Philadelphia, PA -- (Sports Network) - CHAMPIONS TOUR - SENIOR BRITISH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP, Royal Troon Golf Club (Old Course), Ayrshire, Scotland - Tom Watson enters this week's Senior British Open as the defending champion, but he will have to share a little of the spotlight with Greg Norman.

At 53 years old, Norman held the third-round at last week's British Open before closing with a 77 in the final round to finish six shots behind winner Padraig Harrington.

Norman, rarely found in any tournament these days, became the story at Royal Birkdale before Harrington claimed his second consecutive claret jug. In his previous start before last week, Norman tied for sixth place at a brutal Senior PGA Championship and wondered publicly if it was worth all the trouble.

But he's scheduled to be in the field this week at Royal Troon, where Watson enters the second Champions Tour major of the season as not only the defending champion, but also the winner of three of the last five Senior British Opens.

Watson closed with a 73 last year to beat Mark O'Meara and Stewart Ginn by a shot at Muirfield, which was also the sight of his 1980 win at the British Open. His other Senior British Open wins came at Royal Aberdeen in 2005 and Turnberry in 2003.

The 58-year-old Watson, who missed the cut at last week's British Open by just a stroke, has won twice already this season. He owns 13 major championships overall: eight on the PGA Tour and five on the Champions Tour, including his three Senior British Open wins.

At the last Champions Tour major, Jay Haas won the toughest Senior PGA Championship ever by closing with a four-over 74 at brutal Oak Hill to beat Bernhard Langer by a shot. Haas' seven-over-par 287 total was the worst winning score in tournament history, five shots more than Sam Snead's plus-two number in 1970. And it was the second-highest winning score in any 72-hole Champions Tour event.

This week marks the first of three consecutive Champions Tour majors on the schedule. The Senior British Open will be followed by the U.S. Senior Open and the JELD-WEN Tradition. There will be a one-week break before the JELD-WEN.

One player who will not be in the field at Royal Troon is last week's winner at the 3M Championship, R.W. Eaks, who is taking a week off before playing in the U.S. Senior Open in his hometown of Colorado Springs.

Brad Bryant will be the defending champion when that tournament kicks off next week at The Broadmoor Resort.

This week's action will be broadcast by TNT for the first two days, then on ABC over the weekend.

PGA TOUR

RBC CANADIAN OPEN, Glen Abbey Golf Club, Oakville, Ontario, Canada - The PGA Tour heads north of the border this week for the Canadian Open.

Coming a week after the British Open where Padraig Harrington successfully defended his title, Jim Furyk returns to Glen Abbey as the two-time defending champion.

Last year, he fired four rounds in the 60s, including a final-round 64, to hold off Vijay Singh by a single stroke.

Joining Furyk as a headliner in the field will be Canadian Mike Weir, who will be teeing it up at this event for the 17th time. However, he has made the cut just six times with his best showing a second-place finish in 2004 when he was a playoff loser to Singh.

Along with Weir and Furyk, several other big names will be in the field: two- time U.S. Open champion Retief Goosen, who is making his second appearance in the event; former U.S. Ryder Cupper Chris DiMarco; and Anthony Kim, who tied for seventh at the British Open last week.

The Canadian Tour will be well-represented as well. The top six players on the Canadian Tour's Order of Merit will tee it up this week.

Those six include John Ellis, Wes Heffernan, Daniel Im, Dustin Risdon, Adam Bland and George Bradford. Ellis (three wins) and Im (two titles) account for five of the seven wins from that group. Heffernan won last week, while Risdon also has a win this season.

The Golf Channel has three hours of coverage the first two days before handing off to CBS for the final two rounds.

There are two events next week on the PGA Tour. The top players will be in Akron for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, where Tiger Woods won by eight strokes last year. The remainder of the tour will be in Nevada for the Reno- Tahoe Open, where Steve Flesch cruised to a five-shot win last year.

LPGA TOUR

EVIAN MASTERS, Evian Masters Golf Club, Evian-les-Bains, France - After years of waiting, Natalie Gulbis finally claimed her first LPGA Tour title last year at the Evian Masters.

Gulbis was making her 148th start on the LPGA Tour when she won for the first time with a birdie on the first playoff hole to defeat Jeong Jang.

This will mark the 15th year the event will be contested, but just the ninth year as part of the LPGA Tour schedule.

