What a year it’s been for Cameron Young.
The New York native finally won his maiden PGA Tour title at the 2025 Wyndham Championship and, 12 months later, returns to Sedgefield Country Club as the betting favorite to repeat. Not only that, Young is now ranked as the No. 3 golfer in the world, only behind Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy.
The 29-year-old has two wins, a runner-up, two third-place finishes, and eight top-10s in 16 starts this season. Making the cut this week would mean he goes the entire 2026 campaign without an early exit, since the three FedEx Cup Playoff events don’t have cuts.
Despite all of that, Young will play second fiddle this week to the second-favorite, Jackson Koivun.
Playing in just his sixth event as a professional golfer, the 21-year-old is the only other golfer besides Young (+850) to be priced under 20/1 at the Wyndham Championship. Koivun, just two weeks removed from his maiden victory at the 3M Open, is 15/1 to lift the trophy at Sedgefield on Sunday.
The rest of the field behind Young and Koivun isn’t that intimidating. Because of its spot on the calendar, immediately before the FedEx Cup Playoffs, a lot of the stars opt to skip the annual trip to Sedgefield. Hideki Matsuyama (20/1), Ryan Gerard (22/1), and Ben Griffin (25/1), round out the top five on the oddsboard this week.
With a weak field and a course that rewards precision over power, the Wyndham Championship is a tournament that regularly produces long shot winners. Jim Herman was 600/1 when he shocked everyone in 2020, Kevin Kisner (2021) and Lucas Glover (2023) were 60/1 in their triumphs, and Young was 55/1 when he broke through last year.
We’ll focus on a few high prices to see if we can find the next surprise at Sedgefield:
2026 Wyndham Championship picks
Ben Kohles (60/1, bet365)
The unheralded 36-year-old is in fantastic form ahead of the Wyndham Championship.
After missing consecutive cuts at the CJ Cup and Charles Schwab, Kohles has rattled off six straight top-30 finishes and has a pair of top-10s in his last four outings, including a T3 at the John Deere just over a month ago.
Kohles’ course history isn’t pretty with a pair of MCs in three starts at Sedgefield, but he’s in the best form of his career and should fit the profile you want at this course.
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Billy Horschel (115/1, DraftKings)
There’s no getting around where Billy Horschel is at in his career right now. The eight-time PGA Tour winner is past his prime, and he’s essentially 50/50 to make the cut every week.
However, when Horschel does make the weekend, he is making some noise.
Horschel has made the weekend just twice in his last five outings, but he finished in the top-15 on both occasions.
I like Horschel’s chances of repeating that trick this week, as he’s had plenty of success at Sedgefield over the years. The 39-year-old has finished 11th or better, including a runner-up (2020) and a solo fourth (2023), in six of his last eight trips to the Wyndham Championship.
This tournament has a habit of rewarding savvy veterans (Kisner, Glover, Herman, and Webb Simpson), and I don’t think it’s out of the question that Horschel joins that list.
Kristoffer Ventura (125/1, DraftKings)
It looked like 2026 was going to be a season from hell for Kristoffer Ventura. The Norwegian missed 11 cuts in his first 12 starts (not including team events), and looked completely out of answers.
But out of nowhere, Ventura finished T5 at the ISCO Championship on July 12 and built off that with a T15 at the Puntacana Championship the following week. He tumbled to T51 at the 3M Open, but bounced right back with a T5 at last week’s Rocket Classic.
Two top-fives and three top-15s in his last four outings are enough to get me in on Ventura at this price against this field.
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Michael Leboff is a long-suffering Islanders fan, but a long-profiting sports bettor with 10 years of experience in the gambling industry. He loves using game theory to help punters win bracket pools, find long shots, and learn how to beat the market in mainstream and niche sports.
