Champions Tour eyes more Asia events

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12/21/2011 - Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Champions Tour is eying two new events in Japan and China while also finalizing the renewal of a tournament played in South Korea the last two years.

The tour announced its unfinished 2012 schedule on Wednesday, which includes seven new tournament venues and several previously announced date changes for existing events.

The season begins January 20 with the Mitsubishi Electric Championship in Hawaii and ends at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship from November 1-4.

There are three open dates in September that the tour hopes to fill with events in Asia. Announcements are expected after January 1, the tour said in a news release.

Two of the tour's five major championships will be played on courses in Michigan: The Senior PGA Championship at The Golf Club at Harbor Shores from May 24-27, and the U.S. Senior Open at Indianwood Golf & Country Club from July 12-15.

The Regions Tradition returns to Alabama's Shoal Creek for the second year and will be staged from June 7-10, while the Constellation Senior Players Championship will be held at Pennsylvania's Fox Chapel Golf Club from June 28- July 1 and the Senior British Open will be played at Turnberry in Scotland from July 26-29.

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Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.