackson Koivun: he just beat the world No. 1 to win a tournament, his approach numbers fit the venue as well as anyone's, and a player with his season on the line has the maximum possible incentive to grind out 72 holes rather than protect a number.

Against Jackson Koivun: four pro starts, no Sedgefield reps, small Bermuda greens he has never read, and the pressure of a playoff spot he has held for 14 days. That is a lot of firsts to survive in one week, and the market is already pricing him as though the 3M Open is the baseline rather than the outlier.

If you want the framework for pricing a field event rather than guessing at it, the golf outright betting guide walks through why a 3 percent win chance and a 3 percent price are two very different things.

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Beyond the outright: cut and matchup angles

On a 147-player field, the outright is the fun bet and the smaller markets are usually the sharper one. The cut falls to the top 65 and ties after Friday, and a make-the-cut ticket asks a question you can actually answer: is this player good enough right now to shoot two competent rounds on a course where he knows the greens?

The bubble players are the most interesting names in that market this week, because their incentives are not the same as everyone else's. A player sitting 71st to 80th in points has no reason to protect anything and every reason to attack pins from Thursday morning, which raises both his ceiling and his blow-up risk. That is a genuinely two-way market rather than a formality. The make the cut betting guide covers how to read those prices.

Head-to-head matchups are the other clean angle, and Sedgefield suits them because the skill set the course demands is narrow and measurable. When a venue rewards accuracy and short irons rather than a bit of everything, the matchup that pairs a precise player against a longer, wilder one is a cleaner read than it would be at a wide-open track. The golf matchup betting guide and the top 5 and top 10 finish guide lay out how those markets are built. You can follow the week's prices on the BettorEdge golf hub, and next week's playoff opener already has its own page at the FedEx St. Jude Championship guide.

Tools to check before you back a pick

Know the math before you lock anything in. Turn a price into a true win probability with the implied probability calculator, strip the built-in margin out of any board with the no-vig calculator, and size your payout with the betting calculator.

Wyndham Championship 2026 FAQ

When is the 2026 Wyndham Championship and how can I watch it?

The 2026 Wyndham Championship runs Thursday, August 6 through Sunday, August 9 at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, with coverage on Golf Channel and CBS. Golf Channel has 3 to 6 p.m. ET on Thursday and Friday, then 1 to 3 p.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday before CBS takes over from 3 to 6 p.m. ET. PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ streams from 6:45 a.m. ET on the weekdays and 7:45 a.m. ET on the weekend, and Paramount+ simulcasts the CBS window.

Who is the defending Wyndham Championship champion?

Cameron Young won the 2025 Wyndham Championship at 22 under par, beating Mac Meissner by six shots for his first PGA Tour title. He opened with rounds of 63 and 62, matched the tournament 72-hole record of 258, and became the 1,000th different winner in PGA Tour history.

Who is the favorite to win the 2026 Wyndham Championship?

Cameron Young is the clear market favorite as the top-ranked player in the field and the defending champion, with Patrick Cantlay, Jackson Koivun, Justin Thomas and Ben Griffin next on the board. The BettorEdge community outright board had not posted live prices for this event at the time of writing, so no number is quoted here.

What is the purse for the 2026 Wyndham Championship?

The purse is $8.5 million, with $1.53 million and 500 FedExCup points going to the winner. The field is 147 players.

What kind of golf course is Sedgefield Country Club?

Sedgefield is a Donald Ross design that opened in 1926 and plays as a par 70 at 7,131 yards, the only Ross course on the PGA Tour's regular rotation. It has 12 par 4s, four par 3s and two reachable par 5s, small Champion Bermuda greens averaging around 6,000 square feet, and it rewards driving accuracy and short-iron play far more than distance.

Why does the Wyndham Championship matter for the FedExCup?

It is the final event of the PGA Tour regular season, so the top 70 in FedExCup points after Sunday advance to the FedEx St. Jude Championship and everyone else is finished for the year. The top 50 from that event reach the BMW Championship and the top 30 make the Tour Championship.

Who is on the FedExCup bubble at the 2026 Wyndham Championship?

Jackson Koivun holds the 70th and final playoff spot, 12 points ahead of Mac Meissner and 18 ahead of Keegan Bradley. Andrew Putnam is 73rd, Jason Day 75th, Stephan Jaeger 77th, Tom Hoge 79th and Matt Wallace 80th, and Brooks Koepka sits 86th and needs a big week to play his way in.

Has anyone ever won the Wyndham Championship two years in a row?

Only Sam Snead, who won the event in 1954 and 1955, has ever gone back to back. Cameron Young is trying to become the second, and no player has won the tournament twice since it moved to Sedgefield Country Club in 2008. Brandt Snedeker's two titles came in 2007 at Forest Oaks and 2018 at Sedgefield.

How do I bet on the Wyndham Championship?

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The bottom line

The Wyndham gets the version of itself it always wanted this year: a 100-year-old Donald Ross course, a defending champion who turned this event into a career, and a playoff cutline sitting on a 21-year-old who has held it for two weeks. The setup points at another 20-under week, which means the tournament will be decided by short irons and Bermuda putting rather than by who can carry a bunker. That narrows the list of players who can win it. It does not narrow it as much as the top of the board suggests, which is the whole reason to read the price before you read the name.

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