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 PGA TOUR: WGC-HSBC Champions at Sheshan International Golf Club in
Shanghai, China, Thursday through Sunday.
TV: Wednesday through Saturday (in the United States), 10 p.m.-3
a.m. EST, on the Golf Channel each day.
LAST YEAR: Bubba Watson, who blew a two-stroke lead late in
regulation play, holed a 20-foot birdie putt on the first playoff
hole to turn back Tim Clark of South Africa and claim his first
title in a World Golf Championship event with some typical Bubba
Golf. Watson, who went bogey-double bogey on the 16th and 17th
holes, got into the playoff by holing a 60-yard bunker shot for an
eagle on the last hole to complete a 2-under-par 70. Clark made
birdies on three of his last five holes to shoot 69 and tie Watson,
but left his 25-foot birdie putt barely short on the playoff hole.
Rickie Fowler had a chance to join them in the playoff with a birdie
on the final hole, but his approach shot came up short and went into
the water before he salvaged a par that left him one shot back after
a 70.
PGA TOUR: Sanderson Farms Championship at the Country Club of
Jackson in Jackson, Miss., Thursday through Sunday.
TV: Thursday through Sunday, 1:30-4:30 p.m. EST, on the Golf Channel
each day.
LAST YEAR: Nick Taylor of Canada closed with a 6-under-par 66 to
claim his first PGA Tour victory by two strokes over Boo Weekley and
Jason Bohn. Taylor, the first Canadian-born players to win on the
circuit since Mike Weir in 2007, came from four strokes behind in
the final round by collecting five birdies on the front nine and
adding three more in a row through the 15th hole. Weekley, a
three-time winner on the PGA Tour, birdied three of the last four
holes in his own 66, while Bohn, who has won twice, finished with a
69. John Rollins, the 54-hole leader, carded three bogeys on the
back nine and stumbled to a 73 that left him three shots back in a
tie for fourth.
CHAMPIONS TOUR: Charles Schwab Cup Championship on the Cochise
Course at Desert Mountain Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., Thursday
through Sunday.
TV: Thursday through Sunday, 4:30-6:30 p.m. EST, on the Golf Channel
each day.
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LAST YEAR: Tom Pernice Jr. sank a 6-foot birdie putt on the fourth
playoff hole to defeat Jay Haas and claim his fourth victory on the
Champions Tour after winning twice in his career on the PGA Tour.
Pernice got up and down from a greenside bunker to win after Haas
made a 12-foot putt for par to momentarily stay alive. Pernice, then
55, closed with a 3-under-par 67, making another five-footer for
birdie on the 18th hole to get into the playoff with Haas, then 60,
who shot a 66. Bernard Langer, who wrapped up the season-long
Charles Schwab Cup race a week earlier, finished with a 65 to tie
for fourth and captured the Champions Tour money title for the sixth
time in seven years.
LPGA TOUR: Toto Japan Classic at Kintetsu Kashikojima Country Club
in
Shima-Shi, Mie, Japan, Friday through Sunday.
TV: No live television in the United States.
LAST YEAR: Mi Hyang Lee of South Korea hit her approach shot stiff
on the fifth playoff hole and tapped in for a birdie to defeat Ilhee
Lee, also of South Korea, and Kotono Kozuma of Japan in what was
then the Mizuno Classic. Mi Hyang Lee, 21, who also won the ISPS
Handa Women's New Zealand Open last year, became the seventh player
from South Korea to win on the LPGA Tour in 2014. All three players
made pars on the first two playoff holes and sank long birdie putts
on the third before matching pars again on the fourth. Mi Hyang Lee
and Kozuma closed with 2-under-par 69s, while Ilhee Lee had a 70
that included a costly bogey on the 17th hole.
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