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2022 Wyndham Championship leaderboard: Live updates, full coverage, golf scores in Round 4 on Sunday
A rainy Saturday in Greensboro, North Carolina, saw only four groups complete their third rounds at the 2022 Wyndham Championship. With play set to resume at 7:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, it will be a sprint to the finish as Brendon Wu and Sungjae Im command the lead at 12 under with seven holes still needed to be played in their third rounds.
Eight additional players find their names within two strokes of the lead and have an opportunity to chase down their counterparts before the final round even begins.
Russell Henley is one of those players with a chance for redemption as the Georgia product entered Sunday with a three-stroke lead at this very tournament a year ago. Unable to convert this golden opportunity into a victory, revenge must be on the mind as he sits only two strokes off the lead. Factor in veterans like Brian Stuard, John Huh, Anirban Lahiri and young stars in the making such as Tom Kim and Davis Riley, and fireworks should be expected for the final day of the PGA Tour regular season.
Keep it locked here as CBS Sports will be keeping track of everything with live updates and analysis throughout Round 4 of the Wyndham Championship. You can watch the final-round action live on CBS, CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports app from 3 – 6 p.m. ET on Sunday.
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The wild story of how 87 golfers made the cut at the Wyndham Championship
Eighty-seven.
That’s how many golfers survived the 36-hole cut at this week’s Wyndham Championship, the regular-season finale. It’s the most players to make the cut on the PGA Tour since the cut rule changed to low 65 and ties to start the 2019-20 season, breaking the previous high mark of 84 at the AT&T Byron Nelson in May.
There are 21 golfers, including Shane Lowry, who flew home and needed to hire a private jet to get back for his third round tee time (see photo below), Justin Rose and Mark Hubbard, who owe Chris Gotterup big time – at least a thank you note if not a good bottle of wine. When play was suspended on Friday at 8:20 p.m. due to darkness, seven golfers remained on the course with exactly 65 golfers at 2-under or better and 88 at 1-under or better. Four of the remaining players would determine the cut on Saturday morning when play resumed: Bo Hoag (-3 thru 16 holes) Chris Gotterup (-2 thru 17 holes) Austin Smotherman (-1 thru 16 holes) and Joshua Creel (E thru 17 holes).
Hoag made pars to complete a round of 69, while Creel parred in too, but was on the wrong side of the cutline at even-par 140.
Gotterup is a hero to 21 players who have weekend plans and a paycheck thanks to his bogey at the last hole. He went to sleep needing to make a 4-foot bogey to make the cut. He made it and the bogey at the last meant he signed for 69 and a 36-hole total of 1-under 139.
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That brings us to the sad fate of rookie Austin Smotherman. He entered the week at No. 125 on the FedEx Cup point standings. The hot seat got too hot to handle despite a bogey-free 65 in the first round. On Friday, he was leaking oil, 4-over through 16, and facing a 12-foot birdie putt that would have lifted him to 2-under and bounced out all the players at 1-under when play was suspended.
With his 2022-23 Tour card and FedEx Cup playoff hopes hanging in the balance, Smotherman missed the birdie putt when play resumed at 6:47 am on Saturday. But thanks to Gotterup’s bogey, all he needed was a par at his last hole to make the cut on the number. It wasn’t to be. Despite finding the fairway at No. 9 with his tee shot, he pushed his approach at the par 4 from 158 yards and missed the green. Shortsided, his pitch ran 33 feet past the hole. Having to make the par putt, he didn’t come up short, but his do-or-die putt rolled 7 feet past the hole. He missed the meaningless comebacker, tapping in for double bogey and a round of 76.
As Max Homa tweeted of Smotherman, “I feel for him. That’s gotta be brutal to sleep on that with your season on the line #golf.”
The last time 87 players or more made the 36-hole cut on Tour was at the 2018 Wells Fargo Championship (87). The score of 1-under 139 is the highest 36-hole cut at the Wyndham Championship since 2013.
Story originally appeared on GolfWeek
Wyndham CEO says business is ‘off the charts’ as leisure and business travel returns in big cities
The CEO of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts told CNBC on Thursday that strong travel demand in the U.S. has helped the company shake off its pandemic-related slowdown.
While some industries have had trouble bouncing back after Covid pandemic disruptions, business at Wyndham is “absolutely stronger than before the pandemic,” CEO Geoff Ballotti said in an interview on “The Exchange.”
“The intent to travel, to get into your car and drive some place and get out of your attic, get out of your basement, with your family and friends is spectacular,” Ballotti said. “It’s off the charts, it’s unprecedented, and I think we’re going to continue to see that into the fall.”
