Golf Glance
Site: Fort Worth, Texas.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Colonial Country Club (7,054 yards, par 70).
Purse: $6.2 million. Winner's share: $1,116,000.
Last year: Steve Stricker won the first of his three 2009 PGA Tour titles, birdieing the second hole of a playoff with Tim Clark and Steve Marino.
Last week: Jason Day won the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving for his first PGA Tour title. The 22-year-old Australian finished at 10 under for a two-stroke victory. Jordan Spieth, a 16-year-old junior at a local high school, tied for 16th at 4 under.
Notes: Masters champion Phil Mickelson, the 2000 and 2008 winner, is making his first start since tying for 17th in The Players Championship. ... Stricker is returning from a right clavicle injury that sidelined him since the Masters. He won the Northern Trust Open at Riviera in February. ... Kenny Perry, the 2003 and 2005 winner, is making his 21st start at Colonial. He had a career-best 61 to match the tournament record in 2003 and finished at an event-record 19-under 261 in both of his victories. ... Clark is making his first start since winning The Players. ... Angel Cabrera, Jim Furyk, Paul Casey, Ian Poulter and Hunter Mahan also are in the field. ... Ben Hogan won his hometown event five times. ... The Memorial is next week in Dublin, Ohio, followed by the St. Jude Classic in Memphis, Tenn., and the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.
Online: http://www.pgatour.com
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Site: Parker, Colo.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Colorado Golf Club (7,604 yards, par 72).
Purse: $2 million. Winner's share: $315,000.
Last year: Michael Allen won in his Champions Tour debut, beating Larry Mize by two strokes at Canterbury in Beachwood, Ohio. Winless in two decades on the PGA Tour, Allen had a 6-under 274 total.
Last event: Dan Forsman won the Regions Charity Classic on May 16 in Hoover, Ala., for his second senior title. Joe Ozaki and Peter Senior tied for second, three strokes back.
Notes: Fred Couples is making his first senior major start. He has won three of his first six events on the 50-and-over tour and leads the money list with $1,049,317. ... Created at Bobby Jones' suggestion, the event was first played in 1937 at Augusta National. ... Sam Snead won six times, the last in 1973 with a record 20-under 268 total at PGA National. ... The field includes 35 PGA club professionals. ... The 2011 event will be played at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville. ... The Principal Charity Classic is next week at Glen Oaks in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Online: http://www.pga.com/seniorpga/2010
Champions Tour site: http://www.pgatour.com
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Site: Rio de Janeiro.
Schedule: Saturday-Sunday.
Course: Itanhanga Golf Club (6,447 yards, par 72).
Purse: $700,000. Winner's share: $105,000.
Last year: Scotland's Catriona Matthew, playing five months' pregnant, won the exhibition event in January, shooting two 3-under 69s for a five-stroke victory over Kristy McPherson. Matthew went to win the Women's British Open in August, 10 weeks after giving birth to her second child.
Last week: South Korea's Sun Young Yoo won the Sybase Match Play Championship at Hamilton Farm for her first LPGA Tour victory. Seeded 28th, Yoo beat Angela Stanford 3 and 1 in the final. Yoo also beat No. 32 Karen Stupples, No. 5 Cristie Kerr, No. 12 Song-Hee Kim, No. 4 Yani Tseng and No. 1 Jiyai Shin.
Notes: Organizers and tour officials hope to upgrade the tournament to a full official event. ... Matthew, Stanford and McPherson are in the 27-player field - up from 15 last year - along with top Brazilian player Angela Park, Julieta Granada, M.J. Hur, Vicky Hurst, Stacy Lewis, Candie Kung and Janice Moodie. ... Golf will return to the Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. ... The tour is off next week. The LPGA State Farm Classic is June 10-13 in Springfield, Ill.
Online: http://www.lpga.com
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Site: Madrid.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Real Sociedad Hipica Espanola Club de Campo (7,162 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1.85 million. Winner's share: $308,410.
Last year: England's Ross McGowan won the October event for his first European tour title, shooting a 12-under 60 in the third round at Centro Nacional. Finland's Mikko Ilonen was second, three strokes back.
Last week: England's Simon Khan won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth for his second European tour title. A late edition to the field, Khan closed with a 5-under 66 for a one-stroke victory over Luke Donald and Fredrik Andersson Hed.
Notes: Sergio Garcia, down to 32nd in the world ranking, is in the field along with Spanish Open winner Alvaro Quiros and fellow home players Miguel Angel Jimenez and Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, also the event promoter . Jimenez won the Dubai Desert Classic in February. ... Madrid is bidding for the 2018 Ryder Cup. ... The Wales Open at Celtic Manor - the Ryder Cup site in October - is next week.
Online: http://www.europeantour.com
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Next event: Prince George's County Open, June 3-6, University of Maryland Golf Course, College Park, Md.
Last week: John Riegger won the rain-shortened Rex Hospital Classic in Raleigh, N.C., for his second Nationwide Tour title. The 46-year-old Riegger finished 54 holes at 20 under. Chris Nallen was second, five strokes back.
Online: http://www.pgatour.com
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JAPAN GOLF TOUR: Diamond Cup Golf, Thursday-Sunday, Sayama Golf Club, Saitama, Japan. Online: http://www.jgto.org
PGA EUROPEAN CHALLENGE TOUR: Telenet Trophy, Thursday-Sunday, Rinkven Golf Club, Anvers, Belgium. Online: http://www.europeantour.com
TOUR OF THE AMERICAS: Peru Open, Thursday-Sunday, Los Inkas Country Club, Lima, Peru. Online: http://www.tourdelasamericas.com
LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR: Slovak Open, Thursday-Sunday, Gray Bear Golf Course, Tale, Slovakia. Online: http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com
JAPAN LPGA TOUR: Yonex Ladies, Friday-Sunday, Yonex Country Club, Niigita, Japan. On the Net: http://www.lpga.or.jp
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