THIS WEEK’S GOLF TOURNAMENTS
PGA TOUR
Last tournament: Wells Fargo Championship (Rory McIlroy)
This week: AT&T Byron Nelson, McKinney, Texas, today-Sunday
Course: TPC Craig Ranch (Par 72, 7,468 yards)
Purse: $8.1 million (Winner: $1.458M)
Defending champion: Sung Kang (2019)
TV: Today-Friday, 12-3:30 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-noon (GC), noon-3 p.m. (CBS)
Notes: The event returns after being canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Kang will defend his maiden PGA Tour victory from two years ago. While it comes at a different course, Kang is a member of TPC Craig Ranch . ... The field includes only two top-10 players in No. 3 Jon Rahm and No. 4 Bryson DeChambeau and 10 of the top 30 in the FedEx Cup standings . ... The event moves to TPC Craig Ranch after two years at Trinity Forest Golf Club. TPC Craig Ranch, designed by Tom Weiskopf and completed in 2004, has played host to the Korn Ferry Tour and is slated to host the Byron Nelson for the next five years.
Next week: PGA Championship, Kiawah Island, S.C., May 20-23
CHAMPIONS TOUR
Last tournament: Regions Traditions (Alex Cejka)
This week: Mitsubishi Electric
Classic, Duluth, Ga., FridaySunday
Course: TPC Sugarloaf (Par 72, 6,987 yards)
Purse: $1.8 million (Winner: $270,000)
Defending champion: Scott McCarron (2019)
TV: Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, noon-3 p.m. (GC)
Notes: Former Major League Baseball players John Smoltz and Shigetoshi Hasegawa were among those to receive sponsors’ exemptions, along with former major champions John Daly and Larry Mize . ... Langer has finished runner-up in two of the past three years and won the event in 2013.