The Wyndham Championship is played annually in Greensboro, North Carolina, and was known primarily as the Greater Greensboro Open since its debut in 1938. In 2007, the event was renamed the Wyndham Championship when Wyndham Hotels & Resorts took over from DaimlerChrysler as main sponsor, and it was also then that the event was moved from an autumn date to mid-August where, at that time, it was the last PGA Tour event before the Playoffs for the FedEx Cup.
Prior to 2003, this tournament was usually contested in April or May until a schedule change in moved the event toward the end of the season. Sam Snead holds PGA Tour record for his eight wins at the event (1938, 1946, 1949-50, 1955-56, 1960, 1965), which is the most ever by any golfer, for any tournament. His 1965 Greater Greensboro Open win also made him the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event, also a record which still stands.
The Wyndham Championship has been played in Greensboro for its entire history, while alternating, with no apparent formula, between Sedgefield Country Club and Starmount Forest Country Club from 1938 through 1976. From 1977 to 2007, Forest Oaks Country Club hosted the event, but in 2008 the tournament returned to Sedgefield which remains its current home to this day.
In 2007, in the first tournament to be played in August, PGA Tour Rookie-of-the-Year Brandt Snedeker won the inaugural Wyndham Championship and became the 13th player to have gotten their first PGA Tour victory here in the event's history.
