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Field Level Media’s Golf Glance provides weekly news and storylines from each of the major North American golf tours.

PGA TOUR

LAST TOURNAMENT: Sanderson Farms Championship (Sebastian Munoz)
THIS WEEK: Safeway Open, Sept. 26-29
Silverado Resort (North), Napa, Calif. (Par 72, 7,166 yards)
Purse: $6.6 million (Winner: $1.152M)
Defending champion: Kevin Tway
FedEx Cup leader: Munoz
TV: Thursday-Friday, 5 p.m.-9 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)

NOTES: Tway beat Ryan Moore and Brandt Snedeker in a playoff last year for his maiden PGA Tour victory, and along with Bob Tway became the eighth father-son due to win on the Tour since 1900. … Phil Mickelson will make his season debut and is paired with Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry in Wednesday’s pro-am. … Former Dallas Cowboys QB and current CBS Sports analyst Tony Romo is playing on a sponsors exemption. The 5,000-1 longshot has missed the cut in all three of his previous Tour starts. … Other marquee names making their season debuts include Justin Thomas, Francesco Molinari and Adam Scott. … Fred Couples is playing his first non-major on the Tour since the Genesis Open in February. … Akshay Bhatia, 17, will make his second Tour start after missing the cut last week.

BEST BETS: Thomas (No. 6 in the OWGR) is the top-ranked player in the field and finished last season with a win and a T9 at the Tour Championship. He also brings the lowest odds at +650 by PointsBet. … No. 7 Patrick Cantlay (+1000) also finished with a strong run during the FedEx Cup Playoffs, while Molinari (+2800) tied for 14th at last week’s BMW PGA Championship. … Sungjae Im (+2000) was denied his first Tour win in dramatic fashion last week, but he continues to knock on the door and is in strong form as he has climbed to No. 46 with four consecutive top-20s. … Few players have been more consistent than Hideki Matsuyama (+1400), who has six T10s against only two missed cuts in 2019. … Brendan Steele (+8000) brings longshot odds as he has plummeted to No. 281 but has a strong history at the event that includes a pair of wins.

NEXT WEEK: Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, Las Vegas

LPGA TOUR

LAST WEEK: The Solheim Cup (Team Europe)

THIS WEEK: Indy Women in Tech Championship, Sept. 26-29.
Brickyard Crossing Golf Course, Indianapolis, Ind. (Par 72, 6,526 yards)
Purse: $2M (Winner: $300,000)
Defending champion: Sung Hyun Park
Race to the CME Globe leader: Jin Young Ko
Television: Thursday, 1-5 p.m. ET; Friday-Saturday, 12:30-4 p.m. ET; Sunday, 1-4 p.m. ET (All times Golf Channel)

NOTES: Park beat Lizette Salas on the first playoff hole last year. … This is the third playing of the event, which was a 54-hole tournament when Lexi Thompson won the inaugural event in 2017. … Ko leads the Tour in official money ($2.632M), scoring average (68.851) and greens in regulation (79.9%). She is not in the field this week. … Players from South Korea have won 12 of the first 25 events in 2019. … The average age of winners on Tour this year is 24.3. … Canada’s Brooke Henderson has 10 top-10 finishes, tied with Ko for the Tour lead, and is in the field.

NEXT TOURNAMENT: Volunteers of America Classic, The Colony, Texas, Oct. 3-6

CHAMPIONS TOUR

LAST TOURNAMENT: Sanford International (Rocco Mediate)

THIS WEEK: PURE Insurance Championship, Sept. 27-29
Pebble Beach GL/Poppy Hills GC, Monterey Peninsula, Calif., (PB – Par 72, 6,864; PH – Par 71, 6,9,14 yards)
Purse: $2.1 million (Winner: $$315,000)
Defending champion: Ken Tanigawa
Charles Schwab Cup leader: Scott McCarron
TV: Friday-Sunday, 4-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)

NOTES: The field will alternate between Pebble Beach and Poppy Hills during the first two rounds, with Pebble Beach playing host to Sunday’s final round. … Tanigawa sank 35-foot eagle putt on the 18th hole last year to beat Kirk Triplett and Marco Dawson by one shot for his first Champions tour victory. … Steve Flesch has three consecutive top-5 finishes on the Champions tour. … Triplett has two wins and last year’s T2 in seven previous event appearances. … Champions rookie Retief Goosen has seven T10s since the Senior PGA Championship. … McCarron and Jerry Kelly, the top two in the Charles Schwab Cup rankings, both posted T7s last week.

NEXT TOURNAMENT: SAS Championship, Cary, N.C., Oct. 11-13

–Derek Harper (@DerekAHarper), Field Level Media