This Week in Golf
PGA TOUR
BMW CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Lake Forest, Ill.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Conway Farms Golf Club (7,198 yards, par 71).
Purse: $8.25 million. Winner’s share: $1,485,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 3-7 p.m.; Saturday, 3:30-6 p.m.; Sunday, noon-2 p.m.) and NBC (Saturday, noon-3:30 p.m.; Sunday, 2-6 p.m.).
Last year: Billy Horschel won at Cherry Hills in Colorado, beating Bubba Watson by two strokes. Horschel also won the Tour Championship to take the FedEx Cup title.
Last event: Rickie Fowler won the Deutsche Bank Championship on Sept. 7 at TPC Boston, rallying to beat Henrik Stenson by a stroke.
Notes: The top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings qualified for the third of the four playoff events. The field will be cut to 30 for the Tour Championship next week. … Jason Day leads the FedEx Cup standings, followed by Jordan Spieth, Fowler, Stenson and Watson.
LPGA TOUR/LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR
SOLHEIM CUP
Site: St. Leon-Rot, Germany.
Schedule: Friday-Sunday.
Course: St. Leon-Rot Golf Club (6,535 yards, par 72).
Television: Golf Channel (Friday-Saturday, 2 a.m.-noon; Sunday, 4:30-11 a.m.).
Format: Team match play. Friday and Saturday, four morning foursome (alternate-shot) and four afternoon fourball (best-ball) matches; Sunday, 12 singles matches.
United States (c-captain’s pick): c-Paula Creamer, Cristie Kerr, c-Brittany Lang, Alison Lee, Stacy Lewis, Brittany Lincicome, Gerina Piller, Morgan Pressel, Lizette Salas, Angela Stanford, Lexi Thompson, Michelle Wie. Captain, Juli Inkster.
Europe: Carlota Ciganda, Spain; Sandra Gal, Germany; c-Caroline Hedwall, Sweden; Charley Hull, England; c-Karine Icher, France; c-Caroline Masson, Germany; c-Catriona Matthew, Scotland; Azahara Munoz, Spain; Gwladys Nocera, France; Anna Nordqvist, Sweden; Suzann Pettersen, Norway; Melissa Reid, England. Captain: Carin Koch, Sweden.
Last matches: Europe won on American soil for the first time, beating the U.S. 18-10 in 2013 at Colorado Golf Club. Hedwall became the first player to win five matches, the last a 1-up victory over Wie.
Note: The U.S. leads the series 8-5.
WEB.COM TOUR
SMALL BUSINESS CONNECTION CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Davidson.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: River Run Country Club (7,317 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1 million. Winner’s share: $180,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 12:30-2:30 p.m.; Saturday, 7-9 p.m.; Sunday, 2-4 p.m.).
Last year: Canada’s Adam Hadwin closed with a 4-under 68 for a two-stroke victory.
Last week: Sweden’s Henrik Norlander won the Hotel Fitness Championship in Fort Wayne, Ind., to wrap up a PGA Tour card.
Notes: The tournament is the second of four events in the series for the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour money list, Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings and non-members of the tour who earned enough money to have placed among the top 200 had they been eligible to receive points.
EUROPEAN TOUR
ITALIAN OPEN
Site: Monza, Italy.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Golf Club Milano (7,158 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1.7 million. Winner’s share: $282,910.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday, 9:30-11 a.m.; Saturday, midnight-2 a.m., noon-3:30 p.m.; Sunday, 4-6 p.m.).
Last year: South Africa’s Hennie Otto won at Circolo Golf Torino, beating England’s David Howell by two strokes. Otto also won in 2008 at Castello di Tolcinasco.
Last week: Belgium’s Thomas Pieters won the KLM Open in the Netherlands for his second victory in his past two European Tour starts. He won the Czech Masters on Aug. 30.
Notes: Francesco Molinari was the last Italian winner in 2006 at Castello di Tolcinasco. … Major champions Padraig Harrington, Martin Kaymer, Darren Clarke, Stewart Cink and Y.E. Yang are in the field.
CHAMPIONS TOUR
Next event: First Tee Open, Sept. 25-28, Pebble Beach Golf Links, Pebble Beach, Calif.
Last event: Jeff Maggert won the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open on Aug. 30 in Endicott, New York, for his fourth victory of the year.
This story was originally published September 15, 2015 at 5:29 PM with the headline "This Week in Golf."