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Power rankings: Wyndham Championship

Patrick Reed sizes up a putt at the Olympic golf tournament. (Getty Images)
Patrick Reed sizes up a putt at the Olympic golf tournament. (Getty Images)

The PGA Tour gets back to its normal schedule, just in time for the end of the regular season. The Wyndham Championship is the cutoff to get into the FedEx Cup playoffs and lock up PGA Tour status for the season that starts immediately after the Tour Championship.

Davis Love III won at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., last year in a shocker, but surgery prevents him from defending a field headlined by a pair of American Olympic golfers in Patrick Reed and Rickie Fowler.

Here are our top five players for this week:

1. Patrick Reed — Reed is a former winner here, doing that in 2013 for his first PGA Tour win. He had a good finish in Rio (final-round wise), and he’s been a top-15 mainstay most of the summer.

2. Webb Simpson — Simpson is the ultimate horse for this course. He is a past winner and loves playing in his home state. Four top-15s in the last five years.

3. Bill Haas — Haas is another horse for course in his collegiate state. He’s got a trio of top-15s here in the last five years and knows how to go to low on this course.

4. Jim Furyk — Mr. 58 is in action for the first time since that historic final round at TPC River Highlands. Second appearance here; was T-9 in 2011.

5. Ryan Moore — RyMo won last week at the Deere, and he’s won here in the past (2009). This is RyMoTime on the schedule.


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