Snedeker, who started the event on Thursday with a 59, finished his rain-affected third round on Sunday morning before firing a 66 to end on 21 under par in North Carolina.

The 37-year-old came under pressure from Simpson, who recorded an eight-under 62 containing seven birdies and an eagle, while Pan was level on 20 under heading into the 18th, but drove out of bounds and could only manage a double bogey.

Snedeker, who won the event in 2007, picked up shots on the third, fifth, eighth and 11th before his sole blemish on the 13th.

He regained the shot on the 15th and completed his victory in style by rolling in a long birdie putt on the last.

Winning never gets old.

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— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 20, 2018

Day Three report

Brandt Snedeker held on to the lead at the Wyndham Championship after rain suspended the third round in North Carolina. He is 4/6 to go on and win the tournament with Sky Bet.

The American led after the second round, having earlier joined the elite 59 club on day one, and continued to set the pace with a three-shot lead at Sedgefield Country Club.

Vying for his ninth PGA Tour victory, Snedeker completed just seven holes - firing two birdies - to sit 16 under before the storm clouds began to gather.

The 37-year-old will complete 29 holes on Sunday as he sets himself a target of 22 under - his score when he won the same tournament in 2007.

Quoted on the PGA Tour website, he said: "If I get to 22 under par, I think it's hard for other guys to get there. I'm not saying it can't happen, but that number seems to hold up here pretty well."

American Brian Gay will start his day three shots back in second place, having reached six under after 12 holes when play was called off.

Four players make up a chasing pack in third - Trey Mullinax, Keith Mitchell, CT Pan and DA Points - who will resume on 12 under.

Round Two report

Brandt Snedeker held on to the lead at the Wyndham Championship after carding a second-round 67 - a day after shooting the 10th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history.

The American took the first-round lead after joining the elite 59 club, and continued to set the pace on 14 under overall on day two, but not before losing the lead as three wayward drives on the front nine left him one-over 36 at the turn.

The 37-year-old recovered to shoot a clean back nine, including two birdies and an eagle, and finish two shots ahead of compatriot DA Points. He is 5/4 to win the tournament with Sky Bet

Ben Coley's pre-tournament selections Sergio Garcia (40/1) and Harris English (250/1) are among a clutch of players tied for fourth on nine-under and are now 10/1 and 28/1 respectively.

Quoted on the PGA Tour website, Snedeker said: "I knew it was going to be tough, it wasn't going to be the same way it was yesterday.

"Kind of battling the emotion of everybody pulling hard for you, wanting to see you do it again. So the front nine was disappointing. I didn't really drive it well, didn't do anything particularly well on the front nine.

"I pulled myself together on the back nine, made some good swings, made a few putts. To shoot four under on the back nine was nice. Got a few back and back in the lead, back in a good frame of mind going in the weekend."

Points, who has missed the cut 15 times over his last 16 PGA Tour tournaments, carded a blemish-free round of six-under 64 for second place in North Carolina, while Tawian's CT Pan sits three off the lead at 11-under overall at the halfway stage.

Six players are tied for fourth on nine-under, including Sergio Garcia.

The Spaniard fired a round of five-under 65, to get within five shots of the lead, as he looks to impress Thomas Bjorn and force his way on to the European Ryder Cup team for the clash in Paris at the end of September.

Round One report

Snedeker recovered from a bogey on the 10th, his opening hole, to card 10 birdies and an eagle at Sedgefield Country Club and set the early clubhouse target on 11 under par.

The 37-year-old carded four birdies in a row from the 13th to reach the turn in 32 and picked up four more shots in the first five holes on the front nine before holing his second shot to the sixth for an eagle two.

Snedeker's approach from 176 yards flew straight into the cup with such force that it damaged the hole and forced tournament officials to cut a new hole a foot away, but it had no effect on the world number 88's concentration.

A birdie on the seventh was followed by a miss from six feet on the next, but Snedeker then holed from 20 feet on the ninth to break the magical 60 barrier with an incredible inward half of 27.

🚨59🚨@BrandtSnedeker shoots a 59!#LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/qMag0wlolC
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 16, 2018

"I was pretty upset [after the eighth] because I knew you're not going to have many good looks to shoot 59," Snedeker told PGA Tour Live.

"I kept telling myself after I birdied number seven, I've shot 60 out here before in China one year; you do this to shoot 59 so quit worrying about it and hit two fairways, give yourself two good looks [at birdie] and make one of the putts.

"Unfortunately I left myself one of the hardest four-footers you can have, a downhill right-to-lefter and I didn't hit a great putt.

"I kept telling myself on nine, I don't care if you four-putt, three-putt, but do not leave this putt short and luckily it held in there and went right in the middle. What a cool day.

This is what shooting 59 feels like ...#LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/qES6uFJvWK
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 16, 2018

"I just had a feeling I was going to do it, didn't want to try to shy away from it at all. Last time I shot 60 I had a chance on the last two holes and kind of shied away from it and today I wasn't going to do that.

"I found something on the back nine and started hitting a bunch of great iron shots and those days are fun. It's why we play in practice and put all this time in to have days like this.

"If you had seen me yesterday you would have said there is no way I'm probably going to make the cut let alone shoot 59. It's probably why I love golf so much, you never know what you're going to get when you show up."

Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk holds the record for the lowest score on the PGA Tour with a 58 in the Travelers Championship in 2016. Furyk also shot 59 in the BMW Championship in 2013.