Sergio Garcia Captures First Tour Title In 4 Years At Wyndham Championship

The Wyndham Championship ended with Sergio Garcia on top, and the prize money from his first PGA win in quite some time boosted him heavily in the Money List standings.

Garcia’s $936,000 winnings from Wyndham pushed him from 88th place all the way up to 35th place in the standings. Tiger Woods is still up in first place, with his three victories in the 2012 PGA Tour so far leading the field. Rory McIlroy is second overall, and has impressive credentials as he has only been in 12 events this tour, three fewer than Tiger.

Sergio Garcia’s first PGA Tour tournament win since the 2008 Players Championship has made him the biggest mover on the FedEx Cup Standings this week. His Wyndham Championship victory pushed him from No. 102 last week to No. 33.

This could mean that Garcia will be one of the 30 to qualify for the Tour Championship in Atlanta.

As the final round of the 2012 Wyndham Championship resumed Monday morning, Sergio Garcia held a one-shot lead over the field. However, PGA Tour veteran Tim Clark has tied Garcia for the lead at 15-under par as both players make the turn.

Clark is 3-under for his round and is currently playing hole no. 11 on a rain-soaked Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. Clark’s continued hotstreak with his putter has put him into position to capture his first title of the season should he hold the lead.

The fourth and final round of the 2012 Wyndham Championship has been suspended until Monday morning after rainfall at the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. prevented the completion of the tournament.

Play will officially resume at 9 a.m. Eastern Time and will be broadcast on the Golf Channel.

Sergio Garcia’s hold on the Wyndham Championship leaderboard remains, albeit by the smallest of margins.

The Spanish golfer remains one stroke ahead of Bud Cauley and Tim Clark who are both sitting at 13-under. A win for Garcia would be his first PGA win since 2008, and would most likely carry a Ryder Cup roster spot with it.

The final round of the 2012 Wyndham Championship is underway in Greensboro, and a number of well-known names will need to make a move to qualify in the top 125 of the FedEx Cup Standings. Y.E. Yang has been hovering around the qualifying threshold all week, but his chances took a hit with an inward 36 on the back side yesterday. He’s currently projected at 127 in the standings.

Yang started his day with three birdies on the front side to go out in 32, but he dropped a shot on the 11th at Sedgefield. He is currently 7-under and a win this week is out of the question at this point. Yang has struggled a bit since becoming the first Asian-born player to win a major, a rousing victory at Hazeltine, but he’s capable of getting on a hot streak if he can just make it into the playoffs.

Garcia (-14) has a one stroke lead on both Bud Cauley and Tim Clark. There are an additional 13 more golfers within five strokes of the lead.

The final round on Sunday will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET with Paul Casey teeing off and will be televised at 3 p.m. ET on CBS. Here are the full list of tee times for Sunday.

After three rounds at the Wyndham Championship in Greenboro, N.C., the field is still very tight with Sergio Garcia one stroke ahead of the closest competitors. After shooting a 66 on Saturday, Garcia (14-under) lleads a field that features 15 other golfers with scorecards at 10-under par or better.

Through the first two rounds of the tournament, Jimmy Walker led Webb Simpson for the lead, but both Walker and Simpson shot 71 in their third rounds and dropped to ties for seventh and 10th, respectively. Simpson is the reigning champion of the Wyndham Championship, and won the tournament at 18-under.

The 2012 Wyndham Championship continues Saturday with the third round from the Sedefield Country Club. Jimmy Walker’s 62 on Friday earned him the second round lead at 12-under.

Walker will play with Webb Simpson on Saturday. Simpson is one stroke back at 11-under after shooting a 63 on Friday. Four players will begin Saturday tied for third place at 10-under. Sergio Garcia and Tim Clark are among that group and the two will be paired Saturday.

Tim Herron tied a course record at the Wyndham Championship on Friday with a second round score of a 9-under 61, a stark contrast to his disastrous 6-over round on Thursday. The big score was good enough to move Herron 114 spots up the leaderboard, although he still trails leader Jimmy Walker (12-under) by nine strokes.

Herron finished the round with ten birdies, including six birdies in his final nine holes and five straight on the back nine.

Great conditions in Greensboro have everybody scoring well at the Wyndham Championship, and in the early stages of the second round, Tim Clark has pulled into a lead atop the leaderboard at 9-under.

Clark started the day at 7-under, a stroke off of the score set by Carl Pettersson, who tees off later today. But the South African has continued where he left off yesterday after shooting a first round 63, birdieing the first and fifth holes to take sole possession of first place. With the scores other golfers are putting up, Clark won’t be too comfortable: Matt Every is also two-under through eight holes and sits at 7-under, while Pettersson is looking to keep up his strong play from the PGA Championship, where he finished in a tie for third.

The 2012 Wyndham Championship continues Friday, starting at 7 a.m. ET at the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C.

Carl Pettersson of Sweden took the lead into the clubhouse going into the second day at minus-8. He shot a 62.

First-round action at the 2012 Wyndham Championship has concluded, with several golfers having distinguished themselves from the rest of the pack.

Carl Pettersson of Sweden led the way with birdies on four straight holes at 5, 6, 7, and 8. He then birdied 11 and 12, before capping off his round with birdies on 16 and 18 to finish with eight birdies and no bogeys. After that sensational opening 18, Petterson is your clubhouse leader at 8-under.