Sal Johnson

Wyndham Championship

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August 14, 2007

By SAL JOHNSON
Publisher, GOLFOBSERVER
E-mail me at: Golfersal@aol.com

This week's field includes:

• The field includes only three of the top 50 players in the latest Official World Golf Rankings. 40th ranked Anders Hansen, 47th ranked John Senden and 48th ranked Carl Pettersson.
• The field includes only five of the top 50 of this years PGA Tour money list. Those are 29th ranked Brandt Snedeker, 43rd ranked Jonathan Byrd, 45th ranked John Senden, 46th ranked Lucas Glover and 48th ranked Kevin Sutherland.
• The field includes 6 past champions: Brent Geiberger (2004), Shigeki Maruyama (2003), Trevor Dodds (1998), Jim Gallagher, Jr (1995) Mark Brooks (1991) and Joey Sindelar (1985).

A perfect way for fantasy golfers to check on the past performance of all the players in the Wyndham Championship are these performance charts, one with the players listed alphabetically and the other with the players listed by average finish.

One last way to check who is the best is through a special formula worked out in Golfstats that gives us the best average performances at the Wyndham Championship in the last five years.

Time to look at our who's hot and who isn't:

Who's Hot: (Those with *** are in the Wyndham Championship field)
Player	PGA	Bridgestone Reno	Canada	British U.S. Bank	Deere	AT&T	Buick	Travelers	U.S. Open	St.Jude
Tiger Woods	Win	Win	DNP	T12	DNP	T6	DNP	DNP	T2	DNP
Ernie Els	3	T22	DNP	T4	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T51	DNP
Hunter Mahan	T18	T22	T5	T12	DNP	T8	DNP	Win	T13	T17
Padraig Harrington	T42	T14	DNP	Win	DNP	DNP	DNP	T54	Cut	Cut
Jim Furyk	CUT	DNP	Win	T12	DNP	T3	T5	DNP	T2	DNP
Woody Austin	2	T56	DNP	DNP	T50	CUT	T2	T43	CUT	Win
Justin Rose	T12	T2	DNP	T12	DNP	T30	DNP	T9	T10	DNP
K.J. Choi	T12	T11	DNP	T8	DNP	Win	DNP	DNP	Cut	DNP
Steve Stricker	T23	T41	DNP	T8	DNP	2	DNP	DNP	T13	DNP
Scott Verplank	T9	T9	DNP	T57	DNP	DNP	T5	DNP	T7	T8
Sergio Garcia	DQ	T20	DNP	2	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	Cut	T55
Andres Romero	CUT	T6	DNP	3	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
***Brandt Snedeker	T18	DNP	T7	DNP	T32	T8	T10	DNP	T23	T5
Arron Oberholser	T4	T14	DNP	T45	DNP	T45	DNP	WD	CPU/td>	DNP
Vijay Singh	CUT	T56	2	T27	DNP	T12	DNP	DNP	T20	T30
Steve Flesch	T23	Win	T50	T5	CUT	CUT	T52	T67	DNP	T46
Richard Green	T40	T30	DNP	T4	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Who's Not Hot: (Those with *** are in the Wyndham Championship field)
Player	PGA	Bridgestone Reno	Canada	British U.S. Bank	Deere	AT&T	Buick	Travelers	U.S. Open	St.Jude
***Jaco Van Zyl	DNP	72	CUT	CUT	CUT	DNP	CUT	CUT	DNP	CUT
Paul Sheehan	DNP	Cut	CUT	CUT	CUT	DNP	T64	CUT	DNP	CUT
***David Branshaw	DNP	CUT	T66	CUT	DNP	CUT	CUT	T65	DNP	CUT
***Matt Hendrix	DNP	CUT	CUT	T53	Cut	DNP	CUT	CUT	DNP	Cut
Kyle Reifers	DNP	T73	CUT	CUT	CUT	DNP	CUT	WD	DNP	CUT
Jim Rutledge	DNP	CUT	CUT	DNP	T71	DNP	CUT	CUT	DNP	CUT
***Craig Perks	DNP	DNP	CUT	CUT	DNP	DNP	CUT	CUT	DNP	WD
Chris Cox	DNP	DNP	WD	CUT	CUT	DNP	CUT	CUT	DNP	DNP
***Chris Tidland	DNP	T57	CUT	CUT	CUT	Cut	CUT	T46	CUT	T25
***Andrew Buckle	DNP	T57	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	T46	CUT	T25

Who to Watch for at the Wyndham Championship:

Best Bets:

Brandt Snedeker
2006	'05	'04	'03	'02	'01	'00	'99	'98	'97	'96
-	Playing in his first Wyndham	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Full 2007 PGA Tour record

One of the hottest players that is playing this week, look for good things from him. Course should suit his game and don't let it worry you that he has never played here before.

Lucas Glover
2006	'05	'04	'03	'02	'01	'00	'99	'98	'97	'96
T6	T21	T57	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Full Wyndham Championship record

Full 2007 PGA Tour record

Played great last year, he has been Luke warm this year but this could be the week for him to break out.

Jonathan Byrd
2006	'05	'04	'03	'02	'01	'00	'99	'98	'97	'96
T12	T28	Cut	T5	T3	-	-	-	-	-	-

Full Wyndham Championship record

Full 2007 PGA Tour record

Has shown that he can play Forrest Oaks, his game has been good, look for this to be a great week for him.

Best of the rest:

John Senden
2006	'05	'04	'03	'02	'01	'00	'99	'98	'97	'96
T22	-	-	Cut	T38	-	-	-	-	-	-

Full Wyndham Championship record

Full 2007 PGA Tour record

Coming off a good week at the PGA, he could easily be a factor this week.

Kevin Sutherland
2006	'05	'04	'03	'02	'01	'00	'99	'98	'97	'96
T43	Cut	T35	T16	T10	T12	T28	-	Cut	Cut	T44

Full Wyndham Championship record

Full 2007 PGA Tour record

Playing well right now, he can very easily put it together this week.

Shigeki Maruyama
2006	'05	'04	'03	'02	'01	'00	'99	'98	'97	'96
Cut	2	T19	Win	-	CUT	T8	-	-	-	-

Full Wyndham Championship record

Full 2007 PGA Tour record

Loves this course, has done well the only factor is his neck, will it be healthy this week.

Joe Ogilvie
2006	'05	'04	'03	'02	'01	'00	'99	'98	'97	'96
T12	-	T8	-	CUT	CUT	T66	CUT	-	-	-

Full Wyndham Championship record

Full 2007 PGA Tour record

Knows how to play well on this course, you never know if the moons will align and he will have the week of his life.

Longshot's that could come through:

Charles Warren
2006	'05	'04	'03	'02	'01	'00	'99	'98	'97	'96
-	T3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Full Wyndham Championship record

Full 2007 PGA Tour record

Player that has a great future and could be a factor this week.

Jeff Maggert
2006	'05	'04	'03	'02	'01	'00	'99	'98	'97	'96
T52	T41	-	Cut	71	T4	Cut	3	T16	-	-

Full Wyndham Championship record

Full 2007 PGA Tour record

Have to watch him, he has had a lot of good finishes on this course and he could easily rear up and contend this week.

Troy Matteson
2006	'05	'04	'03	'02	'01	'00	'99	'98	'97	'96
T6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Full Wyndham Championship record

Full 2007 PGA Tour record

Another of those players that looks like he can play at Forrest Oaks, we will see if he has a sophomore slump or will be a star.

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