This week's tournaments

  • CHAMPIONS TOUR: Charles Schwab Cup Championship, today-Sunday, Sonoma Golf Club. TV: Golf Channel (today-Sunday, 1:30-4 p.m.). Notes: Last year, Andy Bean won the season-ending event, beating Gene Jones by nine shots. Jay Haas finished 16th to win the Charles Schwab Cup points race and $1 million annuity. ... The top four in the Schwab Cup points race — Loren Roberts, Fred Funk (165 back), Bernhard Langer (-348) and Haas (-602) — are the only players still in the running for the season title. ... The tournament will be played at San Francisco's Harding Park in 2010 and 2011.

  • PGA TOUR: Viking Classic, today-Sunday, Annandale Golf Club, Madison, Miss. TV: Golf Channel (today-Sunday, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.). Note: Chad Campbell, the 2007 winner who missed the event last year to play in the Ryder Cup, is in the field along with John Daly and David Duval.

  • LPGA TOUR: Hana Bank KOLON Championship, Friday-Sunday, Skye 72 Golf Club, Incheon, South Korea. TV: None. Note: Lorena Ochoa and South Korean Jiyai Shin, both three-time winners this year, top the field along with Bay Area players Paula Creamer and Juli Inkster.

  • PGA EUROPEAN TOUR: Volvo World Match Play Championship, today-Sunday, Finca Cortesin Golf Club, Casares, Spain. TV: Golf Channel (today-Saturday, 7-10 a.m.; Sunday, 6-9 a.m.). Note: The format
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    is match play. Four four-man groups will play a round robin of 18-hole matches to determine the semifinalists. Ties will be broken by aggregate holes won, with each match going the full 18 holes. The semifinals and final will be 36 holes. Top seeds in each group are Paul Casey, Sergio Garcia, Henrik Stenson and Lee Westwood.

  • PGA EUROPEAN TOUR/ASIAN TOUR: Barclays Singapore Open, today-Sunday, Sentosa Golf Club. TV: Golf Channel (today, 10 p.m.-midnight; Friday, midnight-2 a.m., 3-7 a.m., 8 p.m.-midnight; Saturday, midnight-1 a.m., 3-7 a.m., 8-11 p.m.; Sunday, 3-6 a.m.). Note: Phil Mickelson is in the field, along with Padraig Harrington and Ernie Els. Mickelson, a Barclays endorser, was ninth last year.

    — Associated Press