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(China Daily) Updated: 2017-04-13 07:12

PGA RBC Heritage

Site: Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA

Course: Harbor Town Golf Links. Yardage: 7,099. Par: 71.

Purse: $6.5 million (First place: $1,170,000).

Defending champion: Branden Grace.

Last week: Sergio Garcia won the Masters.

Notes: The field includes 34 players who were in the Masters ... Bernhard Langer (1985) is the only player to win a week after winning the Masters. Sergio Garcia is not playing this week ... Tyrrell Hatton of England is the highest-ranked player in the field. ... Arnold Palmer won the first tournament at Hilton Head in 1969 when it was called the Heritage Classic ... Harbor Town was hit hard by Hurricane Matthew last October, though the course recovered well ... Luke Donald has been runner-up four times in the past eight years at Hilton Head ... Bryson DeChambeau made his pro debut at Hilton Head last year and tied for fourth. That remains his best finish in a PGA Tour event that offers full FedEx Cup points ... Davis Love III is a five-time winner at Hilton Head. He is playing for the 29th time, one short of the record held by Jay Haas ... Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk has not finished higher than 30th this year on the PGA Tour.

Online: www.pgatour.com

LPGA Lotte Championship

Site: Kapolei, Hawaii, USA.

Course: Ko Olina Golf Club. Yardage: 6,397. Par: 72.

Purse: $2 million (First place: $300,000).

Defending champion: Minjee Lee.

Last tournament: So Yeon Ryu won the ANA Inspiration.

Notes: The tournament begins on Wednesday ... Lexi Thompson, assessed a four-shot penalty that cost her at the ANA Inspiration, is not in the field ... Michelle Wie is the only American to win the tournament since it began in 2012 ... Minjee Lee won last year by rallying from a five-shot deficit in the final round with a closing 64 ... Nobody has won multiple times on the LPGA Tour this year through seven tournaments ... Brittany Lincicome at the season-opening PureSilk-Bahamas LPGA Classic is the only American winner this year ... We already has two top-10s this year, after having only one such finish the past two years. ... Ariya Jutanugarn leads the LPGA Tour with 126 birdies this year. Her sister, Moriya Jutanugarn, is second with 120 birdies.

Online: www.lpga.com

EPGA Trophee Hassan II

Site: Rabat, Morocco.

Course: Royal Golf Dar Es Salam (Red Course). Yardage: 7,615. Par: 73.

Purse: $2.65 million.

Defending champion: Wang Jeung-hun Wang.

Last week: Sergio Garcia won the Masters.

Notes: Two players in the field were at the Masters last week - Wang, the defending champion, and Mike Weir ... Erik Compton, who has had two heart transplants, is playing on a sponsor invitation ... The last six winners of the tournament have come from six countries: South Korea (Wang), Scotland (Richie Ramsay), Spain (Alejandro Canizares), Germany (Marcel Siem), Northern Ireland (Michael Hoey) and England (David Horsey).

Online: www.europeantour.com

PGA TOUR Champions Mitsubishi Electric Classic

Site: Duluth, Georgia, USA

Course: TPC Sugarloaf. Yardage: 7,259. Par: 72.

Purse: $1.8 million (First prize: $270,000).

Defending champion: Woody Austin.

Last tournament: Miguel Angel Jimenez won the Mississippi Golf Resort Classic.

Notes: The TPC Sugarloaf, designed by Greg Norman, was a regular PGA Tour stop the week before the Masters until 2007 ... Six players from the Masters will be in the field: Bernhard Langer, Larry Mize, Jose Maria Olazabal, Mark O'Meara, Tom Watson and Ian Woosnam. Mize is the only player to make the cut ... Langer won the inaugural tournament in 2013 and was runner-up each of the next two years.

Online: www.pgatour.com/champions

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