GOLF GLANCE

PGA TOUR

THE CJ CUP BYRON NELSON

Site: McKinney, Texas.

Course: TPC Craig

7,414. Par: 71.

Prize money: $9.5 million. Winner’s share: $1,710,000.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 4-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS). Defending champion: Jason Day. FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler. Last week: Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Notes: Jordan Spieth, Will Zalatoris and Tom Kim lead the contingent of Dallas-area residents playing the tournament . ... CJ Cup takes over as title sponsor after AT&T ended its sponsorship after nine years. CJ Cup started out with a tournament in South Korea, then moved to Las Vegas and South Carolina during the COVID-19 pandemic . ... The field features only 10 of the top 50 in the world ranking. Spieth is the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 20 . ... Scottie Scheffler is missing the tournament as his wife is expecting their first child . ... Adam Scott is playing the tournament for the third straight year. He won the Byron Nelson in 2008 . ... This is the final week to finish among the top 70 in the PGA Championship points list to assure a spot at Valhalla in two weeks. The points list is PGA Tour earnings the last 12 months . ... Spieth now has gone 43 starts over two years on the PGA Tour since his last victory.

Next week: Wells Fargo Championship.

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Yardage: not have a round under par last week in Australia . ... Poulter in 2009 and Sergio Garcia in 2018 won the Singapore Open when it was played at Sentosa . ... With the PGA Championship approaching, LIV has three players in the top 100 who are not already eligible — Adrian Meronk, Lucas Herbert and Patrick Reed . ... LIV already has 10 players in the PGA Championship field at Valhalla . ... After back-to-back weeks in Australia and Asia, LIV Golf is off for a month until a week before the U.S. Open.

Next tournament:

June 7-9.

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EUROPEAN TOUR VOLVO CHINA OPEN

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Site: Shenzhen, China.

Course: Hidden Grace GC. Yards: 7,147. Par: 72.

Prize money: $2.25 share: $375,000.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 12-5 a.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 12-4:30 a.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 11:30 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. (Golf Channel). Previous winner: Sarit Suwannarut. Race to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy. Last week: Yuto Katsuragawa won ISPS Handa Championship.

Notes: The China Open returns to the European tour schedule for the first time since 2019 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament was held last year co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the China Tour . ... This is the final event that counts toward the Asian Swing on the European. The top three players get exemptions into the PGA Championship next month at Valhalla. Sebastian Soderberg, Keita Nakajima and Jesper Svensson are currently holding down the top three spots . ... Thriston Lawrence leads the European tour this season with five finishes in the top 10 . ... Katsuragawa is the fourth player from Japan in the last seven months to win on the European tour. The others were Ryo Hisatsune, Rikuya Hoshino and Nakajima . ... The tour is off until the PGA Championship on May 16-19. After that begins a stretch in which 17 consecutive events (outside the majors) are staged in European countries.

Next tournament: PGA Championship on May 16-19.

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