Do-or-die time in the PGA TOUR season is here, as the Wyndham Championship represents the last opportunity to get into the FedEx Cup Playoffs, which begin next Thursday. There are plenty of players on the cusp in this week’s field, including 3M Open winner Jackson Koivun ($10,400), who currently occupies the 70th and final spot in the playoffs.

As one of the most talented players in the field, Koivun is likely to draw plenty of attention from DraftKings users, and that’s not the purpose of a pivot play. Pivot plays tend to be low-ownership, high-upside options that could prove the difference with so many different lineups.

Below, I’ve analyzed three of my favorite pivot plays from this week’s featured DFS contest.

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Top Pivot Picks for the 2026 Wyndham Championship

Aaron Rai ($8,800)

I’m not sure that Rai, the surprise PGA Championship winner, should be considered a pivot play, but he’s flown somewhat under the radar as of late because of his poor form. After a solid T-11 at the U.S. Open (56.5 FPTS), Rai returned to his native United Kingdom and missed the cut at both the Genesis Scottish Open and the Open Championship. He hasn’t teed it up since, as he sits 35th in the FedEx Cup standings and is at no risk of dropping out of the top 70.

Succeeding on links courses requires an entirely different skill set than winning at Sedgefield Country Club in North Carolina. According to the Data Golf Course Comparison tool, the Renaissance Club in Scotland is one of the most dissimilar courses on the PGA TOUR circuit to Sedgefield, and Rai ranks 21st in the field by the PGA TOUR’s Course Fit Score. Driving accuracy is especially important at Sedgefield, relative to the average PGA TOUR course, and Rai ranks second on TOUR in fairway percentage. It’s especially penal to end up in anything that’s not either the fairway or the rough, and Rai ranks seventh in Strokes Gained: Approach the Green – Other. Short game is also pivotal, and Rai ranks near the top quartile in Strokes Gained: Around the Green.

Rai certainly has the course history to match the data. He picked up his first PGA TOUR win at the 2024 Wyndham Championship, firing a final-round 64 to win at Sedgefield by two strokes over Max Greyserman ($7,400). Then, he finished in a tie for fifth the following year, his second-best result of the 2025 season. He represents a combination of security and upside matched by few in the field.

Rasmus Højgaard ($7,600)

Unlike his twin brother, Nicolai, Rasmus Højgaard ranks just 103rd in the FedEx Cup standings and needs a good finish to qualify for the playoffs for the first time in his career. Thankfully, he’s trending in the right direction, tying for fourth last weekend at the Rocket Classic (108 FPTS), and he also had a tie for ninth at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches in February (89.5 FPTS). He might fly under the radar because he’s missed two of the past three cuts, but form can change quickly on the PGA TOUR.

Like Rai, Højgaard has a skill set well-suited to Sedgefield, as he ranks 25th by Course Fit Score. Sedgefield requires excellent lag-putting, and Højgaard ranks second on TOUR in Strokes Gained: Putting – Outside 20FT, as well as fifth in Strokes Gained: Putting – 8 TO 20FT. Like Rai, the Dane ranks in the top 30 in Strokes Gained: Approach the Green – Other. He’s less accurate with his driver than Rai is, but he still ranks in the top quartile in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee because of his distance, which is never a negative.

He had a solid performance in his lone prior start at the Wyndham Championship, finishing in a tie for 34th in 2025. In that tournament, he shot three-under 67 in both the first and fourth rounds.

Michael Kim ($7,300)

Kim had a brutal July, missing the cut at the John Deere Classic, the Genesis Scottish Open, and the Open Championship, but after returning stateside, he found his form, finishing T-10 at the 3M Open (102.5 FPTS) and T-8 at the Rocket Classic (89 FPTS). He fired a second-round 59 at the 3M Open and has now recorded eight consecutive rounds under par. Plus, he’s basically assured a spot in the playoffs at 59th, so a lack of explicit pressure could be a good thing.

Kim doesn’t explicitly fit the course quite as cleanly as Rai or Højgaard, as he ranks closer to the middle of the field by Course Fit Score, but there are plenty of reasons to suggest that he could succeed. After all, he just shot 59 at TPC Twin Cities, the third-most similar course on the PGA TOUR, where driving accuracy and short game are similarly valued. Kim ranks near the top quartile in Strokes Gained: Around the Green and 31st in Strokes Gained: Around the Green – Rough. He’s also an excellent long putter, ranking 17th in Putting from – > 25′.

Kim has lots of experience at Sedgefield and a decent track record. He’s appeared at the Wyndham Championship eight times, making the cut on six separate occasions, including each of the last four (although he withdrew due to a back injury after the third round in 2024). His best finish came in 2023, when he fired a third-round 62 to finish in solo fifth.