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Two-time Wyndham Championship winner Brandt Snedeker is a creature of habit. Although the Tennessee native became an equipment free agent late last year, his dedication to some aspects of his bag has been unwavering. Take his putter, for example. The Odyssey Rossie has been in the bag his entire career. He’s been gaming it since he competed on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2006. He’s had it in the bag so long, in fact, that he’s had to replace its White Hot face multiple times. His irons shafts, Aerotech SteelFiber I95 S, have been a fixture since 2011. Since his second Wyndham win in 2018, however, the rest of his equipment has been in flux. He has been in multiple drivers, fairway woods, irons, and wedges, with the only constant being the putter. Snedeker’s launch profile compares to players like Ryan Moore, Zach Johnson, Brian Gay, and Jim Furyk. Snedeker doesn’t hit it a long way—averaging just 284.1 yards off the tee this season—nor does he hit the ball particularly high. He relies more on spin and accuracy than the now-popular high-speed game. Snedeker earned his first PGA TOUR title at the 2007 Wyndham and won the tournament 11 years later on the strength of a first-round 59. Some aspects of his bag remain unchanged since his last Wyndham win. The putter, 5-wood, lob wedge, and iron shafts have all stayed the same. It’s worth noting that although the logos and make of some of the equipment have changed, the DNA remains the same. Snedeker always leans towards a forged cavity-back iron. In his woods, he prefers metal shafts that are mid-launch and mid-spin. The structure of his set is exactly the same, as well: driver, 3-wood, 5-wood, 4-PW, 52-, 56- and 60-degree wedges…and the old trusty Odyssey. Here’s a closer look at what was in Snedeker’s bag when he won the Wyndham two years ago versus what he has in play today. 2018 Winning WITB Wyndham Championship Driver: Bridgestone Tour B JGR prototype (9.5 degrees) Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD IZ-6X Fairway woods: TaylorMade M3 (15 and 19 degrees) Shaft: Fujikura Pro Tour Spec Irons: Bridgestone J15CB (4-9 iron) Shafts: Aerotech SteelFiber i95 S-Flex Wedges: Bridgestone J40 (48 degrees), Bridgestone J15 (52 bent to 51 degrees, and 56 bent to 55 degrees), Titleist Vokey TVD Prototype (60-06K) Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 Putter: Odyssey White Hot XG Rossie Length: 34 inches Ball: Bridgestone Tour B X Grips: Lamkin Crossline WITB as of 2020 PGA Championship Driver: Ping G410 Plus (9 degrees) Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 6 X 3-wood: TaylorMade M6 “Rocket 3” (14 degrees) Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 7 X 5-wood: TaylorMade M3 (19 degrees) Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 8 X Irons: Srixon Z785 (4-9) Shafts: Aerotech SteelFiber I95 S Wedges: Callaway Mack Daddy 4 (48-10S, 52-10S, 56-10S) Vokey SM8 (60K) Shafts: (48) Aerotech SteelFiber I95 S (52/56/60) True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 Putter: Odyssey White Hot XG Rossie Length: 34 inches Ball: Bridgestone Tour B X Grips: Lamkin Crossline

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Scott Harrington was in kindergarten when he started playing the piano. Either the keyboards or the band, it was his choice - his parents just wanted him and his brother Adam to broaden their horizons and get involved in music of some kind. So, for the next 11 years, Harrington would get up early and practice the piano for an hour or so before he went to school. That way, he'd still be free to head to the golf course or the gym when the final bell sounded each afternoon. "It’s something for sure I’d love my future kids to do," Harrington says. "I think it teaches you so much, especially at such a young age, about patience and working towards a goal. I mean, it would take months to perfect a piece." Harrington and his brother Adam took piano lessons from one of the best teachers in Oregon, the kind of instructor who nurtured students who went to Julliard. He remembers performing holiday concerts each year at a local department store, playing duets and four-handed piano pieces. "That was probably the coolest memory I have from doing it, because that was really fun," Harrington says. "Everybody was packed in this mall, and people stop, and everybody would watch a bunch of kids who are playing this insanely good Christmas music." Harrington and his brother competed, too, playing Beethoven and Bach and Chopin with hundreds of other aspiring pianists. "I was always relieved when the competitions were over," Harrington recalls. "I’d be so nervous for those things, but I would always do well. But I couldn’t quite hang with the people who are now doing it for a living. Those kids had talent and work ethic. … They would practice five, six hours a day. "It’s kind of the way I was with golf. That was their passion." Of course, those piano prodigies couldn't hang with Harrington on the golf course. The PGA TOUR rookie, who earned a scholarship to Northwestern, is ranked 94th in the FedExCup and playing in THE NORTHERN TRUST this week. Harrington sees the hard work and patience needed to learn a piece of music as similar to the discipline and dedication required to play golf at the highest level. He was never the kind of musician who could sit down and just jam. He was analytical, memorizing the piece and then performing it, just as he did while perfecting shots on the golf course. "No question," Harrington said. "We’re so rarely truly happy out here. Even when we play well, you know you can do better. There’s always something you want to improve on, and you have to be so patient. And when you go through a down stretch out here, maybe you’re not playing very well, and you kind of have to dig it out the dirt a little bit and just grind your way out. There’s no other way to do it. "And piano, I think, man it is frustrating. When you’re first learning a piece, I mean, you are starting at nothing, and just gradually improving week by week on a piece and grinding it to perfection. Because in piano, you truly are working towards perfection, where you don’t screw anything up. And there are so many little intricacies of pieces that there’s no doubt in my mind that it taught me a lot. … "There’s no question. You can’t really be halfway in on the keyboard, on piano, and kind of accomplish your goal. … It would help in a number of things, whether it’s in school or anything, any work of life that you go into. But yeah, golf for sure. There’s a lot of parallels." Harrington got the OK from his parents, who both played golf collegiately, to step back from the piano after his junior year in high school as the recruiting process ramped up. There were tournaments to play and college visits to take, and he knew he wouldn't be able to give music the attention his teacher required. "I was kind of relieved when I stopped, because I had a lot on my plate and things in golf was progressing really well, and I could put more time into that," Harrington recalls. "But I have nothing but good memories." Harrington doesn't have a piano in his home in Scottsdale. But when he visits his parents in Oregon, he'll occasionally sit down at theirs, although the 39-year-old says it can be frustrating because his skills have deteriorated. Maybe someday, though, he'll have time to devote to music again. "There's so much to learn from playing the piano in terms of responsibility and hard work and being patient and just seeing something through to fruition," Harrington says. "… Looking back, it’s something I’m really glad I did, an experience that I’ll certainly cherish.

