GREENSBORO, NC – On Wednesday, August 12, four PGA TOUR players will play a nine-hole exhibition match for the first tee of the triad. The 81st Annual Wyndham Championship, which will determine the result of the $ 10 million Wyndham Rewards Top 10, begins Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina.
2011 Masters champion and 15-time international winner Charl Schwartzel will team up with fellow South African and 13-time international winner Branden Grace, two veterans of the International Team Presidents Cup. The two will face Pat Perez and three-time PGA winner Jason Kokrak TOUR.
The game will be played across the last nine teams at Sedgefield Country Club at 2 p.m. ET and will be televised as a special presentation of PGA TOUR LIVE and simulcasts on Golf Channel and other PGA TOUR media platforms, including GOLFTV with PGA TOUR technology to bring the event internationally.
Teams will use the Chapman format in the nine hole show. Each golfer hits a tee shot and each plays the other’s ball for the second shots. The best of the second shots is selected and the two partners complete the hole by playing an alternating shot. Players on the winning team will receive a Wyndham Rewards “Holiday Ready” gift bag.
The Wyndham Rewards Challenge will be worth $ 160,000 and all funds will go to The First Tee of the Triad, the chapter of the Central North Carolina international organization, on behalf of participating golfers. Schwartzel and Grace will play for The First Tee of the Triad after-school programs; Perez and Kokrak will play for The First Tee of the Triad summer camps. Holes 10 to 12 will be worth $ 10,000 each, holes 13 to 15 will be worth $ 15,000 each and holes 16 to 18 will be worth $ 25,000 each for a total of $ 150,000.
After players have taken their tee shots on the par-3 16th hole, everyone will participate in the Wyndham Rewards Bonus Shot: a swing from the front tee of the 16th hole at Club Wyndham Beach. The player whose shot is closest to the target will win an additional $ 10,000 for his First Tee of the Triad program.
