PGA Tour: Wyndham Championship Winner

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Market context

Polymarket is pricing the 2026 Wyndham Championship winner contract at **0% YES**, so on Polygon the market is effectively saying there is no remaining live path for a listed player to win within this settlement framework. The event itself is the PGA Tour regular-season finale at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, with the field and winner still determined by the official tournament result, but the contract has already been pushed to the market’s zero state rather than a normal live-winner price.

That zero can be read against recent comparable mechanics on the same course: the Wyndham is typically a deep field with late withdrawals, exemption additions and Monday qualifiers changing the entrant list right up to the start, and the 2026 field saw multiple swaps before play began, including Patrick Cantlay, Daniel Berger, Garrick Higgo and Taylor Moore withdrawing and replacements coming in [4][10]. The PGA Tour also noted that the field included 18 players from the world top 50 and six from the FedExCup top 25, which usually keeps winner markets concentrated around a small cluster of established contenders rather than long shots [5]. A 0% print here therefore reflects the market’s current on-chain state, not a guarantee about the sporting outcome in the abstract.

For traders, the relevant catalysts are the official PGA Tour leaderboard, the cut after Friday’s second round, and any late tournament rulings, because the contract resolves to **No** if a listed player is eliminated from contention under the tournament rules, while an unlisted champion resolves to **Other** [10][14]. The schedule matters too: the tournament ran 6–9 August 2026, with weekend TV coverage and live scoring driving any final token repricing on USDC-settled conditional tokens [1][5][14]. PGA Tour communications and the official leaderboard are the sources to watch for withdrawals, disqualifications or tie scenarios, as those determine the market’s settlement path [4][14].

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