Wyndham Championship: Top 10 power rankings at Sedgefield

Everyone will be making their Wyndham Championship/Wyndham Clark jokes this week. But did you also know that Webb Simpson named one of his daughters Wyndham after the North Carolinian’s 2011 win?

Clearly, this tournament means a lot to Simpson. The Raleigh native hasn’t missed it since debuting in 2009. That year was his only missed cut.

Since then he’s gone: T8-1-T22-T11-T5-T6-T72-3-T2

That won’t be topped by anyone else in the field.

A shorter, methodical player like Simpson can thrive at Sedgefield.

"“I feel like golf course designers, modern day designers who design the big courses, they can all get a lesson from the Donald Ross,” Simpson said. “Come to Sedgefield, going to a lot of land in Hawaii, going to Hilton Head, these shorter, tighter courses have so much more character and I think that’s what I mean so we just don’t get a chance the play these courses much and you really got to think your away around Sedgefield.  You can hit driver or you can hit 3-iron on a lot of holes.”"

He fired 66-65-64-67 to win by three at 18-under in 2011. Simpson reached that same 262 number last year (66-68-66-62) but couldn’t catch Brandt Snedeker.

Simpson is more than a horse for the course. It was Brooks Koepka’s tournament in hand down the stretch last week at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude, but the solo second-place check will cash just the same for Simpson.

He was also T-2 this summer at the Canadian Open and is riding a whopping eighth straight top-30s going all the way back to the Masters.

Simpson ranks top 20 in all strokes gained stats except for off the tee. He’s 15th in approach, 20th around the green and sixth overall.

Simpson is 160th in driving accuracy but can benefit from hitting shorter clubs off the tee this week.