The 18th hole at TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas / Getty ImagesIt's tournament time! The Lonestar State takes center stage for the next couple of weeks, as the PGA Tour does the Texas two-step through Dallas and Fort Worth. We kick things off at the HP Byron Nelson Championship. Here's a tournament primer to get you prepared for the week.

The course: TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas is a Jekyll and Hyde golf course. At 7,166 yards, the par-70 layout isn't long by PGA Tour standards, but when the wind kicks up -- as it did last year -- it can turn the track into an absolute beast. With the exception of PGA National, TPC Four Seasons was the second-most difficult (non-major) course on tour last year, playing to a stroke average of +2.354 shots over par. If there two holes on the course that could make or break a round this week, it's the par-4 third, and the par-4 15th. At 524 and 508 yards, respectively, they can almost play like par-5s on a windy day. Both were ranked as two of the tour's most difficult holes last year -- third hole (No. 13); 15th hole (No. 7) -- so you need to bring your A-game when you step on the tee box.

The schedule: The tournament runs Thursday-Sunday. It'll be broadcast on the Golf Channel from 3 to 6 p.m. ET on Thursday and Friday; and on CBS from 3 to 6 p.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday

The field: Phil Mickelson makes his first HP Byron Nelson Championship start in five years and is easily the biggest name in the field. But he's not the only star showing up this year. Matt Kuchar, Carl Pettersson, Keegan Bradley (defending champion), Ernie Els, Louis Oosthuizen, Jason Day and Adam Scott give the tournament its strongest field in years.

Luke. Kuch. Fightin' crime, makin' putts. (Getty Images)It's time for the latest Devil Ball Power Rankings, our look at who's up and who's down in the world of golf. Your panelists are an esteemed group of the world's greatest golf journalists ... or so our mothers tell us. Devil Ball Golf's Jay Busbee and Jonathan Wall, CBS Sports/Eye on Golf's Shane Bacon, and Golf Channel/Golf Talk Central's Ryan Ballengee bring you these, our rankings. Enjoy, and read on to see how you can be a part of the festivities.

T1. Luke Donald. He and Rory McIlroy are passing the No. 1 ranking back and forth like a baby with a full diaper. Somebody needs to claim that baby and clean it up.

T1. Matt Kuchar. Snooch to the Kuch! Congrats to one of golf's good cats on his big Players win. Now, it's been a few days...time for an encore, isn't it?

3. Rory McIlroy. Rors once said that Sawgrass in real life was a lot different from Sawgrass the video game. Clearly McIlroy is one of those "accidentally kick the reset button when he's losing" kind of video

This is a little old, but we don't mind showing it, 'cause it just showed up in our inbox: Arnold Palmer sinking a 30-foot putt on the 18th in the second round of the Insperity Championship. ("Insperity"? Ugh. Branding gone amok. It sounds like a contender for a white-people baby name.)

ANYway, it's always good to see Arnie back in action on the course. A few more holes like this and he might be able to get a Tour card for the 2013 season. Maybe he could teach those two scrubs* playing with him a thing or two.

(*-That's a joke, son, just like the caption in this photo.)

You know, Kevin Na is taking a lot of heat right now for his slow play, but let's give him a little love for one of the best shots of the weekend: his hybrid shot off the cart path on the 18th hole. Crazy? Sure, but not quite as crazy as you'd think.

Over at CBS Sports' Eye on Golf, our pal Shane Bacon has a fine breakdown of Na's what-the-hell-was-he-thinking swing:

Na put the ball a little up in his stance, forcing him to hit up at the ball almost like you would with a driver off the tee. Instead of digging down into the ball like you might if you had to get it out of some thick rough, Na's hybrid didn't smack the pavement first and cause a wacky shot.

Indeed he didn't; Na's shot ended up just short of the green, and he ended up salvaging a bit of dignity from an ugly round. Plus, he inspired a barrage of weekend golfers to try the same thing, thus ensuring more investment in the game of golf when those clowns shatter their clubs.

Kevin Na, takin' his time. (Getty Images)Welcome to the new season of Teeing Off, where Devil Ball editor Jay Busbee and head writer Jonathan Wall take a day's topic and smack it all over the course. Suggest a future topic by writing jay.busbee@yahoo.com, or hit us on Twitter at @jaybusbee and @jonathanrwall. Today, we tackle the horror that is slow play. Settle in.

Busbee: So this weekend we had another ... opportunity ... to ... see ... Kevin ... Na in action. And with him, he dragged along the albatross of slow play. We're told that it's the bane of the game, that it's worse than a beverage cart without any beer. Let's examine this topic today, shall we? Your thoughts on slow play, sir? Is it as much of a problem as its detractors suggest?

[Related: How sorry should we feel for Kevin Na?]

Wall: Slow play ... if there's one topic in golf that makes my blood boil more than any other, it's talking about Mr. Na and his slow play compatriots. Let's get this out of the way first: Slow play won't kill the game. Despite what some are saying, the PGA Tour won't disappear if guys play five-plus-hour rounds. But you have to wonder when tour officials are going to draw the line and starting taking some action against the worst offenders. This can't go on for much longer. I understand these guys are playing for million-dollar paydays each week, but it can't take you a minute to set up and hit a shot. Unless we're talking a double-breaker to win, guys need to assess the shot, step up, and smack the ball down the fairway. It seems so easy, you wonder why guys can't get it through their thick skulls. Hit the ball. Is it really that hard?

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It seems every week brings a different winner on Tour, and while we know the Tigers and the Rorys, there are quite a few who snag a victory without necessarily snagging the public's imagination. So that's why we're here. Read up on your newest champions so you'll be able to show off when the majors roll around and your non-golf-freak friends actually pay attention to the game.

Matt Kuchar, winner, The Players Championship

All right, look, we could forgive you for not knowing some of the winners on the PGA Tour, but you've got to know Kuch, right? Kid with the billion-dollar smile who came from out of nowhere to win the 1997 U.S. Amateur ... and then disappeared just as quickly. By 2006, however, he was off the Tour and playing on the Nationwide circuit, albeit briefly. Days looked dark indeed for the former Georgia Tech phenom.

But in 2009, things began turning around, at (appropriately enough) the Turning Stone Resort Championship. He followed that up with a win at The Barclays

Being president has to be the worst job on earth. But being an ex-president? Man, that's one heck of a gig. (You can even be a superhero!) And there's probably nobody who's taken more advantage of the ex-president lifestyle than Bill Clinton. Monday night, he'll sit down with David Feherty for a little chat on Golf Channel, and here's a clip. The show airs at 10pm Eastern.

Plenty of fine clubsmanship this weekend at The Players, and we've got the best of the best for you right here. Check out Johnny Vegas's outstanding chip from halfway up the coast, Matt Kuchar's clutch Sunday fist-pump birdie, Brian Gay's and Justin Rose's from-downtown drop shots, and Tim Clark's hit-it-and-pray gem. Fine stuff here; you did just as well, right?