PGA Tour
Sept. 28-29: Gillette Tour Challenge Championship, Bermuda
Oct. 8-11: Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail LPGA Tournament of Champions, Grand National, Auburn, Ala.
Oct. 15-18: Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf, The Villages in Lady Lake, Lady Lake, Fla.
Oct. 30-Nov. 1: Nichirei International, Tsukuba Country Club, Ibaraki, Japan
Senior PGA Tour
Event: Boone Valley Classic
Site: Augusta, Mo.
Schedule: Tomorrow-Sunday
Course: Boone Valley Golf Club (6,731 yards, par 72)
Purse: $1.3 million (winner receives $195,000)
Television: ESPN (tomorrow, 4-6 p.m.; Saturday, 5: 30-7 p.m.; Sunday, 5-7 p.m.)
Last year: Hale Irwin won the seventh of nine 1997 titles, closing with a 7-under 65 for a two-stroke victory over Gil Morgan. Irwin, a playoff loser to Gibby Gilbert in 1996, had a 16-under 200 total.
Last week: South Africa's Hugh Baiocchi won the rain-shortened Kroger Classic at Mason, Ohio. Baiocchi, the Comfort Classic winner the previous week, birdied the second hole of a playoff with Bob Charles, Frank Conner, Larry Nelson and Bruce Summerhays.
Skinny: Irwin, a six-time winner this year, has earned a record $2,344,670 in 18 starts, $1,306 more than he made last year in 23 events.
Coming weeks:
Next week: Vantage Championship, Tanglewood Park, Clemmons, N.C.
Oct. 9-11: The Transamerica, Silverado Resort, Napa, Calif.
Oct. 16-18: Raley's Gold Rush Classic, Serrano Country Club, El Dorado Hills, Calif.
Oct. 23-25: Kaanapali Classic, Kaanapali Golf Course, Lahaina
Maui, Hawaii
PGA European Tour
Event: German Masters
Site: Cologne, Germany
Schedule: Today-Sunday
Course: Gut Larchenhof Golf Club (7,014 yards, par 72)
Purse: $1.67 million (winner receives $278,300)
Television: The Golf Channel (today, 8-11 a.m.; Friday, 1-3 a.m. and 8-11 a.m.; Saturday, 1-3 a.m. and 8-11 a.m.; Sunday, 1-3 a.m. and 9 a.m.-noon; Monday, 1-3 a.m.).
Last year: German star Bernhard Langer matched the tour record with a 12-under 60 in the third round en route to a six-stroke victory over Scotland's Colin Montgomerie.
Last week: Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez won the Lancome Trophy at Saint-Nom-La-Breteche, France, finishing with an 11-under 273 total for a two-stroke victory over U.S. stars David ,, Duval and Mark O'Meara, Sweden's Jarmo Sandelin and New Zealand's Greg Turner.
Skinny: PGA champion Vijay Singh of Fiji is in the field along with England's Nick Faldo and U.S. Ryder Cup players Brad Faxon and Scott Hoch.
Pub Date: 9/24/98
