Box Stage Media’s Golfing Look supplies weekly information and storylines from each and every of the most important North American golfing excursions.
PGA TOUR
LAST TOURNAMENT: Olympic Males’s Golfing Festival (Scottie Scheffler)
THIS WEEK: Wyndham Championship, Greensboro, N.C., Aug. 8-11
Direction: Sedgefield Nation Membership (Par 70, 7,131 Yards)
Handbag: $7.9M (Winner: $1.422M)
Protecting Champion: Lucas Glover
FedEx Cup Chief: Scottie Scheffler
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: Thursday-Friday: 3-6 p.m. ET (Golfing Channel); Saturday-Sunday: 1-3 p.m. (GC), 3-6 p.m. (CBS)
Streaming (ESPN+): Thursday-Friday, 6:45 a.m.-6 p.m. ET; Saturday-Sunday, 7:45 a.m.-6 p.m.
X: @WyndhamChamp
NOTES: That is the regular-season finale, with gamers throughout the height 70 within the FedEx Cup standings following this match incomes spots into the primary leg of the playoffs. Nos. 68-70 coming into the event are Emiliano Grillo, Seamus Energy and Brendon Todd, whilst Nos. 71-73 are Victor Perez, Davis Riley and Andrew Putnam. … Matt Kuchar, the one participant who has certified for the playoffs in each and every season since its inception in 2007, enters the week No. 111 within the standings. He wishes a win to be able to qualify for the FedEx St. Jude Championship. … The sector contains 8 of the highest 30 within the FedEx Cup standings and 21 of the highest 50 within the Reputable International Golfing Rating, led via No. 15 Brian Harman. … Twenty-one gamers within the box additionally competed in final week’s Males’s Olympic Golfing Festival, together with six who lately are between Nos. 61-90 within the standings: No. 61 Min Woo Lee, No. 67 Grillo, No. 70 Perez, No. 79 Nicolai Højgaard, No. 86 Kevin Yu and No. 88 C.T. Pan. … Glover, No. 76 within the standings, seeks to turn out to be the primary participant to effectively shield on the match since Sam Snead within the Fifties.
BEST BETS: Sungjae Im (+1200 at DraftKings) is the highest-ranked participant within the box within the FedEx Cup standings at No. 9. He has completed T12 or higher in 4 consecutive begins, together with a T7 at The Open Championship. … Billy Horschel (+2200) completed T2 at The Open in his most up-to-date get started, and completed solo fourth right here in 2023. … Shane Lowry (+2500) is tenth within the FedEx Cup standings. He had a streak of 3 consecutive top-20s snapped with a T26 at The Open. … Cameron Younger (+2800) remains to be in quest of his maiden PGA Excursion victory. He adopted up a T9 on the Vacationers and a T6 on the Rocket Loan Vintage with a T31 at The Open. … Akshay Bhatia (+3000) has an MC and T64 in his previous two begins. However that adopted a couple of top-5s for winner of this 12 months’s Valero Texas Open. … Robert MacIntyre (+5000) has gained two of his previous seven begins and is the second one best possible ranked participant within the box at No. 16.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: FedEx Cup Championship, Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 15-18
LPGA Excursion
LAST TOURNAMENT: Portland Vintage (Moriya Jutanugarn)
THIS WEEK: Olympic Ladies’s Golfing Festival, Paris, Aug. 7-11
Race to the CME Globe chief: Nelly Korda
NEXT TOURNAMENT: Ladies’s Scottish Open, Ayrshire, Scotland, Aug. 15-18
PGA Excursion Champions
LAST TOURNAMENT: The Senior Open Championship (Okay.J. Choi)
THIS WEEK: Boeing Vintage, Snoqualmie, Wash., Aug. 9/11
Direction: The Membership at Snoqualmie Ridge (Par 72, 7,217 Yards)
Handbag: $2.2M (Winner: $330,000)
Protecting Champion: Stephen Ames
Charles Schwab Cup chief: Ernie Els
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: Friday-Sunday, 6-8 p.m. ET (Golfing Channel)
X: @ChampionsTour
NOTES: The sector contains the highest 5 gamers within the Charles Schwab Cup standings: No. 1 Els, No. 2 Ames, No. 3 Steven Alker, No. 4 Richard Inexperienced and No. 5 Choi. Els is joined within the box via fellow International Golfing Corridor of Popularity individuals Bernhard Langer, who gained the development in 2010 and 2016, Fred {Couples} and Vijay Singh. … Ames tied the event scoring document of 19-under 197 final 12 months.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: Rogers Charity Vintage, Calgary, Aug. 16-18
LIV Golfing League
LAST TOURNAMENT: LIV Golfing UK (Particular person: Jon Rahm; Workforce: Legion XIII)
THIS WEEK: OFF.
2024 Leaders: Avid gamers, Joaquin Niemann; Workforce, Crushers GC
NEXT TOURNAMENT: Greenbrier, WVa., Aug. 16-18
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