THIS WEEK’S TOURNEYS

PGA TOUR THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP Site: Course:

Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

TPC Sawgrass (Players Stadium Course). Yardage: 7,189. Par: 72.

$10.5 million (First place: $1,890,000).

Thursday-Friday, 1-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 2-7 p.m. (NBC Sports).

No one has ever won back-to-back at The Players Championship since it began in 1974 . ... Brandt Snedeker and Thomas Pieters are the only two players from the top 50 in the world ranking who are not playing. ... Bernhard Langer is playing for the third straight year having won the Senior Players Championship . ... Dustin Johnson, the No. 1 player in the world, has never finished better than a tie for 28th in this tournament . ... Jack Nicklaus (1974, 1978), Hal Sutton (1983), Tiger Woods (2001) and Martin Kaymer (2014) are the only players to win a major and The Players Championship in the same year. ... The 12th hole has been redesigned to make it a reachable par 4 with water on the left . ... Hal Sutton (1983) and Craig Perks (2002)

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are the only players to win The Players in their first appearance since it moved to the TPC Sawgrass in 1982 . ... First place is worth more than Arnold Palmer made in his PGA Tour career ($1,861,857) . ... Jason Day has not won a tournament since going wire-towire in The Players Championship last year.

EUROPEAN TOUR/CHALLENGE TOUR PORTUGAL OPEN Site: Course:

Portimao, Portugal.

Morgado Golf & Country Club. 6,399. Par: 73.

500,000 euros. None.

The Portugal Open returns to the European Tour schedule for the first time since 2010 . ... This is co-sanctioned by the European Tour and its development Challenge Tour. So while the field is weak, the winner still receives a European Tour exemption through the end of 2018 . ... The field includes two major champions — 1999 British Open winner Paul Lawrie and 2003 Masters winner Mike Weir . ... This is one of two European Tour events in Portugal. The Portugal Masters is held in September.

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