This week's pro golf events | May 11-17, 2015

 

PGA TOUR

WELLS FARGO CHAMPIONSHIP

 

Site: Charlotte, North Carolina.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Quail Hollow Club (7,562 yards, par 72).

Purse: $7.1 million. Winner's share: $1,278,000

 

Last year: J.B. Holmes won for the first time since brain surgery. Jim Furyk was second, a shot back.

 

Last week: Rickie Fowler won The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. He played the final six holes in regulation in 6 under, then outlasted Kisner and Sergio Garcia in a playoff. Garcia dropped out after a three-hole aggregate playoff, and Fowler beat Kisner on the first hole of sudden death with his third birdie of the day on the par-3 17th.

 

Notes: Top-ranked Rory McIlroy is in the field. He won in 2010 for his first PGA Tour title, finishing with a 10-under 62. ... Fowler, the 2012 winner, is skipping the tournament. ... Holmes won the Houston Open in April. ... In 2017 when Quail Hollow hosts the PGA Championship, the Wells Fargo Championship will be played at Eagle Point in Wilmington, North Carolina. ... The tour will be in the Dallas area the next two weeks for the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial in Fort Worth and the AT&T Byron Nelson in Irving.

 

 

LPGA TOUR

KINGSMILL CHAMPIONSHIP

 

Site: Williamsburg, Virginia.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Kingsmill Resort, River Course (6,379 yards, par 72).

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

 

Last year: Lizette Salas won her first tour title, closing with a 71 for a four-stroke victory.

 

Last event: Inbee Park won the North Texas Shootout on May 3 for her second victory of the year. She also won the 2013 event.

 

Notes: Top-ranked Lydia Ko has two LPGA Tour victories this year and won a Ladies European Tour event at home in New Zealand. ... In 2012, Jiyai Shin beat Paula Creamer with a par on the ninth extra hole. ... Canadian teen Brooke Henderson received a sponsor exemption. ... Cristie Kerr won the Michelob Ultra Championship at Kingsmill in 2005 and 2009 and took the current event in 2013. ... The tour is off next week. Play will resume May 29-31 with the ShopRite LPGA Classic in New Jersey.

 

CHAMPIONS TOUR

REGIONS TRADITION

 

Site: Birmingham, Alabama.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Shoal Creek (7,145 yards, par 72).

Purse: $2.3 million. Winner's share: $345,000.

 

Last year: Kenny Perry won his third straight Champions Tour major, beating Mark Calcavecchia by a stroke. Perry won the Senior Players Championship and U.S. Senior Open in consecutive tour starts in 2013.

 

Last event: Ian Woosnam won the Insperity Invitational on May 3 in Texas for his first Champions Tour title. He made a 30-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff with Perry and Tom Lehman.

 

Notes: The tournament, the first of the tour's five major championships, is in its fifth season at Jack Nicklaus-designed Shoal Creek. ... The course hosted the PGA Championship in 1984 and 1990. In 1990, club founder Hall Thompson said all-white Shoal Creek wouldn't be pressured into accepting black members. The club now has black members, including former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. ... Lehman won in 2011 and 2012. ... The Senior PGA Championship is next week in French Lick, Indiana.

 

EUROPEAN TOUR

SPANISH OPEN

 

Site: Barcelona, Spain.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Real Golf Club El Prat (7,326 yards, par 72).

Purse: $1.68 million. Winner's share: $279,570.

 

Last year: Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez won at 50 years, 133 days to break his own record as the oldest European Tour champion. He beat Thomas Pieters and Richard Green with a par on the first hole of a playoff at PGA Catalunya Resort.

 

Last week: South Africa's George Coetzee won the Mauritius Open for his second European Tour victory of the season. He beat Thorbjorn Olesen with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff.

 

Notes: Spain's Sergio Garcia is coming off a playoff loss Sunday in Florida in The Players Championship. He won in 2002 at El Cortijo. ... The tournament was first played in 1912 and was the tour's inaugural event in 1972. ... The BMW PGA Championship is next week at Wentworth in England, followed by the Irish Open at Royal County Down in Northern Ireland.

 

WEB.COM TOUR

BMW CHARITY PRO-AM

 

Site: Greer, South Carolina.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Courses: Thornblade Club (7,024 yards, par 71); Green Valley Country Club (7,030 yards, par 72); The Reserve at Lake Keowee (7,112 yards, par 72).

Purse: $675,000. Winner's share: $121,000.

 

Last year: Max Homa shot an 8-under 63 for a one-stroke victory over Jonathan Randolph.

 

Last event: Smylie Kaufman won the United Leasing Championship on May 3 in Indiana. He won by five strokes, matching the course record with a 64 in the third round.

 

Notes: The final round will be played at Thornblade Club. ... The tour is off next week. Play will resume May 28-31 with the Rex Hospital Open in Raleigh, North Carolina.

 

OTHER TOURNAMENTS

MEN

JAPAN GOLF TOUR: Japan PGA Championship, Thursday-Sunday, Taiheiyo Club, Kohnan Course, Saitama, Japan.

 

ONEASIA TOUR: Maekyung Open, Thursday-Sunday, Namseoul Country Club, Seoul, South Korea.

 

PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA: Mexican Open, Thursday-Sunday, Club Campestre, Aguascalientes, Mexico.

 

EUROPEAN CHALLENGE TOUR: Made in Denmark Challenge, Thursday-Sunday, Royal Golf Club, Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

NGA TOUR: Milton Martin Honda Classic, Thursday-Sunday, Chattahoochee Golf Club, Gainesville, Georgia.

 

WOMEN

U.S. GOLF ASSOCIATION: U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball, through Wednesday, Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, Pacific Dunes, Bandon, Oregon. 

 

SYMETRA TOUR: Mission Health Wellness Classic, Friday-Sunday, Country Club of Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina.

 

LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR: Turkish Airlines Ladies Open, Sunday-May 20, Carya Golf Club, Belek, Turkey.

 

JAPAN LPGA TOUR: Hoken No Madoguchi Ladies, Friday-Sunday, Fukuoka Kantsuri Club, Fukuoka, Japan. Online: //www.lpga.or.jp

 

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