The Wyndham Championship Pro-Am: The Only Way to Play a PGA Tour Event With Hotel Points
Most hotel loyalty auctions sell you a seat to watch. This one puts a club in your hands.
Each year, Wyndham Rewards auctions playing spots in the Wyndham Championship Pro-Am, the Wednesday pro-am at the PGA Tour's Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. The lots open each June ahead of the tournament, and the playing packages are the ones to watch, typically starting in the low-to-mid six figures of Wyndham points.
We track every Wyndham Rewards auction on PointAuctions.com, and this is the one we circle on the calendar every June. No other hotel program offers anything like it: an actual playing spot in a PGA Tour pro-am, paid for with hotel points.
What's live right now
Wyndham lists a full slate of Wyndham Championship packages each June:
• Play in the Pro-Am VIP Package (the headline lot) is a playing spot in the official pro-am, and it draws the strongest bidding of the slate.
• Walk with a Pro: VIP Observer Package is inside-the-ropes access during the pro-am without playing.
• Behind-the-Scenes + Hospitality VIP Package bundles back-of-house access with tournament hospitality.
• Hospitality Bundle covers tournament-week hospitality on its own.
You can watch the live Wyndham Rewards slate on PointAuctions.com without juggling Wyndham's auction pages. The Championship lots open in June and clear before the August tournament, so between cycles the live view leans toward Wyndham's other sports lots. Here is what the most recent Championship packages actually closed at:
What the Pro-Am package delivers
In recent editions, run as the DeJoy/Wos Family Foundation Pro-Am the Wednesday before the tournament, the winning package has included:
• A playing spot in the official PGA Tour pro-am, where you play in a threesome and are paired with two different Tour professionals, one for each nine holes.
• Tournament hospitality, with Champions Club access during tournament week.
• A hotel stay at the Grandover Resort, the tournament's home base property.
• Hospitality tickets to the opening (Thursday) round of tournament play.
Package details can shift a little year to year, so read the current listing's fine print before bidding. The core of it has stayed consistent: you are inside the ropes, on the card, playing Sedgefield with the pros.
The rare PGA Tour pro-am you can enter with hotel points
Precision matters with a claim like this. Hilton Honors has auctioned pro-am playing spots before, at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth and other DP World Tour and LPGA events. Those are real and occasionally excellent redemptions.
But on the PGA Tour itself, Wyndham is the only hotel program we have seen with a points path into the field. Marriott's golf Moments are mostly play-the-course packages (e.g., Shadow Creek); Marriott has even run an LPGA pro-am playing spot at Shadow Creek (the Extenet Pro-Am tied to the T-Mobile Match Play), but no PGA Tour pro-am playing spot. IHG's golf lots are spectator hospitality. The closest thing on the airline side is bidding into a PGA Tour event from the gallery, like the Delta TOUR Championship lounge play we cover for SkyMiles, but that buys you a seat to watch, not a tee time. If the bucket-list item is playing a competition venue alongside Tour pros during tournament week, this auction is the points route there. If you are weighing which program's experience auctions are worth chasing, our rundown of the best loyalty programs for experiences puts Wyndham in context.
What a pro-am spot costs in cash
Pro-am entries at PGA Tour events typically run $5,000 to $25,000+ per player (as of mid-2026), depending on the event and whether you buy a full team or a single spot, mostly sold through tournament partners and charity programs. The marquee ones go far higher: the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am costs around $70,000 and requires an invitation on top of the check.
Against that backdrop, a winning bid in the six figures of points looks strong. In our tracking of verified Wyndham sports-experience closes, the middle of the pack runs 100,000 to 225,500 points, while the marquee Play-in-the-Pro-Am lot sits at the top end of the spread, the highest verified Wyndham sports close in our tracking. Here is how those verified closes are spread:
Median: 137,500 points
9 verified closes · median 137,500 points · updated monthly
Wyndham points are worth roughly 0.9 to 1.1 cents each on standard hotel redemptions, where flat-rate "Go Free" nights run 7,500, 15,000, or 30,000 points depending on the property tier (the tier structure as of mid-2026; Wyndham has said it moves to four award-night tiers on September 15, 2026). At that valuation, the points you spend buy a package that would cost several times their redemption value in cash. Our cents per point guide walks through how to run this calculation on any auction.
Before you bid
A few honest checks, because this is a redemption you have to actually show up for:
1. You need the game. You will be playing in front of gallery crowds, paired with professionals who are at work. You don't need to be a single-digit handicap, but if you can't keep pace, the day will be stressful instead of fun.
2. The date is fixed. The pro-am is the Wednesday before the tournament in early August, in Greensboro. No reschedules.
3. Have the points ready. Topping up after you have been outbid in the final hours won't work. The balance needs to be there before the close.
4. Watch the close. Bidding on lots like this tends to move late. Track the auction on PointAuctions.com so the final day doesn't get away from you.
A winning bid is binding and the points come out on close, not on the tee. There are no reschedules for a fixed-date pro-am and no partial refund if your plans change, so treat the balance as committed the moment you place a bid you can afford to win. If you are new to how these auctions behave, our rundown of what the points community has learned about bidding is worth a read first.
The bottom line
The Wyndham Championship Pro-Am auction is the single most distinctive redemption in the Wyndham Rewards program, and one of the most distinctive in all of hotel loyalty. The cash comparables run well into five figures, the winning bids land in the six figures of points, and the field is limited to people who both play golf and hold a Wyndham balance. That narrow bidder pool is exactly why the value is there.
You can see what is live right now on the Wyndham Rewards auction page, or what past lots actually cleared at in the closed-auction archive. This auction runs each June ahead of the August tournament. If this is your year, watch the close on PointAuctions.com.