•After 14 years at Greystone Golf & Country Club, the Regions Charity Classic moves down the road in Hoover to The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Ross Bridge. The course wraps around a 258-room Renaissance Hotel and is patterned after the great hotels spawned by the Canadian Pacific Railroad’s resorts at Banff Springs and Lake Louise. Ross Bridge is part of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, a collection of courses designed by the late master architect. Golf Digest called the RTJ Golf Trail the world’s No. 1 golf value destination in 2002. Golf Digest’s “Best Places to Play 2004-2005” awarded an “outstanding” four stars or better to 17 of the 20 rated Trail courses.

•Both David Edwards and Danny Edwards will make their first appearances in the Regions Charity Classic. For David, the Birmingham appearance will mark his second overall on the Champions Tour. A four-time winner on the PGA TOUR, Edwards turned 50 on April 18 and placed fourth last week at the FedEx Kinko’s Classic. Danny Edwards, a five-time champion on the PGA TOUR, joined the Champions Tour in 2001 but is conditionally-exempt on the circuit this year for the first time.

• Loren Roberts, a three-time winner this year and the current leader in the Charles Schwab Cup race, will make his first appearance in the Birmingham event. Roberts has a chance to become the fastest player to earn $1 million in a season. He comes into Birmingham with $934,680 in six events this year. Hale Irwin holds the record for fastest to a million, hitting the seven-figure mark when he finished solo second in his eighth event, in Birmingham, in 1998.

•The 79-player field at this week’s Regions Charity Classic includes 14 pros who have combined to win 30 major championships on the PGA TOUR and also has seven members of the World Golf Hall of Fame (Hale Irwin, Tom Kite, Raymond Floyd, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Larry Nelson, Lee Trevino and Ben Crenshaw).

•For the first time since the 2004 SBC Championship, Chi Chi Rodriguez will play in an official, stroke-play event on the Champions Tour. A popular goodwill ambassador for the game, Rodriguez has made an appearance in each of the last two Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf events, partnering with Larry Ziegler in the unofficial Raphael Division competition. Rodriguez has made 13 previous appearances in Birmingham, with his overall best a sixth in 1997.

• Dana Quigley tied the Champions Tour’s all-time record for consecutive birdies when he made eight in a row on Friday at Greystone Golf and Country Club’s Founder’s Course last year. Quigley birdied Nos. 10-17 before the streak ended with a three-putt on the final hole. Quigley’s run tied the record originally set by Chi Chi Rodriguez at the 1987 Silver Pages Classic near Oklahoma City. Jim Colbert later matched the record at the 2000 TD Waterhouse Championship in Kansas City. Of the three players, only Rodriguez won the tournament. Colbert finished third at the TD Waterhouse event and Quigley finished fifth last year in Birmingham.

•History has shown that it’s important to get off to a strong start in this event. Since its inception in 1992, no tournament winner has posted a score higher than 70 in the opening round, and 11 of the 14 winners had first-round scores in the 60s. Six winners have put together three consecutive sub-70 rounds, including the last three champions.