Asher Vargas of Spring Texas won the AJGA Wyndham Invitational at Sedgefield Country Club on Thursday, finishing with a 6-under-par 204 total for 54 holes.

Mason Howell of Thomasville, Georgia, and Ronin Banerjee of Irvine, California, tied for second at 206.

Pennson Badgett (pictured above) of Pilot Mountain, who shot 70 in his first two rounds, moved up the leaderboard with a final-round 68. Badgett, a rising junior at East Surry High, finished second in last month’s Class 2A state tournament.

Mack Edwards of Charlotte and Carson Bertagnole of Pinehurst, two University of North Carolina commits for 2025-26, tied for eighth at 209.