The Mercury News

THIS WEEK’S TOURNAMENT­S

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PGA TOUR

FORT WORTH INVITATION­AL Site: Fort Worth, Texas. Course: Colonial CC. Yardage: 7,209. Par: 70.

Purse: $7.1 million. Winner’s share: $1,278,000. Television: Today-Friday, 1-4 p.m. (Golf Ch.); Saturday-Sunday, 10-11:45 a.m. (Golf Ch.), noon-3 p.m. (CBS Sports). Defending champion: Kevin Kisner.

Last week: Aaron Wise won the AT&T Byron Nelson.

FedEx Cup leader: Justin Thomas.

Notes: No one has won backto-back at Colonial since Ben Hogan in 1952-53, the longest stretch of all PGA Tour events without a successful title defense . ... Jordan Spieth has won and been runner-up twice in his last three years at Colonial . ... The event will have a new title sponsor in Charles Schwab next year . ... Along with a PGA Tour event, Colonial also has hosted a U.S. Open in 1941 and The Players Championsh­ip in 1975 . ... The field includes Jon Rahm and Justin Rose, who both skipped the European Tour flagship event this week. ... Keith Clearwater, who won at Colonial in 1987, is playing for the 30th year. He has not made a cut on the PGA Tour since 2001 . ... Matt Kuchar, Peter Uihlein and Jhonattan Vegas are the only players to compete in all five PGA Tour events in Texas this year . ... Shubhankar Sharma of India is playing on a sponsor’s exemption . ... The top 50 in the world after this week are exempt to the British Open if not already eligible.

Next week: Memorial Tournament.

LPGA TOUR

LPGA VOLVIK CHAMPIONSH­IP

Site: Ann Arbor, Mich. Course: Travis Pointe CC. Yardage: 6,734. Par: 72.

Purse: $1.3 million. Winner’s share: $195,000.

Television: Today-Friday, 4-6 p.m. (Golf Ch.-Tape Delay); Saturday-Sunday, noon-3 p.m. (Golf Ch.).

Defending champion: Shanshan Feng.

Last week: Ariya Jutanugarn won the Kingsmill Championsh­ip.

Race to CME Globe leader: Ariya Jutanugarn.

Notes: Jutanugarn is the only player who started and made the cut in all 12 tournament­s on the LPGA Tour schedule this year. Brooke Henderson is taking this week off. Jutanugarn is in the field at the Volvik Championsh­ip . ... Inbee Park went home to South Korea and won the Doosnam Match Play Championsh­ip on the Korean LPGA Tour last week . ... Jutanugarn and Brooke Henderson are the only two players to have won on the LPGA Tour in each of the last three seasons . ... Through 12 events this year, the LPGA Tour does not have a multiple winner. It’s the second straight year the LPGA has gone this deep into the season with different winners each week . ... The tournament is in its third year. It is the first of two LPGA events in Michigan in a span of four weeks. The U.S. Women’s Open, the second major of the LPGA Tour, is next week at Shoal Creek in Alabama.

Next week: U.S. Women’s Open.

PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS

SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSH­IP

Site: Benton Harbor, Mich. Course: The Golf Club at Harbor Shores. Yardage: 6,852. Par: 71.

Purse: $3 million. Winner’s share: $540,000.

Television: Today-Friday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. (Golf Ch.); Saturday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. (NBC Sports); Sunday, noon-3 p.m. (NBC Sports).

Defending champion: Bernhard Langer.

Last week: Miguel Angel Jimenez won the Regions Tradition.

Charles Scwab Cup leader: Bernhard Langer.

Notes: Langer will not be defending his title because his son his graduating from high school . ... Steve Stricker, a runner-up at the first senior major of the year at the Regions Tradition last week, is skipping the Senior PGA Championsh­ip to play at Colonial. That means the Senior PGA will be missing the leading two players on the money list . ... This is the fourth time the Senior PGA is held at Benton Shores. The previous three winners on the course were Roger Chapman (2012), Colin Montgomeri­e (2014) and Rocco Mediate (2016) . ... The oldest of the senior majors, this dates to 1937 and was held at Augusta National the first two years. The winners were Jock Hutchison (1937) and Fred McLeon (1938). They became the first honorary starters at the Masters in 1963 . ... The winner gets a spot in the PGA Championsh­ip in August.

Next tournament: Principal Charity Classic on June 8-10.

EUROPEAN TOUR

BMW PGA CHAMPIONSH­IP Site: Virginia Water, England. Course: Wentworth Club (West Course). Yardage: 7,284. Par: 72.

Purse: $7 million. Winner’s share: $1,166,667. Television: Today-Friday, 2-10 a.m. (Golf Ch.); Saturday-Sunday, 4:30-9:30 a.m. (Golf Ch). Defending champion: Alex Noren.

Last week: Adrian Otaegui won the Belgian Knockout.

Race to Dubai leader: Patrick Reed.

Notes: This is the first of eight tournament­s that are part of the Rolex Series and offer at least $7 million in prize money. ... Rory McIlroy and Paul Casey are the only players from the top 10 in the world. Jon Rahm and Justin Rose are playing at Colonial on the PGA Tour. Also playing Colonial is Shubhankar Sharma of India, who is No. 2 in the Race to Dubai . ... The field features four players who have been No. 1 in the world _ McIlroy, Ernie Els, Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer. McIlroy is the only one from that group to have been No. 1 since June 2011 . ... Starting with the BMW PGA Championsh­ip, points will be multiplied by 1.5 (ranking points and earnings) through the Made in Denmark tournament that ends Sept. 2 . ... Casey, who won in 2009, returns to Wentworth for the first time in five years . ... The tournament dates to 1972. Tony Jacklin won the inaugural championsh­ip. The only American winner was Arnold Palmer in 1975.

Next week: Italian Open.

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