LPGA TOUR:
Open. Thursday-Sunday: Old Course, St. Andrews, Scotland. TV: ESPN2 (Thursday-Friday, 6 a.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 7 a.m.). Outlook: South Korea’s Inbee Park is trying to become the first player, male or female, to win four professional major championships in a season. She swept the Kraft Nabisco, LPGA Championship and U.S. Women’s Open and has three other LPGA Tour victories this year. The tour has five majors for the first time this year with the addition of The Evian Championship in France in September. ... The tournament became an official LPGA Tour event in 1994 and was elevated to major status in 2001. ... The 2014 event will be played at Royal Birkdale. ... The tournament ends the points races for automatic spots in the Solheim Cup, set for Aug. 16-18 in Parker, Colo. PGA TOUR: World Golf Championships — Bridgestone Invitational. Thursday-Sunday: Firestone Country Club, South Course, Akron, Ohio. TV: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 11 a.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 9 a.m.) and Channel 5 (Saturday-Sunday, 11 a.m.). Outlook: The PGA Championship is next week at Oak Hill in Rochester, N.Y. ... Tiger Woods is coming off a sixth-place tie two weeks ago in the British Open. He has a PGA Tourhigh four victories to push his career total to 78, four short of Sam Snead’s tour record. ... Woods swept the 1999-2001 and 2005-07 titles and won in 2009 to become the first player in PGA Tour history to win seven times on one course. ... British Open champion Phil Mickelson won at Firestone in 1996. PGA TOUR: Reno-Tahoe Open. Thursday-Sunday: Montreux Golf and Country Club, Reno. TV: Golf Channel (Thursday-Sunday, 4 p.m.). Outlook: Under the modified Stableford format, players receive 8 points for double-eagle, 5 for eagle, 2 for birdie, 0 for par, minus-1 for bogey and minus-3 for doublebogey or worse. ... Jack Nicklaus designed the Montreux course. CHAMPIONS TOUR: 3M Championship. Friday-Sunday: TPC Twin Cities, Blaine, Minn. TV: Golf Channel (Friday, 9:30 a.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 1 p.m.) Outlook: Bernhard Langer is skipping his title defense to play in a European Senior Tour event in Germany. ... In 2010, David Frost matched the tour record for a 54hole event at 25-under 191, eagling the final hole for an 11-under 61 and 5-stroke victory. ... Scottsdale resident Tom Lehman, a former University of Minnesota player from Alexandria, Minn., teamed with Arnold Palmer to design the TPC Twin Cities. ... Colin Montgomerie is making his fourth senior start.