The Mercury News

This week’s tournament­s

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PGA OF AMERICA PGA CHAMPIONSH­IP

Site: Springfiel­d, N.J.

Course: Baltusrol GC (Lower Course). Yardage: 7,462. Par: 70. Purse: TBA (Last year: $10 million).

Television: CBS (Saturday-Sunday, 11 a.m.4 p.m.). TNT (Thursday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 8-11 a.m.).

Defending champion: Jason Day. Last week: Jhonattan Vegas won the RBC Canadian Open.

Notes: The PGA Championsh­ip was moved up to the last weekend in July because of the Olympics. … Day will try to join Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners of the PGA Championsh­ip in stroke play. Woods did it twice, in 1999-2000 and 2006-07. … Always the strongest field of the year, the PGA Championsh­ip is expected to have 98 of the top 100 in the world. … Phil Mickelson won the PGA Championsh­ip the last time it was at Baltusrol in 2005 … This is the ninth major hosted by Baltusrol, including the U.S. Open seven times. … Eleven of the past 12 winners of the PGA Championsh­ip had already won earlier in the year. The exception was Jason Dufner in 2013.

LPGA TOUR/LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR RICOH WOMEN’S BRITISH OPEN

Site: Milton Keynes, England. Course: Woburn Golf & CC (Marquess Course). Yardage: 6,463. Par: 72. Purse: $3 million (First prize: $450,000).

Television: NBC (Saturday, 8-11:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8-11 a.m.); Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 1:30-4:30 a.m., 6-9 a.m.).

Defending champion: Inbee Park. Last week: The United States won the UL Internatio­nal Crown.

Notes: Park has withdrawn with a thumb injury. She hopes to be ready for the Olympics. … Lydia Ko has finished first, second and third in the three LPGA Tour majors this year. … Woburn last hosted the Women’s British Open in 1999, two years before it replaced the du Maurier Classic as the LPGA Tour’s fourth major. … Karrie Webb won the Women’s British Open at Woburn in 1995, a year before her rookie season on the LPGA Tour. … Olympicbou­nd Gerina Piller’s only two victories have been team events — the Solheim Cup in 2015 and the UL Internatio­nal Crown last week. … The field features 49 of the top 50 from the LPGA Tour money list and the entire top 30 from the Ladies European Tour money list. … Mo Martin, who won the Women’s British Open at Royal Birkdale two years ago, leads the LPGA in driving accuracy by hitting 86.8 percent of her fairways. She is 155th out of 160 players in driving distance, averaging 239.7 yards.

PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS

Last week: Paul Broadhurst won the Senior British Open. Next week: 3M Championsh­ip.

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