BANK OF UTAH CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Ivins, Utah.
Course: Black Desert Resort. Yardage: 7,421. Par: 71.
Prize money: $6 million. Winner's share: $1,080,000.
Television: Thursday-Friday, 5-8 p.m. (Golf Channel).
Defending champion: Michael Brennan.
FedEx Cup champion: Scottie Scheffler.
Last tournament: Jacob Bridgeman won the Biltmore Championship Asheville.
Notes: Jackson Koivun goes from an unbeaten (2-0-1) debut in the Presidents Cup in a U.S. victory to playing in Utah. He is at No. 62 in the FedEx Cup Fall, trying to get into the top 60 to be exempt for the first two signature events of 2027. ... The International team has two players who came from Medinah to the Black Desert Resort — Nick Taylor and Christiaan Bezuidenhout, who is at No. 99 and trying to make sure he's among the top 100 who retain a full card. ... Michael Brennan won last year on a sponsor exemption having just secured a Korn Ferry Tour card. He returns as a two-time PGA Tour winner, having also won the Wyndham Championship. ... The field includes Tony Finau at No. 100 in the FedEx Cup and Billy Horschel at No. 101. They were teammates in the Presidents Cup four years ago. ... Matthieu Pavon has come over to Utah after playing in his native French Open last week outside Paris. ... This is the second of eight FedEx Cup Fall events.
Next week: Baycurrent Classic.
Online: https://www.pgatour.com/
ALFRED DUNHILL LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: St. Andrews, Scotland.
Courses: Old Course at St. Andrews (Yardage: 7,318. Par: 72); Carnoustie GL (Yardage: 7,394. Par: 72); Kingsbarns GC (Yardage: 7,059. Par: 72).
Prize money: $5 million. Winner's share: $833,333.
Television: Thursday-Saturday, 7 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel); Sunday, 6:30 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel).
Defending champion: Robert MacIntyre.
Race to Dubai leader: Patrick Reed.
Last week: Matt Fitzpatrick won the French Open.
Notes: This is Europe's version of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, played over British Open links at St. Andrews and Carnoustie along with the picturesque Kingsbarns. ... Matt Fitzpatrick, already with four victories this year worldwide, is playing a week after his French Open title. His younger brother Alex also is in the field. ...The field has the largest collection of LIV Golf players, including the majors, with 21 players from the struggling league. That includes Bubba Watson, who tied for 11th last week on the Japan Golf Tour. ... Brooks Koepka makes his third European tour start since his PGA Tour season ended. Other Americans in the field include Ryan Palmer and Luke List. ... Patrick Reed, who leads the Race to Dubai, originally was in the field until withdrawing. He withdrew during the BMW PGA Championship with an injury. ... Ryder Cup players Justin Rose, Sepp Straka and Tommy Fleetwood are playing, along with captain Luke Donald.
Next week: Spanish Open.
Online: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/
LOTTE CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Honolulu.
Course: Hoakalei CC. Yardage: 6,530. Par: 72.
Prize money: $3 million. Winner's share: $450,000.
Television: Thursday-Sunday, 8-11 p.m. (Golf Channel).
Defending champion: Youmin Hwang.
Race to CME Globe leader: Nelly Korda.
Last week: Luna Nishimura won the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.
Notes: The field has four of the top 10 in the women's world ranking. Nelly Korda has not played since the Solheim Cup and has not play any of the fall Asian swing events since 2023. ... The Lotte Championship leads to a month of tournaments in Asia. ... Lydia Ko is in the field. She is coming off back-to-back missed cuts for the first time in two years, at the FM Championship and the Hana Financial on the Korean LPGA. ... The tournament dates to 2012. Michelle Wie West in 2014 remains the only American winner of the Lotte Championship. ... Eleven players from the Solheim Cup are playing in Hawaii, including Hawaii native Allisen Corpuz. ... Brooke Henderson is the only player to win the tournament twice. ... Kiara Romero missed five of his six cuts as an amateur this year. She has made two of three cuts since turning pro. The Lotte Championship is her fourth start since the former No. 1 amateur got her LPGA card through the LEAP program.
Next tournament: Buick LPGA Shanghai on Oct. 15-18.
Online: https://www.lpga.com/
JEFFERSON LEHIGH VALLEY CLASSIC
Site: Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Course: Lehigh CC. Yardage: 6,760. Par: 70.
Prize money: $2.3 million. Winner's share: $345,000.
Television: Friday-Sunday, noon to 3 p.m. (Golf Channel).
Defending champion: New tournament.
Charles Schwab Cup leader: Stewart Cink.
Last tournament: Zach Johnson won the Pure Insurance Championship.
