Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, NC - One week after the PGA Championship, and one week before The PGA Tour Playoffs, we have the Wyndham Championship.
This is the final week for players to accumulate FedExCup points and get into the first Playoff event next week, The Barclays. The top 125 in the standings after Sunday will make it into the field at Bethpage next Thursday.
Rod Pampling holds that tenuous 125th spot heading into the Wyndham Championship. Immediately behind him are Brendan Steele, Retief Goosen, Heath Slocum, Y.E. Yang and Gary Woodland, who finished ninth in FedExCup points last year.
All of those players, with the exception of Goosen, are also in the field. Goosen may not mind missing the remainder of the season since he's been battling a back injury.
Last year, Webb Simpson posted a bogey-free, 3-under 67 Sunday to win the Wyndham Championship by three strokes. Simpson ended his first PGA Tour title at 18-under-par 262.
Earlier in the year, Simpson lost a tough battle to Bubba Watson in New Orleans.
Simpson was one shot ahead and lagged his long birdie putt close at the 15th. Simpson grounded the club before he tapped it in and with the putter grounded, the ball moved. The penalty, called by Simpson on himself, cost him a stroke, but neither player could birdie the last three, forcing the playoff.
"It probably moved half an inch. It's a bad rule," Simpson said in a televised interview.
Well, the rule changed and made it easier on players.
Simpson changed as a player too.
He won the Wyndham Championship, followed two weeks later with a victory at the second Playoff event, the Deutsche Bank Championship. Simpson made the U.S. Presidents Cup team and this year has been even better.
He earned his first major championship at the U.S. Open. Simpson, who missed a lot of time after his victory at Olympic Club to be with his wife after the birth of their second child, a daughter named Dowd, also made his first Ryder Cup team.
Golf Channel has the first two rounds, then CBS takes over on the weekend.
Next week is the first Playoff event, The Barclays, which was won last year by Dustin Johnson.
This is the final week for players to accumulate FedExCup points and get into the first Playoff event next week, The Barclays. The top 125 in the standings after Sunday will make it into the field at Bethpage next Thursday.
Rod Pampling holds that tenuous 125th spot heading into the Wyndham Championship. Immediately behind him are Brendan Steele, Retief Goosen, Heath Slocum, Y.E. Yang and Gary Woodland, who finished ninth in FedExCup points last year.
All of those players, with the exception of Goosen, are also in the field. Goosen may not mind missing the remainder of the season since he's been battling a back injury.
Last year, Webb Simpson posted a bogey-free, 3-under 67 Sunday to win the Wyndham Championship by three strokes. Simpson ended his first PGA Tour title at 18-under-par 262.
Earlier in the year, Simpson lost a tough battle to Bubba Watson in New Orleans.
Simpson was one shot ahead and lagged his long birdie putt close at the 15th. Simpson grounded the club before he tapped it in and with the putter grounded, the ball moved. The penalty, called by Simpson on himself, cost him a stroke, but neither player could birdie the last three, forcing the playoff.
"It probably moved half an inch. It's a bad rule," Simpson said in a televised interview.
Well, the rule changed and made it easier on players.
Simpson changed as a player too.
He won the Wyndham Championship, followed two weeks later with a victory at the second Playoff event, the Deutsche Bank Championship. Simpson made the U.S. Presidents Cup team and this year has been even better.
He earned his first major championship at the U.S. Open. Simpson, who missed a lot of time after his victory at Olympic Club to be with his wife after the birth of their second child, a daughter named Dowd, also made his first Ryder Cup team.
Golf Channel has the first two rounds, then CBS takes over on the weekend.
Next week is the first Playoff event, The Barclays, which was won last year by Dustin Johnson.
