PGA TOUR

FEDEX CUP PLAYOFFS: BMW CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Lemont, Ill.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Cog Hill Golf and Country Club, Dubsdread Course (7,616 yards, par 71).

Purse: $8 million. Winner’s share: $1.44 million.

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, noon-3 p.m.; Saturday, 7-9 a.m.; Sunday, 9-11 a.m.) and NBC (Saturday, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.).

Last year: Dustin Johnson won the second of his two 2010 titles, beating Paul Casey by a stroke. Last month, Johnson opened the four-event playoffs with a victory in the rain-shortened Barclays in New Jersey.

Last event: Webb Simpson won the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston on Sept. 5 for his second victory in three weeks, beating Chez Reavie with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff. Simpson made a 30-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th hole, then got into the playoff when Reavie closed with a bogey. Simpson moved to No. 1 in the FedEx Cup playoffs and the chase for a $10 million prize.

Notes: The top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings qualified for the event. The field will be cut to 30 for the Tour Championship next week at East Lake in Atlanta. … Simpson has 4,711 points. Johnson is second with 3,814, followed by Matt Kuchar (3,124), Luke Donald (2,875) and Brandt Snedeker (2,869). Phil Mickelson is 10th with 2,040. … Tiger Woods failed to qualify for the playoffs. He won the 2009 event for the last of his 71 PGA Tour titles. Woods also won at Cog Hill in 1997, 1999, 2003 and 2007.

LPGA TOUR

NAVISTAR LPGA CLASSIC

Site: Prattville, Ala.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Capitol Hill, The Senator (6,607 yards, par 72).

Purse: $1.3 million. Winner’s share: $195,000.

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 9:30-11:30 a.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.).

Last year: Australia’s Katherine Hull won her second tour title, beating Brittany Lincicome by a stroke.

Last week: Top-ranked Yani Tseng successfully defended her title in the NW Arkansas Championship, beating Amy Yang with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff. Tseng leads the tour with five victories this season, including major wins in the LPGA Championship and Women’s British Open, and also has won three other events this year.

Notes: The Solheim Cup is next week at Killeen Castle in Ireland. All 12 U.S. team members— Cristie Kerr, Stacy Lewis, Morgan Pressel, Angela Stanford, Paula Creamer, Michelle Wie, Lincicome, Brittany Lang, Juli Inkster, Christina Kim, Vicky Hurst and Ryann O’Toole are in the field. European players Suzann Pettersen, Maria Hjorth, Sophie Gustafson, Azahara Munoz, Sandra Gal and Karen Stupples also are entered. … In 2009, Lorena Ochoa successfully defended her title for the last of her 27 LPGA Tour victories. … The links-style Senator is part of a 54-hole facility.

CHAMPIONS TOUR

SONGDO IBD CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Incheon, South Korea.

Schedule: Friday-Sunday.

Course: Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea (7,087 yards, par 72).

Purse: $3 million. Winner’s share: $450,000.

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Saturday, 10 p.m.-midnight)

Last year: Russ Cochran won his first Champions Tour title, beating Fred Funk with a birdie on the first playoff hole. Cochran won the SAS Championship two weeks later in North Carolina in his next start.

Last event: Mark Calcavecchia won the Boeing Classic on Aug. 28 in Snoqualmie, Wash., for his first senior title, beating Cochran with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff.

Notes: Cochran, the Senior British Open winner in July, tops the field along with Calcavecchia, Tom Watson, Bernhard Langer, Tom Lehman and John Cook. Lehman and Cook are three-time winners this year. … The tour is off next week. Play will resume Sept. 31-Oct. 2 with the SAS Championship in Cary, N.C.

EUROPEAN TOUR

SEVE TROPHY

Site: Saint-Nom-la-Breteche, France.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Saint-Nom-la-Breteche Golf Club (6,983 yards, par 71).

Purse: $1.56 million.

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 5:30-8:30 a.m.; Saturday, 5-7 a.m., 9-11 a.m.; Sunday, 5-8 a.m.).

Format: Team match play. Thursday, five fourball matches; Friday, five fourball matches; Saturday, four morning greensome matches (both players drive and play alternate shots with the preferred tee shot) and four afternoon foursome matches; Sunday, 10 singles matches.

Britain and Ireland: Darren Clarke, Northern Ireland; Jamie Donaldson, Wales; Simon Dyson, England; Ross Fisher, England; Mark Foster, England; David Horsey, England; Scott Jamieson, Scotland; Ian Poulter, England; Robert Rock, England; Lee Westwood, England. Captain: Paul McGinley, Ireland.

Continental Europe: Thomas Bjorn, Denmark; Nicolas Colsaerts, Belgium; Anders Hansen, Denmark; Peter Hanson, Sweden; Raphael Jacquelin, France; Miguel Angel Jimenez, Spain; Pablo Larrazabal, Spain; Matteo Manassero, Italy; Francesco Molinari, Italy; Alexander Noren, Sweden. Captain: Jean van de Velde, France.

Last matches: In 2009 at Saint-Nom-la-Breteche, Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy beat Germany’s Henrik Stenson 1-up to help Britain and Ireland win for the fifth straight time, 16 1⁄2-11 1⁄2.

Last week: Dyson won the KLM Open for the third time in six years, beating English countryman David Lynn by a stroke in the Netherlands. Dyson won the Irish Open in July.

Notes: Seve Ballesteros, the Spanish star who helped create the event, died in May from complications of a cancerous brain tumor. He was 54. … Continental Europe’s lone victory came in 2000 in the inaugural matches at Sunningdale in England. … Bjorn is coming off consecutive victories in the Johnnie Walker in Scotland and European Masters in Switzerland. … European Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal selected the captains. … Jacquelin replaced Alvaro Quiros, the Spanish player sidelined by a wrist injury. … The Austrian Open is next week, followed by the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.

NATIONWIDE TOUR

BOISE OPEN

Site: Boise, Idaho.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Hillcrest Country Club (6,807 yards, par 71).

Purse: $725,000. Winner’s share: $130,500.

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.; Saturday, 3:30-6:30 p.m.; Sunday, 4-6:30 p.m.).

Last year: Hunter Haas won the second of his two 2010 titles, closing with a 7-under 64 to beat Daniel Summerhays by a stroke.

Last event: England’s Gary Christian won the Mylan Classic on Sept. 4 in Canonsburg, Pa., beating John Mallinger by a stroke. The 40-year-old Christain earned $108,000 to jump from 27th to fourth on the money list with $230,040. The top 25 at the end of the season will earn 2012 PGA Tour cards.

Notes: John Daly is making his third straight start on the developmental tour. … Two-time heart transplant recipient Erik Compton is in the field. The Mexico Open winner in June, Compton was diagnosed at age 9 with cardiomyopathy, an enlarging of the heart that hinders its ability to pump blood. Three years later in 1992, he received a new heart. That one failed in 2008, and he had another transplant. He’s seventh on the money list with $221,324, more than enough to earn a 2012 PGA Tour card. … The tournament is one of four events remaining from the tour’s first season in 1990. … The Soboba Golf Classic is next week in San Jacinto, Calif.

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