Site: Irving, Texas.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: TPC Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas (7,166 yards, 6,553 meters, par 70). Purse: $6.5 million. Winner’s share: $1,152,000. Last year: Australia’s Adam Scott won the last of six U.S. PGA Tour titles, topping Ryan Moore with a 48-foot birdie putt on the third hole of a playoff. Last week: Zach Johnson successfully defended his Texas Open title, beating James Driscoll in San Antonio with a 10-foot birdie on the first hole of a playoff. Johnson, the FedEx Cup points leader, also won the Sony Open in Hawaii in January. Notes: Phil Mickelson, the 1996 winner, is coming off a 55th-place tie in The Players Championship. He won this year at Riviera and Doral. … Scott has dropped from third to 32 in the world ranking in the last year. … Scott Verplank won his hometown event in 2007. … Nelson died in September 2006 at 94. He won a record 11 consecutive events in 1945. … England’s Ian Poulter is skipping the European Tour’s Wentworth stop to play in the event. … The Colonial is next week in Fort Worth, followed by the Memorial in Dublin, Ohio.
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