Wyndham Rewards Expands PGA Tour Presence

PARSIPPANY, NJ—Wyndham Rewards—the guest rewards program that spans more than 25,000 hotels, club resorts, affiliated resorts and vacation rentals globally—revealed plans to expand its presence on the PGA Tour with the introduction of the Wyndham Rewards Top 10.

A new $10-million bonus to be split among the PGA Tour’s top 10 regular season finishers, the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 is designed to add a new layer of interest over the course of the regular season, which culminates with the Wyndham Championship, the final event before the FedExCup Playoffs.

While Wyndham has been a sponsor of the Wyndham Championship since 2007, this year marked the first year that Wyndham Rewards took the role of proud title sponsor following the split of Wyndham Worldwide into two separate public companies earlier this year: Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Wyndham Destinations.

“The Wyndham Championship plays a pivotal role in the regular season as it’s the last chance players have to secure a spot in the FedExCup Playoffs,” said Eliot Hamlisch, VP and leader of the Wyndham Rewards program. “In joining with the PGA Tour to introduce the Wyndham Rewards Top 10, we’re not only elevating the significance of our own tournament, but also placing a premium on great golf all season long. What’s more, as the world’s most generous rewards program, we couldn’t think of a more fitting way to recognize the PGA Tour’s best of the best than by saying, ‘You’ve earned this.'”

The Wyndham Rewards Top 10 leader will earn a prize of $2 million, followed by $1.5 million for the runner-up, with decreasing amounts based on position from there. The 10th place finisher will receive $500,000. News of the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 was shared at a PGA Tour press event, as the organization kicks off the finale of the FedExCup Playoffs at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. The announcement was complemented with the introduction of a simplified, strokes-based scoring system for the Tour Championship beginning next season and the doubling of the total FedExCup bonus pool available to players, which now totals $70 million, inclusive of the prize money from the Wyndham Rewards Top 10.