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The Wyndham Championship is the calm before the final storm of the PGA TOUR season. With the start of the FedEx Cup Playoffs just a week away, a lot of the game’s top players are skipping the trip to Greensboro, N.C. in order to get ready for the three-week ride.

Sedgefield Country Club has been the host of this event for almost 15 years, so we have a pretty good idea of what kind of players do well at this track. It’s a beatable course — the winner has posted -21 or -22 in four of the last five years — and is one of a few regular stops on tour that doesn’t play to the bombers. Players like Webb Simpson, Kevin Kisner, and Si Woo Kim have done well here, and none of them are known for their length of the tee.

Because Sedgefield is a place for the plodders and the putters, it has been a happy hunting ground for long shots in the past, most recently with Jim Herman, who won as a massive 600/1 long shot back in 2020.

Here are three longshot tickets worth the ride this week.

Also read: Wyndham Championship modeling and projections

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After finishing 10th at the 3M Open, Hadley had some betting support at a big number at last week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit. Hadley would go on to miss the cut for the first time in seven starts, burning bettors and DFS players who bought a stretch of hot play that included three top-10 finishes, including a fifth-place showing at the Travelers. Instead of abandoning ship, savvy bettors may want to buy back in on Hadley (whether in betting or DFS) at a course that should play more to his strengths than what he saw last week in Michigan.

Although Mackenzie Hughes is coming into the Wyndham off of three consecutive missed cuts, it wasn’t too long ago that the Canadian was getting some sleeper hype, especially in fields like this.

Additionally, this is the type of set-up that should suit Hughes’ skillset. Hughes is not a great driver, and his approach play is hit or miss, but he’s got a magical short game and is one of the best putters in the world. If he can get the rest of his game to cooperate, Hughes could be a threat to contend in a tournament that could turn into a putting contest.

With 14 missed cuts in 27 starts, it’s been an ugly season for Doc Redman, which is why he’s now regularly being offered at huge numbers, no matter the tournament. And while Redman’s overall form is poor — he’s missed the cut in five of his last seven outings — there were some flashes of decent stuff from the former Clemson Tiger recently.

Redman finished T21 at the Barbasol and then had a couple of decent rounds — and one poor one — at the Rocket Mortgage to land T57. It’s not much to go off of, but that’s why he’s 300/1. But what makes him most attractive here is that Redman is a local lad and finished T3 at this course back in 2020.