Friday, August 05, 2016

Retief Goosen, Vijay Singh and Angel Cabrera, Join 2016 Wyndham Championship Field

Retief Goosen, Vijay Singh, Angel Cabrera, Lucas Glover, Justin Leonard, David Toms and Stewart Cink will all play the 2016 Wyndham Championship. Goosen won the U.S. Open Championship in 2001 and ’04; he will make his fourth appearance at the Piedmont Triad’s PGA TOUR event where he finished 17th in 2011 – his best finish here. He finished tied for 11th at the Valspar Championship, tied for 12th at the Players Championship and the FedEx St. Jude’s Classic and tied for 14th at the Wells Fargo Championship earlier this season. A native of South Africa, Goosen is a seven-time PGA TOUR winner with 24 international victories to his credit. A member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, Singh has 34 PGA TOUR victories including the 1998 PGA Championship, the 2000 Masters tournament and the 2004 PGA Championship. He also has 22 international wins to his credit. A former No. 1 player in the world who now also plays some PGA TOUR Champions events, he finished second at the Quicken Loans National and tied for sixth at the Honda Classic for his best finishes of the season. Singh is making his 11th Wyndham Championship appearance; he finished tied for fourth in 2011, his best finish here. Cabrera is a two-time major championship winner from Cordoba, Argentina; he won the U.S. Open in 2007 and the Masters in 2009. Cabrera’s most recent PGA TOUR win was the 2014 Greenbrier Classic. He has 39 international wins and has competed for the international team in three President’s Cup Matches and nine World Cup Matches. He is making his third Wyndham Championship appearance; he finished tied for tied for 22nd in 2012 for his best finish here. He is known internationally as El Pato, “The Duck.”

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