August 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — Now that the latest version of the Wyndham Championship is history, the question on everyone's mind is: Where does the Wyndham go from here? After all, how do you top one of the most exciting tournaments in years? How do you replicate a...
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August 24, 2009
GREENSBORO — Jefferson Davis reportedly said “an inch is as good as a mile” after Yankees nearly blew up his train in 1865 near Greensboro.Try telling that to Sergio Garcia — obviously the favorite from all the “Go Sergios&rd...
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GREENSBORO — Finally getting its day in the sun, the Wyndham Championship finally looked comfortable in its summer setting. After years of hand-wringing over its sweltering date on the PGA calendar and three days of wringing out a wet golf course, S...
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GREENSBORO — All week, a sullen and stone-faced Sergio Garcia kept telling anyone who would listen that he wasn't happy with his game. Few believed the player ranked No. 7 in the world when he went out and shot 15-under in the first three rounds to...
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GREENSBORO — Last summer, Jason Bohn wasn't sure he would ever play golf again. Yet there he was on Sunday, waiting with his kids at the Victory Junction Gang's inflatable bouncy house to see if his final-round 62 would be good enough to get him int...
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YARDS: 507 PAR: 4 BIRDIES: 3 PARS: 45 BOGEYS: 21 OTHER: 1 The toughest hole on the course decided the Wyndham Championship in the three-man playoff. The first time around, Jason Bohn made bogey to fall out. The second time around, Ryan Moore made birdie t...
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August 23, 2009
GREENSBORO — A solution could be at hand to the Sedgefield Country Club’s need for a real par 5 hole. The two existing holes are too short, some at this week’s Wyndham Championship say, and offer no challenge for players with juice...
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Final Round Groupings and Starting Times TEE # 1 11:14 a.m.Jeff Quinney Scottsdale, AZ 70 67 66 203 Jeff Klauk St. Augustine, FL 69 68 66 203 Tim Petrovic Austin, TX 66 68 69 203 11:25 Jonathan Byrd Sea Island, GA 66 70 67 203 Brian Davis London, England...
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GREENSBORO -- Bill Rendleman didn't finish first, nowhere close, in Greensboro's first golf championship in 1938. The important fact is that he was there, teeing it up with the best-known pros in the world.
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GREENSBORO -- Steve Marino came to Greensboro in search of his first PGA Tour victory, and he caught a cold. In the gloaming Saturday night at Sedgefield Country Club, he nearly caught the leaders at the rain-plagued Wyndham Championship. Marino ro...
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GREENSBORO -- The rain-plagued Wyndham Championship took another hit Saturday afternoon when a summer deluge sent home a huge crowd just as Sedgefield Country Club was turned into a water park. The good news is that everyone is invited back today......
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GREENSBORO -- Sometimes, the second cut is the deepest. John Daly, Davis Love III and 16-year-old amateur Justin Thomas are among the golfers who made the Wyndham Championship's 36-hole standard cut but are subject to eviction from the field this m...
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August 22, 2009
GREENSBORO -- The same people who helped save the region’s only professional golf event now want to ride that energy to create jobs for the Piedmont Triad. An agreement has been struck to put some of the proceeds from the Wyndham Championship...
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GREENSBORO – Due to rains that interrupted the third round of the Wyndham Championship, Saturday grounds tickets and Saturday Ross Pavilion tickets will be honored for Sunday’s final round. Due to space limitations, Saturday hospitality ticket...
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GREENSBORO — You might spend $35 or more per day to check out the action at the Wyndham Championship. For the city of Greensboro, the price tag for the area’s premier sporting event is considerably higher. This year’s tournament will cos...
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GREENSBORO — Don’t even ask which room was Arnie’s when he played in golf championships of old at Sedgefield Country Club. It’s gone, along with all the other rooms that pros, celebrities and people with connections partied and sle...
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The Wyndham Championship didn't start on time today due to lightning and thunderstorms that moved through the area. The tournament is expected to begin about 12:10 p.m. The starting tee times below were before the delay. The groupings below wil...
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GREENSBORO -- It was a busy Friday at Sedgefield Country Club, where golfers had one eye on all those low-hanging clouds, one eye lining up all those birdie putts and another eye doing a double-take at the leaderboard wondering who that 16-year-old kid wa...
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GREENSBORO -- The kids are coming. And they're better than you can possibly imagine. We've heard it before. Saw it with our own eyes when the kids rolled through here a decade ago, just passing through Greensboro on their way to stardom. In many way...
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GREENSBORO -- Bill Haas has been going through clubs the way Al Davis goes through head coaches, but the former Wake Forest golfer admits his personal motto isn't as cutthroat as the Oakland Raiders' directive about winning. "Any time you can m...
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Clubhouse co-leader Chris Riley nearly scored a million Wyndham Reward points when his tee shot on the par-3 16th hole rattled the flagstick Friday. Now it gets even more cruel: Riley didn't even make birdie as his ball careened off the pin and rolled jus...
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GREENSBORO -- It's hard to say what Todd Lewis likes more: playing golf or covering it. No matter, he does both with flair. Lewis, an anchor and reporter for "Golf Central," the daily newscast for The Golf Channel network, is in town this week f...
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August 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — David Finch, who seems as if he’s been on the fairways here since the Sam Snead era, was headed for the buffet table Thursday to fuel up.A hot, heavy-lifting afternoon loomed for the CBS camera operator, who’s 56. But, as...
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GREENSBORO (AP) — Bill Haas has moved into the lead after one round at the rainy Wyndham Championship.Haas had five birdies while finishing his career-best 62 early today to take a two-stroke lead over Brandt Snedeker, Chez Reavie and Ryan Moore at...
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