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Champions Tour schedule has $67M prize pool

The PGA Champions Tour revealed its 28-event 2024 schedule -- with a record $67 million prize pool -- on Wednesday.

The seniors' season tees off with the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai in Hawaii from Jan. 18-20.

It concludes with the Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Phoenix from Nov. 7-10.

The tour welcomes one new event in October with the Simmons Bank Championship in Little Rock, Arkansas.

"We have had a fantastic 2023 season -- which included record charitable donations -- and we look forward to carrying the momentum from this year into 2024," tour president Miller Brady said.

"... The success of our Tour comes from the tremendous tournament and title sponsors that support our events, and we are so grateful for those partnerships. PGA TOUR Champions offers the unique opportunity for fans to see golfing legends competing at a high level and after the unprecedented success we've seen this year, we can't wait to kick off the 2024 season."

Dates and locations of the five major championships:

--Regions Tradition, Greystone Golf & Country Club (Birmingham, Alabama), May 9-12

--Senior PGA Championship, Harbor Shores (Benton Harbor, Michigan), May 23-26

--U.S. Senior Open Championship, Newport Country Club (Newport, R.I.), June 27-30

--Kaulig Companies Championship, Firestone Country Club (Akron, Ohio), July 8-14

--The Senior Open Championship, Carnoustie Golf Links (Angus, Scotland), July 27-30

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Exclusively on ESPN+ Thursday and Friday: PGA TOUR LIVE to Showcase FedExCup Champions, Major Champions, Recent TOUR Winners, 16th Hole at WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona

• Top PGA TOUR players highlight Marquee and Featured Groups on Thursday, Feb. 10, and Friday, Feb. 11
• Includes current world No. 1 Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Patrick Cantlay, more
• Five of the Top 10 players in current FedExCup standings, including leader Hideki Matsuyama
• Three event winners in the last two weeks: Luke List, Tom Hoge, Harold Varner III
• Fans can watch every shot, all four days at TPC Scottsdale’s stadium-style par-3 16th, only on ESPN+
• Coverage begins at 9:15 a.m. ET tomorrow, continues through Final Round on Sunday, Feb. 13
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On PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+ this week, Marquee and Featured groups will be full of FedExCup champions, major champions and recent PGA TOUR winners during the first two days of live, four-feed coverage at the WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona. Coverage begins tomorrow at 9:15 a.m. ET, with a Main Feed covering the entire tournament field, followed by Marquee Group, Featured Groups and Featured Holes coverage, all starting at 9:45 a.m. ET.

Throughout all four days of the tournament, fans watching on PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+ will be able to see every shot played on TPC Scottsdale’s par-3 16th, one of the most unique, fan-friendly holes on the TOUR, with grandstands from tee to green. The Featured Holes coverage will also showcase the par-4 17th and par-3 Nos. 4 and 12.

Thursday’s Marquee Group feed will follow three-time major winner Jordan Spieth , Olympic Gold medalist Xander Schauffele and three-time TOUR winner Viktor Hovland . Featured Groups coverage will include two former WM Phoenix Open champions – Brooks Koepka (2015) and Gary Woodland (2018) – joined by PGA TOUR winner Abraham Ancer , and Tom Hoge , coming off his first PGA TOUR win at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am last Sunday, will play with two-time TOUR champion Sam Burns and Max Homa , who earned two of his three TOUR wins in 2021, including the Fortinet Championship earlier this season.

At 3 p.m. ET on Thursday, coverage will transition to two Featured Group feeds. One will include a pair of former FedExCup champions in Justin Thomas (2017) and Patrick Cantlay (2021), and this season’s current FedExCup leader Hideki Matsuyama , a back-to-back WM Phoenix Open winner in 2016 and 2017. The other Featured Group stream will follow two more former WM Phoenix Open champions – Rickie Fowler (2019) and Webb Simpson (2020) – joining current world No. 1 Jon Rahm , who played golf at nearby Arizona State. Also, two Featured Hole streams will each cover the par-3 16th and par-4 No. 17.

