August 22, 2011
GREENSBORO — Webb Simpson entered into golfing lore Sunday afternoon, winning the Wyndham Championship and taking his place alongside so many who came before him.Some of them stood where he stood. Some of them only came close.
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GREENSBORO — There were winners and losers Sunday in the Wyndham Championship, the last tournament on the PGA Tour’s regular-season schedule and the only one that sends players on to the playoffs and sends others home.The tournament within the...
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GREENSBORO — If you’re not a hard-core golf fan, chances are you don’t know the two players who made the best run at Webb Simpson during Sunday’s final round of the Wyndham Championship.George McNeill, a 35-year-old who played at F...
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GREENSBORO — You might never see another birdie like the one Carl Pettersson made on the first hole Sunday at Sedgefield Country Club.
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August 21, 2011
GREENSBORO — Fans wearily left the grounds of Sedgefield Country Club. A caravan of golf carts with workers who manned the fairways and greens entered. Bags of trash were hauled out. Shuttle buses rumbled away. The last remaining golfers made their...
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GREENSBORO -- A final day in the sun. That's what it's come down to. A day in the hot North Carolina sun. With a beach in the background. And the sound of golf balls instead of school buses. The endless summer ends today. Barring torrential rain. Or an en...
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GREENSBORO -- Blame it on the rain? Perhaps. Maybe the brief shower that cooled the air at Sedgefield Country Club helped Webb Simpson heat up for a torrid back nine and a two-stroke lead heading into today's final round of the Wyndham Championship.
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GREENSBORO (AP) — Webb Simpson grew up in North Carolina, and his favorite memory of the Wyndham Championship was caddying for Neal Lancaster as a teenager during a pro-am. That might change now that he's won the tournament. Simpson claimed his...
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GREENSBORO -- He's the pride of Fairmont, and for William McGirt the playoffs have already started. The PGA Tour rookie came to the Wyndham Championship at No. 127 in the FedEx Cup standings. The top 125 get into golf's four-event playoffs, which begin ne...
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GREENSBORO -- Greens at Sedgefield Country Club won't receive new grass until owner John McConnell sees how the Champion Dwarf Bermudagrass greens work at Starmount Forest Country Club. "I'm a software guy," McConnell said Saturday, referring to...
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August 20, 2011
Webb Simpson of Raleigh is in sole possession of first place at the Wyndham Championship after the third round of play. He is 15 shots under par and two ahead of Tommy Gainey at 13 under par.
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GREENSBORO -- Tommy Two Gloves. The nickname precedes him. It evokes images of a Jazz Age gangster. Or maybe a children's book character. He's not even close to that. Tommy "Two Gloves" Gainey is a redneck golfer. And he's leading the Wyndham Ch...
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At Sedgefield Country Club Course Purse: $5.2 million Yardage: 7,117 Par: 70 (35-35) (a-amateur) Second round Tommy Gainey 63-65 -- 128 -12 Webb Simpson 66-65 -- 131 -9 Stuart Appleby 64-67 -- 131 -9 Daniel Summerhays 66-65 -- 131 -9
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Defending champion Arjun Atwal missed the cut after struggling for two days on the course he played flawlessly a year ago. He was 20-under last year. After rounds of 73-72 this week, he finished at 145, eight strokes off the cut.
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GREENSBORO -- Those aren't a bunch of Myrtle Beach tourists who took a bad left and wound up on the sand along hole No. 15. Nope, the women you see at Sedgefield Country Club in bikinis and board shorts are models hired to pitch the vacation lifestyle for...
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No. 1 tee 8:30 a.m. -- Andres Gonzales, Aron Price 8:39 a.m. -- Briny Baird, Michael Thompson 8:48 a.m. -- Padraig Harrington, Pat Perez 8:57 a.m. -- Bud Cauley, John Daly 9:06 a.m. -- Joe Durant, Kevin Kisner 9:15 a.m. -- Woody Austin, Da...
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August 19, 2011
GREENSBORO -- In a field of stars and major champions, the strongest group of players in a decade, the names atop the Wyndham Championship's leaderboard after the first round are, well, a little surprising.
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GREENSBORO -- The annual assault on Sedgefield's summertime greens continued Thursday in the opening round of the Wyndham Championship. The shots flew in from the Donald Ross fairways and slammed onto his crested putting surfaces, where they stuck. The re...
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Fabian Gomez holed a 5-wood from 247 yards for a double eagle on the par-5 15th hole at Sedgefield Country Club during the first round of the Wyndham Championship. Gomez's shot clanged into the cup on the fly for just the third double eagle on the PGA Tou...
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GREENSBORO -- You can get serious about building sand castles with these guys. Near the Wyndham Championship's fan pavilion around No. 18, two guys shoveled and sprayed down about three truckloads of sand. "What are you building, one of those platfor...
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GREENSBORO -- In June, the sun doesn't set in Iceland. It's part of a summer of daylight in the island nation, a chance to pack a year's worth of golf into four or five months. It's when Olafur Loftsson would play golf for hours and hours and hours -- onc...
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August 18, 2011
GREENSBORO — Webb Simpson believes the wins will come. And who knows? The first could come here. Simpson, 25, is from Raleigh and he has family all over the state, including Greensboro. They'll come to Sedgefield Country Club starting today to watch...
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GREENSBORO — Like a bulldozer in time, a new game is changing the landscape of golf. When the 72nd Wyndham Championship tees off this morning, an era will fade into the background.Professional golf, as we've known it, is no more. In its place is a g...
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GREENSBORO -- In a field of stars and major champions, the strongest group of players in a decade, the names atop the Wyndham Championship’s leaderboard after the first round are, well, a little surprising.
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GREENSBORO -- Marsalis Davis recalls his reaction to learning his mother signed him up for youth golf clinics at First Tee of the Triad. "That's strange," he thought. "I play basketball and football."
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