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Former FedExCup champions Justin Rose and Jordan Spieth, as well as Brooks Koepka, winner of the inaugural Wyndham Rewards Top 10, highlight the field at the Wyndham Championship. J.T. Poston will be there to defend his title in the final event before the FedExCup Playoffs. FIELD NOTES: Koepka, who held the top spot in the FedExCup entering last year’s Playoffs, will look to build on the progress he showed at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational and PGA Championship. He was outside the top 125 in the standings before his runner-up in Memphis… Spieth and Patrick Reed, who had a thrilling playoff duel in 2013, are both back in the field… Former FedExCup champ Brandt Snedeker returns to a tournament he has won twice, including his first TOUR win and a victory two years ago that included a first-round 59…Four golfers in the top-10 of the FedExCup standings will tee it up at Sedgefield CC, including reigning Rookie of the Year Sungjae Im, past Wyndham winner Webb Simpson and his former junior-golf rival from nearby Raleigh, Brendon Todd… Teen-aged pro Akshay Bhatia and past Wyndham champion Arjun Atwal are among the sponsor exemptions… World No. 13 Tommy Fleetwood will make his fourth straight start in the Return to Golf. FEDEXCUP: Winner gets 500 FedExCup points. COURSE: Sedgefield Country Club (Ross), 7,127 yards, par 70. Opened in 1926, Sedgefield is the only Donald Ross original that serves as a regular PGA TOUR venue. The course features Ross’ signature small and undulating greens. STORYLINES: The Wyndham Championship marks the final week of the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 competition. No. 1 on the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 is Justin Thomas, who is not in the field in North Carolina, but entered the PGA Championship with a commanding 713-point lead in the standings. Webb Simpson sits at No. 2 as of the PGA Championship and will be playing… Im, Reed, and Todd are the other three inside the top-10 of the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 competition that are playing Sedgefield… As of the PGA Championship, Chase Seiffert sits at No. 125 in the FedExCup standings and holds the final spot in the FedExCup Playoffs… Nick Watney is just one FedExCup point back and sits at 126th while Bronson Burgoon is just one FedExCup point ahead at 124th… Two golfers jumped inside the top 125 at the 2019 Wyndham Championship (Andrew Landry and Patton Kizzire)… The last four winners of the Wyndham Championship have all shot 20-under or better. 72-HOLE RECORD: 258, Henrik Stenson (2017), JT Poston (2019) 18-HOLE RECORD: 59, Brandt Snedeker (1st round, 2018). LAST TIME: J.T. Poston, who grew up just 90 minutes from Greensboro, North Carolina, fired a sizzling 8-under-par 62 on Sunday at the Wyndham Championship a year ago to win his first PGA TOUR title. In the process, Poston became the first golfer on TOUR since Lee Trevino in 1974 to capture a 72-hole tournament without making any bogeys or worse. Poston also matched Henrik Stenson’s tournament record 22-under 258. Poston nipped fellow North Carolinian Webb Simpson by one shot. Simpson finished runner-up while Byeong Hun An (who matched Poston’s 8-under 62 as the round of the week in the first round), Viktor Hovland, and Si Woo Kim rounded out the top five. HOW TO FOLLOW Television: Thursday-Friday, 2 p.m.-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (CBS). Sunday, 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 2:30 p.m.-6 p.m. (CBS). PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday 7 a.m.-6 p.m. (Featured Groups). Saturday, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. (Featured Groups), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (Featured Holes). Sunday, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. (Featured Groups), 2:30 p.m.-6 p.m. (Featured Holes). Radio: Thursday-Friday, 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday 1 p.m.-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio).

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