On Friday, Main Feed coverage returns at 9:15 a.m. ET, with Marquee Group, Featured Groups and Featured Hole feeds starting at 9:45 a.m. ET. The Marquee Group stream will follow Thomas, Cantlay and Matsuyama, while Featured Groups will cover Rahm, Simpson and Fowler, as well as 14-time TOUR winner and 2013 Masters champion Adam Scott , with Luke List , who claimed his first PGA TOUR victory in a playoff at the Farmers Insurance Open two weeks ago, and Harold Varner III , who took home the PIF Saudi International in Saudi Arabia this past weekend. The Featured Holes feed will again cover the par-4 17th and par-3 Nos. 4, 12 and 16.

At 3 p.m. ET on Friday, coverage will switch to two Featured Group feeds, one following Spieth, Hovland and Schauffele, while the other covers Ancer, Koepka and Woodland. The two Featured Hole streams will each cover the par-3 No. 16 and par-4 17th.

PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN + will follow similar schedules Saturday and Sunday, determined when post-cut pairings and tee times are announced.

Four-Feed Coverage of the WM Phoenix Open | Exclusively on PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+

The four feeds available on PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+ include:

• Main Feed – The primary tournament coverage stream, showcasing the best action from across the course, with two dedicated booth announcers, a dedicated walking announcer and coverage drawn from all cameras at the event.
• Marquee Group – Every shot from each player in the group, with two booth announcers and one walking announcer calling the action.
• Featured Holes – Exclusive coverage of key par 3 holes and the course’s iconic, signature holes.
• Featured Groups – Traditional PGA TOUR LIVE coverage following two concurrent featured groups, with two booth announcers and one walking announcer.

America’s Caddie at the WM Phoenix Open In an all-new episode of   America’s Caddie available to stream now exclusively on ESPN+, host Michael Collins takes fans “inside the ropes” at  the WM Phoenix Open to learn how the PGA TOUR event became known as the “People’s Open” and how an incredible hole-in-one by Tiger Woods in 1997 sparked the transformation of the 16th Hole at TPC Scottsdale into one of the most unique fan experiences in all of golf. Collins also plays the par-3 16th with Phoenix Suns all-star point guard and avid golfer Chris Paul , tests his club making skills with PGA TOUR winner Joel Dahmen , and takes to the NHL ice in full goalie pads as he tries to stop Arizona Coyotes legend Shane Doan .

PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+ This inaugural season of PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+ includes extended and expanded coverage in 2022, adding more than 3,200 new hours of live streaming for a total of more than 4,300 exclusive hours covering 35 tournaments, with at least 28 events with four full days of coverage and four simultaneous live feeds each day. The unprecedented coverage, with streaming and emerging technologies moving to ESPN+, is part of the TOUR’s new nine-year domestic media rights portfolio announced in March 2020 .

All ESPN+ subscribers have access to PGA TOUR LIVE, at no additional cost, in addition to more than 22,000 other live sporting events, acclaimed studio programs, original series and documentaries, as well as the complete library of ESPN 30 for 30 films.

Golf programming on ESPN+ also includes The Masters (115 hours of live coverage, plus 50 hours of The Masters Films from 1960-2020), The PGA Championship (200 hours of live coverage, plus 30 hours of library and classic programming), as well as the original series America’s Caddie with Michael Collins.

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El Clásico and Soccer Champions Tour to air on ESPN networks

by Kyle Fansler July 10, 2023

Sources tell World Soccer Talk that the Soccer Champions Tour has found a home on ESPN networks this summer.

The 2023 tournament features a slew of friendlies involving many of the top teams in Europe. For example, Manchester United, Arsenal, AC Milan and Juventus. Also, Barcelona and Real Madrid play out their third Clásico in the United States. The Spanish giants also play games against those aforementioned European powers.

