If you're Puyallup's Ryan Moore at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., it's a lot.

• He earned a career-high $918,000 paycheck that puts him 25th on the season's money list at $1,933,727.

• He earns a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour through 2011.

• He earns automatic berths to the season-opening SBS Championship (formerly the Mercedes) in Hawaii, to the Masters in April, The Players Championship, the PGA Championship and to the three World Golf Championship events (Match Play, Doral, Bridgestone).

• With his money position, he's in line to a bid to the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.

Some other facts:

• At 27, Moore becomes the second-youngest winner on the PGA Tour this season behind Dustin Johnson (24).

• He is the most recent winner of the U.S. Amateur to collect a PGA Tour title.

• His 264 winning total was the second-lowest in Wyndham history behind Carl Pettersson's 259 last year.

And for those of you wonder, that wasn't his younger brother, Jason, on his bag this week. It was family friend J.D. Rastovski, who played golf at Central Kitsap, Rogers and at Olympic College.

Puyallup's Ryan Moore is a PGA Tour winner at last.

Perhaps overdue after sweeping aside amateur golf in the summer of 2004 by winning every major tournament, Moore survived a three-man, three-hole playoff Sunday to win the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C.

He rolled in a 9-foot birdie putt on the 507-yard, par-4 18th after hitting an exquisite 6-iron from 181 yards out from the right side of the fairway to defeat Kevin Stadler, who ended up making a bogey.

Jason Bohn was the third member of the sudden-death extra session, but he bogeyed the 18th hole when the trio began the playoff.

Moore was solid all throughout the playoff. He had a chance to win on the first playoff hole, but his 13-foot birdie chance drifted right. Stadler got up-and-down from a greenside bunker to match Moore's par.

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Even with a costly bogey on the difficult 18th hole, Puyallup's Ryan Moore shot a 5-under-par 65, and appears headed to a sudden-death playoff at the PGA Tour's Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C.

Moore, Jason Bohn (62) and Kevin Stadler (66) are all in the clubhouse tied at 16-under 264.

The Cascade Christian graduate and former four-time All-American at UNLV led for a brief moment when he knocked in a 4-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th. He was caught by Stadler.

And on the 504-yard, par-4 18th at Sedgefield Country Club, playing as the most difficult hole all week, Moore narrowly avoided the cart path, and drove into a thick patch of rough on the right side.

He tried to muscle out a 5-iron from 206 yards out, and hit more grass than ball. The ball came out fat, and landed in a sand bunker short of the green.

His 9-iron third shot from 51 yards away landed close, but Moore's 8-foot par-saving putt up the hill slid by on the left.

"Just lost the speed," Moore told CBS Sports after his round. "These greens have really quickened up … but they haven't been quick all week."

Standing on the 18th tee with a one-stroke lead, Stadler, too, hit his drive into the right rough. He had to hit a wedge out, and his third shot from 144 yards out hit a slope on the left side, and trickled back toward the hole.

Facing an 8-foot par putt to win the tournament, Stadler's putt also lost speed and missed on the low side.

This is the second consecutive season Moore has been in a playoff. He lost to Adam Scott in the 2008 Byron Nelson Championship last April.

Puyallup's Ryan Moore completed his rain-delayed third round of the PGA Tour's Wyndham Championship by firing an even-par 70, falling into a tie for ninth at 11-under 199 – four strokes behind leaders Sergio Garcia and Chris Riley.

Moore tees off today at 9:42 a.m. PDT with another Northwest product – Seattle's Fred Couples.