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PGA TOUR
LAST TOURNAMENT: WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play (Scottie
Scheffler)
THIS WEEK: Valero Texas Open, San Antonio, Texas, March 31-April
3
Course: TPC San Antonio, Oaks Course (Par 72, 7,494 yards)
Purse: $8.6M (Winner: $1.548M)
Defending Champion: Jordan Spieth
FedExCup Leader: Scottie Scheffler
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: Thursday-Friday, 4-7 p.m. ET (Golf Channel); Saturday,
1-3:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3:30-6 p.m. (NBC); Sunday, 1-2 p.m.
(Golf Channel), 2-6 p.m. (NBC).
PGA Tour Live: Daily feeds on ESPN+
Social Media: @ValeroTXOpen (Twitter)
NOTES: This is the 100th anniversary of the event, with TPC San
Antonio the venue for the 13th time. ... Spieth snapped a
drought of 82 PGA Tour events without a win last year, claiming
his first title since the 2017 Open Championship. ... Jason Day
and Rickie Fowler are among the 121 players in the field who are
not currently qualified for next week's Masters but could earn a
spot with a victory in San Antonio. Also needing a victory to
play at Augusta is Richard Bland, who would have qualified for
the Masters with a win over Dustin Johnson in the Round of 16 in
last week's Match Play event. Twenty-three players in the field
are already qualified for the Masters. ... The last player to
win the event to qualify for the Masters was Corey Conners with
his maiden tour victory in 2019. ... Matt Kuchar will make his
500th career PGA Tour start. ... College stars Logan McAllister
(Oklahoma) and Ludvig Aberg (Texas Tech) are among the sponsors
exemptions.
BEST BETS: Rory McIlroy (+750 at DraftKings) will make his first
event start since a runner-up in his lone previous appearance in
2013. This is the first time he will tee it up the week before
the Masters since 2014. ... Hideki Matsuyama (+1400) will make
his tournament debut ahead of defending his Masters title next
week. He has not played since withdrawing from The Players with
a back injury. ... Spieth (+1400) has never successfully
defended a title on tour. After a runner-up at Pebble Beach,
Spieth has not posted a top 25 in his past four starts. ...
Conners (+1800) won three years ago and is coming off a
third-place finish at the Match Play. ... Abraham Ancer (+2200)
is a San Antonio resident who finished T23 last year. ... Bryson
DeChambeau (+2800) failed to advance from group play last week
in his first event since January. He has missed the cut in each
of his two previous event starts. ... Charley Hoffman (+7500) is
the event's all-time money leader and was the runner up in 2019
and '21.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: The Masters, Augusta, Ga., April 7-10
LPGA Tour
LAST TOURNAMENT: JTBC Classic (Atthaya Thitikul)
THIS WEEK: The Chevron Championship, Rancho Mirage, Calif.,
March 31-April 3
Course: Mission Hills Country Club, Dinah Shore Tournament
Course (Par 72, 6,763 yards)
Purse: $5M (Winner: $750,000)
Defending champion: Patty Tavatanakit
Race to the CME Globe leader: Jin Young Ko
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: Thursday-Friday, 12-4 p.m., 7-9 p.m. ET; Saturday-Sunday,
5-9 p.m. (All times Golf Channel)
Livestream: Thursday-Friday, 12-4 p.m., 7-9 p.m. ET;
Saturday-Sunday, 5-9 p.m. (NBC Sports app and golfchannel.com)
Social: @ TheChevronChampionship (Twitter, Instagram); @Chevron_Golf
(Twitter); #TheChevronChampionship #TheLastSplash
Notes: This is the first major of the LPGA Tour season and the
51st time it will be held at the Dinah Shore Tournament. The
event will move to Houston next year and be played later in the
spring. ... The 115-player field includes 19 of the top 20
players in the Rolex Rankings, with No. 2 Jessica Korda still
recovering from a blood clot in her arm. ... Tavatanakit is
defending her maiden win on tour, going wire-to-wire last year.
... The winner traditionally jumps into "Poppie's Pond" with her
caddie and is given a bathrobe ... Danielle Kang has three
consecutive top-13 finishes in the event. ... Dottie Pepper
holds the tournament scoring record of 19-under 269 shot in
1999. ... Lexi Thompson has made the cut in each of her previous
10 event starts, including her first major title in 2014.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: Lotte Championship, Ewa Beach, Oahu, HI, April
13-16
Champions Tour
LAST TOURNAMENT: Hoag Classic (Retief Goosen)
THIS WEEK: Rapiscan Systems Classic, Biloxi, Miss., April 1-3
Course: Grand Bear Golf Club (Par 72, 7,140 yards)
Purse: $1.6M (Winner: $240,000)
Defending champion: Kevin Sutherland (2019)
Charles Schwab Cup leader: Miguel Angel Jimenez
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: Friday, 10 p.m.-midnight ET, tape delay; Saturday, 3:30-5
p.m.; Sunday, 2-5 p.m. (All times Golf Channel)
NOTES: This is a 78-player, 54-hole event that returns to the
schedule for the first time since 2019, when Sutherland defeated
Scott Parel in a seven-hole playoff. ... The previous 10
iterations of the event were held at Fallen Oak Golf Club in
Costal Mississippi. ... Jim Furyk earned his first professional
victory at the Grand Bear Golf Club while on the Korn Ferry Tour
in 1993. ... Bernhard Langer has finished in the top 10 in each
of his first four starts this year.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: ClubCorp Classic, Las Colinas Country Club,
Irving, Texas, April 22-24
--Field Level Media
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