Channel details include many of the games appearing on ESPN+ as well as ESPN Deportes. Barcelona and Real Madrid fans are well-accustomed to ESPN’s channels, as that is the home of LaLiga. Of course, last summer, the Clásico friendly in Las Vegas aired on FS2 .

Even though the games are in the United States, ESPN acquiring the rights is welcome news for those interested in watching from home. Some of the world’s greatest players will play in these friendlies later this month. That likely includes preseason debuts for new signings such as Christian Pulisic at AC Milan , Mason Mount at Manchester United, Jude Bellingham at Real Madrid and/or Declan Rice at Arsenal.

Soccer Champions Tour on ESPN provides plenty of options

In total, there are eight games in the Soccer Champions Tour on ESPN. As of press time, among the live games from the Soccer Champions Tour on TV and streaming, they include:

• Barcelona vs Juventus (Saturday, July 22 – 10:30 p.m. ET), ESPN+
• Real Madrid vs Milan (Sunday, July 23 – 10 p.m. ET), ESPN+ and ESPN Deportes
• Real Madrid vs Man United (Wednesday, July 26 – 8:30 p.m. ET), ESPN+
• Arsenal vs Barcelona (Wednesday, July 26 – 10:30 p.m. ET), ESPN+
• Barcelona vs Real Madrid (Saturday, July 29 – 5 p.m. ET), ESPN+
• Milan vs Barcelona (Tuesday, Aug. 1 – 11 p.m. ET), ESPN and ESPN Deportes

Each of these teams has a strong following in the United States, and they will pull in audiences for ESPN’s coverage of the friendlies. However, the Soccer Champions Tour on ESPN does create some challenges for some of the other games happening at the same time in the United States.

Soccer Champions Tour faces plenty of competition

For example, the Leagues Cup faces stiff competition from many of these games involving European giants. Lionel Messi’s impending debut with Inter Miami against Cruz Azul should not be affected. However, on July 29’s Clásico in Arlington, TX, there are Leagues Cup matches in both Atlanta and Austin. Those games may struggle to pull in the audiences. Worse off for the Leagues Cup, those games are airing only on MLS Season Pass, while the Clásico airs on ESPN+ and ESPN Deportes.

Then, there are other club friendlies going on during the same dates. The Premier League Summer Series has games on the same dates as Arsenal-Barcelona and Manchester United-Real Madrid. Premier League Summer Series games are mostly exclusive to streaming on Peacock . However, select games are on USA Network or NBC.

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Estados Unidos será la sede del Soccer Champions Tour, torneo que tendrá la participación del Real Madrid, Barcelona, Arsenal, Manchester United, Juventus y AC Milan.

El Soccer Champions Tour 2023 promete ser uno de los mejores torneos de pretemporada del balompié mundial al contar con algunos de los clubes más importantes del Viejo Continente y el certamen lo podrás disfrutar en exclusiva por ESPN en Star+ .

Estados Unidos será la sede del Soccer Champions Tour, torneo que tendrá la participación del Real Madrid , Barcelona , Arsenal , Manchester United , Juventus y AC Milan . El certamen servirá a las plantillas como preparación para la campaña 2023/24 y en la cartelera de los compromisos destaca el 'Clásico de España' entre Merengues y Culés.

El partido entre Barcelona y Real Madrid se celebrará el sábado 29 de julio en el AT&T Stadium, casa de los Dallas Cowboys de la NFL. El 'Clásico de España' es uno de los partidos más esperados del Soccer Champions Tour debido a la gran rivalidad que existe entre ambos clubes y también porque los aficionados esperan ver a todas las estrellas del Madrid y Barcelona.

La edición 2023 del Soccer Champions Tour se disputará en seis diferentes ciudades de la nación norteamericana y Santa Clara, California será la sede del primer partido del torneo que será protagonizado por Barcelona y Juventus . El resto de las sedes son: Dallas, Orlando, Los Angeles, Houston y Las Vegas .

