Bobby Powell Named Tournament Director

Bobby Powell, the Wyndham Championship operations director since 2004, is the new Wyndham Championship tournament director, effective immediately. Current tournament director, Mark Brazil, is now CEO of the Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation which oversees Wyndham Championship tournament operations. Powell, 49, came to the Wyndham Championship in 2004 after eight years at the American Junior Golf Association where he served as director of tournament operations and later vice president of operations. Prior to his employment at the AJGA, he served as an AJGA intern in 1996 and met Brazil during that time. He was recruited to the Wyndham Championship by Brazil who had begun two years earlier as the tournament’s first professional tournament director. A native of Reno, Nev., who grew up in Salina, Kan., Powell played golf at Baker University before transferring to the University of Kansas where he earned a BGS in United States history.