PGA TOUR
CADENCE BANK HOUSTON OPEN
Location: Houston.
Course: Memorial Park GC. Footage: 7. 412. By: 70.
Cash prize: $8. 4 million. Winner entry: $1,512,000.
Television: Thursday to Sunday, 1 p. m. (Canal Golf).
Previous winner: Jason Kokrak.
FedEx Cup Leader: Seamus Power.
Last week: Russell Henley at the World Wide Technology Championship in Mayakoba.
Notes: Scottie Scheffler is the only player in the world’s 10 most sensible to play. He is number 2 and can return to the number 1 ranking if he wins. . . Jason Kokrak is the first player not to protect a PGA Tour name due to a suspension for signing with LIV Golf. This will apply to Talor Gooch next week. . . Nineteen players now with LIV Golf played at the Houston Open last year. . . The box includes 8 of the 50 smartest players, adding Hideki Matsuyama (19), Tony Finau (15) and Sam Burns (12). . . Russell Henley won in 2017 while playing a week before the Masters. It is his last PGA Tour victory until the last Mayakoba. week. Henley is on the ground. . . . Travis Vick, who helped Texas earn the NCAA name, is betting on a sponsor exemption for one week in a row. He missed the cup in Mexico.
Next week: RSM Classic.
Online: https://www. pgatour. com/
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LPGA TOUR
WOMEN’S PELICAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Location: Belleair, Florida.
Course: Pelican GC. Footage: 6,268. By: 70.
Cash prize: $2 million. Winner entry: $300,000.
Television: Thursday to Friday from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. (Canal del Golf); Saturday-Sunday, 19:30-22:30 (Golf channel band delay).
Defending champion: Nelly Korda.
CME Globe Race Leader: Lydia Ko.
Last week: Gemma Dryburgh at the Toto Japan Classic.
Please note: this is the last full event of the LPGA Tour season, with up to 60 sensible Race to CME Globe players qualifying for the CME Group Tour Championship. Array. The peloton has seven of the 10 most sensible in the world. Ratings Atthaya Thitikul, Nasa Hataoka and Minjee, ranked first, are not playing. She can regain the No. 1 rating this week with Thitikul taking a week off. Trophy for the lowest average. Array. . Gemma Dryburgh, the eleventh winner for the first time this year, the most for a season on the LPGA since 1995. This year’s tournaments were won by 25 players. Array. . Dryburgh and Linn Grant moved to the maximum sensitive 60 in editions last week in Japan. Grant finished third. Array. Stacy Lewis is ranked 60th in tracks.
Next week: CME Group Tour Championship.
Online: https://www. lpga. com/
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PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS
CHARLES SCHWAB CUP CHAMPIONSHIP
Location: Phoenix.
Course: Fénix CC. Footage: 6,860. By: 71.
Cash prize: $2. 5 million. Winner entry: $440,000.
Television: Thursday-Sunday, 16:00-18:30 (Canal Golf).
Previous winner: Phil Mickelson.
Charles Schwab Cup leader: Steven Alker.
Last week: Bernhard Langer the TimberTech championship.
Notes: The Charles Schwab Cup is about two players in the season finale. Steven Alker has a lead of 617,980 points over Padraig Harrington. Winning the Charles Schwab Cup championship is worth 880,000 points. . . Bernhard Langer now has 44 PGA Tour Champions wins. Hale Irwin holds the record with forty-five wins. Langer has won at least once in his 16 seasons on the PGA Tour Champions, and 11 of his victories came after his 60th birthday. The seven most sensible players on the silver list have won at least one tournament this year. . Ernie Els is at No. 8. . . With his eighth tie in the TimberTech Championship, Miguel Angel Jimenez has become the fifth player to surpass $2 million in earnings this year. . . Phil Mickelson will not protect his name due to his suspension from the PGA Tour for playing with LIV Golf. Langer’s six-stroke win last week tied for the largest margin of victory this year.
Next week: End of season.
Online: https://www. pgatour. com/champions. html
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EUROPEAN TOUR AND SUN TOUR
NEDBANK GOLF CHALLENGE
Location: Sun City, South Africa.
Career: Gary Player CC. Footage: 7,834. By: 72.
Cash prize: $6 million. Part of the winner: $1 million.
Television: Thursday to Friday, from four to nine in the morning (Canal Golf); Saturday, from 4 a. m. M. a 8. 30 a. m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 3:30 am-8 am (Canal Golf).
Defending champion: Tommy Fleetwood (2019)
DP World Tour Theme Leader: Rory McIlroy.
Last tournament: Jordan Smith the Masters of Portugal.
Notes: This is the last tournament before the end-of-season DP World Tour Championship. . . . Tommy Fleetwood has returned to protect his name since 2019. For the past two years, the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-February 19 pandemic. . . Fleetwood (No. 25) and Ryan Fox (No. 26) are the two highest-ranked players on the field. . . Seven LIV Golf players are on the course, plus Lee Westwood. . . . Branden Grace, who won the moment LIV event, is betting on a sponsorship exemption. . . Two Nedbank players just won: George Coetzee on the Sunshine Tour and Jazz Janewattananond on the Asian Tour. . . Shaun Norris, LIV Golf player, plays after winning the Order of Merit of the Sunshine Tour. . . . The Nedbank Golf Challenge has been part of the European Tour programme since 2014.
Next week: DP World Tour Championship.
Online: https://www. europeantour. com/dpworld-tour/ and https://sunshinetour. com/
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OTHER TOURS
Japan Golf Tour: Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters, Taiheiyo Club (Gotemba), Shizuoka, Japan. Defending champion: Hideto Tanihara. Online: https://www. jgto. org/en/
Ladies European Tour: Aramco Team Series-Jeddah, Royal Greens Golf
Asian Tour: International Series-Egypt, Madinaty GC, Cairo. Defending champion: New tournament. Online: https://asiantour. com/
Japan LPGA: Itoen Ladies, Great Island Club, Chiba, Japan. Defending champion: Mone Inami. Online: https://www. lpga. or. jp/en/
Korea LPGA: SK Telecom Championship, Life is Beautiful GC, Chuncheon, South Korea. Defending champion: Hae Ran Ryu. Online: https://klpga. co. kr/
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