Por otra parte, el torneo amistoso también servirá para que los clubes puedan probar a sus nuevos refuerzos y una de las grandes figuras a seguir será Ilkay Gundogan, quien se convirtió en una de las contrataciones más importantes en los últimos años del Barcelona. El mediocampista alemán llega a la escuadra blaugrana tras ser uno de los hombres claves en el Manchester City que consiguió la campaña anterior ganar el triplete: Premier League , FA Cup y Champions League.

Por su parte, Jude Bellingham será el jugador a ver en el Real Madrid, club que desembolsó más de 100 millones de dólares por los servicios del mediocampista de Inglaterra.

Otras grandes figuras que estarán en el Soccer Champions Tour son: Christian Pulisic , Rafael Leao, Marcus Rashford , Antony , Casemiro , Bruno Fernandes , Federico Chiesa , Moise Kean , Declan Rice y Kai Havertz .

A continuación, te compartimos la agenda del Soccer Champions Tour y te invitamos a disfrutar de este espectacular torneo en exclusiva por ESPN en Star+.

Partido: Barcelona vs. Juventus

Hora: 20:30 Fecha: 22 de julio

Sede: Levi's Stadium

Partido: Real Madrid vs. AC Milan

Hora: 19:50 Fecha: 23 de julio

Sede: Rose Bowl Stadium

Partido: Real Madrid vs. Man United

Hora: 18:20 Fecha: 26 de julio

Sede: NRG Stadium

Partido: Barcelona vs. Arsenal

Hora: 20:20 Fecha: 26 de julio

Sede: SoFi Stadium

Partido: Juventus vs. AC Milan

Hora: 20:20 Fecha: 27 de julio

Sede: Dignity Health Sports Park

Partido: Real Madrid vs. Barcelona

Hora: 14:50 Fecha: 29 de julio Sede: AT&T Stadium

Partido: AC Milan vs. Barcelona

Hora: 20:50 Fecha: 1 de agosto

Sede: Allegiant Stadium

Partido: Real Madrid vs. Juventus

Hora: 17:20 Fecha: 2 de agosto

Sede: Camping World Stadium

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Augusta National Golf Club: The Masters

Site: Augusta, Georgia.

Course: Augusta National GC. Yardage: 7,555. Par: 72.

Prize money: TBA ($18 million in 2023).

Field size: 89 players .

Television: Thursday-Friday, 3-7:30 p.m. (ESPN); Saturday, 3-7 p.m. (CBS); Sunday, 2-7 p.m. (CBS).

Defending champion: Jon Rahm.

Notes: The Masters is the first time all the major champions over the last five years are competing together since the British Open last July. ... Jon Rahm will try to join Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo and Jack Nicklaus as the only back-to-back winners. ... Rory McIlroy tries for the 10th time to complete the career Grand Slam. The last to do it was Woods, who added the last leg at the British Open in 2000 on his first try. ... Among the newcomers to the Masters are U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark and Ludvig Aberg, the No. 9 player in the world. The last player to win the Masters on his first attempt was Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979. ... Woods has played only 24 holes in one tournament going into the Masters. ... Scottie Scheffler is the biggest betting favorite at the Masters since Tiger Woods in 2013. ... Clark and Scheffler (twice) are the only winners this year who were among the top 10 in the world when they won.

GCSAA Fact Sheet: Click here .

Next year: April 10-13, 2025.

Last week: Akshay Bhatia won the Valero Texas Open.

Next week: RBC Heritage and Corales Puntacana Championship.

FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler.

Last week: Nelly Korda won the T-Mobile Match Play.

Next week: The Chevron Championship.

Race to CME Globe leader: Nelly Korda.

DP World Tour

Last tournament: Keita Nakajima won the Hero Indian Open.

Next tournament: ISPS Handa Championship on April 25-28.

Race to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy.

LIV Golf League

Last week: Dean Burmester won LIV Golf Miami.

Next tournament: LIV Golf Adelaide on April 26-28.

Points leader: Joaquin Niemann.