Wyndham’s hotel brands include Days Inn, La Quinta and Baymont. Business for the hotel franchisor is not only picking up at its U.S. hotels, but internationally too as the number of outgoing flights slowly bounce back. “We’re seeing international airlift continue to increase to destinations like Mexico, where we have a new Wyndham Alltra Cancun and a new Wynhdam Alltra Playa Del Carmen,” Ballotti said.
“People are looking to get away and have a safe and a very flexible and easy vacation, and that’s what we’re seeing,” Ballotti said.
Business travel is coming back at a slower pace than leisure travel, according to the CEO. “Big cities like San Francisco are now just beginning to pick up, it’s those group meeting urban destinations that have been lagging.”
Despite the lag in business travel, Ballotti and other hotel CEOs expect to get a lift beginning next month as the Biden administration lifts international travel restrictions on Nov. 8 that were imposed last year in the early days of the Covid pandemic.
“We think there will be certainly increasing demand in the United States of America. … One thing we need to see pick up is visa applications, we need emergency funding for those visas to be processed,” Ballotti said.
In the U.S., cities like Boston, New York, and San Francisco will continue to see an influx and increase in business and leisure travel for the rest of the year, “which is great news for the travel industry,” according to Ballotti.
Wyndham beat Wall Street expectations in its quarterly results Thursday and raised guidance for the rest of the year. The stock closed up 4.33% Thursday afternoon and trading at $85.84 a share.
2021 Wyndham Championship leaderboard, grades: Kevin Kisner wins record-tying six-man playoff
Kevin Kisner’s playoff record made less sense than anyone’s on the PGA Tour. Until Kisner emerged victorious in a six-way playoff that tied a PGA Tour record Sunday at the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club, Kisner had lost all five he’d been in. That’s stunning on a number of levels, not the least of which is that sprinkled into the middle of all those playoff losses was a win at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, which is the biggest and best heads-up event in the world.
Kisner was awesome on Sunday, making birdie on two of his last three holes in regulation to get to 15 under and join a crowd at the top that consisted of Adam Scott, Si Woo Kim, Roger Sloan, Kevin Na and Branden Grace, but not Russell Henley. Henley led after the first three rounds but missed two putts under 4 feet on the final nine holes to finish T7. It was a brutal ending to what was an amazing performance from him.
Halfway through the first playoff hole, Kisner looked cooked. Scott hit his approach to 4 feet (more on that below), and Kisner had to get up and down from the front of the green. He nearly holed out for a 3 from there, and Scott ended up missing. All six players made par.
Rick Gehman, Greg DuCharme and Kyle Porter break down and react to Kevin Kisner’s victory at the 2021 Wyndham Championship. Follow & listen to The First Cut on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
On the second playoff hole, Kisner hit the shot of the tournament, a leg-kicking, club-twirler to 3 feet for the win. He buried it, and spend the next few minutes shaking hands with every player and caddie on the green like the end of a NHL playoff game. It was a hilarious (and amazing) ending to the PGA Tour’s regular season.
It was also a great end to the regular season for Kisner, who has now finished in the top 10 in three of his last five PGA Tour events and is playing the best golf he’s played in 2021 at the perfect time. He enters the FedEx Cup Playoffs in 29th (the top 30 make it to the Tour Championship) and is now officially on the radar for the U.S. Ryder Cup team, where he would undoubtedly be a popular pick.
Nobody knows how either of those two paths are going to play out (or converge), but Kevin Kisner — literal and figurative Bulldog — has now done the thing you would have expected he’d done all along. He’s won a playoff event, fittingly the biggest one since 2001 and tied for the biggest in PGA Tour history. What that means for the future is anyone’s guess. What it means for the present is that a three-time PGA Tour winner is now a four-time PGA Tour winner, and Kisner has consistently won at the highest level for the last six years (wins in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021), which is as impressive as it is difficult to do. Grade: A+
Here are the rest of our grades for the Wyndham Championship.
