TV times, will an amateur win, can they finish? Everything you need to know about the final round of the 2024 Wyndham Championship (2024)

Matt Kuchar acknowledges the gallery on 18 during the second round of the Wyndham Championship golf tournament at Sedgefield Country Club. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports

The fourth round is running from 1:20 p.m. ET to 3:10 p.m. They did not re-pair and players are being sent off both the first and 10^thtee. It’s possible the winner could finish on the front nine several hours before the last group finishes.

The final group was going to miss its 3:10 p.m. tee time but the Tour pushed back their start to the final round. CBS’s Jim Nantz asked Tour official Orlando Pope if that would doom chances of a Sunday finish.

“No, with the gaps, they’ll fill in the gaps, they’ll catch back up. We should be fine,” he said.

CBS’s Trevor Immelman wasn’t so sure.

“Orlando is a little more confident than what I am,” he said, noting that the 3:28 p.m. tee time on Saturday managed to finish their round. “Zero wiggle room.”

Sunset is 8:13 p.m. here, which means the last group has a little under 5 hours to finish. While that sounds like plenty of time for a threesome to complete 18 holes, the pace of play in the third round was taking longer than that, so time to play fast, boys. Play was suspended on Saturday due to darkness at 8:20 p.m. with players allowed to finish the hole.

A Wyndham Rewards marker is seen on the 16th tee during practice before the 2024 Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club. (David Jensen/Getty Images)

Water stands on the bridge of the 16th fairway during practice before the 2024 Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club. (David Jensen/Getty Images)

With more than six inches of rain dumped on Soakfield, err Sedgefield CC on Thursday and Friday night, it’s been a week of delays and postponements. It’s hot and humid again so a lightning delay of any length would be fatal to a Sunday finish. So would a playoff or just simply slow play. The dreaded Monday finish is a distinct possibility.

Luke Clanton of the United States plays his shot from the seventh tee during the first round of the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club on August 09, 2024 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Photo by Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images)

Amateur Luke Clanton had to wake up early and play three holes on Sunday morning to complete his second round and make the cut. When play was suspended on Saturday due to darkness, he was on the cut line at 4 under. He made two pars and a birdie at No. 9, his last hole.

“Sleeping was not great because I knew I had three more holes that are pretty tough,” he said. “It’s probably the most stressful three holes I played in a while.”

Clanton relaxed and went on a roll, shooting 8-under 62, his third round of 63 or better, the most on Tour since he made his debut at the U.S. Open in June. Clanton had a share of the lead as he played the 11^thhole, his second hole of his final round, when Matt Kuchar made bogey at 14 in his third round. Doc Brown would say the space-time continuum has been out of whack all week at the Wyndham. Clanton is bidding to become the second amateur to win this season on Tour. Nick Dunlap won the American Express earlier this season, the first amateur to do so since Phil Mickelson in 1991.

Clanton, a 20-year-old junior at Florida State, is scheduled to compete in the U.S. Amateur at Hazeltine National in Edina, Minnesota. The stroke-play portion of the championship begins on Monday. Speaking between rounds, Clanton said he has a plan to get there if the Wyndham finishes on Sunday.

“I’m actually taking a private airline to Minnesota, which is very nice,” he said. “It’s pretty expensive, but whatever.”

Clanton could potential complete three rounds in one day and is going to have to play potentially 39 holes and then hop a flight. Asked about how he’s going to do it, he said, “It’s going to be pretty brutal, no doubt, but again, like I signed up to do this. It’s cool to be busy, I’m excited to be out here. To play 36 on the PGA Tour, never complain. I’m still an amateur, 20-year-old, so I’m going to enjoy it.”

Matt Kuchar plays his shot from the 16th tee during the first round of the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club on August 09, 2024 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Photo by David Jensen/Getty Images)

In addition to Clanton’s charge up the leaderboard, Ben Griffin fired a 63 to join the trophy hunt. Max Greyserman, who played his college golf down the road at Duke, made an eagle at the par-5 15^thto grab the lead at 15-under. He shot a bogey-free 4-under 66 to take his first 54-hole lead as he pursues his maiden Tour title.

Cameron Young, who played his college golf nearby too at Wake Forest, was three back and T-2 after a 69 in his bid for his first Tour win. Matt Kuchar, the 36-hole leader, needs to win to get into the playoffs as he seeks a 10th victory on Tour. He’s the only player to qualify for the FedEx Cup every year since the playoffs began in 2007. He was cruising along at 15 under but then made three bogeys in a five-hole stretch to fall off the pace and shot 70.

Victor Perez putts on the 14th green during the first round of the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club on August 09, 2024 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Photo by David Jensen/Getty Images)

The top 70 qualify at the end of the Wyndham Championship, the final of 35 regular-season events in the FedEx Cup, for the playoffs, which begin next week in Memphis.

Heading into the final round, there would be no changes to the 70 who were projected to make the playoffs before the tournament began. Victor Perez started the week as the Bubble Boy and he’s still there. Davis Riley, at No. 71, needs to make up at least three points.Only once before, in 2013, has no one moved in or out of the top 70 at the Wyndham Championship.