Wednesday, December 25, 2024

This week’s PGA Tour, LPGA occasions: Information, notables in discipline, purse, TV schedule

Right here’s a breakdown of this week’s occasions across the golf world:

PGA Tour: World Huge Know-how Championship

When and the place: Thursday-Sunday, El Cardonal at Diamonte, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Purse: $7.2 million ($1,296,000 to winner)

2023 winner: Erik van Rooyen

Notables within the discipline: Daniel Berger, Harris English, Lucas Glover, Beau Hossler, Maverick McNealy, Kevin Streelman, van Rooyen, Jhonattan Vegas, Camilo Villegas

TV schedule (stream hyperlinks): Thursday-Sunday, 2-5 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)

Notes: El Cardonal is a Tiger Woods-designed course on the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula. … Van Rooyen shot a back-nine 28 on Sunday to win final 12 months’s occasion in honor of his greatest buddy and former school teammate, Jon Trasamar, who was terminally unwell from Stage 4 melanoma. … That is the sixth of eight PGA Tour Fall Sequence occasions, certainly one of three remaining possibilities for gamers to complete inside the highest 125 in FedExCup factors and earn their 2025 Tour playing cards.


LPGA: Lotte Championship

When and the place: Wednesday-Saturday, Hoakalei Nation Membership, Ewa Seashore, Hawaii

Purse: $3 million ($450,000 to winner)

2023 winner: Grace Kim

Notables within the discipline: Hye-Jin Choi, Ayaka Furue, Brooke Henderson, Kim, Jin Younger Ko, Gaby Lopez, Mao Saigo, Jasmine Suwannapura, Angel Yin

TV schedule (stream hyperlinks): Wednesday-Saturday, 7-10 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)

Notes: One in all three occasions remaining on the LPGA schedule. … The highest 80 within the season-long factors standings will earn 2025 playing cards whereas the highest 60 will qualify for the CME Group Tour Championship finale. … Saigo at present leads the points-based Louise Suggs Rookie of the 12 months standings whereas Furue is the front-runner for the Vare Trophy (scoring common).


DP World Tour: Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship

When and the place: Thursday-Sunday, Yas Hyperlinks, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Purse: $9 million ($1,530,000 to winner)

2023 winner: Victor Perez

Notables within the discipline: Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton, Min Woo Lee, Shane Lowry, Rory McIlroy, Joaquin Niemann, Justin Rose, Adam Scott

TV schedule (stream hyperlinks): Thursday-Saturday, 2-8 a.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 1:30-7:30 a.m. ET (GC)

Notes: First of two playoff occasions to shut out the DP World Tour season. … Consists of the highest 70 within the Race to Dubai standings, with the highest 50 qualifying for subsequent week’s DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. … Final 12 months’s winner, Perez, didn’t qualify to defend his title.


PGA Tour Champions: Charles Schwab Cup Championship

When and the place: Thursday-Sunday, Phoenix Nation Membership, Phoenix, Arizona

Purse: $3 million ($528,000 to winner)

2023 winner: Steven Alker

Notables within the discipline: Alker, Stephen Ames, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Padraig Harrington, Bernhard Langer, Vijay Singh, Y.E. Yang

TV schedule (stream hyperlinks): Thursday-Sunday, 5-7 p.m. ET on Golf Channel

Notes: Last event of the 2024 marketing campaign. … 35 of the 36 eligible gamers can be within the discipline, minus final 12 months’s season-long champion, Steve Stricker. …The winner of the event isn’t robotically the general Charles Schwab Cup champion because the season-long race is separate (not like what you see with the PGA Tour’s Tour Championship and FedExCup). … Els at present leads the season-long standings with Nos. 2-6 having the ability to overtake him ought to they prevail in Phoenix.


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