Adam Scott (T2): Scott probably should have won this tournament on the first playoff hole. His 65 on Sunday was sweet, and he absolutely flushed it all day, but a pulled 4-footer on that first playoff hole cost him the win. Still, this is his first top-two finish since the start of 2020 as he’s been trying to reorient himself to life as one of the top pros on the planet since the COVID-19 pandemic began. It’s always fun to see Scott playing well, and a little momentum could mean he’s a bit of a factor in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, which start next week. Grade: A
Most players in PGA Tour playoff
| Players | Tournament | Winner | Defeated players |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 2021 Wyndham Championship | Kevin Kisner | Si Woo Kim, Adam Scott, Roger Sloan, Kevin Na, Branden Grace |
| 6 | 2001 Nissan Open | Robert Allenby | Brandel Chamblee, Dennis Paulson, Jeff Sluman, Bob Tway, Toshi Izawa |
| 6 | 1994 GTE Byron Nelson Golf Classic | Neal Lancaster | Tom Byrum, David Edwards, Yoshinori Mizumaki, David Ogrin, Mark Carnevale |
Russell Henley (T7): Sunday was a tough one for Henley, who somehow led after every round but then came up short on what would have been a record-setting seven-way playoff. Henley missed some excruciatingly-short putts, including one at the last hole for par, that really erase how well he played throughout the week. It’s a reminder of how thin the margin is between winning and losing and has to feel overwhelming to Henley, who must have thought to himself “I played this well for four straight rounds and still couldn’t pick up my first win in four years.” Henley is a nice pick to make a little noise in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, but this near-miss will probably sting for a while. Grade: A
Justin Rose (T10): Incredibly, it seems that a three-putt on the final hole of the tournament bumped Rose to No. 126 in the FedEx Cup standings and out of the playoffs and helped Chesson Hadley into the No. 125 slot after he shot 62 on Sunday. Rose does not lose his PGA Tour card, but for somebody who won the FedEx Cup just three years ago, that’s a tough way to go out in the last regular season event of the year, especially after how he played all week and the real chance he had to win the tournament late in the final round. Grade: B-
David Lingmerth (T37): Lingmerth, who started the week outside the top 200 in the FedEx Cup standings, faced relegation not to the Korn Ferry Tour Finals but to Q-School just to get regain his Korn Ferry Tour card. Everyone from No. 126-200 in the final FedEx standings at least gets a shot to regain their PGA Tour cards by finishing in the top 25 at the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, but Lingmerth was outside of that. He had to Monday qualify into this tournament before shooting 68-67 to make it to the weekend. He closed with a 67 on Sunday to get in at No. 199 in the FedEx standings, just under the magic number, and he’ll be off to Korn Ferry Tour Finals over the next month, no doubt rejuvenated given the fact that he was outside the top 1,000 in the world just a month ago. This T37 finish was his third in four starts on the PGA Tour, and he needed them all just to tread water for another month. Grade: A+
Hideki Matsuyama (MC): Despite a late charge on Friday, Matsuyama was the biggest disappointment this week. He came in on a real heater and nearly won last week at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational at TPC Southwind, but his putting let him down and kept him from ball-striking his way up the board on the weekend. He’ll go into the FedEx Cup Playoffs next week with some real momentum, but any time the tournament favorite fails to play the weekend, it’s a bummer of an outcome. Grade: D
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2021 Wyndham Championship picks, odds, field grade, golf predictions, best bets at Sedgefield
The conclusion of the 2020-21 PGA Tour regular season is here after nearly a year of action with this week’s Wyndham Championship. It’s one of the more interesting tournaments to follow all season as players can move inside and out of the top 125 in the FedEx Cup rankings and keep (or lose) their cards by the thinnest of margins. There is plenty of that in play this week at Sedgefield Country Club as the regular season wraps and playoffs start to take shape.
Let’s take a closer look at this week’s contest with odds provided via Caesars Sportsbook.
Event information
Event: Wyndham Championship | Dates: Aug. 12-15
Location: Sedgefield Country Club — Greensboro, North Carolina
Par: 70 | Purse: $6.4 million
Three things to know
1. The Zalatoris Problem: The No. 29 player in the world is playing the Wyndham Championship this week, and it might be his last tournament of the season. Will Zalatoris does not have full status on the PGA Tour despite a terrific season, and because of the way the current system is set up, he will not be in the FedEx Cup Playoffs next week unless he wins this week and earns his PGA Tour card. This will have little bearing on his status as a future PGA Tour member or what tournaments he plays next season, but it would be a bummer for him to have to forego a chance at the monstrous money at stake over the next month as well as a shot at securing one of the last Ryder Cup spots on the U.S. squad.
