Monday, Aug. 22

6:30 a.m. — Gates open

8:30 a.m. — Seahawks Rumble at the Ridge

2 p.m. — Champions Tour Professionals Practice Rounds

Tuesday, Aug. 23

9 a.m. — Gates open

9 a.m. — Champions Tour Professionals Practice Rounds

Noon — Youth clinic

Wednesday, Aug. 24

6:15 a.m. — Gates open

Korean Air Pro-Am Day One

7:45 a.m. — Morning shotgun start

1:30 p.m. — Afternoon shotgun start

Thursday, Aug. 25

6:15 a.m. — Gates open

Korean Air Pro-Am Day Two

7:45 a.m. — Morning shotgun start

1:30 p.m. — Afternoon shotgun start

Friday, Aug. 26

9 a.m. — Gates open

11:20 a.m. — Boeing jet flyover

11:30 a.m. — Boeing Classic Round 1

5:30 p.m. — Play concludes

Saturday, Aug. 27

8 a.m. — Gates open

10 a.m. — Boeing Classic Round 2

5:30 p.m. — Play Concludes

Sunday, Aug. 28

8 a.m. — Gates open

10 a.m. — Boeing Classic Championship Sunday

5 p.m. — Championship Ceremony on the 18th Green

Players: 78

Format: 54 holes of stroke play with no cut

Purse: $2 million

Site: TPC Snoqualmie Ridge

Par: 72

Length: 7,264 yards

Television: Aug. 26-28 on The Golf Channel (broadcast live and replayed twice daily)

Past winners:

2010: Bernhard Langer

2009: Loren Roberts

2008: Tom Kite

2007: Dennis Watson

2006: Tom Kite

2005: David Eger

An accomplished field

Masters Tournament: 8 (Ben Crenshaw, Fred Couples, Mark O’Meara, Larry Mize, Bernhard Langer, Tom Watson, Fuzzy Zoeller, Craig Stadler)

U.S. Open: 4 (Irwin, Scott Simpson, Zoeller, Watson)

Open Championship: 4 (Mark Calcavecchia, O’Meara, Watson, Price)

PGA Championship: 4 (Price, Jeff Sluman, Hal Sutton, Bob Tway)

Scheduled players

See a full list of players expected to play in the 2010 Boeing Classic at www.boeingclassic.com.

Tommy Armour III

Mark Calcavecchia

Fred Couples

Ben Crenshaw

David Eger

Jay Haas

Hale Irwin

Tom Kite

Bernhard Langer

Mark O’Meara

Kenny Perry

Nick Price

Loren Roberts

Denis Watson

Fuzzy Zoeller

Course facts

Designer: Jack Nicklaus

Types of grass

Greens: Poa Annua

Tees: Annual bluegrass and bentgrass

Fairways: Annual bluegrass and ryegrass

Roughs: Pacific Northwest mix of Kentucky bluegrass, fine fescue, ryegrass and annual bluegrass

Bunkers

Number of bunkers: 107

Bunker sand: White Idaho silicate

Source: TPC Snoqualmie Ridge

Many offer amateur golfers a chance to play a round with sports stars. Money from events goes to benefit charities, including medical research at Virginia Mason Institute in Seattle.

Seahawks Rumble on the Ridge, Aug. 22

Amateur golfers can play a round with celebrities from the sports world. This year’s celebrities range from Seattle Seahawks play-by-play ann-ouncer Kevin Calabro to pro-football Hall of Famer Steve Largent to Sounders FC Head Coach Sigi Schmid.

Boeing Classic Youth Clinic, Aug. 23

This is a unique opportunity for young golfers to listen to tips from Champions Tour player Jerry Pate. The event is open to the public, and it is free. It is open to anyone 18 and younger. Golf clubs are not needed.

Call Kimberly Aigner at 206-381-7813 or email Kimberly@BoeingClassic.com.

