GREENSBORO – For the casual golf fan, the 2024 PGA Tour is effectively over. Following Xander Schauffele’s victory at the Open Championship last month and Scottie Scheffler’s gold medal performance in Paris on Sunday, no major tournaments are left to watch until the Masters returns to Augusta next April.
However, the PGA Tour will make its final regular season stop this weekend at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro for the 85th Wyndham Championship.
From August 8 to 11, 156 players will compete for the $1,422,000 winner’s share of a $7.9 million purse. For other contestants, this tournament is their last chance to qualify for the FedEx Cup Playoffs, which begins next week.
“These numbers show the significance of the Wyndham Championship date very clearly,” said Executive Tournament Director Mark Brazil in a press release last Friday. “It’s about making the top 70 and advancing into the FedEx Cup playoffs. It’s about making the top 50 after the BMW Championship in two weeks to be in the 2025 signature events, and with Sungjae Im and Shane Lowry and others that are up there pretty high in points, it’s also about moving up and moving into the top 10 in points for the $40 Million Comcast Business Tour Top 10 that’s awarded after our tournament. This field is one of our strongest ever, and it should be a lot of fun at Sedgefield Country Club [this] week.”
Even though only two top 10 ranked golfers – Im (9) and Lowry (10) – will compete in the tournament, the field has no shortage of big names. Spectators can expect to see Wake Forest University’s Arnold Palmer Scholarship recipients Cameron Young, Will Zalatoris, Bill Haas and Webb Simpson, Western Carolina University alumnus and former Wyndham Champion J.T. Poston, local talents Akshay Bhatia and Chesson Hadley, three-time major champion Jordan Spieth, Open Championship runner up Justin Rose, 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup Team Captain Keegan Bradley, Scottish Open winner Robert MacIntyre, as well as 19 returning 2024 Summer Olympic Games athletes.
Despite being the final tournament of the regular season, the Wyndham Championship is one of the PGA Tour’s oldest events. Established in 1938, the then-Greater Greensboro Open alternated between the Starmount Forest Country Club and its current location at Sedgefield before settling in for a 31-year tenure at the Forest Oaks Country Club. It later returned to Sedgefield in 2008.
The Sedgefield Country Club is also one of two regular-season PGA Tour events originally designed by the legendary course architect Donald Ross. Ross, who apprenticed under the sport’s earliest and most famous professional, Old Tom Morris, took the skills he learned in St. Andrews, Scotland, and designed some of America’s most iconic courses, including Pinehurst No. 2. Past champions include several PGA Tour legends including Sam Snead and Ben Hogan.
If Ross’ notoriously difficult greens aren’t enough of a challenge for the field at Sedgefield, Tropical Storm Debby’s heavy rains and 20 mph winds are certainly poised to make things more difficult.
At this time, no changes to the schedule have been announced, though Governor Roy Cooper declared a State of Emergency on Monday evening. The PGA Tour and Wyndham organizers have stated that they will continue to monitor the storm’s trajectory up the East Coast and adjust accordingly.
