Webb Simpson Has Association with Wyndham

Aug. 22, 2011 - PRLog -- Webb Simpson claimed his first PGA Tour title Sunday, shooting a 3-under 67 to win by three strokes.

The 26-year-old Raleigh native finished at 18-under 262 and collected $936,000 in the tournament about a 30-mile drive from the Wake Forest campus where he was a college star.

"I really couldn't think of a better place to win than here in Greensboro," Simpson said. Well, his words had come true, he won his title with his irons.

Simpson said his first visit to the Greensboro-based tournament came when he was 16. His father brought him to the event's former home across town at Forest Oaks Country Club to caddie for Lancaster during the Wednesday pro-am.

"That was probably the most fun 18 holes I've ever been a part of," Simpson said.
His final 18 of this tournament were marked by steady, bogey-free play and a strong finish marked by consecutive birdies on Nos. 15 and 16.

After taking the lead during Round 3 with a late five-hole stretch of four birdies and an eagle, Simpson opened his final round with eight straight pars before moving to 16 under with a birdie on the par-4 ninth.

He stayed there until late in the day. Birdies on the par-5 15th and the par-3 16th gave him a three-shot lead with two holes to go. It seemed that both he and his Golf Equipment Sale didn’t let themselves down.

"When I made the putt on 15, I asked my caddie for the first time all day, 'Where do we stand?' and he said, 'we’re two ahead right now,'" Simpson said. "I knew I needed to play solid golf on the last three holes, and to birdie 16 was so huge. ... I knew I had a three-shot lead on 18, and as soon as I hit the ball in play, I knew it was probably over."

Several players with strong Atlantic Coast Conference ties played pivotal roles during the fourth round at the country club with their Golf Clubs Sale where the ACC was founded in 1953 - and in a college-centric region where school ties run deep.

Simpson was the ACC's player of the year for the Demon Deacons in http://www.worldgolfsale.com/Golf-689-2010-Callaway-RAZR-... 2008. McNeill was an all-conference player for the Seminoles in the late 1990s.

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