ON THE FAIRWAYS This week’s professional golf events


PGA TOUR CROWNE PLAZA INVITATIONAL Fort Worth, Texas

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Colonial Country Club (7,204 yards, par 70).

Purse: $6.4 million. Winner’s share: $1,152,000.

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 3-6 p.m., 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.) and CBS (Saturday-Sunday, 3-6 p.m.).

Jason Kokrak: The Warren native is on the alternate list for this tournament.

Last year: David Toms won his 13th tour title a week after losing a playoff to K.J. Choi in The Players Championship. Toms shot consecutive 62s to tie the tour record for the first 36 holes, then closed with rounds of 74 and 67 to beat Charlie Wi by a stroke.

Last week: Jason Dufner won the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving for his second victory in four weeks, holing a 25-foot birdie putt for a one-stroke victory over Dicky Pride. Dufner also won at New Orleans.

PGA OF AMERICA SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP Benton Harbor, Mich.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: The Golf Club at Harbor Shores (6,861 yards, par 71).

Purse: TBA ($2 million in 2011). Winner’s share: TBA ($360,000 in 2011).

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, noon-3 p.m., 6:30-9:30 p.m.) and NBC (Saturday-Sunday, 3-6 p.m.).

Last year: Tom Watson won at Valhalla in Kentucky, blasting out of a bunker to 3 feet to set up a birdie on the first hole off a playoff with David Eger. At 61, Watson became the oldest major winner since the senior tour was created in 1980.

Last event: Fred Funk won the Insperity Championship at The Woodlands on May 6, birdieing the final hole for a one-stroke victory over Tom Lehman. Funk also won the 1992 Houston Open on the course.

EUROPEAN TOUR BMW PGA CHAMPIONSHIP Virginia Water, England

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Wentworth Club, West Course (7,302 yards, par 72).

Purse: $5.76 million. Winner’s share: $959,760.

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday, 9 a.m.-noon; Friday, 1:30-3:30 a.m., 9 a.m.-noon; Saturday, 1:30-3:30 a.m., 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 3-6 p.m., 8:30-11:30 p.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 3-6 p.m., 8:30-11:30 p.m.).

Last year: Luke Donald won a duel for the top spot in the world ranking with a playoff victory over fellow Englishman Lee Westwood. Donald, second behind Westwood entering the tournament, birdied the par-5 18th in the playoff, hitting his approach to 5 feet before Westwood’s wedge shot spun into the water.

Last week: Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts won the Volvo World Match Play Championship in Spain, beating Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell 1-up in windy conditions.

Associated Press