[1] Founded 87 years ago in 1938 as the Greater Greensboro Open,[1] it was usually played in April or May, until a schedule change in 2003 moved it toward the end of the season.

Davis Love III, the 2015 champion at age 51, is the oldest to win in the senior tour era, which began in 1980.

Charlie Sifford competed in 1961, and became the first African American permitted to play in a PGA-sponsored event in the South.

This tied the PGA Tour record for largest number of participants in a sudden-death playoff.

[9] The course at Sedgefield was designed by noted architect Donald Ross; it opened 99 years ago in 1926 and was restored in 2007.