Hideki Matsuyama Joins Wyndham Field

Hideki Matsuyama will play the 77th annual Wyndham Championship is set for Aug. 15-21, 2016 at Sedgefield Country Club. Matsuyama will make his fourth-consecutive Wyndham Championship appearance this year; he missed the cut last year but finished 15th in 2013. Matsuyama won the Waste Management Phoenix Open, finished tied for seventh at the Masters and the Players Championship, finished fifth at the CIMB Classic and tied for sixth at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard earlier this season. He has two PGA TOUR wins and five international wins to his credit. A native and resident of Japan, Matsuyama is 19th in the Official Golf World Rankings and 20th in the current FedExCup point standings. “Hideki is an international superstar,” tournament director Mark Brazil said. “It’s a big deal that he’s back with us for the fourth straight year.”