The 2017-18 PGA Tour Schedule
won at -7 in ’ 07 ; Paul Lawrie at + 6 in ’ 99 .
July 26-29 : RBC Canadian Open | Glen Abbey GC | Oakville , Ontario | 500 | Jhonattan Vegas
Aug . 2-5 : Barracuda Championship | Montreux G & CC | Reno , Nev . | 300 | Chris Stroud
Aug . 2-5 : WGC-Bridgestone Invitational | Firestone CC ( South ) | Akron , Ohio | 550 | Hideki Matsuyama
finish , the playoff field is whittled to 70 after the Boston stop .
Sept . 6-9 : BMW Championship | Aronimink GC | Newtown Square , Pa . | 2,000 | Marc Leishman ›› The FedEx Cup playoffs ’ penultimate leg has generally been played in the Midwest , save for the 2014 event in Cherry Hills in Colorado . It moves east for the first time to Aronimink , outside Philadelphia .
July 12-15 : John Deere Classic | TPC Deere Run | Silvis , Ill . | 500 | Bryson DeChambeau
July 19-22 : Barbasol Championship | Keene Trace GC | Nicholasville , Ky . | 300 | Grayson Murray
July 19-22 : The Open Championship | Carnoustie GC | Angus , Scotland | 600 | Jordan Spieth ›› Carnoustie was the site of Jean van de Velde ’ s famous 1999 collapse . Padraig Harrington won the first of his two straight Open titles at Carnoustie in 2007 . As with any Open , scoring depends on the weather . Harrington
Aug . 9-12 : PGA Championship | Bellerive CC | St . Louis , Mo . | 500 | Russell Henley ›› Last call for Glory ’ s Last Shot . The PGA will move to May in 2019 , making it the second major of the season rather than the last . Bellerive is getting its second shot at hosting a PGA . Nick Price won there in 1992 , winning at 6 under by three strokes over a quartet of runners-up .
Aug . 16-19 : Wyndham Championship | Sedgefield CC | Greensboro , N . C . | 500 | Henrik Stenson ›› The regular-season finale provides plenty of drama for those trying to break into the Top 125 , the cutoff line for the upcoming FedEx Cup playoffs .
Aug . 23-26 : The Northern Trust | Ridgewood CC | Paramus , N . J . | 2,000 | Dustin Johnson
Aug . 31-Sept . 3 : Dell Technologies Championship | TPC Boston | Norton , Mass . | 2,000 | Justin Thomas ›› Unique for its Labor Day Monday
Sept . 20-23 : TOUR Championship | East Lake GC | Atlanta | 2,000 | Xander Schauffele ›› The season ends in the heart of Georgia with 30 players vying for the season-ending , $ 10-million prize . Schauffele cemented rookie of the year honors with a win at East Lake last year , but Justin Thomas took home the year-long prize . The season-ender figures to move closer to Labor Day on the revamped 2018-19 schedule .
Sept . 28-30 : Ryder Cup | Le Golf National | Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines , France | United States ›› For the first time since 1997 , a European nation other than the U . K . or Ireland hosts . The Europeans won at Valderrama in Spain that year . The Americans ’ victory at Hazeltine in 2016 was a convincing one . But they haven ’ t won on European soil since 1993 , when they bested the Euros at The Belfry in England .
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