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The stakes are high at the Wyndham Championship, which begins Thursday at the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., and only part of it has to do with the $1 million winners share of the $5.6 million purse.Just as important are the 500 FedExCup points on the line, and viewing promises to be dramatic as players vie for coveted positioning in the final event before the first leg of the playoffs at The Barclays next week. The top 125 players in the FexExCup Standings will earn spots into The Barclays, which is why all but three players ranked 100-150 are in the field this week.Sitting on the magic number is South Korean Whee Kim at No. 125, but even that spot might not be good enough at the end of the week. Rookie Jon Rahm is in the field playing on conditional status and should the impressive former amateur star win this week, he would automatically convert to official FedExCup status and qualify for The Barclays.The Top 120 players in the FedExCup standings are likely to earn a spot in the first leg of the playoffs with a top-125 finish this week, with all players below them needing strong showings to improve their positions. For example, Camilo Villegas, who skipped the Olympic Games to try to improve his FedExCup standing, enters the week at No. 150 and may need a top-five finish to earn enough points to play next week. The good news? Villegas won the event in 2014 with a final-round 63 and has made the cut in all five appearances.It all equates to high drama over the weekend as every drive, chip and putt could dramatically affect those hovering around the bubble -- and determine whether their season ends this week.Advice for those who want to secure their playoff spots? Go low.Davis Love III, the U.S. Ryder Cup captain who is not in the field this week, won the Wyndham for the third time last year at 19-under, with all finishers in the top nine posting four rounds in the 60. Sedgefield has played as the easiest par 70 on the PGA Tour each of the past two seasons.Ryan Moore, who is coming off a victory at the John Deere Classic last week, posted four rounds in the 60s to finish in a tie for 10th in last years Wyndham -- along with Tiger Woods, who was making a last-ditch attempt to make the playoffs.I like this golf course a lot, said Moore, who won the event in 2009 in a three-way playoff against Jason Bohn and Kevin Stadler. I think its a great course, a lot of character. Youve got to hit a lot of different shots off the tees, into the greens, a lot of different clubs. I enjoy golf courses like that. Its not just get up, hit a driver as far as you can, try and hit a mid-iron and long iron into every single hole. Theres lots of different types of holes out here and thats kind of fun, interesting golf.Moore moved up to No. 23 in the FedExCup standings with last weeks victory. Also comfortably in the field for the Barclays is Tour rookie Harold Varner III, who is 79th. And as a North Carolina native, Varner III is another big fan of Sedgefield. This is his first entry into the Wyndham, although Varner III has played the course many times, and his parents and some teammates from East Carolina will travel to watch the tournament this week.Just real excited, he said. I love playing at home. Just ready to get going. Took the last two weeks off, just been itching to get back.It should be a good time.There are several former winners at Sedgefield, including Brandt Snedeker, who enters No. 6 in the FedExCup standings, making him the highest-ranked player in the standings in the field this week. Other former winners include Carl Pettersson, Arjun Atwal and Webb Simpson, who earned his first Tour victory at Sedgefield in 2011. He and wife, Dowd, named their third child Wyndham in 2014. Simpson has broken par in 19 of his past 24 rounds at the event, posting a win along with three more top-10s.I love coming here, he said. I said to some people last night, living in Charlotte, Quail Hollow is kind of a home tournament as well, but this is a lot closer to home to Raleigh for me. It feels like my home event.I love this golf course. We dont play enough courses on Tour, I dont think, that are as good as this in terms of playability. I feel like, no matter how far you hit it off the tee or what your skills are, everybody is really equal starting the week.Other top names in the field this week include Patrick Reed (No. 8 in FedExCup points), Justin Thomas (No. 9), Kevin Na (No. 10) and Kevin Kisner (No. 11).But the real focus is on those on the bubble -- with former Tour winners Scott Stallings and Kyle Stanley currently sitting at No. 126 and 127. Top 125 not only means a spot in the playoffs, but a Tour card for the 2016-17 season. Those from 126-150 will have conditional status with limited starts -- or choice where those opportunities come. Below that? Its back to the Web.com Tour.Every player from No. 114-135 is in the field. And there is certainly hope. Love III vaulted from No. 186 to 76th with last years victory. In all, five players secured their playoff berth at the Wyndham last year. Among them?One Camilo Villegas.Its a special place for me, Villegas told PGATour.com of Sedgefield. