It’s Wednesday, and time for our quick rundown of the week’s professional golf tour events – PGA, Champions, European, LPGA, Web.com.
It’s a nearly-full schedule on tap this week. The PGA Tour is on the central coast of Northern Cal for the star-studded AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am; the European Tour is in Malaysia for the Maybank Championship; the PGA Tour Champions are in Boca Raton, Florida for the Allianz Championship; and the Web.com Tour is teeing it up down in South America for the Club Colombia Championship.
The LPGA Tour is the only tour off, but will return for the ISPS Handa Women’s Australia Open next week.
Here’s a preview of the four big golf tournaments this week.
PGA Tour
AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
Dates: February 9-12, 2017
Course: Pebble Beach Golf Links – Pebble Beach, CA
Architect: Jack Neville and Douglas Grant, 1919
Winning Share: $1.3M
Defending Champion: Vaughn Taylor
Marquee Players: Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth, Patrick Reed, and Justin Rose
Website: ATTPBGolf.com
European Tour
Maybank Championship
Dates: February 9-12, 2017
Course: Saujana G & CC – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Architect: Ronald Fream, 1986
Winning Share: €439K (EURO) or $470K (US)
Defending Champion: Marcus Fraser
Marquee Players: Danny Willett, Rafael Cabrera Bello, Charl Schwartzel, Lee Westwood, Thongchai Jaidee
Website: MaybankChampionship.com
PGA Tour Champions
Allianz Championship
Dates: February 10-12, 2017
Course: The Old Course at Broken Sound – Boca Raton, Florida
Architect: Joe Lee, 1978; Gene Bates, 2004
Winning Share: $262K
Defending Champion: Esteban Toledo
Marquee Players: Bernhard Langer, John Daly, Mark O’Meara, Jesper Parnevik, Billy Andrade, David Toms, Colin Montgomerie, Fred Couples, Mark Calcavecchia
Website: AllianzChampionship.com
Web.com Tour
Club Colombia Championship
Dates: February 10-12, 2017
Course: Bogota CC – Bogota, Colombia
Winning Share: $126K
Defending Champion: Sebastian Munoz
Marquee Players: Andrew Landry, Robert Gamez, Jason Gore
Credits/Sources: PGA Tour Media, European Tour Media, Getty Images
