I'm keeping my eye on Mac Hughes (10.31am local) and Roger Sloan (9.47 local time) who have made the flight to Japan (13 hours ahead of EST) to play in the ZoZo Championship at the Accordia Golf Narashino CC, worth a whopping $9,950,000, and Brooke Henderson who remains at home from the BMW Ladies Championship in Korea, where by the by, there are 8 players called Kim, another 10 called Lee, and 6 called Park amongst the South Korean dominated field.
However I will pay most attention to Mike Weir and Stephen Ames who begin this 3 weeks of Charles Schwab Cup playoffs on the PGA Tour Champions, or the Senior Circuit as I call it.
Champions Tour: Dominion Energy Charity Classic
Weirsy begins play ranked 8th on the money list with just over $2m in earnings, Ames is 23rd with $1,152,000.
Bernhard Langer leads with over $2.8m, Jim Furyk 2nd over $2,7 and Jerry Kelly 3rd with over $2.6m, but it's a tight race with Jimenez, Els, Sutherland and Goosen all ahead of Weir.
72 players begin this week with the top 54 moving on. Last year Mike ended up T2 on this Country Club of Virginia after a 63 second round had him in the lead, but a 71 Sunday wasn't good enough to beat Phil Mickelson.
November 5th, it's the Timber Tech Championship on the Old Course at Broken Sound in Langer's backyard at Boca Raton, then it's on to the Phoenix CC for the final 30 and the Charles Schwab Championship.
Bryan Angus
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