Greensboro is abuzz about golf this week. Today is the Round 3 Tournament Play of the Wyndham Championship. At 6p.m. tomorrow, we’ll know who takes the Sam Snead Cup and prize money. Sam Snead won the Greater Greensboro Open (GGO), the precursor to the Wyndham,in 1938, the year it began. He won the GGO a total of eight times, his last time being in 1965 at the age of almost 53 years. His record still stands today as having won the most times and having been the oldest to win. With these records as well as his commitment to the event and the sport, it is easy to see why the winner will be awarded the Sam Snead Cup. It was said that when Sam Snead hit the ball, “(i)t sounded like a rifle and the ball flew like a bullet” (reference). Mr. Snead died in 2002, four days short of his 90th birthday.

If you are interested in following the results of this week’s PGA event, the Wyndham posts the leaderboard here. Tommy Gainey started the day Saturday in the lead position. The event combines several social events and and the Wyndham is donating 100,000 toward a charity that focuses on helping children. We have to disclose that the above photo was taken at the Greensboro Country Club earlier this week as we weren’t confident that we could get into the Wyndham with a camera (without a press pass).