For only the third time in PGA history, there was a six-way playoff to determine the winner of a golf tournament. On Sunday at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina, Kevin Kisner of Aiken, South Carolina shot a four-round score of -15, and then beat 2013 Masters champion Adam Scott of Adelaide, Australia, Branden Grace of Pretoria, South Africa, Roger Sloan of Calgary, Canada, Kevin Na of Las Vegas, Nevada, and Si-Woo Kim of South Korea on the second playoff hole.
All six golfers recorded a par on the first playoff hole. Scott had the best chance for birdie, but missed a short putt. Then on the second hole, Kisner was the only golfer of the six to record a birdie, as the other five golfers had scores of par.
This was the third time that six golfers were in a playoff for a chance to win a PGA Tour event. At the 1994 Byron Nelson Golf Classic in Dallas, Neal Lancaster of Smithfield, North Carolina beat Americans Tom Byrum, David Ogrin, David Edwards, and Mark Carnevale, and Japan’s Yoshi Mizumaki. It was Lancaster’s only PGA Tour win of his career.
Then at the 2001 Nissan Open in Los Angeles, Australia’s own Robert Allenby of Melbourne, won his third PGA Tour event by beating Americans Brandel Chamblee, Dennis Paulson, Jeff Sluman, and Bob Tway. Just like the Byron Nelson Classic, there was a Japanese golfer among the group of six, as Toshimitsu Izawa qualified for the playoff. Tway and Sluman were both major champions as Tway won the 1986 PGA Championship in Toledo, Ohio, and Sluman won the 1988 PGA Championship in Oklahoma City.
The six-way playoff for the Wyndham Championship was not the longest playoff in 2021, however. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, there was in fact a seven-way playoff for bronze, which was won by C.T. Pan of Chinese Taipei.
