Tournament Fact Sheet Wyndham Championship Sedgefield Country Club • Greensboro, N.C. • August 12-15, 2021 Golf Course Superintendent Tournament Set-up Chad Cromer, GCSAA Par: 35-35--70 Phone: 336-279-7969 Yardage: 7,131 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @Chad_Cromer Course Statistics Years as GCSAA Member: 20 Average Green Size: 6,000 sq. ft. Years at Sedgefield Country Club: 6 Acres of Fairway: 25 Years as a Superintendent: 14 Acres of Rough: 75 Previous Courses: Trump National Doral (super), Jennings Number of Sand Bunkers: 52 Mill CC (super), TPC Sugarloaf (asst), Capital City Club Number of Water Hazards: 5 (asst), Greensboro CC (asst) Number of Holes Water is in Play: 6 Hometown: High Point, N.C. Soil Conditions: Clay Water Sources: Pond Professional Tournaments Hosted: Cromer has been Drainage Conditions: Average Involved in 18 professional tournaments in his career Including WGC American Express, PGA Tour Bell South, Turfgrass Nationwide Tour Athens Reginal Foundation, WGC Greens: Champion bermudagrass .125” Cadillac, Wyndham Championship Tees: Bermudagrass .325” Fairways: Bermudagrass .425” Other Key Golf Personnel Rough: Bermudagrass 2.5” Nate Webb, Assistant Superintendent Sam Harris, Assistant Superintendent Additional Notes Gene Westbrook, Equipment Manager • A tee box was added on No. 14 prior to the Eric Ferguson, PGA Professional 2020 tournament (added 25 yards to the Number of Employees: 20 hole). Number of Tournament Volunteers: 45 • No. 18 plays as a par five for members, but is a par four for this tournament. Course Architect Architect (year): Donald Ross (1926) • The Wyndham Championship was Renovation Architect (year): Kris Spence (2007) founded in 1938 as the Greater Greensboro Open. Tournament Fact Sheets for the PGA, LPGA, Champions and Korn Ferry Tours and USGA and PGA of America championships can be found all year at: https://www.gcsaa.org/media/tournament-fact-sheets Mike Strauss • Media Relations Manager • (O) 785-312-5164 • (C) 785-865-8444 • [email protected] • www.gcsaa.org Since 1926 the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) has been the top professional association for the men and women who manage golf courses in the United States and worldwide. From its headquarters in Lawrence, Kan., the association provides education, information and representation to nearly 19,000 members in more than 75 countries. GCSAA’s mission is to serve its members, advance their profession and enhance the enjoyment, growth and vitality of the game of golf. .