PGA Power Rankings: The 2019 Wyndham Championship

PGA Power Rankings: The 2019 Wyndham Championship

5. Collin Morikawa – (90)

With all eyes on Wolff and Hovland for the most part over the last few weeks, Morikawa first impressed me as I watched him come up the second hole on Friday on-site at the 3M Open. Seeing his effortless, natural swing in person made me a believer in this kid a little more than the others, and although he eventually went on to T-2 while Wolff went on to win, it was pretty evident in my eyes that this kids day would come sooner rather than later.

What I didn’t expect is that it would come so soon. Morikawa followed up that runner-up finish with a T-4 at the John Deere Classic and then went on to capture his first PGA Tour victory at last week’s alternate event, the Barracuda Championship. The victory catapulted him up the FedEx Cup standings to 46th place, making him eligible for playoff action.

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4. Paul Casey – (19)

As far as the OWGR is concerned, Casey is number two overall in this field based on his world ranking of 19th. Currently ranked eighth in the FedEx Cup standings and all but guaranteed three more weeks of golf after this week, Casey is among the favorites at the Wyndham Championship this week. He will make his return to Sedgefield for the first time since 2015, the same year he shot 15-under par here and T-3.

The reason I bumped him down a couple of spots this week, is that it seems that maybe his lack of play this season is starting to show in forms of occasional rust. After his T-5 at the Travelers Championship, Casey struggled in the wind at Royal Portrush en route to a T-57 at the Open Championship and followed it with a T-27 last week at TPC Southwind where he wasn’t great with the flat stick.

3. Hideki Matsuyama – (31)

After an incredible run where it seemed as though Matsuyama was inching closer and closer to that elusive first victory since 2017, he has taken a step back the last couple of weeks, and truthfully, I am surprised he did not take a week off here. Matsuyama missed the cut at the Open Championship, his first missed cut in over a calendar year, and after a great start at TPC Southwind last week, he slowly faded down the standings as the weekend continued, falling into a T-43 finish.

Matsuyama is just inside the bubble for a spot in the TOUR Championship, as he is currently in 28th place in the FedEx Cup standings. He always plays for the win it seems, and a win here might be enough to push him into the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 heading into the FedEx Cup Playoffs.

This year will be the sixth career Wyndham Championship for the Hideki-Bot, and after two missed cuts in 2014 and 2015, he bounced back in 2016 to shoot 15-under par and T-3. He did not play this event in 2017 and returned last year to shoot 14-under par this time around, and T-11.

2. Patrick Reed – (24)

I have to give credit where it is due, because like a lot of the aforementioned golfers in this week’s field, Reed is coming into Sedgefield in his best form of the season, after a mostly rough 2019. Reed has now gone six straight events since the PGA Championship without missing a cut, and he has been pretty well on top of his game over his last four events. In his most recent action, Reed T-10 at the 148th Open Championship, and followed it up with a T-12 at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational last week.

While he hasn’t played the Wyndham Championship a whole bunch in his career, he captured a victory here in 2013 defeating Jordan Spieth in a playoff. He has only played here twice since the win, and he will return for the first time since he shot 10-under par, and finished T-22 in 2016. Reed is currently ranked 50th in the FedEx Cup standings.

1. Webb Simpson – (17)

Not only is Simpson the highest-ranked golfer in the OWGR in this field, but the Wyndham Championship is also almost known on the tour as “his” tournament. For starters, he grew up an hour away in Raleigh, and his win here in 2011 was his first career PGA Tour victory. He has since gone seven straight years making the cut here at Sedgefield Country Club and has four top-six or better finishes, including a solo third place in 2017 and a T-2 last year. Simpson loves this place so much, he named his third-born child Wyndham, a daughter born in 2014.

Simpson is also in great form coming in. He took a T-2 at the RBC Canadian Open into the U.S. Open where he T-16, then after a T-30 at the Open, he was brilliant again last week, and finished alone in second place at TPC Southwind. He is currently ranked 13th in the FedEx Cup standings, and another top-five finish here could push him inside the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 heading into the playoff season. In my eyes, Simpson is the clear-cut favorite in this week’s PGA Power Rankings this week.

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