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Carl Pettersson spent some of his youth on one of the courses to host Greensboro's PGA Tour event, and he enjoyed one of his greatest professional moments today on another.

Pettersson, the native Swede who lived at Starmount Forest while a student at Grimsley High School, continued and concluded his assault on Sedgefield Country Club today when he won the Wyndham Championship with a 72-hole total of 259, a 21-under-par effort that broke the previous tournament record by six strokes. The 1996 Grimsley grad claimed his third title on the PGA Tour and pocketed $900,000 for his week's work.

Among the perks due to him: a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour; a spot in the 2009 Masters; and participation in the 2008 Tour Championship. And maybe a job on the European Ryder Cup team, for which he made a half-joking appeal to captain Nick Faldo.

"It's a dream to be able to do this for a job," Pettersson said. "It's great to win tournaments. It's wonderful."

His 72-hole score was the seventh lowest in any PGA Tour event this decade. In the past five years, only one man, Tiger Woods, has gone lower. Woods delivered a 257 in last year's Tour Championship.

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