Lot's at stake this week in golf.. (all tee times listed)

For many casual fans the golf season ended with last week's Keegan Bradley win at the PGA, no let me rephrase.. it ended when Tiger missed the cut.

In fact there is a lot at stake this week, including the final major of the year on the Champions Tour and a place in the Fed Ex Cup for guys outside the top 125 on the PGA tour. Also it's the final week to earn a spot in the Solheim Cup for the gals on the LPGA tour.

By the way I heard a young man on the Score this week, who usually is limited to voicing over the highlight packages, and he does an entertaining job of those. However for whatever reason he decided to write and voice 2 minutes on the future of pro golf without Tiger, which was so far off base that I took this minute to mention it. He ended up saying and I paraphrase.. " without Tiger we can all get used to year's of boring golf ahead"

Rory, Ryo, Rickie, Matteo, 26 winners under the age of 30, Yani Tseng, the Ryder Cup....
C'mon kid, whoever you are... stick to your highlight packages..

PGA Tour
Wyndham Championship (used to be the Greensboro Open)
Site: Greensboro, N.C.
Course: Sedgefield Country Club (7,117 yards, par 70).
Purse: $5.2 million. Winner's share: $926,000.
Canucks.. Hearn, Baryla, McQuillan
Tee times http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/r013/tee-times.html
Last year:Arjun Atwal became the first Monday qualifier to win on the PGA Tour in 24 years and the first Indian-born champion. David Toms was second.

Notes: The tournament ends the points race for spots in the FedEx Cup playoffs, the four-event series that starts next week with The Barclays at Plainfield in Edison, N.J. The top 125 players will be eligible for the opener. Camilo Villegas is No. 125. Ernie Els (126th), Padraig Harrington (130th), Paul Casey (147th) and Angel Cabrera (150th) are trying to move into playoff spots. … Dufner is in the field. … Sweden's Carl Pettersson won the 2008 tournament in his adopted hometown. … The event returned to Sedgefield in 2008 after 31 years at Forest Oaks. …Sam Snead won the tournament a tour-record eight times from 1938-65. His 1965 victory made him the tour's oldest winner at 52 years, 10 months, 8 days.

LPGA
Safeway Classic
Site: North Plains, Ore.
Course: Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, Ghost Creek Golf Course (6,512 yards, par 71).
Purse: $1.5 million. Winner's share: $225,000.
Canucks : Kane, Shepley, Meldrum, Sharp, Richdale, White, Sherlock
Tee times: TBA
Last year: Ai Miyazato won the last of her five 2010 titles, beating Cristie Kerr and Na Yeon Choi by two strokes.

Notes: The tournament ends the points race for the 10 automatic spots on the U.S. Solheim Cup team for the Sept. 23-25 matches against Europe at Killeen Castle in Ireland. The top nine players in the standings — Kerr, Morgan Pressel, Stacy Lewis, Angela Stanford, Paula Creamer, Michelle Wie, Brittany Lincicome, Lang and Juli Inkster— have locked up spots. Christina Kim is No. 10, followed by Katie Futcher, Kristy McPherson and Vicky Hurst. Rosie Jones will add two captain's picks. … The tournament is in its third year at Pumpkin Ridge after 18 at Columbia Egdewater in Portland.  The Canadian Women's Open is next week at Hillsdale in Mirabel, Quebec.

Champions Tour
Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship
Site: Harrison, N.Y.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course:Westchester Country Club, West Course (6,980 yards, par 70).
Purse: $2.7 million. Winner's share: $405,000.
Canucks ; Rod Spittle, Jim Rutledge
Tee times: http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/s507/tee-times.html
Last year: Mark O'Meara won at TPC Potomac in Maryland for his first individual victory on the Champions Tour, beating Michael Allen on the first hole of a playoff.

Notes: The tournament is the final senior major of the year. Lehman won the Regions Tradition, Tom Watson the Senior PGA Championship, Russ Cochran the Senior British Open and Olin Browne the U.S. Senior Open. … Westchester Country Club was the site of a PGA Tour event from 1963-2007.

Nationwide Tour
Midwest Classic
Site: Overland Park, Kan.
Course: Nicklaus Golf Club at LionsGate (7,237 yards, par 71)
Purse: $550,000. Winner's share: $99,000.
Canucks: Lee, DeCorso
Tee times : http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/h100/tee-times.html
Last year: No event. In 2009, Australia's Michael Sim earned a PGA Tour promotion with his third victory of the year, winning at Lionsgate.

Notes: 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 fifth on the money list with $218,464, more than enough to earn a 2012 PGA Tour card as a top-25 finisher.
http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/h100/tee-times.html


European Tour
Czech Open
Site: Celadna, Czech Republic.
Course: Prosper Golf Resort (7,452 yards, par 72).
Purse: $2.16 million. Winner's share: $360,000.
Tee times : http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2011/tournamentid=2011059/teetimes/index.html
Last year: Sweden's Peter Hanson won with an 18-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff with England's Gary Boyd and Ireland's Peter Lawrie.

Notes: Spanish star Miguel Angel Jimenez co-designed the course. He's coming off a 64th-place tie last week in the PGA Championship. All the top European guys were in Atlanta last week finishing off their few weeks in the States, and apart from the US based guys like Poulter and Casey and a few others like Els who need Fed Ex points, most have gone home. Shame because the beer is really good here !!

Canadian Tour
Seaforth Country Classic
Seaforth Golf Club, Seaforth, Ontario
Purse : $100,000
Adam Hadwin is back from his stint on the Pga tour and is in this field.

Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles
(notes from AP)