ON TOUR \ This week’s pro golf events

PGA OF AMERICA
Senior PGA Championship
Kiawah Island, S.C.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Kiawah Island Golf Resort, The Ocean Course (7,201 yards, par 72).
Purse: TBA ($2 million in 2006). Winner’s share: TBA. ($360,000 in 2006).
Television: USA (Thursday-Friday, 1-3 p.m.) and NBC (Saturday-Sunday, 3-6 p.m.)
Last year: Jay Haas won the major championship for his third straight Champions Tour victory, beating Brad Bryant on the third extra hole at Oak Tree in Oklahoma.
Last week: Bryant successfully defended his Regions Charity Classic title, beating R.W. Eaks with a birdie on the third hole of a playoff in Hoover, Ala.
Notes: Created at Bobby Jones’ suggestion, the event was first played in 1937 at Augusta National. ... Haas has two victories this year and leads the money list with $1,136,058. ... The 1991 Ryder Cup was played on the Pete Dye-designed Ocean Course, also the site of the 2012 PGA Championship. ... Sam Snead won six times, the last in 1973 with a record 20-under 268 total at PGA National. ... Hale Irwin won in 1996-98 at PGA National and 2004 at Valhalla. ... Jeff Coston of Blaine, Wash., won the Senior PGA Professional National Championship in October to top the 35 club pro qualifiers. ... Seve Ballesteros is making his second Champions Tour start. He tied for last in Alabama, shooting 78-81-73. ... Fred Funk is skipping the senior major to play in the Colonial. ... Four construction workers were injured Friday in a kitchen gas explosion in the new $22 million clubhouse. ... The 2008 event will be played at Oak Hill in Rochester, N.Y. ... The Boeing Championship is next week in Destin, Fla.

PGA EUROPEAN TOUR
BMW PGA Championship
Virginia Water, England

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Wentworth Club, West Course (7,320 yards, par 72).
Purse: $5.88 million. Winner’s share: $980,300.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.)
Last year: England’s David Howell won the first of his two 2006 European tour titles, beating countryman Simon Khan by five strokes.
Last week: Padraig Harrington became the first Irishman to win the Irish Open in 25 years, parring the first hole of a playoff with Wales’ Bradley Dredge.

PGA TOUR
Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial
Fort Worth, Texas

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Colonial Country Club (7,343 yards, par 70).
Purse: $6 million. Winner’s share: $1.08 million.
FedExCup points: 25,000. Winner’s share: 4,500.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 3-6 p.m., 8:30-11:30 p.m.) and CBS (Saturday-Sunday, 3-6 p.m.)
Last year: Tim Herron won for the first time in seven years, beating Richard Johnson with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff.
Last week: Masters champion Zach Johnson won the AT&T Classic in Duluth, Ga., beating Ryuji Imada with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff. Johnson also won the 2004 tournament at the TPC Sugarloaf.

LPGA TOUR
LPGA Corning Classic
Corning, N.Y.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Corning Country Club (6,132 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1.3 million. Winner’s share: $195,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Friday, 12:30-2:30 a.m., 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Saturday, 12:30-2:30 a.m., 6:30-9 p.m.; Sunday, 1-3 a.m., 6:30-9 p.m.; Monday, 1-3:30 a.m.)
Last year: Hee-Won Han won the first of her two 2006 titles, beating South Korean compatriot Meena Lee with a par on the fourth hole of a playoff.
Last week: Lorena Ochoa won for the first time since replacing Annika Sorenstam as the No. 1 player in the world, successfully defending her Sybase Classic title with a three-stroke victory over Sarah Lee. Ochoa won at Upper Montclair in Clifton N.J., after taking the 2006 tournament at Wykagyl in Rochelle, N.Y.

NATIONWIDE TOUR
Melwood Prince George’s County Open
Mitchelville, Md.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: The Country Club at Woodmore (7,089 yards, par 72).
Purse: $600,000. Winner’s share: $108,000.
Television: None.
Last year: Inaugural event.
Last week: Australia’s Nick Flanagan won for the second time this season to move within a victory of an immediate promotion to the PGA Tour, birdieing the final three holes for a one-stroke victory in the BMW Charity Pro-Am at The Cliffs. Flanagan, the 2003 U.S. Amateur champion, won the Henrico Country Open in his previous tour start.

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