WORLD CUP OF GOLF
Site: Melbourne, Australia.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Composite Course (7,024 yards, par 71).
Individual purse: $7 million. Winner's share: $1.2 million.
World Golf Glance
AP
4 mins to read
Subscribe to listen
Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?
Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
Team purse: $1 million. Winners' shares: $300,000 each.
Last event: Matt Kuchar and Gary Woodland won in 2011 at Mission Hills in China, giving the United States its first victory since 2000 and 24th overall.
Notes: In a format change, the event is primarily a 60-man, individual stroke-play competition that provides world-ranking points. The 26 countries with two players in the field will compete for a team title based on their combined scores. ... Adam Scott and Jason Day are playing for Australia. Scott is coming off consecutive victories in the Australian PGA and Australian Masters. The Masters also was played at Royal Melbourne. Eight of Day's relatives, including his grandmother, were killed in Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Day's mother, Dening, migrated to Australia from the Philippines 30 years ago. ... Kuchar, second in the Australian Masters, is teaming with Kevin Streelman for the United States. ... China's Liang Wen-chong won the Asian Tour's Manila Masters on Sunday. ... The Australian Open is next week at Royal Sydney.
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
Online: http://worldcup.pgatour.com
___
EUROPEAN TOUR/SUNSHINE TOUR
SOUTH AFRICA OPEN
Site: Johannesburg.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Glendower Golf Club (6,899 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1.49 million. Winner's share: $235,685.
Last year: Sweden's Henrik Stenson won at Serengeti Golf and Wildlife Estate. South Africa's George Coetzee was second, three strokes back.
Last week: Stenson won the season-ending World Tour Championship in Dubai to become the first player to sweep the US PGA Tour's FedEx Cup and European Tour's Race to Dubai. Stenson earned $1,333,300 for the tournament victory and $1 million for winning the Race to Dubai.
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
Notes: The tournament opens the European Tour season. ... Stenson withdrew on Monday because of a lingering right wrist injury. ... Charl Schwartzel and Retief Goosen top the South African contingent. ... David Duval is in the field. ... First played in 1893, the tournament is the second oldest national championship behind the British Open (1860). ... Gary Player won a record 13 times, the first in 1956 and last in 1981. ... The tours will team again next week for the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek.
Online: http://www.southafricanopen.com
European Tour site: http://www.europeantour.com
Sunshine Tour site: http://www.pgatour.co.za
___
US LPGA TOUR
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
CME GROUP TITLEHOLDERS
Site: Naples, Florida.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Tiburon Golf Club (6,540 yards, par 72).
Purse: $2 million. Winner's share: $700,000.
Last year: Na Yeon Choi won the season-ending event at TwinEagles, beating fellow South Korean player So Yeon Ryu by two strokes.
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
Last week: Lexi Thompson won the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico for her second victory in her last four starts, birdieing the final hole to beat Stacy Lewis by a stroke. Inbee Park finished fourth to become the first South Korean player to win the points-based player of the year award.
Notes: Lydia Ko is making her professional debut. The Canadian Women's Open winner the last two years, the 16-year-old Ko has been granted US LPGA Tour membership for the 2014 season. ... Lewis leads the Vare Trophy race with a 69.483 scoring average. Suzann Pettersen is second at 69.587, and Park third at 69.900. Lewis is trying to become the first American winner since Beth Daniel in 1994. ... Park leads the money list with $2,393,513, followed by Pettersen ($2,284,326) and Lewis ($1,894,630). ... The top-ranked Park swept the first three major championships of the season and has three other tour wins this season. She's winless in nine starts since the U.S. Women's Open in late June.
Online: http://www.lpga.com
___
OTHER TOURNAMENTS
MEN
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
JAPAN GOLF TOUR: Dunlop Phoenix, Thursday-Sunday, Phoenix Country Club, Miyazaki, Japan. Online: http://www.jgto.org
PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA: New South Wales Open, Thursday-Sunday, Castle Hill Country Club, Sydney. Online: http://www.pgatour.com.au
PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA: Chile Open, Thursday-Sunday, Los Leones Golf Club, Santiago, Chile. Online: http://www.pgatourla.com
WOMEN
JAPAN LPGA TOUR: Daio Paper Elleair Open, Friday-Sunday, Elleair Golf Club, Ehime, Japan. Online: http://www.lpga.or.jp