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Each of the four featured groups is stocked
with players hoping to make the cut for the FedEx Cup Playoffs,
a series of three events to determine the FedEx Cup champion and
featuring a bonus prize pool of $60 million.
Full groupings and starting times for the first two rounds of
the Wyndham Championship will be released officially Tuesday
afternoon.
The featured groups announced Monday include former FedEx
champions Justin Rose, Jordan Spieth, and Brandt Snedeker, and
four-time major winner Brooks Koepka.
Koepka (ranked No. 92 in FedEx Cup rankings), Spieth (94) and
Rose (103) will be one of the featured groups. Koepka hasn't
played at the Wyndham since 2015 and broke into the top 125 of
the FedEx Cup standing two weeks ago. Spieth won the 2015 FedEx
Cup title, and is also seeking to qualify for the TOUR
Championship for the first time since 2017. Rose moved inside
the top 125 cutoff line for the FedEx Cup standings with his
ninth place finish at the PGA Championship.
Webb Simpson (No. 3), Sungjae Im (5) and Brendon Todd (9) will
be the highest ranked grouping in the field. Simpson has seven
top-10 finishes in 11 starts at the Wyndham Championship. Im,
meanwhile, led the FedEx Cup standings before the season was
suspended in the spring. Todd, who held the co-lead after the
first round at the PGA Championship, is one of four players with
multiple victories this season.
J.T. Poston (58), Snedeker (96) and Sergio Garcia (134) all have
at least one Wyndham Championship title to their credit.
Poston's first career PGA Tour win came at the 2019 Wyndham
Championship. Snedeker, winner of the 2012 FedEx Cup, won his
second Wyndham title in 2018. This season will only be the
second time Garcia will enter the event ranked outside the top
125. In 2018, Garcia came in ranked No. 131 in the FedEx Cup and
left at No. 128, missing the FedEx Cup for the first time in his
career.
Patrick Reed (6) and Paul Casey (54) will enter with their spots
for the FedEx Cup intact, while Shane Lowry (131) will need to
move up. Reed won his first PGA Tour title at the 2013 Wyndham
Championship and could finish as high as No. 3 in the FedEx Cup
standings with a win. Casey, second at the PGA Championship,
jumped 67 spots (from No. 121 to No. 54) with his performance in
San Francisco. Lowry has reached the FedEx Cup Playoffs twice
before, in 2016 and 2019.
--Field Level Media
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