European tour and PGA Tour Champions wrap up season while LPGA returns to US in Florida

DP WORLD TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Course: Jumeirah Golf Estates (Earth). Yardage: 7,706. Par: 72.

Prize money: $10 million. Winner's share: $3 million.

Television: Thursday-Saturday, 2-8 a.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 1:30-7:30 a.m. (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Matt Fitzpatrick.

Race to Dubai leader: Eugenio Chacarra.

Last week: Jon Rahm won the Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship.

Notes: This is the final event of the European tour season for the top 50 players that decides the Race to Dubai title. ... Rory McIlroy finished third last week in Abu Dhabi to move to No. 2 in the standings behind Eugenio Chacarra. ... McIlroy has won the Race to Dubai the last four years. He is going for his eighth title, which would tie him with Colin Montgomerie. ... Rahm won last week in his first competition in seven weeks, and first since he ended his contract with bankrupt LIV Golf. It was his first regular European tour victory since the DP World Tour Championship in 2022. ... Patrick Reed is at No. 3 in the standings. He won the Dubai Desert Classic in January on a different course. ... Ludvig Aberg fell out of the top 50 by not playing in Abu Dhabi last week. ... The leading 10 players in the Race to Dubai not already on the PGA Tour will be offered cards for 2027. Rahm is not eligible because he played on LIV Golf this year. Joe Dean is holding down the last spot.

Next week: End of season.

Online: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/

AUSTIN CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Austin, Texas.

Course: Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa (Fazio Canyons). Yardage: 7,451. Par: 72.

Prize money: $6 million. Winner's share: $1,080,000.

Television: Thursday-Sunday, 2-5 p.m. (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: New tournament.

FedEx Cup champion: Scottie Scheffler.

Last week: Blades Brown won the World Wide Technology Championship.

Notes: The new tournament originally was to sponsored by Good Good Golf until its controversial commercial of a man tackling a woman for trying to touch his driver. ... Austin Smotherman is going for his third PGA Tour victory in as many starts. ... The last time the PGA Tour was in Austin was for the Match Play in 2023. ... Blades Brown last week became the youngest PGA Tour winner in 95 years at age 19. He is in the field this week. Another victory would make him exempt for the U.S. Open. ... The field includes Tommy Morrison, who played at Texas and earned his PGA Tour card through the Korn Ferry Tour this year. ... Miles Russell, the 18-year-old who was named AJGA player of the year, is playing on a sponsor exemption. He has made the cut in three of the four PGA Tour-sanctioned events he has played this year, including the U.S. Open. ... Two tournaments remain for the top 100 in the FedEx Cup Fall to keep full cards for 2027.

Next week: RSM Classic.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/

THE ANNIKA

Site: Belleair, Florida.

Course: Pelican GC. Yardage: 6,349. Par: 70.

Prize money: $3.25 million. Winner's share: $487,500.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 2-5 p.m. (CNBC); Sunday, 1:30-4:30 p.m. (CNBC).

Defending champion: Linn Grant.

Race to CME Globe leader: Nelly Korda.

Last week: Shuri Sakuma won the Toto Classic.

Notes: The LPGA Tour returns to U.S. soil after four weeks in Asia. ... Nelly Korda, the No. 1 player in women's golf, is playing for the first time since the Solheim Cup on Sept. 13. She typically skips the Asia swing. ... Toto Classic winner Shuri Sakuma is deferring her LPGA membership until next year with only two tournaments remaining. ... Japanese players won three of the four tournaments on the Asia swing, Sakuma and Yuri Yoshida becoming first-time winners. ... The field features only five of the top 10 in the women's world ranking. ... After this week, the top 60 players on the Race to CME Globe qualify for the season-ending Tour Championship, where whoever wins gets $2 million as the Race to CME Globe champion. ... Eight players who competed in the Solheim Cup are outside the top 60 going into the final full-field event of the season. ... The last American winners on the LPGA this season were Gina Kim and Yana Wilson in the Dow Championship team event on June 14.

Next week: CME Group Tour Championship.

Online: https://www.lpga.com/

CHARLES SCHWAB CUP CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Phoenix.

Course: Phoenix CC. Yardage: 6,860. Par: 71.

Prize money: $3 million. Winner's share: $528,000.

Television: Thursday-Sunday, 4-5 p.m. (Golf Channel mobile), 5-7 p.m. (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Stewart Cink.

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Stewart Cink.

Last tournament: Darren Fichardt won the Simmons Bank Championship.

Notes: This is the final event of the PGA Tour Champions season for the leading 36 players in the Charles Schwab Cup standings. ... Bernhard Langer did not qualify for the final event for the first time since his abbreviated first season on the 50-and-older circuit. ... Stewart Cink has been leading the Schwab Cup since winning the season-opening event in Hawaii. ... Cink, Steven Alker and PGA Tour Champions tour rookie Zach Johnson have combined to win 15 of the 24 individual tournaments this year. None of those three has won the previous two postseason events. ... Johnson leads the circuit with six wins. ... George McNeil is No. 6 in the Schwab Cup without having won this year. In fact, 20 players in the 36-man field have yet to win this year. ... The tournament is moving to Papago Golf Club in Phoenix. ... Vijay Singh won at age 63 and narrowly qualified for the Schwab Cup Championship at No. 32 in the standings. He is the oldest player in the field.

