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 TV: Thursday and Friday, 2-6 p.m. EDT on the Golf Channel; Saturday
and Sunday, 12:30-2:30 p.m. EDT on the Golf Channel and 2:30-6 p.m.
EDT on NBC.
LAST YEAR: Matt Every has won twice on the PGA Tour, his victories
coming in the last two years at Bay Hill. The former University of
Florida star from Daytona Beach sank a 17-foot birdie putt on the
18th hole last year to cap a 6-under-par 66 in the final round,
giving him a one-stroke victory over Henrik Stenson of Sweden. Every
came from four shots down in the final round two years ago to win by
one stroke over Keegan Bradley with a 70. A year ago, he was three
strokes behind at the start of the fourth round. After making his
only bogey on the first hole, he collected seven birdies over the
last 17 holes. Stenson closed with a 70, missing a 21-foot birdie
putt on the final hole that would have forced a playoff.
CHAMPIONS TOUR: Tucson Conquistadores Classic at Omni Tucson
National in Tucson, Ariz., Friday through Sunday.
TV: Friday, 8-10 p.m. EDT; Saturday and Sunday, 5-7 p.m. EDT; on the
Golf Channel each day.
LAST YEAR: Marco Dawson won for the first time on the Champions Tour
in his 21st start, closing with a 3-under-par 69 to win by two
strokes over Bart Bryant. Dawson added the Senior Open Championship
title later in 2015 at Sunningdale, England. After falling into a
tie for the lead with Bryant due to a bogey on the 15th hole in the
final round, Dawson holed a 20-foot birdie putt at No. 16 and
suddenly had a two-stroke lead when Bryant could not get up and down
for par after hitting into a greenside bunker. Bryant, whose only
victory on the senior circuit came in the 2013 Dick's Sporting Goods
Open after he won three times on the PGA Tour, wound up at 70.
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LPGA TOUR: JTBC Founders Cup at Wildfire Golf Club at JW Marriott
Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Thursday through Sunday.
TV: Thursday, 6-9 p.m. EDT; Friday, 6-8 p.m. EDT; Saturday and
Sunday, 7-9 p.m. EDT; on the Golf Channel each day.
LAST YEAR: Hyo Joo Kim of South Korea earned her second LPGA Tour
victory by three strokes over Stacy Lewis after carding a
5-under-par 67 in the final round. Kim, who captured the 2014 Evian
Championship in France to make her first title on the circuit a
major, finished off the victory by collecting five birdies in the
last eight holes. Lewis, who finished second on the LPGA Tour six
times in each of the last two seasons, was within one stroke of the
lead heading to the final hole but closed with a bogey for a
two-stroke swing. Kim, then 19, stretched to six a streak of LPGA
Tour events won by players born in South Korea -- or all that had
been played in 2015.
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