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FORE Right: 2021 Wells Fargo Championship

By Jay Wilhelm

May 7, 2017; Wilmington, NC, USA; Flags and Tee box markers collected for next years tourney returning to Quail Hollow in Charlotte during the final round of the Wells Fargo Championship golf tournament at Eagle Point Golf Club. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports
May 7, 2017; Wilmington, NC, USA; Flags and Tee box markers collected for next years tourney returning to Quail Hollow in Charlotte during the final round of the Wells Fargo Championship golf tournament at Eagle Point Golf Club. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports /
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There are the favorites to win and sleeper picks for every PGA tournament. Then there is FORE Right, a pick farther away from the fairway than most.

Welcome to our new weekly article called FORE Right! Each week before that week’s PGA Tour event we will be choosing someone that isn’t on anyone’s radar to win. A lot of people write about favorites to win. You even see articles about sleeper picks. This one will be choosing one golfer that we think has a shot at winning out of nowhere.

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It will be a little bit of a pure guess and a little bit of doing our homework while watching each week. The favorites are the same as a drive right down the middle of the fairway. The sleepers are the same as a drive just off the fairway in the first cut. Then there is FORE Right! It’s letting everyone know to look out, because you never know.

This week’s FORE Right pick to make some noise out of nowhere is Bo Van Pelt. The American golfer from Richmond, Indiana is currently ranked 177th in the Fedex Cup Rankings and 585th in the Official World Golf Rankings. He has one PGA Tour victory and his best finish so far in 2021 is a T15 at the Puerto Rico Open. Van Pelt has made four of his last seven cuts.

Inconsistency has kept Bo from knocking down the door to victory lately. His last performance of a 3-under T39 at last week’s Valspar Championship could be something he could use to build off of to make a run at his second Tour win.

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Nobody on tour this year has been overly dominant like in year’s past which at a tournament like The Well’s Fargo Championship leaves the door open for anyone to take home the title this week. If Bo Van Pelt can build off of last week and put together four solid rounds of golf in Charlotte, North Carolina, he could make FORE Right’s first installment a hole-in-one.

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