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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