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Austin Cook (+10000 to win) … Golf. You just never, ever, ever, ever know. After enduring a dreadful 2021 that included 17 missed cuts, including 11 in a row at one point, he settled for 136th in the FedExCup. And even that was possible because a playoff loss at the Shriners last fall served as approximately 64 percent of his season total in points. A T15 at the Barracuda Championship in August was a glimmer, but it wasn’t until a seemingly pedestrian T32-MC-T11 in the Korn Ferry Tour Finals that translated into real success and fully exempt status on the PGA TOUR once again this season. Although splashing at 42nd in the pecking order of his category, he’s already on the board with a T11 at the Fortinet Championship and a solo 67th at the Sanderson Farms Championship, so he’s poised to climb into the top 10 when the first reorder occurs at the conclusion of The RSM Classic, which he won four years ago. Adam Svensson (+8000 to win) … When I signed off on my comment beside him at No. 137 in the full-membership fantasy ranking, I had revised “reinvented” to “refined” as a description of his evolution as a professional golfer. In his only previous spin on the PGA TOUR in 2018-19, the Canadian was among the top 25 in numerous measurements of ability from tee to green, but as it often is with fresh faces, poor putting relegated him to the Korn Ferry Tour. Suffice it to say that he doesn’t belong there, either. With two wins among eight top 10s, he’s back in the big leagues. To the message of what’s better, he slotted 36th on the KFT in putts per GIR during its two-year season, but he still checked in at sixth in accuracy off the tee and 11th in GIR. The ball-striking captured my attention for Port Royal, but the improved putting qualified him for this prop. Cameron Percy (+8000 to win) … This already is his second appearance as a Sleeper this season, and that’s OK. He lined up here for the Fortinet Championship and finished T64. He needed better to fulfill the terms of a Minor Medical Extension but the 47-year-old Aussie is set with conditional status for the remainder of this season. Sometimes, the absence of that hovering is addition by subtraction, but he’d look good in the vacuum of these variables, anyway. He’s cashed in eight consecutive PGA TOUR starts and he’s 2-for-2 at Port Royal where the wind likely connects with the muscle memory of his formative years Down Under. He also led the TOUR in 2020-21 in greens in regulation and finished T7 in proximity to the hole. Beau Hossler (+8000 to win) … After opening last season with five straight paydays in the fall, he went cold until June but four top 25s still left him on the outside looking into the FedExCup Playoffs and ultimately conditional status this season. Still just 26 years of age, he can get over on the learning curve as if he never sputtered. Perhaps a season-opening T16 at the Fortinet Championship served as a combination of a devil-may-care approach and relatively recent form, but it projects to continue at Port Royal where he’s finished a respective T24 and T26, the latter including a second-round 68 on a day when the field averaged 73.64. He split only four (of 14) fairways and hit nine greens in regulation that day, but this patented putter delivered as he needed it just 22 times on the greens. Mark Hubbard (+5000 to win) … Second appearance for the 32-year-old. He finished T41 in the inaugural edition but sat T20 entering the final round. After what was a career campaign in 2019-20, he backpedaled into more familiar territory well outside the top 125 in the FedExCup last season, but he ranked 19th in fairways hit, T52 in Strokes Gained: Putting and T4 in par-3 scoring. Of course, it now means that with conditional status, he has nothing to lose and everything to gain. He’s also picked up the pace in recent months with 13 cuts made in his last 16 starts on two tours. All four top 20s baked in that stretch were on the PGA TOUR, including a T16 at Silverado last month. Odds were sourced on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. For live odds, visit betmgm.

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The Wyndham Rewards Top 10 reaches its conclusion this week at the Wyndham Championship. Thanks to last week’s win in Memphis, Brooks Koepka has locked up first place and the $2 million payoff. Rory McIlroy (No. 2) and Matt Kuchar (No. 3) also have their spots secured, while the next five players are guaranteed some sort of payoff from the $10 million total purse.  Still, there are plenty of scenarios possible this week at Sedgefield, with eight players currently outside the top 10 who could play their way into the bonus pool. In addition, Paul Casey – who’ll start this week eighth in the standings – will look to move up to a bigger payoff. Meanwhile, Jon Rahm (ninth) and Justin Rose (10th) are not in the field and both could be bumped out of the top 10 depending on the final leaderboard. Here’s a look at some of the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 scenarios entering this week: PAUL CASEY (8th) – With a win and the 500 FedExCup points, he could move up as high as fourth in the standings. There are scenarios in which he could drop in the standings, especially if he misses the cut, but he would not drop outside the top 10. WEBB SIMPSON (13th) – He starts 104 points outside of 10th place, so a solo fifth (110 points) or better could move him inside the top 10, depending on who finishes ahead of him. For instance, if Charles Howell III wins and Chez Reavie finishes solo second, both players would have more points than Simpson and move past him inside the top 10, even if Simpson finishes solo third. He projects to fifth with a victory. CHEZ REAVIE (14th) – He starts 123 points outside of 10th place, so a solo fourth (135 points) or better could move him inside the top 10, depending on who finishes ahead of him. For instance, if Howell wins and Reavie and Simpson share second, Howell and Simpson would move inside the top 10 but Reavie would not. He projects to fifth with a victory. CHARLES HOWELL III (17th) – He starts 178 points outside of 10th place, so a solo third (190 points) or better could move him inside the top 10, depending on who finishes ahead of him. For instance, if Simpson wins and Reavie and Howell finish T2, Simpson and Reavie would move inside the top 10 but Howell would not. Projects to sixth with a win. SUNGJAE IM (25th) – He starts 407 points outside of 10th place, so a victory (500 points) could move him inside the top 10, depending on who finishes behind him. For instance, if Im wins and Simpson and Reavie finish T2, then Simpson and Reavie would have more points than Im. SCOTT PIERCY (26th) – He starts 417 points outside of 10th place, so a victory (500 points) could move him inside the top 10, depending on who finishes behind him. HIDEKI MATSUYAMA (29th) – He starts 454 points outside of 10th place, so a victory (500 points) could move him inside the top 10, depending on who finishes behind him. LUCAS GLOVER (30th) — He starts 479 points outside of 10th place, so a victory (500 points) could move him to 10th, depending on who finishes behind him. COREY CONNERS (31st) – He starts 495 points outside of 10th place, so a victory (500 points) could move him to 10th, depending on who finishes behind him. Once play begins Thursday at Wyndham, our FedExCup projections will provide live updates for the Wyndham Reward Top 10 and the rest of the FedExCup standings. Click here to follow along.

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