Golf Glance
PGA TOUR
SAFEWAY OPEN
Site: Napa, Calif.
Course: Silverado Resort (North Course). Yardage: 7,171. Par: 72.
Purse: $6 million (First prize: $1,080,000 million).
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Sunday, 5-8 p.m.).
Defending champion: Emiliano Grillo.
Last tournament: Rory McIlroy won the Tour Championship on Sept. 25 to claim the FedEx Cup.
Notes: Tiger Woods withdrew from the tournament Monday, saying his game was "vulnerable" and he was not ready. He has gone 14 months without competition, the longest break of his career. He was replaced in the field by Max Homa, who starred at Cal. ... Phil Mickelson, who management company runs the event, is playing a domestic fall tournament for the first time since the FedEx Cup began in 2007. ... In the three years that the PGA Tour has started in the fall, all three winners of the opening event have reached the Tour Championship. ... Mickelson and Matt Kuchar are the only players from the Ryder Cup at Silverado. ... Nick Watney returns to competition after sitting out the last eight months with a back injury. ... The field features 14 players who won PGA Tour events last year.
Next week: CIMB Classic in Malaysia.
Online: www.pgatour.com
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LPGA TOUR
LPGA KEB HANA BANK CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Incheon, South Korea.
Course: Sky 72 GC (Ocean Course). Yardage: 6,364. Par: 72.
Purse: $2 million (First prize: $300,000).
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday, 12:30-4 p.m. on tape; Friday-Sunday, 11:30 p.m. to 3 a.m.).
Defending champion: Lexi Thompson.
Last week: Ha Na Jang won the Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship.
Notes: Jang became the third player with at least three LPGA Tour victories this year. Ariya Jutanugarn has five victories, followed by Lydia Ko with four. ... Nine players already have crossed the $1 million mark in earnings this year. ... South Korean players have won the last three events on the LPGA Tour, and the nine victories this year are the most of any country. Thailand (Jutanugarn) is next with five. ... U.S. Women's Open champion Brittany Lang at No. 9 is the only American among the top 10 on the money list. ... This is the strongest field yet of the LPGA's Asia swing, with 17 of the top 20 players in the women's world ranking. ... Jutanugarn leads 251-247 over Ko in the points-based LPGA player of the year. .Both are in the field this week.
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Next week: Blue Bay LPGA in China.
Online: www.lpga.com
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EUROPEAN TOUR
BRITISH MASTERS
Site: Chandler's Cross, England.
Course: The Grove. Yards: 7,121. Par: 71.
Purse: 3 million pounds.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 4:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 7 a.m. to noon).
Defending champion: Matt Fitzpatrick.
Last week: Tyrrell Hatton won the Dunhill Links Championship.
Notes: Justin Rose is missing the tournament as he takes two months off to rest his back. ... Ian Poulter, the tournament host last year at Woburn, is skipping the event to play in the Macau Open in his return from a foot injury. ... Two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal is playing for the first time since the 2015 Masters. ... The field includes Masters champion Danny Willett and former major champions Graeme McDowell, Y.E. Yang, Paul Lawrie and Trevor Immelman. ... Willett is among five players from Europe's Ryder Cup team playing. The others are Chris Wood, Andy Sullivan, Lee Westwood and defending champion Matt Fitzpatrick. ... The Grove was the site of the World Golf Championship in 2006 that Tiger Woods won by eight shots.
Next week: Portugal Masters.
Online: www.europeantour.com
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PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS
SAS CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Cary, N.C.
Course: Prestonwood CC. Yardage: 7,137. Par: 72.
Purse: $2.1 million (First Prize: $315,000).
Television: Golf Channel (Friday-Sunday, 4:30-7 p.m.).
Defending champion: Tom Lehman.
Last week: Jay Haas won the Toshiba Classic.
Notes: This is the final tournament before the Charles Schwab Cup playoffs. ... Jay Haas at 62 became the second-oldest player to win on the PGA Tour Champions. ... Any player not in the top 72 on the money list who finishes in the top 10 this week will earn a wild-card spot in the first round of the Charles Schwab Cup playoffs. ... Tom Lehman won last year and was runner-up the year before at the SAS Championship. ... Bernhard Langer has the lowest scoring average by more than a full stroke over Kevin Sutherland. Langers leads by Miguel Angel Jimenez by more than $1 million on the money list.
Next week: PowerShares QQQ Championship on Oct. 28-30.
Online: www.pgatour.com/champions
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OTHER TOURS
MEN
Japan Golf Tour: Japan Open, Sayama GC, Saitama, Japan. Defending champion: Satishi Kodaira. Online: www.jgto.org
Asian Tour: Venetian Macau Open, Macau Golf and CC, Macau. Defending champion: Scott Hend. Online: www.asiantour.com
Challenge Tour: Hainan Open, Sanya Luhuitou GC, Hainan Island, China. Defending champion: New tournament. Online: www.europeantour.com/challengetour
PGA Tour Latinoamerica: Punta del Este Open Copa NEC, Club del Lago Golf, Maldonado, Uruguay. Defending champion: Lanto Griffin. Online: www.pgatour.com/la/en
WOMEN
Ladies European Tour: Xiamen Internationial Open, Xiamen Orient Golf & CC, Xiamen, China. Defending champion: Hye In Yeom. Online: www.ladieseuropeantour.com
Symetra Tour: Symetra Tour Championship, Alaqua CC, Longwood, Fla. Defending champion: Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong. Online: www.symetratour.com
Japan LPGA: Fujitsu Ladies, Tokyu 700 Club (West Course), Chiba, Japan. Defending champion: Teresa Lu. Online: www.lpga.or.jp