Laid out by Donald Ross in 1926, the course at Sedgefield Country Club hosted the Greensboro Open 26 times between 1938 and 1976.
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Laid out by Donald Ross in 1926, the course at Sedgefield Country Club hosted the Greensboro Open 26 times between 1938 and 1976.
Sedgefield
In 1923, Southern Real Estate purchased the enormous 3,660-acre hunting estate at Sedgefield and shortly after Donald Ross was engaged to design two 18-hole layouts for the new owners. The original course was named Valley Brook but the Great Depression prevented a second course ever being built.
The Greensboro Open was held here twenty-six times between 1938 and 1976, before the tournament moved to Forest Oaks Country Club. Following a course renovation by Kris Spence, this prestigious PGA Tour event returned to Sedgefield as the newly-named Wyndham Championship in 2008.
In the book The American Private Golf Club Guide author Daniel Wexler describes Sedgefield as follows:
“Routed over a rolling, wooded landscape, it is a strong, well-balanced test… Sedgefield serves as positive proof that a Golden Age design needn’t be mangled beyond recognition to remain tournament relevant in the new millennium.”
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