Featured pairings for the Wyndham Championship

There’s plenty of intrigue heading into the Wyndham Championship: Who will play their way into the season-ending FedEx Cup playoffs? Who will make a last-ditch effort to draw the attention of U.S. Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III?

Here are a few groups to keep an eye on this week in Greensboro, N.C.:

7:50 a.m. (off 10 tee): Webb Simpson, Carl Pettersson, Davis Love III

All three players have won this event in the past, including defending champion Simpson. Pettersson played well at the PGA, holding the lead after two rounds, and is now ninth in the FedEx Cup points race. Love has won the Greensboro event twice, though he may be preoccupied this time around – the captain is also keeping an eye on prospective captain’s picks for the Ryder Cup.

7:50 a.m. (10 tee): Gary Woodland, Y.E. Yang, John Daly

Bubble boys, all of them. All three players are outside the top 125 in FedEx Cup points – Yang is 129^th, Woodland 130^th, Daly 137^th – and they need a good week to reach next week’s playoff-opener at Bethpage Black. Long John is particularly intriguing, given his good form the past two weeks.

8:00 a.m. (10 tee): Brendan Steele, Jhonattan Vegas, Heath Slocum

Still another group on the bubble. (Yep, it’s that time of year.) Vegas (124^th in points) and Steele (126^th) each won last year after graduating from the Web.com Tour, but they’ve endured disappointing sophomore campaigns. Slocum is 128^th in points.

12:40 p.m. (1 tee): Jason Dufner, Bill Haas, Brandt Snedeker

Dufner already has locked up a Ryder Cup spot, while Haas and Snedeker are among the players under consideration for one of Love’s four captain’s picks. Each boasts strong resumes – Haas, for instance, won the 2011 FedEx Cup – but likely need eye-opening performances to earn a spot.

12:50 p.m. (1 tee): Charl Schwartzel, Nick Watney, Sergio Garcia

It’s surprising that none of these elite players have picked up a win in 2012. Watney has five top 25s in his past six starts; Schwartzel has only a pair of top-10 finishes this season; and Garcia has a T-13 and 4^th in his only two appearances at the Wyndham.