Notes: This is a new tournament on the PGA Tour Champions. It's the start of a three-week stretch before the top 72 players in the Charles Schwab Cup qualify for the postseason. ... Zach Johnson leads the PGA Tour Champions with six victories this year, one more than Stewart Cink. But Cink still leads the Schwab Cup and is playing in Pennsylvania this week. Johnson is not in the field this week and could not have caught Cink even if he were. ... Sponsor exemptions went to Glen Day and Michael Block. ... Eleven players already have surpassed $1 million in earnings this year on the 50-and-over circuit. ... Tim O'Neal is the only player to have played in all 22 tournaments on the schedule this year. O'Neal is at No. 26 in the Schwab Cup. ... Cink and Johnson have combined to win half of the tournaments on the Champions schedule this year. ... Johnson and Padraig Harrington are the only two players from the top 10 in the Schwab who aren't playing the inaugural event.
Next week: Constellation Furyk & Friends.
Online: https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions
COMPLIANCE SOLUTIONS CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Owasso, Oklahoma.
Course: The Patriot GC. Yardage: 7,120. Par: 70.
Television: Thursday, 2-5 p.m. (Golf Channel); Friday-Sunday, 2-3 p.m. (Golf Channel mobile), 3-5 p.m. (Golf Channel).
Prize money: $1.5 million. Winner's share: $270,000.
Previous winner: Adrien Dumont de Chassart.
Points leader: Ross Steelman.
Last tournament: Sandy Scott won the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship.
Next week: Korn Ferry Tour Championship.
Online: https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour
Epson Tour: Epson Tour Championship, Indian Wells Golf Resort, Indian Wells, California. Previous winner: Anne Chen. Online: https://www.epsontour.com/
United States Golf Association: U.S. Mid-Amateur, Sand Valley Resort (Lido), Nekoosa, Wisconsin. Defending champion: Brandon Holtz. Online: https://www.usga.org/
Japan Golf Tour: Drugstore Cosmos Cup, Grand Fields CC, Shizuoka, Japan. Defending champion: New tournament. Online: https://www.jgto.org/en/
Challenge Tour: Abu Dhabi Challenge, Al Ain Equestrian Shooting & GC, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Previous winner: Renato Paratore. Online: https://www.europeantour.com/hotelplanner-tour/
United States Golf Association: U.S. Senior Women's Amateur, Portland GC, Portland, Oregon. Defending champion: Dawn Woodard. Online: https://www.usga.org/
Sunshine Tour: Limpopo Championship, Euphoria Golf & Lifestyle Estate, Mookgopong, South Africa. Defending champion: Pieter Moolman. Online: https://sunshinetour.com/
Legends Tour: Reignwood Legends Championship, Reignwood Pine Valley, Beijing. Defending champion: Keith Horne. Online: https://legendstour.com/
Japan LPGA: Japan Women’s Open Championship, Takarazuka GC (Old), Hyogo, Japan. Defending champion: Kotoni Hore. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/
Korea LPGA: Hite Jinro Championship, Blue Heron GC, Yeoju, South Korea. Defending champion: Yujin Sung. Online: https://klpga.co.kr/
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USA teams' Jackson Koivun reacts to his birdie putt on the 12th hole against the International team during a Presidents Cup golf tournament final round singles match at Medinah Country Club, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026, in Medinah, Ill. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico (AP) — Wind whipped Mexico’s northern Pacific coast and water began to flood some streets Monday as Hurricane Polo bore down on Baja California Sur, threatening flash floods and mudslides. Meanwhile, Hurricane Nolo could still bring torrential rain to parts of Hawaii even as the storm edges away from the state.
In Puerto San Carlos, a fishing town of about 5,700 people, high tides and pounding waves from Polo were breaching sea barriers as residents worried for their homes in the mostly empty town. Hundreds of people in the region evacuated, hunkering down in nearby shelters in schools and other facilities.
“Civil Protection told those of us here in San Carlos to evacuate because this is a high-risk area. With the current tides, the expected waves and the wind, the earthen barriers they built (to prevent flooding) could give way,” Rocío Sánchez, a fisherwoman, said.
Polo was a Category 1 storm with top sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph) Tuesday but is expected to weaken later on Tuesday as it moves inland, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. It’s expected to produce 6-12 inches (about 15 to 30 centimeters) of rain across parts of Baja California Sur.
Forecasters said it would hit the Mexican mainland after lashing Baja California Sur, and that life-threatening winds and flash floods were expected. It could bring heavy rain and flooding to parts of the U.S. Southwest later in the week.
The government of the northern Mexican state of Sonora on Monday night announced it would suspend all “nonessential” activities, including school, sports and nonessential work, in the state capital and more than a dozen municipalities due to the incoming hurricane.
Residents in Baja California Sur were anxiously bracing themselves. Margarita Bobadilla and her family were sheltered in a local school, saying it was safer than weathering the storm in her wooden house.
“Material things can be replaced, but family can’t. My children and I decided to come here last night, and now we’re waiting to see what happens.”
Others lingered in their mostly emptied town of Puerto San Carlos, crossing their fingers the light flooding and powerful winds would be the worst of Polo.
Laura Velázquez, national coordinator of Mexico’s Civil Protection Agency, reported that Polo would make landfall later in the afternoon. With Polo approaching Mexico, the Mexican navy said it had personnel ready across the northern Pacific coast and deployed three vessels that could ship aid to coastal communities isolated by the storm. Local authorities along the Baja California Peninsula said they had shelters at the ready.
