Is a great shot on the golf course a great shot if nobody sees it? Fortunately, a few dozen specatators were near the No. 6 green at Sedgefield Country Club on Friday to witness what will likely be the best shot of the Wyndham Championship. Nobody filmed it. Not the PGA Tour nor Golf Channel.…
Pennson Badgett didn’t win the Junior PGA Championship. But the 17-year-old Pilot Mountain golfer beat Tiger Woods’ son Charlie head-to-head in the final threesome in the final round. Badgett shot even-par 71 Friday at Purdue University’s Ackerman-Allen Course and finished in a tie for fourth place. Badgett posted 12-under 273 in the 72-hole tournament played…
Ben Griffin, the highest ranked player in the FedEx Cup standings, appears set to stick around for the weekend at Sedgefield Country Club. But U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley and Andrew Novak won’t be playing. No. 7 Griffin shot his second straight 67 Friday for 134, to stay safely inside the Wyndham Championship’s projected…
Pennson Badgett will have famous company in trying to chase down leader Lunden Esterline of Andover, Kansas, Friday in the final round of the Junior PGA Championship. Badgett and Charlie Woods, son of Tiger Woods, are tied for second place Thursday at 12-under-par 202 in a 156-player field at Purdue University’s Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex…
Joel Dahmen shot 61 at Sedgefield Country Club, including 29 on the front nine — his final nine Thursday — to take the first-round lead at the Wyndham Championship.. The 37-year-old Dahmen, who joined the PGA Tour in 2017, has a one-stroke lead over Alex Noren and a two-stroke lead over Cameron Young, Nico Echaverria,…
It might be easy to assume that Wake Forest graduate Cameron Young has a home course advantage at Sedgefield Country Club for the Wyndham Championship. Especially after watching him finish with five consecutive birdies on the front nine (his back nine) Thursday to post 7-under-par 63. And he capped the round by sinking a 20-foot…
Jordan Spieth had a typical members’ start on his first three holes at Sedgefield Country Club during Thursday’s opening round of the Wyndham Championship. And the slick, undulating Donald Ross greens gave and taketh away during a 5-under-par 65 that left him among the early leaders. Teeing off before 8 o’clock, Spieth hit his opening…
Pennson Badgett of Pilot Mountain is tied for fifth Wednesday entering the third round of the Junior PGA Championship Boys Division at the Brick Boilermaker Complex on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. Badgett, a rising senior at East Surry High and a University of Tennessee commitment, has carded rounds of 69 and…
Jordan Spieth doesn’t have to finish in the top 50 in the FedEx Cup standings to play in next year’s PGA Tour “signature events.” As he proved this year, his star status is enough to warrant sponsor exemptions. But as Spieth told reporters Wednesday at Sedgefield Country Club on the eve of the Wyndham Championship,…
Spectators who want to watch Jordan Spieth, Akshay Bhatia and Adam Scott play their first round Thursday in the Wyndham Championship better get to Sedgefield Country Club early. Playing in one of a handful of featured threesomes, Spieth, Bhatia and Scott will tee off at 7:23 a.m. on No. 10. Other Thursday pairings expected to…