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- You may have to wait until halfway through the medal race to see why defending Olympic champions Eric Murray and Hamish Bond have never been beaten in the eight years they have competed in the mens pair.When rowing becomes a journey through pain and lactic acid and other crews start losing pace, the blond New Zealanders tend to keep theirs, pulling away from the field stroke by stroke until the TV cameras struggle to fit the second-place boat in the same shot.Arguably the best rowers ever, Murray, 34, and Bond, 30, head into the mens pair final set for Thursday with 68 consecutive wins since 2009, including two in the qualifying heats in Rio de Janeiro. So what do they do differently from other crews?Were just better looking, Murray joked to The Associated Press after the semifinals Tuesday. Honestly, we dont do a hell of a lot differently. We train hard; they train hard. We just try to refine our technique and our training philosophy that makes us go fast.Known as the Kiwi pair in the rowing world, Murray and Bond are in a category of their own. As physically fit as anyone, they also have the mental strength to win even when theyre not having a good day.In the semifinals, they looked relaxed throughout the 2-kilometer course even as their opponents were clenching their teeth and grimacing in red-faced agony. After the race they leisurely rowed back down the side of the course while the other crews were recovering in the finish area, bent over their boats, gasping for oxygen.An interesting feature of the Murray-Bond phenomenon is they rarely lead a race from start to finish. Sometimes theyre even in last place at the 500-meter mark and you start wondering whether this is it, theyre done, the spell is broken.Then the battle with fatigue kicks in and other boats start seeing their stroke rate go down.Whereas the New Zealand pair just keep the pace from the start, and then go quicker, said Eelco Meenhorst, who coaches Dutch pair Roel Braas and Mitchel Steenman. Nobody can do that.Except Murray and Bond.Meenhorst said one of the secrets behind their supremacy is their power-to-weight ratio. They are as strong as the biggest rowers but lighter, giving them a weight advantage on the water.He noted that Braas, a 6-foot-6 (2-meter) mountain of muscle, weighs 220 pounds (100 kilograms), whilee Bond is just 187 pounds (85 kilograms).dddddddddddd Still, the New Zealander rows with nearly the same power.That makes a difference, Meenhorst said. Physically they are really, really remarkable.In London, French pair Germain Chardin and Dorian Mortelette were half a boat-length ahead of the Kiwis at 500 meters, but the gap closed with each stroke and halfway through the course Murray and Bond were in front. At 1,500 meters, the French were fighting for silver, already trailing the Kiwi pair by 5 seconds.Chardin and Mortelette will give it another go in Rio, though they admit theres nothing that suggests the New Zealand crew has gotten any easier to beat.From what Ive seen for four years, I dont think so, Mortelette said. But there are boats which have got close.Pete Reed and Andy Hodge of Britain were just three-tenths of a second behind Murray and Bond in the 2010 world championships. But they never got any closer than that, and after three years of finishing second Reed and Hodge switched to the mens four in time for the London Olympics -- a move that paid off with a gold medal. Theyre now racing in Britains eight.Though Murray and Bond havent tasted defeat in the mens pair, it was a bitter loss in another event that paved the way for their current success. Both were part of the mens four that was expected to win the gold for New Zealand at the 2008 Olympics but didnt even make the final.That disappointment prompted Murray and Bond to break out into a pair, and it was clear from the first races how well they clicked. They kept improving thanks to a brutal training regime and years of fine-tuning little details to make the boat go quicker, Murray said.We know what works, he said. Weve got that eight years of experience over pretty much everybody else in our field.Though they gel perfectly in the boat, Murray and Bond go their separate ways once its out of the water. They have different lives and dont really hang out outside working hours.Ive got my family. Hamish has got his partner and everything. We dont go and socialize and live in each others pockets, Murray said. We just make sure that were doing the business in one sense and then doing our own thing in the other. ' ' '