The only previous winner not in the field will be Hiromi Kobayashi. Among those teeing it up will be two-time winners Annika Sorenstam (2000, 2002), Helen Alfredsson (1998, 1994) and Laura Davies (1995, 1996).

This event marks the first of three straight outside the Unites States for the LPGA Tour. The next two tournaments are the Women's British Open and the Canadian Women's Open.

The Golf Channel has tape-delayed coverage of all four rounds this week. Next week, the tour heads to England for the Women's British Open, where Lorena Ochoa will defend her title at Sunningdale Golf Club.

EUROPEAN TOUR

RUSSIAN OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP, Le Meridien Moscow Country Club, Moscow, Russia - The European Tour heads to Russia this week for the Russian Open Golf Championship.

This event started in 1996 as part of the Challenge Tour, but became a duel- ranking event in 2003.

Last year, Per-Ulrik Johansson fired four rounds in the 60s to cruise to a six-shot win over Robert-Jan Derksen. The win was Johansson's sixth on the European Tour.

The tournament gets a break on the schedule this year as the last two years it was held opposite big events. Last year, the tournament played opposite the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the year before it was played opposite the PGA Championship.

The only winner from this year's European Tour schedule in the field this week is Indian Masters champ S.S.P. Chowrasia. Past winners on the European Tour such as Jose Manuel Lara, Markus Brier, Mads Vibe-Hastrup and Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano will also tee it up this week.

The Golf Channel has three hours of coverage all four days. The European Tour will be in the U.S. next week for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, where the event will be without defending champion Tiger Woods.

NATIONWIDE TOUR

NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INVITATIONAL, The Ohio State University Scarlet Course, Columbus, Ohio - History was made last year when amateur Daniel Summerhays won the Children's Hospital Invitational.

Summerhays was the first-ever amateur to win on the Nationwide Tour. In keeping with that, tournament sponsors invited 10 of the top collegiate golfers to compete this week.

Those 10 include Kevin Chappell, Jonas Blixt, Jorge Campillo, Rickie Fowler, Rory Hie, Sihwan Kim, Jamie Lovemark, Joel Sjoholm, Webb Simpson and Michael Thompson.

Of that group, Campillo, Sjoholm and Simpson will not be playing. Simpson accepted an invitation to play on the PGA Tour at the Canadian Open this week.

The Golf Channel will air two hours of play the first two days, then three hours of action on Saturday and Sunday. Next week, the tour heads to Nebraska for the Cox Classic, where Roland Thatcher won last year.

UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION

U.S. JUNIOR AMATEUR, Shoal Creek Golf Course, Shoal Creek, Alabama - The U.S. Junior Amateur tees it up this week at Shoal Creek Golf Course.

Shoal Creek is hosting its second USGA event, the other being the 1986 U.S. Amateur.

Both of the 2007 finalists returned this year. Cory Whitsett defeated Anthony Paolucci last year for the title. Also returning from last year is quarterfinalist Michael McGowan, who also qualified for match play at the 2006 U.S. Amateur.

The two stroke-play rounds will be contested on Monday and Tuesday. The first round of match play is on Wednesday, before two rounds of match play on both Thursday and Friday. The 36-hole final is slated for Saturday.

There is no television coverage for this event. The next amateur event on the USGA schedule is the U.S. Amateur August 18-24.

U.S. GIRL'S JUNIOR, The Hartford Golf Club, West Hartford, Connecticut - Last year, Kristen Park won the title at the age of 14 in her first match-play event, rolling to a 4 & 3 win over Ayaka Keneko in the finals.

The field for this event is stacked with big names from the USGA circuit.

Joining Park in the field are Sarah Brown, a quarterfinalist last year; Courtney Ellenbogen, a two-time qualifier for the U.S. Women's Open; Kimberly Kim, a three-time U.S. Women's Open qualifier and 2006 Women's Amateur champ; Tiffany Lua, who has played two U.S. Women's Opens; Jenny Shin, the 2006 champion; and Alexis Thompson, a two-time U.S. Open qualifier.

The Girls Junior has a slightly different schedule with the first two rounds of match play on Wednesday, followed by two more rounds on Thursday, just the semifinals on Friday, then the 36-hole final on Saturday.

The next women's amateur event on the USGA schedule is the U.S. Women's Amateur, which will be August 4-10.