PGA TOUR's Wyndham Championship

Site: Greensboro, N.C.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Sedgefield Country Club (7,118 yards, par 70).

Purse: $5.1 million. Winner’s share: $918,000.

FedEx Cup points: 25,000. Winner’s share: 4,500.

Television (all times PDT): Golf Channel (Thursday, noon-3 p.m., 6-9 p.m.; Friday, 3-5 a.m., noon-3 p.m., 6-9 p.m.; Saturday, 3-5 a.m.) and CBS (Saturday-Sunday, noon-3 p.m.).

Last year: Brandt Snedeker won his first PGA Tour title, finishing with a 9-under 63 for a two-stroke victory at Forest Oaks Country Club.

Last week: Padraig Harrington won the PGA Championship, closing with a 4-under 66 at Oakland Hills to become only the fourth player to win the British Open and PGA in the same year. The Irishman ended Europe’s 78-year drought in the event and joined Tiger Woods, Nick Price and Walter Hagen as the only players to win the final two majors in one year. Sergio Garcia and Ben Curtis tied for second, two strokes back.

Notes: The tournament ends the points race for spots in the FedExCup playoffs, the four-event series that starts next week with The Barclays in Paramus, N.J. The top 144 players will be eligible for the Ridgewood Country Club opener. … The tournament is back at Sedgefield after 31 years at Forest Oaks. In 1976 in the last event at Sedgefield, Al Geiberger beat Lee Trevino by two strokes. … Sam Snead won the tournament a tour-record eight times from 1938-65. His 1965 victory made him the tour’s oldest winner at 52 years, 10 months, 8 days. … Puyallup's Ryan Moore and Olympia teenager Cameron Peck are in the field this week.

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