August 6, 2009
GREENSBORO – Teachers at public and private schools in the Triad can get free admission to the third and fourth rounds of the Wyndham Championship. Technology Concepts and Design Inc., a Greensboro-based company, is sponsoring the free admission for...
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July 31, 2009
Rocco Mediate, a two-time winner here, will play in next month’s Wyndham Championship, tournament officials said. Mediate has long been a fan favorite in Greensboro, but even more so after extending Tiger Woods to a playoff at last year’s U.S.
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July 29, 2009
GREENSBORO — The Wyndham Championship may have a hard time landing professional golf's biggest names, but attracting corporate sponsors is another story. Tournament officials said Tuesday they expect to sell out their entire inventory of skyboxes an...
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Golf can be a cruel game even to those who play it best. Carl Pettersson found that out the hard way as he wandered away from Sedgefield a year ago and wandered back Thursday a changed man. A hungry man. He won the Wyndham Championship last August, return...
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July 23, 2009
GREENSBORO — It's a long shot — something tantamount to, say, a 59-year-old winning the British Open — but tournament officials would like to invite Tom Watson to next month's Wyndham Championship. Tournament director Mark Brazil said We...
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July 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — Brian Gay, David Duval, Webb Simpson and Bill Haas have committed to play in the Wyndham Championship, tournament organizers said Wednesday.The four join defending champion Carl Pettersson, U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover, Boo Weekley......
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GREENSBORO — The Wyndham Championship already has a commitment from U.S. Open champ Lucas Glover. Can tournament officials land the British Open winner Stewart Cink, too? Earlier this year, Cink told his caddie, Greensboro native Frank Williams, tha...
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July 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — John Daly, David Toms, Boo Weekley and Bubba Watson have committed to play in the 70th annual Wyndham Championship, the tournament announced today. The Wyndham Championship is set for Aug. 17-23 at Sedgefield Country Club. Daly has comm...
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June 27, 2009
GREENSBORO -- The Wyndham Championship landed its first major commitment this summer from a golfer who knows a thing or two about majors: U.S. Open champ Lucas Glover. Four days removed from winning the year's second major, Glover said Friday he will &quo...
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June 26, 2009
The Wyndham Championship landed its first major commitment this summer from a golfer who knows a thing or two about majors: U.S. Open champ Lucas Glover.Speaking after his second round at The Travelers in Cromwell, Conn., Glover said he would “defin...
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June 13, 2009
GREENSBORO -- In these days of government bailouts and fiscal accountability, banking executives have gone out of their way to avoid such lavish events as professional golf tournaments. But there was BB&T CEO Kelly King on Friday, gladly accepting and...
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June 12, 2009
GREENSBORO — Kelly S. King, the chief executive officer of BB&T Corp., has been named honorary chairman of the 2009 Wyndham Championship golf tournament.King, of Winston-Salem, has been the bank's CEO since Jan. 1. He joined the bank in 1972. Th...
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August 18, 2008
GREENSBORO - The 2008 Wyndham Championship ended Sunday with Greensboro written all over it.The tournament returned to Greensboro's historic Sedgefield Country Club, and the winner, Carl Pettersson, graduated from Grimsley High School.On the first tee, af...
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GREENSBORO -- Martin Laird, who tied for fourth place at the Wyndham Championship on Sunday, has won $342,525 in his past two events on the PGA Tour. In his previous 17 starts, he missed the cut eight times and pocketed a total of $145,566. Now he's in th...
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At Sedgefield Country Club Purse: $5.1 million Yardage: 7,118 Par: 70 PLAYER (FEDEX CUP PTS.), PRIZE ROUND-BY-ROUND PAR Carl Pettersson (4,500), $918,000 64-61-66-68--259 -21 Scott McCarron (2,700), $550,800 65-64-64-68--261 -19 Rich Beem (1,700), $346,80...
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GREENSBORO -- A red shirt broke through a sea of red shirts flowing down the fairway at No. 18 on Sunday at Sedgefield Country Club, and Carl Pettersson walked across a rustic footbridge and into Wyndham Championship history. The local boy trudged the fi...
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GREENSBORO - Like many others in the Wyndham Championship field, J.J. Henry put together three straight rounds in the 60s, closing with a 62 on Sunday. The difference is that he did it with a looming -- if pleasant -- distraction. His wife, Lee, is due to...
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August 17, 2008
GREENSBORO — It was as if the tall clock next to the putting green had rolled back to a time when the legend in the straw hat brought passels of people to the tournament now called the Wyndham Championship. Words were spoken Saturday — “We’re runn...
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GREENSBORO -- Playing board member's bounces with the confidence of a local, Carl Pettersson put himself in position Saturday to do something he dreamed of as a kid at Grimsley. He has one more round, one more chance to work out the nagging problem at the...
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What’s the difference between Forest Oaks and Sedgefield? Oh, let’s say about $5.5 million or so. Right now, the most expensive house for sale in the Forest Oaks Country Club neighborhood — a subdivision dating to the 1960s in southeast Guilford Cou...
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GREENSBORO — So far, Scott McCarron is answering the question he has had to pose by word and by phone so often lately: "Can I play?" With another big round at the Wyndham Championship today, the 43-year-old professional, who has lost nearly three years...
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GREENSBORO -- In the old days, the first gathering place for galleries at what was then the Greater Greensboro Open was the city's liquor stores. The tournament-sponsoring Greensboro Jaycees and the local ABC board from 1972-81 unveiled the official GGO d...
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GREENSBORO -- Nothing says Donald Ross like a tiki bar. OK, maybe not. Let's try again. Nothing says Wyndham like a Tiki bar -- and umbrellas, a cabana, a couple of real palm trees and some bikini-clad girls catching rays on sugar-white sand. That's the s...
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August 16, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Wait until Ernie Els, Jim Furyk, Anthony Kim and all those other guys find out that Carl Pettersson shot a course-record 61 on Friday in the Wyndham Championship. They might just blow a gasket or glow green with envy. Or both. Serves them ri...
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GREENSBORO -- Yes, he says, it was the right decision to leave three decades ago. Yes, he says, it was the right decision to return. Wade Peoples was general chairman of what is now the Wyndham Championship when he announced after the 1976 tournament that...
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