PGA Tour Champions

Last tournament: Retief Goosen won The Galleri Classic.

Next week: Invited Celebrity Classic.

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Steven Alker.

Korn Ferry Tour

Last week: Steven Fisk won the Club Car Championship at The Landings.

Next week: Lecom Suncoast Classic.

Points leader: Mason Andersen.

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Japan LPGA: KKTcup Vantelin Ladies Open, Kumamoto Kuko CC, Kumamoto, Japan. Defending champion: Akie Iwai. Online: 

Korea LPGA: Mediheal Hankookilbo Championship, Sky72 Resort, Incheon, South Korea. Defending champion: Joomi Lee. Online: 

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U.S. Soccer star uses CONCACAF Champions Cup as revenge tour

B randon Vazquez is one of U.S. Soccer's brightest young talents, but the forward's professional journey has been filled with frustration. 

After an eye-catching youth career split between Chula Vista and Tijuana, Vazquez got his big break when coach Tata Martino signed him to Atlanta United of Major League Soccer for the club's debut season. From there, though, Vazquez found himself on the outside — shunned by Martino and struggling for playing time during the most important phase of his career.

"I didn't really have a great relationship with him," Vazquez told ESPN about Martino last summer.

Vazquez left MLS for Monterrey in Mexico over the winter, and he set his sights on North America's biggest prize: the CONCACAF Champions Cup. 

Fate threw some familiar foes in his path. First came FC Cincinnati, the team he left in the winter; Vazquez scored in both legs to eliminate his old club from the Round of 16.

From there, the true test awaited: Tata Martino, now in charge of Major League Soccer's star-studded Inter Miami.

For Monterrey, beating Inter Miami would mean everything. It would underline Liga MX's dominance over MLS and prove that even Inter Miami's Lionel Messi, the greatest player in the world, couldn't compete with it. 

For Vazquez, beating Inter Miami meant revenge — over the coach and league that wasted his talent.

Monterrey won the first leg 2-1 in the United States thanks to goals from Maximiliano Meza and Jorge Rodriguez. But Messi missed that opening match, and with the Argentine set to return for the second leg in Mexico, the tie remained balanced on a knife's edge.

It was Vazquez, of course, who settled it. When Miami goalkeeper Drake Callender made an error inside his penalty box, Vazquez was their to seize the opportunity and fire the ball into the back of the net. His goal set the aggregate score at 3-1 and pushed the game beyond Miami's reach.

When Vazquez scored against Cincinnati in the Round of 16, he refused to celebrate out of respect for his former club. He had no such compulsions against Miami. Vazquez leapt in the air in front of the home fans and pumped his fists, clearly thrilled to have delivered a knockout blow to Martino's men.

Vazquez was reflective in the press box once the game ended with a Monterrey win. "It is another step on the path that we deserve to be on," he told the press in Spanish.

He was talking about Monterrey, of course. But after years of stops, starts and frustrations getting his MLS career off the ground under Martino's care, you'd be forgiven for thinking he was talking about himself, too.

Vazquez and Monterrey will continue their Champions Cup journey against the Columbus Crew on April 23.

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The First Look: Masters Tournament

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It's time for the first major championship of the PGA TOUR season.

Augusta National is primed and ready for the 2024 Masters Tournament after a fabulous finish to the Augusta National Women’s Amateur and the wonderful Drive, Chip & Putt National Final.

Scottie Scheffler recently added a second PLAYERS Championship to his resume. Can the defending champ do the same at the Masters? He is the unquestioned No. 1 player in the world right now, but he will have plenty of challengers.

Here's everything you need to know as the TOUR returns to Augusta.

