The PGA Tour’s yearly tournament at Torrey Pines will become part of the new Championship Series when the circuit introduces its redesigned competitive structure in 2028.

The San Diego-area event will be known as The Sentry beginning in 2027 under a new title sponsorship agreement. The first edition under that name is scheduled for Jan. 27-30, 2027.

The Championship Series is expected to feature 23 or 24 events for the tour’s leading players between February and August. The schedule will include the four major championships, The Players Championship, a redesigned postseason and the Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup.

The Sentry joins the Travelers Championship and a new Sompo-sponsored tournament as regular-season events already confirmed for the Championship Series. The remaining tournaments and complete 2028 schedule will be announced later.

A Challenger Series with at least 20 events will run concurrently with the Championship Series. Players can move between the two levels through a promotion-and-relegation system.

The tournament began as the San Diego Open in 1952 and has been held at Torrey Pines since 1968. It was called the Farmers Insurance Open from 2010 to 2026.

Torrey Pines has also hosted two U.S. Opens, including Tiger Woods’ playoff victory over Rocco Mediate in 2008.

Englishman Justin Rose won the final Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines on Feb. 1, finishing at a tournament-record 23 under for a seven-shot victory.

–Field Level Media

Nelly Korda and Haeran Ryu combined to win the first four majors of the season.

It’s only fitting they are paired together, along with LPGA Hall of Famer Lydia Ko of New Zealand, for the first two rounds of the AIG Women’s Open. The final major of the season begins Thursday at Royal Lytham & St Annes in Lytham St Annes, England.

Either Korda or Ryu could become the first woman since South Korea’s Inbee Park in 2013 to win three majors in one year. Korda collected the Chevron Championship and the U.S. Women’s Open for a brilliant start to 2026, and Park’s countrywoman Ryu prevailed at the Women’s PGA Championship and the Evian Championship.

“I have a lot of confidence,” Ryu said. “I got a lot of confidence after two major champion, and then but this is another golf course and another golf, so I just keep working hard with my team.”

Ryu won the Evian earlier this month in France by shooting a record 60 in the third round and going on to defeat Canada’s Brooke M. Henderson in a playoff the next day. The 60 was the lowest round ever shot at a major, men’s or women’s.

Ryu, who took time off afterward and did not play the Women’s Scottish Open, called herself “still (a) rookie” on links courses, which is exactly the test Royal Lytham & St Annes presents. It is a par-71 layout measuring 6,601 yards this week.

World No. 1 Korda finished 2 over par at the Scottish two weeks after her first missed cut of the year at the Evian.

“Evian is just a funky golf course. I didn’t play that bad actually, if I’m being honest,” Korda said. “You know, it’s golf. You’re going to — just because you’re playing well doesn’t mean you’re invincible and you’re going to make every cut and be in the top 10 every single week.

“I feel like I’ve done this long enough where I’ve missed enough cuts that it’s just about the bounce-back.”

On the topic of links play, Korda said her approach is about controlling the controllables.

“Sometimes with links golf you can kind of get pretty agitated with the bounces that you get,” she said. “You hit a good shot, get a bad bounce, end up in a pot bunker, have to pitch out unfortunately and save par.”

The defending champion is Japan’s Miyu Yamashita, who prevailed by two shots at Royal Porthcawl last year as a rookie.

At just 24, Yamashita has collected 16 wins worldwide, mainly on the LPGA of Japan Tour. She’ll try to be the first back-to-back winner at the Women’s Open since Taiwan’s Yani Tseng in 2010-11.

“Yani Tseng winning in 2011 was of course an amazing achievement,” Yamashita said. “To be here again, to have the chance to be the defending champion, is something I really look forward to, and just got to focus on the golf and my performance this week.”

Royal Lytham & St Annes last hosted this major in 2018, marking the most recent time an English player won the title. Georgia Hall earned her first and only major trophy that week and is now in a very different stage of life: She’s returning to Lytham for her first competitive round since giving birth to her first child, Conor, five months ago.

“I first picked up a club … six weeks after giving birth,” Hall said. “I was in Ireland and went to a local driving range. I was really excited because I didn’t know how I was going to hit it and thought I might top it or something, but I actually hit it pretty good, but my rotation, like there is no rotation at all.

“Yeah, I went there for an hour and I was pleasantly surprised. I was leaving that thinking, ‘OK, let’s see if I can get back to Lytham.’ Yeah, it was good. I enjoyed the progress coming back.”

–Field Level Media

Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton said the team is “staying the course” with linebacker Jonathon Cooper, who was arrested twice last month on domestic violence-related charges.

Cooper was excused from the team’s mandatory minicamp last month after being arrested on June 4 and again on June 11 following incidents with his girlfriend. He faces a felony charge of second-degree assault by strangulation in addition to three misdemeanors and is scheduled to appear in Douglas County (Colo.) court on Aug. 31 for an arraignment.

Cooper, 28, reported to training camp on Tuesday, and is participating in practices and other team activities.

“We’re staying the course with the league. We’re staying the course with league protocol, club protocol relative to what we’re advised to do,” Payton said. “He’s been fantastic working away from the building, and we’ll continue to do that and monitor it.

“We’re supportive, and yet very much aware of the seriousness of these types of things. Pretty much what I said in the spring, there’s a schedule and a course to this, and that’s what we have to follow.”

It is possible that a potential trial date could fall during the season, and Cooper could also face an NFL suspension of up to six games under the league’s personal conduct policy. Asked if the situation could prove a distraction to the team, Payton said, “No. Not at all.”

Arrest records indicate Cooper and his girlfriend, also arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic violence with an additional charge of petty criminal mischief, were involved in a dispute over allegations of infidelity. In signed affidavits, the parties gave differing accounts of the events that caused the argument to escalate.

Payton said he spent “a lot of time” with Cooper along with Broncos owner and CEO Greg Penner and general manager George Paton, but declined to discuss specifics of the situation or its potential outcome.

“I don’t have any comment on the specifics because I think when it’s finally finished, we’ll all have a better feel for it,” Payton said. “It’s unfair for me to answer any of those questions right now without having the totality of it finalized. I think that’ll come sooner rather than later.”

Cooper has started every game in each of the past three seasons for Denver and has played in 81 games (65 starts) since the Broncos selected him in the seventh round in 2021.

Cooper recorded eight sacks, 50 tackles and 16 quarterback hits last season. He has 31.5 sacks, 63 QB hits, 266 tackles, three fumble recoveries (one returned for a touchdown), two forced fumbles and one interception.

He signed a four-year, $60 million extension in November 2024.

–Field Level Media