OLYMPIC GOLF: While the rank and file of the PGA Tour toil away at the John Deere Classic, a tournament that has never really excited anyone aside from Steve Stricker and his immediate family, a select few have gathered in Rio for golf’s return to the Olympic Games.
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TRAVELERS CHAMPIONSHIP: The four majors may be behind us, but with the Olympics on deck and the Ryder Cup in the not-too-distant future (not to mention the FedEx Cup playoffs), there’s still plenty of meaningful golf ahead in 2016. This week the PGA Tour returns to Connecticut for the Travelers Championship, an event that has been held in the greater Hartford area since 1952 and has become a hallmark of summertime in the Northeast.
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PGA CHAMPIONSHIP: It hardly seems like we’ve had time to catch our breath since watching Henrik Stenson outduel Phil Mickelson on that memorable Sunday at Troon, but major championship golf returns this week with the PGA Championship at famed Baltusrol Golf Club in northern New Jersey.
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RBC CANADIAN OPEN: The PGA Tour heads up to Canada this week for the RBC Canadian Open, an event with a prestigious history that has been weakened in recent years due to its place on the schedule.
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THE OPEN: There’s nothing in golf quite like the Open Championship– players are tested by all sorts of calamities that they don’t usually face at the sunny venues preferred by the PGA and European tours; the whole world gets to spend four days with the iconic links courses that precede and will outlast us all.
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