PGA TOUR

SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN OPEN

Site: Las Vegas.

Course: TPC Summerlin. Yardage: 7,255. Par: 71.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 3-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 4-7 p.m. (Golf Channel).

Purse: $7 million. Winner’s share: $1,260,000.

Defending champion: Bryson DeChambeau.

FedEx Cup leader: Sebastian Munoz.

Last week: Cameron Champ won the Safeway Open.

Notes: Brooks Koepka makes his season debut. It’s his first tournament since he lost the PGA Tour player of the year vote to Rory McIlroy. … Phil Mickelson, who missed the cut in the Safeway Open in his season debut, is playing Las Vegas for the first time since 2005. … Tony Finau is playing for the third straight week, following two tournaments on the European Tour. … Akshay Bhatia is taking a third straight sponsor exemption. He missed the cut in his first two tries. … U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland is playing for the first time since the Tour Championship. … Jim Furyk is in the field. He is a three-time winner in Las Vegas, most recently 20 years ago. … The field is the strongest of the fall with six of the top 20 in the world. … Adam Scott is an alumni of UNLV. He went for one semester. … Matthew Wolff, who won right after leaving college this summer, is making his first start of the season. … Chase Koepka, the younger brother of Brooks, is playing on a sponsor exemption. … Patrick Cantlay won his first PGA Tour event in Las Vegas two years ago.

Next week: Houston Open.

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LPGA TOUR

VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA CLASSIC

Site: The Colony, Texas.

Course: Old American GC. Yardage: 6,475. Par: 71.

Television: Thursday-Friday, noon-3 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 12:30-4 p.m. (Golf Channel).

Purse: $1.3 million. Winner’s share: $195,000.

Defending champion: Sung Hyun Park.

Race to CME Globe leader: Jin Young Ko.

Last week: Mi Jung Hur won the Indy Women in Tech Championship.

Notes: Ariya Jutanugarn is in the field after missing the cut last week in Indianapolis. That ended her streak of 56 consecutive starts on the LPGA Tour without missing the cut, dating to the Evian Championship two years ago. … Jutanugarn and Hyo Joo Kim are the only players to surpass $1 million in earnings this year without having won a tournament. … The Volunteers of America Classic last year was cut short to 36 holes because of excessive rain in its first time at Old American Golf Club. … Solheim Cup players Anne Van Dam and Jodi Ewart Shadoff are playing on sponsor exemptions. … This is the final domestic event before the four-week Asia swing through China, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. The LPGA then concludes its season in Florida with the CME Group Tour Championship. … Inbee Park is the only two-time winner of the event since it began in 2013. … The tournament was held at Las Colinas Country Club the first five years. … Jin Young Ko is not playing for the second straight week. Her last LPGA Tour event was the Cambia Portland Classic on Sept. 1.

Next tournament: Buick LPGA Shanghai on Oct. 17-20.

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EUROPEAN TOUR

MUTUACTIVOS SPANISH OPEN

Site: Madrid, Spain.

Course: Club de Campo Villa de Madrid. Yardage: 7,112. Par: 71.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 5-7 a.m., 9 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel); Saturday, 6:30-11 a.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 6-10:30 a.m. (Golf Channel).

Purse: 1.5 million euros. Winner’s share: 250,000 euros.

Defending champion: Jon Rahm.

Race to Dubai leader: Shane Lowry.

Last week: Victor Perez won the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

Notes: The Spanish Open has been part of the European Tour schedule since 1972. Its list of winners include eight major champions, starting with Arnold Palmer in 1975, most recently Francesco Molinari in 2012. Seve Ballesteros won it twice. … Sergio Garcia and Jon Rahm, both past champions, headline the field. … This starts a stretch of three straight national opens in Europe, followed by Italy and France. … Rory McIlroy is a combined 53-under par in his four regular European Tour events. He has finished a combined 25 shots out of the lead, including a playoff loss in Switzerland. … Three of the five players with multiple European Tour wins this season are Americans — Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Kurt Kitayama. The others are Bernd Wiesberger and Guido Migliozzi.

Next week: Italian Open.

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PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS

Last week: Kirk Triplett won the Pure Insurance Championship.

Next week: SAS Championship on Oct. 11-13.

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Scott McCarron.

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OTHER TOURS

Symetra Tour: Symetra Tour Championship, LPGA International (Jones), Daytona Beach, Fla. Defending champion: Ruixin Liu. O 

Ladies European Tour: Hero Women’s Indian Open, DLF Golf and CC, Delhi, India. Defending champion: Becky Morgan.  

Japan Golf Tour: Tokai Classic, Miyoshi CC (West), Aichi, Japan. Defending champion: Angelo Que.  

Asian Tour: Mercuries Taiwan Masters, Taiwan Golf and CC, Tamsui, Taiwan. Defending champion: Adilson Da Silva.  

Challenge Tour: Lalla Aicha Challenge, Royal Golf Dar Es Salam (Blue), Rabat, Morocco. Defending champion: New event.  

PGA Tour Latinoamerica: Banco del Pacifico Open, Quito Tennis & GC, Quito, Ecuador. Defending champion: Horacio Leon.  

Japan LPGA: Japan Women’s Open Championship, Cocopa Resort, Hakusan Village GC (Queen), Mie, Japan. Defending champion: So Yeon Ryu. 

Korean LPGA: Hana Financial Group Championship, Sky72 GC, Incheon, South Korea. Defending champion: In Gee Chun.  

Sunshine Tour: Vodacom Origins of Golf Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch GC, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Defending champion: Neil Schietekat.

Staysure Tour: Farmfoods European Senior Masters, Forest of Arden Hotel & CC, Coventry, England. Defending champion: Santiago Luna.