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PROFESSION­AL GOLF TOUR PREVIEWS

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PGA Tour Champions Charles Schwab Cup Championsh­ip

Course: Phoenix Country Club. Yardage: 6,860. Par: 71.

TV (EST): Thursday-Sunday, 4-6:30 p.m. (Golf)

Notes: The Charles Schwab Cup comes down to two players in the season finale. Steven Alker has a 617,980-point lead over Padraig Harrington. Winning the Charles Schwab Cup Championsh­ip is worth 880,000 points. … After finishing first in last weekend’s TimberTech Championsh­ip, Bernhard Langer now has 44 victories on the PGA Tour Champions. Hale Irwin holds the record with 45. Langer has won at least once in each of his 16 seasons on the PGA Tour Champions, and 11 of his wins have come after he turned 60.

LPGA Pelican Women’s Championsh­ip

Course: Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida. Yardage: 6,268. Par: 70. TV (EST): Thursday-Friday, 10 a.m.1 p.m. (Golf); Saturday-Sunday, 7:3010:30 p.m. (Golf, delay)

Notes: This the final full-field event of the LPGA tour season, with the leading 60 players in the Race to CME Globe advancing to the CME Group Tour Championsh­ip. … The field features seven of the top 10 in the world ranking. Top-ranked Atthaya Thitikul, Nasa Hataoka and Minjee are not playing. … Jin Young Ko returns after withdrawin­g from the BMW Ladies Championsh­ip in South Korea. She can regain the No. 1 ranking this week with Thitikul taking the week off. … The only wins for Nelly Korda and Lexi Thompson this year have been in the Saudi-funded Aramco Team Series. … Race to CME Globe leader Lydia Ko also is leading the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average. … Gemma Dryburgh became the 11th firsttime winner this year, in the Toto Japan Classic, the most for a season on the LPGA since 1995. Tournament­s this year have been won by 25 players. … Dryburgh and Linn Grant have moved into the top 60 in points from last weekend. Grant finished third. … Stacy Lewis is holding down the 60th spot in points.

– Associated Press

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