2. On the edge: Here is the non-exhaustive list of golfers playing the Wyndham who are also trying to get inside the top 125 (or stay in it) and make the playoffs. Not all of them will lose their cards, but there are some huge names in here who could be on the outside looking in come The Northern Trust next weekend. The most intriguing is probably Rickie Fowler, who has played in every FedEx Cup Playoffs since 2010 (and finished in the top 10 in three of them). He won’t lose his PGA Tour card, but he needs a big showing at Sedgefield to have a tee time next week at Liberty National. There are signs that this is possible. He ranks 16th in this field in strokes gained over his last 20 rounds and has made three cuts in a row (and five of six) after a spring full of starts and stops.
3. Webb’s opportunity: Webb Simpson has a lot at stake over the next month. Not only is he one of the few currently outside the top 30 in the FedEx Cup standings who could actually win the FedEx Cup, he’s currently No. 13 in the U.S. Ryder Cup standings. After a summer in which he didn’t make much noise, partly due to an injury that kept him out of the Wells Fargo Championship, Simpson has notched a pair of top 20s in a row at the Open Championship and WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. He’s always a menace at Sedgefield, and with a little momentum now, I expect him to keep it into the playoffs.
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Grading the field
The Wyndham field is almost always interesting, and it has some nice names this year. Hideki Matsuyama, Webb Simpson, Louis Oosthuizen, Patrick Reed, Rickie Fowler, Bubba Watson, Adam Scott, Tommy Fleetwood, Matthew Wolff, Justin Rose and Zalatoris will all tee it up this week. And while only a few of them are having really strong years, all will be nice draws for fans in this regular-season finale with a few of them fighting for a berth in the postseason. Grade: B-
2021 Wyndham Championship picks
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Power Rankings: Wyndham Championship
Rickie Fowler, Tommy Fleetwood, Lucas Glover, Francesco Molinari, Barracuda Championship winner Erik van Rooyen and defending champion Jim Herman will be among the notables reviewed in Tuesday’s Fantasy Insider.
The Wyndham Championship has served as the anchor of the PGA TOUR regular season throughout the FedExCup era and Sedgefield CC has hosted since 2008. Because statuses for golfers will be subject to change at its conclusion, the gathering in Greensboro presents a little like the last day of high school. Some guys never will see each other again, for even a reunion must be earned.
For most, it’ll preface a rebirth that results in a run at the FedExCup during the three-event Playoffs on deck, the Korn Ferry Tour Finals that’s contested concurrently, or perhaps a spot in the second stage of qualifying school to regain status on the KFT in 2022. Churn is the norm in the constant of the meritocracy.
Leading the qualifiers for the Playoffs is the Comcast Business TOUR TOP 10. Of the 25 mathematically within reach to be rewarded, four are in the field at Sedgefield – Louis Oosthuizen (eighth in FedExCup points), Jason Kokrak (12th), Hideki Matsuyama (14th) and Patrick Reed (22nd). Of them, only Oosthuizen can stretch to No. 1. He cannot finish lower than 10th.
Another impactful bubble hovers over Bo Hoag at 125th in points. From Sepp Straka at 105th through Rafael Campos at 151st, only Charles Howell III (137th) isn’t committed at Sedgefield. (CH3 is fully exempt through the 2021-22 season, so he forfeits only the chance to qualify for the 2021 Playoffs).
Sedgefield is a stock par 70 measuring 7,131 yards. With no significant changes and with customarily favorable scoring conditions, it’ll play as the racetrack with which the entrants are familiar. Last year’s scoring average of 68.779 aligned with its recent history.
Bermuda greens are ready to touch 12 feet on the Stimpmeter, but the daily threat for rain and increased chance of storms deeper into the tournament could impact that. The two-and-a-half-inch primary rough will be consistent. Wind will not be a factor, so every bit of the daytime highs in the low 90s will be felt before a relative cooling on Sunday.
En route to the title last year, Jim Herman showcased the textbook formula for success in a shootout. He led the field in greens hit (63 of 72) and finished third in Strokes Gained: Putting, connecting on 14 tries outside 10 feet, tied for most in the field. He went 10-for-21 from 10-20 feet and ranked second in average distance of putts holed.
Because the Wyndham Championship is the final stop before the Playoffs, all top 10s at Sedgefield will be eligible for entry into the Fortinet Championship on Sept. 16-19.
ROB BOLTON’S SCHEDULE
PGATOUR.COM’s Fantasy Insider Rob Bolton recaps and previews every tournament from numerous angles. Look for his following contributions as scheduled.
MONDAY: Power Rankings
TUESDAY*: Sleepers; Fantasy Insider
SUNDAY: Qualifiers, Reshuffle, Medical Extensions, Rookie Watch
* – Rob is a member of the panel for PGATOUR.COM’s Expert Picks for PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf, which also publishes on Tuesday.