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Snedeker Starts Strong, Hangs On To Win Greensboro's Wyndham Championship

Brandt Snedeker kisses the trophy after winning the Wyndham Championship golf tournament at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Brandt Snedeker won the Wyndham Championship Sunday in Greensboro to notch his ninth PGA Tour title.

Snedeker opened the tournament hot with a 59 - becoming the first tour player this year and just the tenth ever to crack 60. But by the end, it almost took a playoff at Sedgefield Country Club for him to win it.

He headed to his last hole tied with Taiwan's C.T. Pan. But Snedeker's birdie - coupled with a double bogey from Pan - made Snedeker a three-stroke winner.

He ended the Wyndham with a 21-under 259 for his first win since 2016. Snedeker had previously won the Wyndham in 2007, back when it was at Forest Oaks Country Club.

Severe weather led organizers to suspend the third round with 30 players still on the course. They came back Sunday morning, leaving Snedeker with 29 holes to play on the final day.

Pan shot a 66 to tie Webb Simpson for second place.

 

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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