Philadelphia, PA -- (Sports Network) - CHAMPIONS TOUR - CONSTELLATION ENERGY SENIOR PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP, Baltimore Country Club (East Course) Timonium, Maryland - Last year, Loren Roberts fired three rounds of three-under 67 to go with a four-under 66 in the second round to cruise to a six-stroke win.

The victory was Roberts' seventh on the Champions Tour and was his third major championship crown.

This is the fifth and final major of the season on the Champions Tour. Jay Haas (Senior PGA Championship), Bruce Vaughan (Senior British Open Championship), Eduardo Romero (U.S. Senior Open) and Fred Funk (JELD-WEN Tradition) won the season's first four major crowns.

Roberts' other major wins came at the 2005 JELD-WEN Tradition and the 2006 Senior British Open Championship.

Early in the final round last year, Roberts reeled off four straight birdies to pull away from the field. That helped him erase the memory of 2006, when he coughed up a five-shot lead to open the door for Bobby Wadkins' first major championship title.

This is the 26th playing of this event and Arnold Palmer is still the only one to win this title in back-to-back years. Raymond Floyd and Dave Stockton join Palmer as the only players to win this title twice.

There have been just two playoffs in the first 25 years of the event. About a quarter of the winners have been rookies, as six players won this title the first time they played the event.

This is the second year the tournament will be played at the Baltimore Country Club. From 1991 to 2006, the championship was held at the TPC of Michigan. Three other courses have hosted this event.

The Golf Channel has coverage from 1:30-4:00 p.m. (et) on Thursday and Friday, while NBC will cover the action from 4:00-6:00 p.m. on the weekend.

PGA TOUR

VALERO TEXAS OPEN, The Resort Course at La Cantera Golf Club, San Antonio, Texas - Native son Justin Leonard closed with a five-under 65 last year to force a playoff with Jesper Parnevik.

Leonard then birdied the third playoff hole to win this title for the third time. He joined Arnold Palmer as the only three-time winners of the event. Leonard and Palmer are the only two players to win this crown in back-to-back years.

Parnevik opened with a career-best nine-under 61 to lead after the first round. He went 65-66-69 the rest of the way, while Leonard closed with rounds of 64-65 to catch the Swede and force the extra session.

The Texas Open is the sixth-oldest event on the PGA Tour, but the only one that has been played in the same city throughout.

When Robert Gamez won the tournament in 2005, he ended the longest drought between wins in PGA Tour history. Gamez had last won in March of 1990. The 15 years and six months between wins was longer than the 15 years, five months Butch Baird had gone between victories.

A year earlier, Bart Bryant won thanks to a course-record, 10-under 60 in the third round. That meant he and his brother, Brad, became the fourth set of brothers to win on the PGA Tour.

The Golf Channel has three hours of coverage all four days. Next week, the PGA Tour heads to Las Vegas for the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, where George McNeill won last year.

EUROPEAN TOUR

MADRID MASTERS, Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, Madrid, Spain - The Madrid Masters is the third of four new events on the 2008 schedule.

The event will be run by GFC Golf & Business. European Tour player Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, a three-time winner on tour, is the president of that company. He will be joined in the field by Miguel Angel Jimenez and five other Spaniards.

This will be the 19th different event to be contested on Spanish soil. The tournament will be played at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, which hosted eight Spanish Opens and five Madrid Opens, as well as the 1965 World Cup.

The Golf Channel has three hours of coverage each day this week. Next up for the European Tour is the Portugal Masters, where Steve Webster won last year.

LPGA TOUR

LONGS DRUGS CHALLENGE, Blackhawk Country Club, Danville, California - The LPGA Tour remains in California this week for the Longs Drugs Challenge, where Suzann Pettersen claimed her third of five wins last year.

Pettersen stumbled to a one-over 73 in the final round, but it was enough to get her into a playoff with women's world No. 1 Lorena Ochoa, who closed with a 71 to join Pettersen at 11-under.

On the second playoff hole, Pettersen made a six-foot birdie putt to knock off Ochoa. The loss dropped Ochoa to just 1-5 in playoffs.

Last year's extra session was the first since the second year of the event.

LPGA Hall of Famer Juli Inkster is the only two-time winner in tournament history, picking up back-to-back titles in 1999-2000. Inkster, who finished third last year, has made the cut in 11 of 12 starts here.

The very busy Golf Channel will have coverage from 7:30-10:00 p.m. (et) every day. Next week is the Kapalua LPGA Classic, which is a new event on the LPGA Tour schedule.

NATIONWIDE TOUR

WNB GOLF CLASSIC, Midland Country Club, Midland, Texas - Last year, this event matched the second-longest playoff in Nationwide Tour history.

Brad Adamonis (70), Ron Whittaker (71), Tjaart van der Walt (68) and Vance Veazey (68) all finished at 10-under to force a playoff.

Whittaker was knocked out on the first extra hole and Veazey got bumped off on the second playoff hole. However, Adamonis and van der Walt needed eight holes to decide a winner.

Adamonis parred the eighth playoff hole to finally knock off van der Walt. Adamonis will not be defending his crown as he is scheduled to play on the PGA Tour.

There is no television coverage this week. Next week is the Chattanooga Classic, the next-to-last full field event of the season. Whittaker won that title by a single stroke last year.