Aug 5, 2024
Kevin Yu betting profile: Wyndham Championship
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Kevin Yu enters play Aug. 8-11 in the 2024 Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club after a 52nd-place finish in the Men’s Olympic Golf Competition, which was his most recent competition.
Latest odds for Yu at the Wyndham Championship.
The Wyndham Championship tournament and course info
- Date: Aug. 8-11, 2024
- Location: Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Course: Sedgefield Country Club
- Par: 70 / 7,131 yards
- Purse: $7.9M
- Previous winner: Lucas Glover
At the Wyndham Championship
- Yu has played the Wyndham Championship once in recent years (in 2023), posting a score of 4-over and missing the cut.
- Lucas Glover won this tournament in 2023 with numbers of 3.798 in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee (sixth in field), 9.126 in SG: Approach the Green (first), and 4.875 in SG: Putting (15th).
- Glover also posted numbers of 311.6 in average driving distance (27th in field), 90.28% in terms of greens in regulation (first), and 29.75 putts per round (28th).
Yu's recent history at the Wyndham Championship
| Date | Result | Round Scores | To Par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/3/2023 | MC | 72-72 | +4 |
Yu's recent performances
- Yu has made the cut and finished in the top 20 on the leaderboard once over his last five appearances.
- He's qualified for the weekend in four of his last five events.
- Yu has finished with a score lower than the tournament average in one of his last five events.
- He has an average score of 5-under across his last five events.
- In terms of driving distance, Kevin Yu has averaged 304.7 yards in his past five starts.
- In his past five starts, Yu is averaging -0.376 Strokes Gained: Putting.
- Looking at Strokes Gained: Total, Yu has an average of -0.089 in his past five tournaments.
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Yu's advanced stats and rankings
- Yu has a Strokes Gained: Off the Tee average of 0.541 this season, which ranks 12th on TOUR. Meanwhile, his average driving distance (309.4 yards) ranks 20th.
- In terms of Strokes Gained: Approach, Yu ranks 24th on TOUR with a mark of 0.427.
- On the greens, Yu has delivered a -0.510 Strokes Gained: Putting mark this season, which places him 163rd on TOUR, while he ranks 172nd with a putts-per-round average of 30.00. He has broken par 28.18% of the time (eighth on TOUR).
| Category | Overall TOUR Rank | Overall | Last 5 Starts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Driving Distance | 20 | 309.4 | 304.7 |
| Greens in Regulation % | 7 | 70.61% | 54.01% |
| Putts Per Round | 172 | 30.00 | 29.0 |
| Par Breakers | 8 | 28.18% | 22.22% |
| Bogey Avoidance | 136 | 16.26% | 13.89% |
Yu's best finishes
- Yu has not won any of the 21 tournaments he has played this season, though he has collected two top-five finishes and four top-10 finishes.
- In those 21 events, he made the cut 13 times.
- Currently, Yu ranks 87th in the FedExCup standings with 469 points.
Yu's best Strokes Gained performances
- This season, Yu's best Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee performance came in April 2024 at the Valero Texas Open, where he ranked second in the field with a mark of 6.130. He finished 39th in that event.
- Yu put up his best Strokes Gained: Approach effort this season at the Valero Texas Open, ranking sixth in the field at 6.349. In that event, he finished 39th.
- When it comes to Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green, Yu's best mark this season was at the Myrtle Beach Classic in May 2024, as he produced a 1.993 mark, which ranked him 14th in the field. He finished fourth in that event.
- At the Myrtle Beach Classic in May 2024, Yu delivered a Strokes Gained: Putting mark of 3.176, which was his best so far this season. That ranked 22nd in the field.
- Yu delivered his best Strokes Gained: Total mark this season (10.007) at the Myrtle Beach Classic (which ranked him fourth in the field). In that event, he finished fourth.
Yu's Strokes Gained rankings
| Category | Overall TOUR Rank | Overall | Last 5 Starts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee | 12 | 0.541 | -0.400 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Approach the Green | 24 | 0.427 | 0.971 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Around the Green | 158 | -0.322 | -0.284 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Putting | 163 | -0.510 | -0.376 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Total | 90 | 0.136 | -0.089 |
Yu's past results
| Date | Tournament Name | Result | Round Scores | To Par | FedExCup Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 14-17 | Fortinet Championship | MC | 74-69 | -1 | -- |
| October 5-8 | Sanderson Farms Championship | MC | 69-76 | +1 | -- |
| October 12-15 | Shriners Children's Open | MC | 76-67 | +1 | -- |
| October 19-21 | ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP | 59 | 69-74-71-72 | +6 | -- |
| November 2-5 | World Wide Technology Championship | MC | 70-72 | -2 | -- |
| November 9-12 | Butterfield Bermuda Championship | 30 | 71-63-72-65 | -13 | -- |
| November 16-19 | The RSM Classic | MC | 69-72 | -1 | -- |
| January 11-14 | Sony Open in Hawaii | MC | 68-71 | -1 | -- |
| January 18-21 | The American Express | 3 | 66-66-66-63 | -27 | 145 |
| January 24-27 | Farmers Insurance Open | 6 | 64-74-73-67 | -10 | 92 |
| February 1-4 | AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am | 58 | 72-68-73 | -3 | 8 |
| February 8-11 | WM Phoenix Open | MC | 69-73 | E | -- |
| February 15-18 | The Genesis Invitational | MC | 75-75 | +8 | -- |
| February 29 - March 3 | Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches | 9 | 66-67-70-69 | -12 | 66 |
| March 14-17 | THE PLAYERS Championship | MC | 74-73 | +3 | -- |
| March 21-24 | Valspar Championship | MC | 74-69 | +1 | -- |
| April 4-7 | Valero Texas Open | 39 | 72-73-74-67 | -2 | 15 |
| April 18-21 | Corales Puntacana Championship | MC | 72-72 | E | -- |
| April 25-28 | Zurich Classic of New Orleans | 28 | 64-70-62-75 | -17 | 5 |
| May 2-5 | THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson | MC | 68-69 | -5 | -- |
| May 9-12 | Myrtle Beach Classic | 4 | 67-69-66-67 | -15 | 59 |
| May 23-26 | Charles Schwab Challenge | 61 | 69-69-72-75 | +5 | 5 |
| May 30 - June 2 | RBC Canadian Open | 42 | 70-70-67-71 | -2 | 11 |
| June 27-30 | Rocket Mortgage Classic | 31 | 70-70-68-71 | -9 | 19 |
| July 4-7 | John Deere Classic | 20 | 68-63-69-67 | -17 | 43 |
| July 11-13 | Genesis Scottish Open | MC | 73-69 | +2 | -- |
| July 25-28 | 3M Open | 73 | 69-71-75-73 | +4 | 3 |
| August 1-3 | Men’s Olympic Golf Competition | 52 | 73-69-72-74 | +4 | -- |
All stats in this article are accurate for Yu as of the start of the Wyndham Championship.
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