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Greensboro's Wyndham Championship Could Benefit From Playoff Changes

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

Greensboro's professional golf tournament has suddenly become a more attractive event for major players now that the Wyndham Championship could get a boost from the PGA's move to put more emphasis - and cash - into the playoffs.

As the last tournament on the regular schedule, the Wyndham has in recent years been a draw for players trying to bolster their rankings or those simply trying to hang on to their professional careers.

A new change could shake-up the field. Next year, the top ten finishers in the regular season will get a bonus as a member of the Wyndham Rewards Top 10.

It's a potential $10 million payoff. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said that might encourage players to enter the Wyndham Championship to try to secure the No. 1 seed or at least improve positions going into the playoffs.

It would be their last chance to improve their standings to earn the lucrative bonus.

The Wyndham program is part of an expansion of prize money which also sees the doubling of bonuses and a $15 million prize to the FedEx Cup champion.

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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