THIS WEEK’S GOLF TOURNEYS
PGA TOUR WELLS FARGO CHAMPIONSHIP Site: Course:
Wilmington, N.C.
Eagle Point GC. Par: 72. $7.5 million $1,350,000).
Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel); 3-6 p.m. (CBS Sports).
The tournament is being held at Eagle Point this year because Quail Hollow in Charlotte, the host course since the tournament began in 2003, is holding the PGA Championship in August . ... Dustin Johnson makes his first start since he injured his lower back slipping on a staircase, which forced him to withdraw from the Masters. Johnson is going for his fourth straight victory, which would be the longest streak on the PGA Tour since Tiger Woods won five straight from the 2007 BMW Championship through the 2008 Arnold Palmer Invitational. ... The tournament, for years one of the strongest of the spring, has only two of the top 10 in the world. Adam 7,396.
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(First Yardage: prize: Scott (No. 10) also is playing . ... Phil Mickelson makes his first start since he tied for 22nd at the Masters.
LPGA TOUR CITIBANAMEX LORENA OCHOA MATCH PLAY Site: Course:
Mexico City.
Club de Golf 6,804. Par: 72.
$1.2 million (First $200,000). None.
The tournament moves to May from November and changes format from stroke play to match play in an effort to attract more players. Top players had been skipping the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in the fall because it was after the Asian swing and one week before the season-ending CME Globe Tour Championship in Florida . ... ANA Inspiration champion So Yeon Ryu, who would have had a chance to go to No. 1 in the world, is not playing. ...With her six-hole playoff loss in Texas, Cristie Kerr has gone to No. 2 on the LPGA Tour money list ahead of Lexi Thompson. Kerr still trails
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Mexico. Yardage: prize: Ryu by nearly $300,000.
PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS INSPERITY INVITATIONAL Site: Course:
The Woodlands, Texas.
The Woodlands CC (Tournament Course). Yardage: 7,018. Par: 72.
$2.15 million $322,500).
Friday, 6-8 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 3-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 3-5:30 p.m. (Golf Channel).
Singh, coming off his first PGA Tour Championship victory (that he shares with Carlos Franco), is playing the Wells Fargo Championship this week on the PGA Tour . ... John Daly made his PGA Tour Champions debut a year ago by tying for 17th at the Insperity Invitational. The two-time major champion has yet to finish in the top 10 on the 50-and-older circuit. ... Steve Elkington, the former PGA champion from Australia who has lived in Houston most of his career, is in the field. He has not played a PGA Tour Champions event since August 2015.
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EUROPEAN TOUR GOLFSIXES Site: Course:
St. Albans, England.
Centurion Club (six Yardage: 2,276. Par: 24.
1 million euros. Saturday, 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Golf Channel).
This is the second tournament with a radical new format geared on a quicker game. Two-man teams from 16 countries compete over six holes that wind through areas that have plenty of fan activity . ... The teams play a greensomes format, in which both players tee off and they alternate shots after that. ... The tournament starts Saturday with four teams in four groups. The top two teams from each group advance to the knockout stages (quarterfinals, semifinals, consolation and championship matches) all on Sunday . ... The tournament has a digital shot clock of 40 seconds, with players receiving a stroke penalty for going over.
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