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As discussed last year, the PGA Tour’s Wyndham Championship (formerly the Greater Greensboro Open) is about to make a move from longtime host course Forest Oaks Country Club and the likely relocation will take place at Sedgefield Country Club.

Sources familiar with the negotiations said an agreement between the Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation, the nonprofit group that runs the Wyndham, and the Nisshin Corp., which owns Forest Oaks, is expected to be announced in February.

The sources, who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the negotiations, said time is rapidly becoming an issue in the deal with this year’s tournament eight months away (Aug. 14-17). The sources say that, because of Sedgefield’s image and proximity to Greensboro and Winston-Salem, tournament officials think they can sell significantly more corporate sponsorships to companies than they have at Forest Oaks.

While it’s not set in stone, the story did mention that an outside contender for the tournament is the remodeled Pete Dye course called The Cardinal.

Either location will make for an interesting venue, although Forest Oaks was certainly not a bad course.

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