At a Monday morning news briefing, Velázquez urged residents to stay off the streets and seek shelter if their homes are at risk. She said travel will be suspended in the area where the hurricane was expected to make landfall and that ports across the region would be closed.
At the same time, Tropical Storm Rachel was brewing over Mexico’s southwest coast. The hurricane center said Tuesday that Rachel had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (96.6 kph) and was located about 265 miles (425 kilometers) southwest of Lazaro Cardenas. No coastal watches or warnings were in effect, but the center said Rachel is forecast to become a hurricane during the next day or so.
Storm activity in the Pacific has been above average during what is already the peak of hurricane season, according to National Weather Service lead forecaster Bob Oravec. He said that pattern is consistent with El Niño years, when the Pacific often sees more tropical storms and hurricanes.
While Polo is slated to weaken over northern Mexico, tropical weather was also supposed to deal a one-two punch to the U.S. Southwest.
The region has already been saturated by heavy rain over the past months, and regions like New Mexico and Grand Canyon were hit by devastating floods earlier this month. Now, the remnants of Polo are forecast to track east across the region, expected to douse Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Texas with inches of rain.
That’s a good chunk of the 8-12 inches (about 20-30 centimeters) the arid area of canyons and rocky expanses with little vegetation usually gets in a year. Such terrain is already conducive to flash flooding, sudden torrents that can sweep down canyons and other low-lying areas with little warning. The new tropical weather adds more risk, said Andrew Mangham, senior service hydrologist for the National Weather Service in Albuquerque.
“We’re getting caught up here in a very, very short time,” Mangham said. “And that’s not really what we want. We want nice rains, you know, all summer long.”
Nolo, meanwhile, was well southwest of Hawaii and moving away from the Big Island as the weekend drew to a close. The Category 3 storm drenched communities in south and southeastern parts of the Big Island over the weekend, prompting some highway closures on Saturday evening and Sunday as rushing water and boulders blocked roadways.
Maximum sustained winds were near 115 mph (185 km/h), with higher gusts, the hurricane center said Tuesday, but the storm is forecast to weaken over the next couple of days.
Hawaii National Guard members rescued 19 people from flooding over the weekend, the U.S. National Guard said in a post on Facebook.
Damage assessments are still underway as Nolo moves northwest. While it’s keeping its distance from the main Hawaiian Islands, it’s approaching Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, a marine conservation area northwest of the islands, according to the National Hurricane Center. It could bring dangerous conditions to the area starting Tuesday, the center reported.
Thousands of households and businesses on Maui lost power for a time, but by Monday afternoon, service had been restored to nearly all of them, according to poweroutage.us. The majority of the outages were related to storm damage, according to statements from Hawaiian Electric.
Hawaii residents were still recovering from several other natural events this year, including spring Kona low storms, a May earthquake, Hurricane Lala in August and Hurricane Lowell in September. Those events affected more than 1,290 homes, according to the state, and caused nearly $700 million in damage and recovery costs.
Janetsky reported from Mexico City. Photojournalist Eduardo Verdugo contributed from Puerto San Carlos, Mexico, reporter Julie Walker reported from New York, reporter Mead Gruver reported from Fort Collins, Colorado. Videojournalist Eugene Garcia and photographer Gregory Bull contributed from Hilo, Hawaii.
Workers pull a boat to shore as Hurricane Polo approaches Puerto San Carlos, Baja California Sur state, Mexico, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Water surges along the coast as Hurricane Polo approaches Puerto San Carlos, in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
People evacuate their homes as Hurricane Polo approaches Puerto San Carlos, Baja California Sur state, Mexico, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Residents are evacuated by the Army as Hurricane Polo approaches Puerto San Carlos, Baja California Sur state, Mexico, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
People evacuate their homes as Hurricane Polo approaches Puerto San Carlos, Baja California Sur state, Mexico, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Nolo, left, south of Hawaii; Hurricane Odalys, middle, and Hurricane Polo, right, off the coast of Mexico, in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (NOAA via AP)
Workers build a barricade to help keep water out of their town as Hurricane Polo approaches in Puerto San Carlos, Baja California Sur state, Mexico, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
A man boards up a house's windows as Hurricane Polo approaches in Puerto San Carlos, Baja California Sur state, Mexico, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Workers build a barricade to help keep water out of their town as Hurricane Polo approaches in Puerto San Carlos, Baja California Sur state, Mexico, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Peggy McKibbin looks at where floodwaters from nearby Hurricane Nolo run past widespread damage from last month's Hurricane Lala Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026, in Naalehu, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Fire Captain Lui Sales of the Hawaii Fire Department looks for residents to help as rainwater from nearby Hurricane Nolo flood a section of Mamalahoa highway Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, near Naalehu, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A man rides with his son near where a home was destroyed during last month's Hurricane Lala, as floodwaters from Hurricane Nolo recedes Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026, in Naalehu, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
