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| Location | Greensboro, North Carolina |
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| Established | 1938 |
| Course(s) | Sedgefield Country Club |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 7,127 yards (6,517 m) |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | $5.6 million |
| Month played | August |
| Aggregate | 259 Carl Pettersson (2008) 259 Kim Si-woo (2016) |
| To par | −23 Jesper Parnevik (1999) |
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The Wyndham Championship is a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It is played annually in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S., and was originally called the Greater Greensboro Open. In 2007, the event was renamed the Wyndham Championship when Wyndham Hotels & Resorts took over from DaimlerChrysler as title sponsor. It moved from an autumn date to mid-August and is the last PGA Tour event before the FedEx Cup Playoffs, giving golfers one last chance to qualify for the FedEx Cup.
The tournament was founded in 1938 as the Greater Greensboro Open. It was usually played in April or May, until a schedule change in 2003 moved it toward the end of the season. Sam Snead set a PGA Tour record for his eight wins at the event, as well as for his win in 1965, which made him the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event. Both records still stand. Davis Love III, the 2015 champion, is the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event in the Champions Tour era (since 1980), when golfers over 50 began participating in their own separate tour.
Charlie Sifford competed in the 1961 tournament, the first time an African American golfer was permitted to play in a PGA-sponsored event in the South.
The purse for 2015 was $5.4 million; the winner's share was $972,000.
The event has been played in Greensboro for its entire history. In its first four years, it was played at both Sedgefield Country Club and Starmount Forest Country Club. In 1942 it shifted to solely Starmount Forest CC; it was not held in 1943 and 1944. Starting with the 1945 tournament, it alternated between Starmount Forest CC and Sedgefield CC until 1952, when Starmount Forest CC hosted for a 2nd year in a row. It returned to Sedgefield CC in 1953 before Starmount Forest CC hosted three consecutive years (through 1956). Sedgefield CC hosted in 1957 before Starmount Forest CC hosted another three straight 1958–60, then back to Sedgefield from 1961 to 1976. It shifted to Forest Oaks Country Club from 1977 to 2007, then returned to Sedgefield CC in 2008.
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