NOTABLE INVITES AND AMATEURS: Fred Ridley, the chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters, extended three special invitations for 2024 to Denmark’s Thorbjørn Olesen , Japan’s Ryo Hisatsune and Chile’s Joaquin Niemann . Olesen, who holds dual DP World Tour and PGA TOUR membership, has won three years in a row on the DP World Tour and finished T6 in his Masters debut in 2013. Hisatsune was last year’s Rookie of the Year on the DP World Tour and has made seven of 10 cuts on the PGA TOUR this season. This will be his Masters debut. Niemann will be playing his fifth Masters… World No. 1 amateur Christo Lamprecht of South Africa headlines the amateur contingent. Lamprecht, who is in the field as the reigning British Amateur champion, made headlines by holding the first-round lead at The Open. Lamprecht also is No. 2 in PGA TOUR University. The other amateurs in the Masters are Santiago de la Fuente of Mexico (the Latin America Amateur Championship winner), Neal Shipley of the United States (U.S. Amateur finalist), Australia’s Jasper Stubbs (Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship winner) and Stewart Hagestad (U.S. Mid-Amateur champion). All of the amateurs except Hagestad are making their Masters debut. Hagestad is playing for a third time; he was the low amateur in 2017.

SIGNATURE EVENT STORYLINES: The Aon Next 10 and Aon Swing 5 for the RBC Heritage will be finalized this week. Though the Masters does not count towards the Aon Swing 5, it could change if Peter Malnati or Thomas Detry are bumped from the Aon Next 10 this week. Malnati and Detry would move into the Aon Swing 5 if they fall out of the Aon Next 10. Click here for the full standings.

COMCAST BUSINESS TOUR TOP 10 UPDATES: Ludvig Åberg and Chris Kirk swapped spots in the TOUR TOP 10 after the Valero Texas Open, with Aberg now at No. 8 and Kirk at No. 9. The rest of the TOUR TOP 10 remained the same… Akshay Bhatia jumped from No. 55 to No. 12 in the standings after his victory and is within shouting distance of the TOUR TOP 10 for the first time… Denny McCarthy , who Bhatia topped in a playoff in San Antonio, moved from No. 85 to No. 19.

FEDEXCUP: Winner receives 750 FedExCup points.

COURSE: Augusta National Golf Club, par 72, 7,555 yards. After multiple changes in 2022 and 2023, there was just one update for 2024, as the par-5 second was lengthened by 10 yards. Over the past three Masters, the second hole played as the easiest each year.

Rory McIlroy, in his pre-tournament press conference at the Valero Texas Open, also mentioned there were changes to the greens on Nos. 2, 4 and 6.

“There's like a back middle hole location on two, there's a slightly bigger area in there where they can sort of move that around a little bit," he said. "On four they've sort of made the back right section a little bit bigger for an extra pin position there. And then six is different, like the top right plateau is definitely bigger and then they've flattened out a section in the back left to maybe have an extra hole location there, too."

72-HOLE RECORD: 268, Dustin Johnson (2020)

18-HOLE RECORD: 63, Nick Price (third round, 1986) and Greg Norman (first round, 1996)

LAST TIME: Jon Rahm won the green jacket in a come-from-behind triumph on a marathon final day at Augusta National. Rahm was four shots back of the leader, Brooks Koepka, to start Sunday and had to play 30 holes due to weather knocking out much of Saturday’s third round. Rahm shot a final-round 69 to win by four over Koepka and Phil Mickelson. Jordan Spieth and Russell Henley finished tied for fourth, along with Patrick Reed.

HOW TO FOLLOW:

Television :

• Thursday-Friday: 3-7:30 p.m. ET (ESPN)
• Saturday: 3-7 p.m. (CBS)
• Sunday: 2-7 p.m. (CBS)
• Thursday-Sunday: 2 p.m. until play is complete (Masters Radio; SiriusXM 92)

Stream via Masters.com (and Paramount+, ESPN+, CBS Sports App); choose from:

• On the range
• Hole Nos. 4-6
• Featured Groups coverage
• Amen Corner
• Hole Nos. 15-16

Note: Augusta National, which owns and operates the Masters Tournament, controls all digital streaming and broadcast rights to this event. PGA TOUR LIVE coverage will resume next week at RBC Heritage.