Korean Air Pro-Am,

Aug. 24-25

Amateur golfers can team up with golf stars in a two-day Pro-Am with Champions Tour pros, including Fred Couples, Bernhard Langer, Nick Price and others. But it isn’t cheap. A single spot for one day costs $2,000.

Kids Day, Aug. 26

All children 14 and younger get in for free as long as they are accompanied by an adult. Activities for children, including a youth putting contest, will be offered from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Military Appreciation Day, Aug. 28

The Boeing Classic is showing its gratitude to active and retired members of the U.S. Armed Forces by offering free admission, free parking and a special event tent at the 18th green for them and their dependents.

Bring a valid military identification.

Ace: Scoring a one on a hole — another term for a hole-in-one

Birdie: Finishing a hole one under par

Bogey: Finishing a hole one over par

Caddie: The person who carries the golfer’s clubs

Chip shot: A shot from close to the green where the golfer pops the ball up into the air and tries to land it close to the hole

Divot: A piece of ground dislodged by a golf club during a swing — golf etiquette calls for the player to replace his divots.

Dogleg: A sharp bend on the fairway

Double bogey: Finishing a hole two over par

Double eagle: The very rare feat of scoring three under par on a hole

Drive: The first stroke on a hole, played from the tee

Eagle: A score of two under par

Fairway: The area between the tee and green where the grass is manicured

Fore: If you hear this, duck. “Fore” is called by a player whose shot has strayed toward another person.

Fringe: An area round the green where the grass is not as short as on the green, but shorter than the other grass nearby

Green: The area around the hole where the grass is cut very short

Hook: When the ball is hit to the right and then curves around to the left — for a left-handed golfer, this is reversed.

Par: The number of strokes in which a golfer is expected to finish the hole — par for a hole can be three, four or five, depending on the difficulty of the fairway and the distance from the tee to the hole.

Putt: Hitting the ball along the ground on the green

Rough: The area off the fairway with high grass and other obstructions — it is difficult to hit the ball out of the rough very well.

Sand trap: A pit filled in with sand — hitting the ball out of a sand trap is difficult.

Scratch golfer: A golfer who hits par or better

Slice: When, after hitting the ball, it flies to the left and then curves around to the right — for a left-handed golfer, this is reversed.

Stroke: A swing that is meant to hit the ball, even if it doesn’t

Water hazard: A body of water such as a lake or stream — if the ball goes into it, the player is assessed a penalty stroke and permitted to place a new ball near the edge of it.

The Boeing Classic is often decided during the tournament’s final holes. In 2007, it ended after a seven-man playoff. In 2009, Loren Roberts birdied on the 18th hole (above) to take the title. File

The biggest names from last year — Bernhard Langer and Fred Couples — have been dogged by injuries this year, leaving the Classic wide open.

Langer said he is ready to defend his Boeing Classic championship from last year despite an injured thumb.

Seattle-native Couples, Tom Lehman, Russ Cochran and Champions Tour rookie Kenny Perry will round out the 50-and-older crowd.

No player has broken away from the pack this year.

Langer tore a ligament in his thumb in October, but still managed to win the ACE Group Classic in February. However, the pain in his hand worsened, and he had to undergo surgery in March.

He returned in July, and finished tied for ninth at the U.S. Senior Open Championship.

“The thumb isn’t perfect, but it held up for three straight weeks and it didn’t get worse like it did before,” Langer said on a conference call with media.

Couples’ bad back has bothered him this summer, hampering his play.

Lehman leads the money list, but he has stumbled in recent months.

Lehman doesn’t have the strongest drive from the tee, a trait that could hurt him at spacious TPC Snoqualmie Ridge.

Cochran has played well recently.

Injuries and other concerns aside, it will be another great competition.

A quick look at past winners of the Boeing Classic shows players with a variety of different games. The winner in 2009, Loren Roberts, is one of the game’s best putters. David Eger, who won in 2005, is strongest on the fairway.

It is hard to say which golfer has an edge, as the course doesn’t favor any particular style of play.