PGA Tour: Wyndham Championship Winner

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Market context

The Wyndham Championship is the PGA Tour’s regular-season finale at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, played over 72 holes of stroke play on a par-70 layout that has historically rewarded accuracy, approach play and putting on Bermuda greens.[6][7] For a market already priced at **0% YES**, the practical read is that the listed field must still produce an eligible winner from the named selections; if the eventual champion is not among them, the contract resolves to **Other**, and if a listed player is formally eliminated under tournament rules, the market can resolve **No** immediately.[6][7]

For power-users running scripts or conditional orders, the main historical analogue is a low-scoring, late-season event where favourites can shorten quickly but volatility remains high because of weather and the compressed FedEx Cup stakes.[6][15] CBS Sports carried a pre-event preview on the August 6-9 schedule, while PGA Tour notes the defending champion is Cameron Young after his 22-under win in 2025, which makes current favourite-watch logic straightforward: track whether any listed players are withdrawn, missed-cut, or mathematically eliminated, then update positions off official tournament status rather than live leaderboard noise.[2][7][15]

The key catalysts are tee-time releases, withdrawal updates, and weather shifts, especially if afternoon thunderstorms affect Thursday through Saturday as forecast by PGA Tour’s event notes.[6] Sunday was expected to be the most playable round, so bots that monitor conditional exposure should prioritise final-round liquidity changes, official scoreboard status, and any PGA Tour or tournament communications that alter eligibility or completion timing before the settlement window closes.[6][18]

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Methodology

This page is a comparison snapshot: one live quote, four reference venues with their key attributes, and a single execution path — every trade button routes to Polymarket Bot UK, which mirrors the Polymarket order book directly.

Resolution & payout

Settlement runs on-chain. Polymarket's contract logic separates YES and NO shares as conditional tokens; at resolution the winning share lifts to $1.00 and the losing one to $0. The outcome input comes from the UMA Optimistic Oracle, which secures against bad resolution with a bond + dispute window.

Once finalised, the smart contract pays USDC to the holders' wallets within minutes — no withdrawal fees beyond Polygon network gas. Kalshi settles in USD via CFTC clearance, Betfair in account currency net of commission, Manifold in play-money mana with no cash-out.

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