Major champions, Carolina connections headline Wyndham field at Sedgefield Country Club
Defending champion and World No. 3 Cameron Young returns to a deep field featuring Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Brooks Koepka, reigning PGA champion Aaron Rai and one of the strongest collections of players with North Carolina ties on the PGA TOUR
For one week each August, Sedgefield Country Club becomes the center of the PGA TOUR universe — and this year's Wyndham Championship field will arrive in Greensboro with an especially compelling mix of major champions, familiar winners and players with deep connections to North Carolina golf.
The 87th Wyndham Championship is scheduled for Aug. 6-9 on Sedgefield's Donald Ross-designed course. As the final tournament of the PGA TOUR regular season, the event will again determine the 70 players advancing to the FedExCup Playoffs while offering a purse of $8.5 million.
A Defending Champion Returns to Sedgefield
Leading the field is World No. 3 and defending champion Cameron Young, the former Wake Forest University standout who earned his first PGA TOUR victory at Sedgefield last summer. Young overwhelmed the course with rounds of 63, 62, 65 and 68, finishing at 22 under and winning by six strokes.
He returns under dramatically different circumstances. No longer carrying questions about when his first victory might arrive, Young has established himself among the world's elite players and will make his first attempt to defend a PGA TOUR title.
"I love the tournament," Young said during the Wyndham Championship's virtual media day. "It's my first opportunity to defend a championship title. I'm comfortable there, near where I went to college. I like the golf course, and it's just a really nice tournament."
A Field Filled With Carolina Connections
Alex Smalley
Young is part of a significant Wake Forest presence expected at Sedgefield. Thefield also includes Alex Fitzpatrick, another former Demon Deacon who earned his first PGA TOUR victory alongside his brother, Matt, at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans earlier this season. Michael Brennan won the 2025 Bank of Utah Championship and has been on the weekend leaderboard the last two events.
Jackson Koivun
Young's ties to Wake Forest extend beyond his playing career. He recently endowed a scholarship for the men's golf program, crediting coach Jerry Haas and the university for helping prepare him for professional golf.
"It was a really important part of my development," Young said. "The opportunity to give that to somebody else is important."
The tournament's Carolina flavor runs especially deep this year. Raleigh native Ryan Gerard, who starred at the University of North Carolina, enters the week ranked 16th in the FedExCup standings after winning his first PGA TOUR title at last year's Barracuda Championship and recording three runner-up finishes this season. Duke University product Alex Smalley, now a Greensboro resident and Sedgefield Country Club member, arrives ranked 25th in the FedExCup after a season highlighted by a runner-up finish at the PGA Championship along with top-three finishes at the Zurich and Charles Schwab Challenge.
They join Chapel Hill resident and 3M Open winner Jackson Koivun, former Western Carolina University standout J.T. Poston, North Carolina alumnus Ben Griffin and a long list of players whose games were shaped by college golf across the state. That regional connection has long been part of the Wyndham Championship's identity. Sedgefield has provided a familiar stage for former college players from across North Carolina.
Golf’s Biggest Names Return to Greensboro
Jordan Spieth
The field also possesses considerable major-championship pedigree.
Hideki Matsuyama
Major champions Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Hideki Matsuyama, Keegan Bradley, Brian Harman, Jason Day, Lucas Glover and Webb Simpson return to Greensboro, while reigning PGA champion Aaron Rai looks to add another trophy at the course where he captured his first PGA TOUR victory in 2024.
Rai won the Wyndham Championship with a bogey-free final-round 64 after the tournament was compressed into three days because of weather. He returned last year and tied for fifth before breaking through at the PGA Championship earlier this season.
"Having the reigning PGA champion in the Wyndham Championship field is a big deal," Executive Director Mark Brazil said. "Aaron showed the world what a great player he is, but we saw him play 72 holes in three days at Sedgefield Country Club, so we already knew he had it in him."
Joining them are several familiar champions with deep ties to Sedgefield. Brandt Snedeker, a two-time Wyndham champion, returns after earning his first PGA TOUR victory in seven years earlier this season at the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic. Glover, the 2023 Wyndham champion and Musgrove Mill Golf Club member, again arrives needing a strong week to secure a FedExCup Playoff berth after a pair of recent top-five finishes. Simpson, who earned his first PGA TOUR victory at Sedgefield in 2011 before winning the U.S. Open the following year, returns for his 18th Wyndham Championship. The Wake Forest alumnus remains the tournament's career money leader with more than $4 million in earnings.
A Course That Continues to Create Champions
2025 Wyndham Champion Cameron Young and caddie Kyle Sterbinsky
The tournament's combination of accomplished champions and emerging talent is fitting for a venue that frequently reveals golf's next stars before the rest of the sport fully recognizes them.
Since returning to Sedgefield in 2008, the Wyndham has produced first-time PGA TOUR winners including Simpson, Patrick Reed, Tom Kim, Poston, Rai and Young. That record has helped establish the tournament as both a pressure-filled regular-season finale and one of the TOUR's most reliable launching pads.
The FedExCup bubble will once again provide Sunday's drama. Veterans such as Bradley, Day, Koepka, Snedeker and Glover enter the week trying to climb inside the top 70 and extend their seasons, while others look to secure valuable playoff positioning heading into the postseason.
Aaron Rai, 2024 Wyndham Champion
For Sedgefield's members, the week offers a rare opportunity to see many of the game's best players navigate a course they know intimately. Ross' sloping greens, strategic angles and tree-lined corridors reward precision rather than one particular style of play. Power players can succeed, but only if they control their approaches. Accurate players can contend, provided they place the ball in the correct sections of the greens.
The result is a course that has remained relevant through generations of equipment and players while continuing to produce varied leaderboards and dramatic finishes.
A Greensboro Tradition
Sedgefield is also among the TOUR's most spectator-friendly venues. Its compact, walkable routing allows fans to move easily between greens and tees and get unusually close to the action. Members play a central role throughout tournament week, volunteering in gallery control, guest services, transportation, hospitality and weather evacuation while giving up their home course for the event's construction, competition and teardown.
That partnership between club and tournament has helped the Wyndham become one of North Carolina's signature sporting events. Founded in 1938, it is the seventh-oldest PGA TOUR event outside the major championships and one of only two regular-season TOUR tournaments played on a course originally designed by Donald Ross.
This year's field brings much of that history together: a World No. 3 and defending champion with Wake Forest roots, a reigning PGA champion who earned his first TOUR victory at Sedgefield, a five-time major champion, five former Wyndham champions and one of the deepest collections of players with North Carolina ties anywhere on the PGA TOUR.
The FedExCup bubble will provide its usual Sunday drama. But for McConnell Golf members and fans across the region, the week will also offer something more personal — the chance to watch players with familiar Carolina connections compete for one of the PGA TOUR's most historic trophies on one of the game's classic courses.
For more information on the tournament schedule, tickets, and spectator amenities, visit Wyndham Championship.com