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Donald Ross is known worldwide to golf fans as one of the consummate masters of course design. And now, thanks to the Wyndham Championship's recent move to the Sedgefield Country Club, PGA golfers competing in the FedEx Cup event (August 11-17, 2008) will get to experience the same pristine Piedmont Triad golf conditions that legends like Sam Sneed, Ben Hogan and Arnold Palmer enjoyed for years after Ross' original design in 1926.

Of course, this isn't the Wyndham's first rodeo here, although it is the first year back to Sedgefield following a 31-year hiatus, and the return did not come at a cheap price. The recently finished, nearly yearlong renovation of the course cost over $3 million, but as tournament director Mark Brazil put it, the intent was to make Sedgefield "one of the favorite spots on tour."

Brazil pointed out that right now, "this golf course is as good as it gets" and by all accounts, he is absolutely right. A friend of mine recently teed it high and called the dense rough "diabolical" (by all accounts complimentary), while recent praise from former winner David Toms has already attracted some big name attention.

Three-time major winner Vijay Singh, who recently announced his entry into the Wyndham, joins an already stout group of golfers that includes Toms, last year's champions Brandt Snedeker, Tim Clark, Carl Pettersson, local favorite and Masters darling Drew Weaver, Davis Love III, and, of course, goshdarn American hero and two-time Wyndham winner Rocco Mediate.

Even avid golf fans probably don't know much about Bart Bryant, the 45-year-old journeyman who spent much of the back nine of the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational tied atop the leaderboard with Tiger Woods.

Bryant, playing a group ahead of Woods, parred the difficult par-4 18th and made his way to the scorer's tent, presumably under the impression that the worst-case scenario would have he and Eldrick in a playoff.

Nah, that would seem to logical. Instead, Woods, who had been short with his putter all day -- and hadn't made a putt of more than 20 feet all week -- struck his second shot to 18 to the middle of the green, some 21 feet from the hole. After spending a good 90 seconds surveying his situation, Woods stroked the putt exactly 21 feet, the last revolution just sneaking over the lip. Birdie, 10-under, victory.

Woods is 3-0 in 2008, after finishing last season on a 2-0 run. He becomes the first player in PGA Tour history to win five consecutive tournaments on three different occasions, and runs his record to 43-3 when leading a tournament after 54 holes. His 64 career victories surpasses Arnold Palmer and ties Ben Hogan for third on the all-time list behind Jack Nicklaus (73) and Sam Snead (82).

And best of all, we're due another week of "Will Woods Go Undefeated in 2008!?!" talk. Awesome.

In an effort to liven up the otherwise boring Accenture Match Play Championship final between Tiger Woods against Stewart Cink, I joked earlier that one of the few bright spots for Cink was that the match wasn't dormie after the morning 18.

Well, Woods picked up right where he left off in the afternoon round. He had a four up lead to start the final 18 and he was eight up nine holes later. Woods finished Cink off two holes later -- with what seemed like his 50th kick-in birdie of the five-day tournament. He now has 63 wins, which moves him past Arnold Palmer on the career victories list. Next up: Ben Hogan (64), Jack Nicklaus (73) and Sam Snead (82). And because Eldrick is probably going to win every tournament he enters in 2008, he should pass Snead sometime in August.

So Cink doesn't pull off the most impressive comeback in PGA Tour history. Shocking. For Woods, he wins his second event of the 2008 season on American soil, and this follows on the heels of four victories in the final five PGA events last season, including the PGA Championship.

Some other mind-blowing stats, courtesy of NBC Sports. Woods' singles record in match play: