This week’s events
ALL TIMES EASTERN PGA Tour The Barclays
• Site: Farmingdale, NY • Course: Bethpage State Park (Black Course). Yardage: 7,468. Par: 71 • Purse: $8.5 million (First prize: $1.53 million) • Television: CBS Sports (Saturday, 3-6 pm; Sunday, 2-6 pm); Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 2-6 pm; Saturday,Noon-2:30 pm, Sunday, Noon-1:30 pm) • Defending champion: Jason Day • Notes: The top 125 in the FedEx Cup qualified for the playoff portion of the series, starting at The Barclays. The top 100 in the standings are this week advance to the Deutsche Bank Championship ... Only 121 players will tee it up at Bethpage. The four who withdrew are Sergio Garcia, Masters champion Danny Willett, Shane Lowry and Anirban Lahiri, who is out with a shoulder injury ... This is the final event of the eighth automatic qualifiers for the US Ryder Cup team. Five players already have clinched spots — Dustini Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Phil Mickelson, Jimmy Walker and Brooks Koepka ... Adam Scott and Phil Mickelson are among 16 players who have qualified for the FedEx Cup playoffs since they began in 2007 ... Hunter Mahan’s streak of playing every playoff event ended at 35 tournaments last week when he failed to make it to the Tour Championship. This year, he didn’t qualify for the playoffs ... Bethpage Black hosted The Barclays in 2012, won by Watney ... Vijay Singh is the only player to win The Barclays and go on to win the FedEx Cup, in 2008 when the points were not reset after the third event. • Online: www.pgatour.com
LPGA Tour Canadian Pacific Women’s Open
• Site: Calgary, Alberta • Course: Priddis Greesn Golf & CC. Yardage: 6,681. Par: 72 • Purse: $2.25 million • Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 6-9 pm; Saturday-Sunday, 3-6 pm) • Defending champion: Lydia Ko • Last week: Park In-bee won gold, Ko won silver and China’s Feng Shanshan won bronze at the Rio Olympics • Notes: Ko won her first LPGA Tour event at the Canadian Open in 2012 when she was 15, becoming the youngest 72-hole winner of an LPGA event. She has won three times in the last four years ... Karrie Webb won her first LPGA major at Priddis Greens in 1999 when it hosted the du Maurier Classic ... The top three players in the women’s world ranking are playing this week — Ko, Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn and Canada’s Brooke Henderson. Jutanugarn withdrew during the third round of the Olympics because of tightness in her left knee, while Henderson finished seventh in Rio. • Online: www.lpga.com
European Tour Made in Denmark
• Site: Farso, Denmark • Course: Himmerland Golf and Spa Resort. Yardage: 7,033. Par: 71 • Purse: 1.8 million euros • Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 5:30-7:30 am; 9:30 am-12:30 pm; Saturday, 7-11 am; Sunday, 6:30-11 am) • Defending champion: David Horsey • Last week: Paul Peterson won the Czech Masters • Notes: This is the final event for Europeans to earn money or world ranking points toward making the Ryder Cup team, though it now is a moot point. No one can make enough money or ranking points to crack the top nine ... Martin Kaymer, Shane Lowry and Matthew Fitzpatrick are among those in the field. • Online: www.europeantour.com
PGA Tour Champions Boeing Classic
• Site: Snoqualmie, Wash. • Course: TPC Snoqualmie Ridge. Yardage: 7,264. Par: 72 • Purse: $2 million (First prize: $300,000). • Television: Golf Channel (Saturday-Sunday, 6-8 pm) • Defending champion: Billy Andrade • Last tournament: Gene Sauers won the US Senior Open • Notes: Fred Couples has committed to play. It would be his first tournament since February because of back problems ... John Daly has entered the tournament, meaning a long flight for him. Daly made the cut in the Czech Masters on the European Tour last week.