Golf best bets: 2 long shots to target at the Wyndham Championship

The PGA Tour regular season comes to a close this week at the Wyndham Championship from Sedgefield Country Club. Long shots typically fare well here because driving distance isn't nearly as important as iron play and putting, so it's a perfect week to target a few under-the-radar players down the board.

Here are the two long shots we're targeting with outright and finishing position bets at the Wyndham Championship. 

Webb Simpson (+11000 FanDuel)

If you like making golf bets based on course history, Simpson is your man this week. 

Simpson grew up just over an hour away from Sedgefield Country Club, and his first PGA Tour win came at this golf course in 2011. He loves this tournament so much that he named his third daughter Wyndham. Need we say more?

Simpson missed the cut in his first career start at the Wyndham Championship in 2009. Here are his 13 finishes at Sedgefield since then (taking out his WD in 2022): T8, win, T22, T11, T5, T6, T72, solo third, T2, solo second, T3, T7, T5. That's a ridiculous track record of consistency at one golf course. 

Simpson isn't playing well right now, but recent form never matters to him when he shows up at Sedgefield. He missed the cut three times in his five starts leading up to last year's Wyndham Championship and finished T5 anyway. 

Top-10 finish: +900; Top-20 finish: +400