Past 4 champions to compete in Shriners Children’s Open

The 4 astir caller winners of the Shriners Children’s Open volition beryllium backmost successful Las Vegas adjacent month.

Martin Laird volition instrumentality to TPC Summerlin to support his title, on with 2020 victor Kevin Na, 2019 champion Bryson DeChambeau and 2018 titlist Patrick Cantlay.

The 4 are the archetypal names announced for this year’s tournament, acceptable for Oct. 4-10. Players tin officially perpetrate to the lawsuit starting adjacent week, but tourney enforcement manager Patrick Lindsey said the 4 past champions volition each beryllium back,

Cantlay and DeChambeau are large gets for Las Vegas. The 2 basal archetypal and 2nd successful the FedEx Cup points contention heading into this week’s season-ending Tour Championship. Cantlay climbed to a career-high 4th successful the satellite rankings this week, portion DeChambeau rests astatine No. 7.

Both players volition get astatine TPC Summerlin conscionable 2 weeks aft playing for the United States successful the Ryder Cup.

DeChambeau volition already beryllium successful Southern Nevada, having agreed to enactment successful the Professional Long Drivers Association World Championships successful Mesquite Sept. 28-Oct. 1.

Montgomery closer

With a necktie for 18th astatine the Korn Ferry Tour’s Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship connected Sunday, Las Vegan Taylor Montgomery crept person to securing his PGA Tour playing paper for adjacent season.

Montgomery is successful 14th spot aft the archetypal 2 Korn Ferry Tour Finals events. The apical 25 players aft this week’s Korn Ferry Tour Championship successful Newburgh, Indiana, gain PGA Tour playing privileges.

Montgomery astir apt needs a top-30 decorativeness this week to unafraid his card. He tin inactive get successful with a worse decorativeness depending connected however the points shingle retired among each the finishers.

The roadworthy is overmuch much hard for 2 different erstwhile UNLV stars. Kurt Kitayama (43rd) and Harry Hall (77th) volition astir apt request a top-five decorativeness successful Indiana to scope the top-25 threshold.

Solheim Cup week

Arguably the champion lawsuit is play takes spot this week, and we’re not talking the Tour Championship and the PGA Tour’s ridiculous weighted scoring system. While the apical 30 men volition beryllium playing for a $15 cardinal archetypal prize, the women volition beryllium playing for pridefulness and state astatine the Solheim Cup successful Toledo, Ohio.

Team USA and Team Europe are beauteous evenly matched connected insubstantial arsenic the Americans look to instrumentality the cupful backmost astatine Inverness Golf Club.

Team USA is led by satellite No. 1 Nelly Korda, Las Vegan Danielle Kang and Ally Ewing, who won the LPGA Match Play astatine Shadow Creek earlier this year. They are joined by Austin Ernst, Lexi Thompson, Jessica Korda, Megan Khang, Lizette Salas, Jennifer Kupcho, Brittany Altomare, Mina Harigae and 19-year-old Yealimi Noh.

Women’s British Open champion Anna Norqvist leads a European squad that besides includes Emily Pedersen, Georgia Hall, Sophia Popov, Charley Hull, Carlota Ciganda, Leona Maguire, Mel Reid, Celine Boutier, Madelene Sagstrom, Matilda Castren and Nanna Koerstz Madsen.

The lawsuit includes 4 best-ball and 4 alternate-shot matches connected some Saturday and Sunday, and 12 singles matches for Monday’s Labor Day finish.

Weston tops Helseth

Wes Weston held disconnected defending champion Troy Helseth by 1 changeable to assertion the Southern Nevada PGA Chapter Championship past week astatine Cascata Golf Club.

It’s been rather a summertime for Weston, who besides won the Las Vegas City Professional Championship successful June.

Weston changeable rounds of 67 and 75 to decorativeness astatine 2-under 142 for the rubric astatine Cascata.

It was a heartbreaking nonaccomplishment for Helseth, who had rallied connected the backmost 9 with 3 birdies to instrumentality the pb lone to double-bogey the closing spread to suffer by a stroke.

Thomas Fischer and Erik Matthewson tied for third, 4 shots down Weston.

Greg Robertson covers play for the Review-Journal. He tin beryllium reached astatine grobertson@reviewjournal.com.