The Wyndham Champion was held this past week, August 11-17th, at the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro. Camilo Villegas won today by a stroke* and a score of 263, the second best score of all time. In 2011 and in 2014, Webb Simpson and Sergio Garcia, respectively, scored 262.
This week's tournament was the 75th anniversary of the Wyndham Championship. The very first tournament, won by Sam Snead, was played at both Starmount Forest and Sedgefield CC. When this PGA event was founded in 1938, it was known as the Greater Greensboro Open. While the event has moved around some, Including thirty years at Forest Oaks, it has always been held in the Greensboro area.
The above photo is of a 1974 souvenir Kentuky bourbon whiskey bottle, featuring the state of North Carolina as well as the course at Sedgefield. In 1974, Bob Charles won with a score of 270. Something tells us the original cork had a golf ball on top. While the bottle has been empty for forty years, it is a great memory of Greensboro's rich PGA history. Even though the PGA tournament has left the area, we've got a lot more golf weather left for all of the area's beautiful courses.
*results here.
That's a whiskey bottle? I'd never have guessed.
Posted by: William Kendall | Monday, August 18, 2014 at 04:29 PM