Golf Channel will provide 26 hours of coverage from this week’s Solheim Cup, Aug. 21-23, along with 14 hours of “Live From the Solheim Cup” coverage. Friday and Saturday, Golf Channel will air more than 10 continuous hours of daily match coverage, beginning at 9 a.m. ET. Sunday’s live match coverage will air 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. ET. “Live From The Solheim Cup” kicks off Tuesday and Wednesday with pre-event news conferences. … Turner Sports reports PGA.com set a single-day site record with 1.4 million unique users for first-round coverage of the PGA Championship. On television TNT‘s overnight metered market ratings for its six hours of exclusive round one coverage enjoyed a 43 percent increase over last year.
Wyndham Rewards, a hotel loyalty program with more than 6,000 participating hotels, offers players the chance to win 1,000,000 rewards points with the Hole-in-One Challenge on Sedgefield Country Club’s 16th hole during this week’s Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C. Also, Sergio Garcia and Adam Scott join Ryan Moore and Charles Howell III as late entries into the tournament field. Paul Azinger has withdrawn due to injury. … Spain’s Beatriz Recari enters the first stage of the LPGA Qualifying Tournament, set for Sept. 17-20 in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
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