ON TOUR This week’s pro golf events

LPGA TOUR
Canadian Women’s Open
Edmonton, Alberta

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Royal Mayfair Golf and Country Club (6,565 yards, par 71).
Purse: $2.25 million. Winner’s share: $337,500.
Television: Golf Channel (Saturday-Sunday, 6:30-9:30 p.m.)
Last year: Cristie Kerr won at London Hunt in Ontario, overcoming an eight-stroke deficit in the final round to beat Angela Stanford by a stroke. Kerr finished with a 7-under 65, while Stanford bogeyed the final two holes for a 74.
Last event: Lorena Ochoa won the Women’s British Open — the first women’s pro tournament at St. Andrews — on Aug. 5 for her first major title. The top-ranked Mexican star beat Jee Young Lee and Maria Hjorth by four strokes.

PGA TOUR
Wyndham Championship
Greensboro, N.C.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Forest Oaks Country Club (7,333 yards, par 72).
Purse: $5 million. Winner’s share: $900,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 3-6 p.m., 9 p.m.-midnight) and CBS (Saturday-Sunday, 1-4 p.m.)
Last year: Davis Love III won three years after overseeing a renovation project at Forest Oaks, closing with a 66 for a two-stroke victory over Jason Bohn. Love, also the 1992 winner, won his 19th PGA Tour title and first since 2003.
Last week: Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship for his 13th major victory, successfully defending his title at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Okla. He shot 71-63-69-69 to beat Woody Austin by two strokes. Woods, the Bridgestone Invitational winner the previous week, has five PGA Tour wins this year and 59 overall.

CHAMPIONS TOUR
JELD-WEN Tradition
Sunriver, Ore.

Course: Crosswater Club at Sunriver Resort (7,436 yards, par 72).
Purse: $2.6 million. Winner’s share: $390,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday, 6:30-9 p.m., Friday, 1-3:30 a.m., 6:30-9 p.m.; Saturday, 1-3:30 a.m.) and NBC (Saturday-Sunday, 4-6 p.m.)
Last year: Argentina’s Eduardo Romero won his first Champions Tour title, beating Lonnie Nielson with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff at The Reserve Vineyards. Romero was making his eighth start on the 50-and-over tour.
Last event: D.A. Weibring won the 3M Championship on Aug. 5 in Blaine, Minn., birdieing the last three holes to beat Jay Haas by a stroke.

PGA EUROPEAN TOUR
Scandinavian Masters
Stockholm

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Arlandastad Golf Club (6,835 yards, par 70).
Purse: $2.18 million. Winner’s share: $362,100.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 8-11 a.m.)
Last year: Scotland’s Marc Warren won his first tour title, beating Sweden’s Robert Karlsson with a par on the second hole of a playoff at Barseback.
Last week: Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship for his 13th major victory, successfully defending his title at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Okla. He shot 71-63-69-69 to beat Woody Austin by two strokes. Woods, the Bridgestone Invitational winner the previous week, has five PGA Tour wins this year and 59 overall.

NATIONWIDE TOUR
Xerox Classic
Rochester, N.Y.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Irondequoit Country Club (6,720 yards, par 70).
Purse: $600,000. Winner’s share: $108,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday, 1-3 p.m.; Friday, 3:30-5 a.m., 1-3 p.m.; Saturday, 3:30-5 a.m., 1-4 p.m.; Sunday, 1-2:30 a.m., 1-4 p.m.; Monday, 1-2:30 a.m.)
Last year: Kevin Stadler won the second of his two 2006 Nationwide Tour titles, finishing with a 5-under 65 for a one-stroke victory over Glen Day.
Last week: Justin Bolli won the Northeast Pennsylvania Classic, beating Richard Johnson and Patrick Sheehan by a stroke.

Associated Press