Sergio Garcia has muscled his way to sixth place on the European Ryder Cup points table and the assurance of qualifying for next month’s Medinah showdown in capturing the rain-delayed Wyndham Championship in North Carolina.

Garcia, 32 ended a four-year PGA Tour winless drought to become the second straight European to win on the PGA Tour and eight days after Rory McIlroy claimed success in the 94th PGA Championship.

Garcia needed only to finish top-3 to unseat England’s Ian Poulter and take 10th place on the points table and it now means Poulter, unless he can go pass Garcia in this week’s Barclays Championship, is the red-hot favourite to receive one of Jose Maria Olazabal’s two wildcard picks.

Sergio Garcia proudly holds aloft the Wyndham Championship trophy.

Garcia claimed a two-stroke victory with a final round 66 to finish at wind up at 18-under 262 and pocket $936,000 in prize money.

Garcia led both after the third round and when the fourth round was held up overnight due to a persistent downpour.

He had three straight late-round birdies after a bogey briefly dropped him into a tie for the lead, and cruised to his eighth career PGA Tour win.

Garcia began the decisive surge on the par-4 No. 13, plopping his chip roughly a foot from the flagstick and tapped it in for birdie.

He added another birdie on No. 15 — a pretty chip from a greenside bunker left him with a 5-foot putt — and followed that with another birdie on the par-3 16th after his tee shot stopped closer than 2 feet from the stick. He added a birdie on No. 17 to move to 19 under, leaving his bogey on the final hole inconsequential.

Victory was also sweet redemption for Garcia, who in his last appearance in Greensboro in 2009, held a share of the lead after three rounds but let it slip away and finished in fourth place.