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…
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…
Wyndham Clark, one of the PGA Tour’s hottest players, withdrew from the Wyndham Championship on Monday. Other players who entered, but have withdrawn include Jhonattan Vegas, Jeremy Paul and Mackenzie Hughes. Additions include Pierceson Coody and Chesson Hadley.
The field of 156 for the Wyndham Championship was filled Monday when recent Wake Forest standout Scotty Kennon, Austin Duncan, Stephen Franken and Tain Lee all shot 6-under 65 at Bermuda Run East to earn the four Monday qualifying spots for this week’s tournament at Sedgefield Country Club. The tournament’s three unrestricted sponsor exemptions are…
Note: Wyndham Clark withdrew from the tournament since this story was written Who’s going to win this year’s Wyndham Championship? Does anybody claim to have picked Aaron Rai last year or Lucas Glover the year before? TriadGolf.com will give it a shot, or at least a prediction of likely contenders. I had to make some…
After an exciting, back-and-forth, 18-hole battle in the final group, a playoff between longtime foes Michael Swaringen of Salisbury and Brant Stovall of Germanton at the Dugan Aycock Davidson County Amateur finished in sudden death. Literally. It was over before Swaringen hit a shot. Winning a tee toss to hit first off the 18th tee…
Lincoln Newton won what turned out to be a father-son battle down the stretch to claim his second straight Triad Amateur championship Sunday at High Point Country Club’s Willow Creek Course. The 18-year-old rising senior at Oak Grove High birdied Nos. 15, 16 and 17 to overtake his father Scott Newton and Jamal Hutchison of…
Brant Stovall of Germanton shot 4-under-par 67 Saturday at Lexington Golf Club to take the lead after the first round of the Dugan Aycock Davidson County Amateur. Michael Swaringen of Rowan County shot 69 for second place. Justin Long was third with 71. Isaac Spencer and Tyler Lambert shot 72. The final round will begin…
Credit the Wyndham Championship’s position at the end of the PGA Tour regular-season schedule for continuing to bolster the field for the Triad’s annual Tour stop this coming week at Sedgefield Country Club. As the last chance for players to reach the top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings and qualify for the playoffs —…