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PGA Tour Wyndham Championship

By Brent Kelley, About.com

About the PGA Tour Wyndham Championship:
The PGA Tour Wyndham Championship is the golf tournament traditionally known as the Greater Greensboro Open or Chrysler Classic of Greensboro. It has been played in Greensboro, N.C., for its entire history. In 2007, the name changed to Wyndham Championship, and the tournament serves as the last "regular season" event on the FedEx Cup schedule.

2007 Tournament
Brandt Snedeker fired a final-round 63 to become the first rookie winner of 2007 on the PGA Tour. Snedeker finished at 22-under 266. He began the day five began but finished it two ahead of runners-up Tim Petrovic, Billy Mayfair and Jeff Overton.

2006 Recap
Davis Love III won by two shots over Jason Bohn. Love posted rounds of 69-69-68-66 for a 16-under-par total of 272.

Official Web site
PGA Tour tournament site

PGA Tour Wyndham Championship Records:
  • Overall: 265 - Jesper Parnevik, 1999
  • Current Course Record - 62 - Davis Love III, 1992; Mark O’Meara, 1996; Jeff Maggert, 1999; Charles Warren, 2005
PGA Tour Wyndham Championship Golf Courses:
Forest Oaks Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., is the host site for the Wyndham Championship, and has been since 1977.

In the early history of this event, the tournament was played on two courses, Starmount Forest Country Club and Sedgefield Country Club, both in Greensboro. The courses shared the tournament in some years; at other times, the tournament rotated between the courses annually.

PGA Tour Wyndham Championship Trivia and Notes:
  • The PGA Tour Wyndham Championship was first played - as the Greater Greensboro Open - in 1939. Sam Snead was the first winner.

  • It's appropriate that Snead won the first tournament, because he later won seven more times (1946, 1949-50, 1955-56, 1960, 1965). His eight wins total in this tournament is the PGA Tour record for most wins in one event. Snead also finished second three times.

  • Snead's final win here, in 1965, was also the 82nd and final win of his PGA Tour career.
  • No other golfer has won the Wyndham Championship more than twice. But seven golfers won won it two times each: Davis Love III, Sandy Lyle, Danny Edwards, George Archer, Billy Casper, Doug Sanders and Byron Nelson.

  • Seve Ballesteros' first PGA Tour win was at the 1978 Greater Greensboro Open.
  • PGA Tour Wyndham Championship - Past Winners:
    (p-playoff)

    Wyndham Championship
    2007 - Brandt Snedeker, 266

    Chrysler Classic of Greensboro
    2006 - Davis Love III, 272
    2005 - K.J. Choi, 266
    2004 - Brent Geiberger, 270
    2003 - Shigeki Maruyama, 266

    Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic
    2002 - Rocco Mediate, 272
    2001 - Scott Hoch, 272
    2000 - Hal Sutton, 274
    1999 - Jesper Parnevik, 265
    1998 - Trevor Dodds-p, 276
    1997 - Frank Nobilo-p, 274
    1996 - Mark O'Meara, 274

    Kmart Greater Greensboro Open
    1995 - Jim Gallagher Jr., 274
    1994 - Mike Springer, 275
    1993 - Rocco Mediate-p, 281
    1992 - Davis Love III, 272
    1991 - Mark Brooks-p, 275
    1990 - Steve Elkington, 282
    1989 - Ken Green, 277
    1988 - Sandy Lyle-p, 271

    Greater Greensboro Open
    1987 - Scott Simpson, 282
    1986 - Sandy Lyle, 275
    1985 - Joey Sindelar, 285
    1984 - Andy Bean, 280
    1983 - Lanny Wadkins, 275
    1982 - Danny Edwards, 285
    1981 - Larry Nelson-p, 281
    1980 - Craig Stadler, 275
    1979 - Raymond Floyd, 282
    1978 - Seve Ballesteros, 282
    1977 - Danny Edwards, 276
    1976 - Al Geiberger, 268
    1975 - Tom Weiskopf, 275
    1974 - Bob Charles, 270
    1973 - Chi Chi Rodriguez, 267
    1972 - George Archer-p, 272
    1971 - Bud Allin-p, 275
    1970 - Gary Player, 271
    1969 - Gene Littler-p, 274
    1968 - Billy Casper, 267
    1967 - George Archer, 267
    1966 - Doug Sanders-p, 276
    1965 - Sam Snead, 273
    1964 - Julius Boros-p, 277
    1963 - Doug Sanders, 270
    1962 - Billy Casper, 275
    1961 - Mike Souchak, 276
    1960 - Sam Snead, 270
    1959 - Dow Finsterwald, 278
    1958 - Bob Goalby, 275
    1957 - Stan Leonard, 276
    1956 - Sam Snead-p, 279
    1955 - Sam Snead, 273
    1954 - Doug Ford-p, 283
    1953 - Earl Stewart Jr.-p, 275
    1952 - Dave Douglas, 277
    1951 - Art Doering, 279
    1950 - Sam Snead, 269
    1949 - Sam Snead-p, 276
    1948 - Lloyd Mangrum, 278
    1947 - Vic Ghezzi, 286
    1946 - Sam Snead, 270
    1945 - Byron Nelson, 271
    1943-44 - No Tournament
    1942 - Sam Byrd, 279
    1941 - Byron Nelson, 276
    1940 - Ben Hogan, 270
    1939 - Ralph Guldahl, 280
    1938 - Sam Snead, 272

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