Next week: End of season.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions

Japan Golf Tour: Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters, Taiheiyo Club (Gotemba), Shizuoka, Japan. Defending champion: Kota Kaneko. Online: https://www.jgto.org/en/

Asian Tour: Philippine Open, The Manila Southwoods Golf & CC (Masters), Manila, Philippines. Previous winner: Julien Sale. Online: https://asiantour.com/

PGA Tour of Australasia: Ford NSW Open, The Vintage GC, Pokolbin, Australia. Defending champion: Christopher Wood. Online: https://golf.com.au/

Sunshine Tour: The Hyundai Open, Ebotse Links, Benoni, South Africa. Previous winner: Casey Jarvis. Online: https://sunshinetour.com/

Japan LPGA: Itoen Ladies, Great Island Club, Chiba, Japan. Defending champion: Hana Wakimoto. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/

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FILE - Blades Brown celebrates a birdie putt at the 18th green during the third round of the American Express golf event on the Pete Dye Stadium Course at PGA West, Jan. 24, 2026, in La Quinta, Calif. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland plays his second shot on the seventh hole during the final round of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dug in for a fight Tuesday against his potential impeachment in Congress, telling reporters that a rogue lawmaker is targeting him over “policy disagreements” and not the high crimes or offenses the nation’s founders intended.

The embattled Pentagon chief spoke at his first press briefing from the five-sided building in six months, launching a counteroffensive against outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie’s effort to impeach him over his handling of the unpopular war against Iran and other actions.

“In the 250 years of our American republic, no Secretary of War or Secretary of Defense has ever been impeached for carrying out lawful military operations,” Hegseth told reporters.

The briefing was Hegseth’s first since May even as the U.S. military has kept up intermittent operations against Iran as well as fatal strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in Latin America.

Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who lost his primary to a Trump-backed opponent, filed the impeachment resolution in the House on Monday. It sets the stage for a dramatic vote on whether to remove a prominent Trump administration figure following sweeping losses for Republicans in last week's midterm elections that many at least partly blamed on the Iran conflict and its economic impact.

The resolution largely focuses on the war in Iran but also includes references to Hegseth’s role in military actions in Yemen against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and Venezuela. Massie said Hegseth’s actions amount to “high crimes and misdemeanors” and his leadership at the Pentagon “warrants impeachment.”

What constitutes “high crimes and misdemeanors” is not spelled out in the Constitution, leaving it to lawmakers to decide what are impeachable acts. A vote in the House could come by midweek, putting pressure on Republicans — many of whom blamed their election wipeout on the Iran war — but next steps are highly uncertain.

During his news conference, Hegseth framed the impeachment effort as an indictment against the nation's service members and their successes while undermining American forces “in real time.”

“This is not patriotism,” Hegseth said. "This is sabotage."

Hegseth said that Massie's effort “tells our enemies -- Iran, the cartels, every adversary watching -- the United States will actually punish its own warriors and its own civilian leadership for successfully executing lawful military operations.”

Trump has backed Hegseth, pointing to the raid to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January as well as military operations against Iran that he asserts have “obliterated” its navy and air force.

Iran, however, has been able to keep striking U.S. military bases in the Middle East and has disrupted shipping in the Strait of Hormuz during the course of the more than 8-month-old conflict, driving up global oil prices. Trump told reporters Monday that the Iran war “militarily is effectively over" and repeated his often-made claim that Iran “would love to make a deal.”

Hegseth also has been defending his stewardship of the U.S. military.

“There’s a lot of politically motivated people who may have substantial policy disagreements, but their disagreements are with success,” he told reporters Monday after a speech at the Naval War College in Rhode Island. He added that “if we want to litigate” the military actions that the Trump administration has taken, “I’m happy to do it all day long.”

He also released a video on social media last week that argued impeachment would be “all about the politics of personal destruction” and that “won’t work with me. You can rest assured of that.”

Afterward, scores of Pentagon political appointees posted images of Hegseth emblazoned with the words, “Stand. Fight. Defend the Republic.”

Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s top spokesman, released a statement saying that “despite threats of sham witch hunts from Democrats,” Hegseth is “100% committed to leading the Department until the end of President Trump’s term in office.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

FILE - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at an event for Anduril Industries, Inc., at Sparrows Point Shipyard, Oct. 6, 2026, in Sparrows Point, Md. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

FILE - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth waits to welcome Britain's Defense Secretary Wes Streeting to the Pentagon during an arrival ceremony, Thursday, Oct 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)