Pro tours at a glance
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PGA
Event: Travelers Championship
Site: Cromwell, Conn.
Schedule: Today-Sunday.
Course: TPC River Highlands (6,837 yards, par 70).
Purse: $6 million. Winner’s share: $1.08 million.
Television: Golf Channel (today-tomorrow, 3-6 p.m., 8:30-11:30 p.m.) and Channel 4 (Saturday-Sunday, 3-6 p.m.).
Last year: Stewart Cink won his fifth tour title and first since 2004, beating Tommy Armour and Hunter Mahan by a stroke. Cink also won the 1997 tournament.
Of note: Hunter Mahan, coming off a sixth-place tie at the US Open, won the 2007 tournament. He birdied the final hole of regulation to force a playoff with Jay Williamson, then won with a 2-footer for birdie on the first extra hole . . . J.J. Henry won in 2006 to become the first Connecticut winner in tournament history . . . In 2005, Rhode Island native Brad Faxon matched the course record with a closing 61 and beat Tjaart van der Walt with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff.
LPGA
Event: Wegmans LPGA
Site: Pittsford, N.Y.
Schedule: Today-Sunday.
Course: Locust Hill Country Club (6,328 yards, par 72).
Purse: $2 million. Winner’s share: $300,000.
Television: ESPN2 (tomorrow, 5-7 p.m.; Saturday, 3-5 p.m.; Sunday, 5-7 p.m.).
Last year: South Korea’s Eun-Hee Ji won her first LPGA Tour title, rallying to beat Norway’s Suzann Pettersen by two strokes.
Last event: Swedish rookie Anna Nordqvist won the LPGA Championship June 14 for her first tour victory, defeating Australia’s Lindsey Wright by four strokes. The 22-year-old Nordqvist finished at 15 under at Bulle Rock.
Of note: Michelle Wie is making her 10th start of the year. She tied for 23d in the LPGA Championship . . . Top-ranked Lorena Ochoa, the 2005 and 2007 winner, is skipping the event . . . Nordqvist is in the field.
EUROPEAN
Event: BMW International Open
Site: Nord-Eichenried, Germany.
Schedule: Today-Sunday.
Course: Munich Nord-Eichenried Golf Club (7,023 yards, par 72).
Purse: $2.82 million. Winner’s share: $469,880.
Television: Golf Channel (today-Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m.-noon).
Last year: Martin Kaymer became the first German winner in event history, birdieing the first hole of a playoff with Denmark’s Anders Hansen after blowing a six-stroke lead in the final round.
Last week: Sweden’s Christian Nilsson won his first European tour title, closing with a 2-under 69 for a record six-stroke victory in the Saint-Omer Open.
Of note: John Daly, the 2001 winner, is in the field along with Kaymer, Retief Goosen, Rory McIlroy, and Henrik Stenson.
CHAMPIONS
Event: Dick’s Sporting Goods Open
Site: Endicott, N.Y.
Schedule: Tomorrow-Sunday.
Course: En-Joie Golf Course (6,974 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1.6 million. Winner’s share: $247,500.
Television: Golf Channel (tomorrow, 12:30-2:30 p.m.; Saturday, 1-4 p.m., Sunday, 1-4 p.m.).
Last year: Eduardo Romero beat Fulton Allem and Gary Koch by a stroke.
Last event: Bernhard Langer became the first three-time winner on the Champions Tour this season, shooting 65-69-67 for a six-stroke victory over Mark O’Meara June 6 in the Triton Financial Classic in Lakeway, Texas.
Of note: En-Joie was the site of the PGA Tour’s now-defunct B.C. Open from 1971-2005. Craig Stadler, in the field this week, won the 2003 B.C. Open to become the first player to win a PGA Tour event while a member of the Champions Tour . . . Joey Sindelar (1985 and 1987), Jeff Sluman (2001), Wayne Levi (1984), and Mike Hulbert (1989) also are B.C. Open winners. All four grew up in upstate New York . . . Romero missed the cut in the US Open . . . Langer is skipping the event to play a European tour event in Germany . . . Romero won the 
