WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS
What: Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio.
Course: Firestone Country Club, South Course (7,400 yards, par 70)
Schedule (TV): Thursday-Sunday: Golf Channel;
Saturday-Sunday: Ch. 4
Purse: $8.5 million (winner's share: $1.4 million)
Defending champion: Hunter Mahan
PGA TOUR
What: Reno-Tahoe Open in Reno, Nev.
Course: Montreux Golf and Country Club (7,472 yards, par 72)
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday: Golf Channel
Purse: $3 million (winner's share: $540,000)
Defending champion: Matt Bettencourt
CHAMPIONS TOUR
What: 3M Championship in Blaine
Course: TPC Twin Cities (7,100 yards, par 72)
Schedule: Friday-Sunday
Purse: $1.75 million. Winner's share: $262,500
Schedule (TV): Friday-Sunday: Golf Channel
Defending champion: David Frost
LPGA TOUR
Next event: Safeway Classic, Aug. 19-21, Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, Ghost Creek Golf Course, North Plains, Ore.
NOTES
PGA: Tiger Woods is returning to play in the World Golf Championships after an 11-week break to make sure his left leg was fully healed. He swept the 1999-2001 and 2005-07 titles and won in 2009 to become the first player in PGA Tour history to win seven times on one course. U.S. Open winner Rory McIlroy and British Open champion Darren Clarke are in the field.
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