The PGA Championship, golf’s second major championship of the season, is just a week away.
Before the world’s best players tee it up at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York, a handful of the game’s elite are competing in the AT&T Byron Nelson outside Dallas this week.
The LPGA Tour returns to the East Coast on Thursday at the Cognizant Founders Cup, while the LIV Golf League is back in the U.S. after a few weeks in Australia and Singapore.
Here’s what to watch in professional golf this week:
What’s next on the PGA Tour
AT&T Byron Nelson
When: Thursday-Sunday
Where: TPC Craig Ranch, McKinney, Texas
Defending champion: K.H. Lee
Purse: $9.5 million
Three things to watch:
Lee’s attempt at three-peat: Few could blame Lee if he pulled a Charley Hoffman and wore a T-shirt calling the AT&T Byron Nelson the “K.H. Lee Open,” like Hoffman did after winning more than $3.7 million at the Valero Texas Open.
Lee is the only winner of the AT&T Byron Nelson since it moved to TPC Craig Ranch in 2021. The South Korean golfer defeated Sam Burns by 3 strokes in 2021 and held off Jordan Spieth by 1 last year. Lee is a combined 51…
