PGA TOUR
PEBBLE BEACH NATIONAL PRO-AM
Site: Pebble Beach, Calif.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Courses: Pebble Beach Golf Links (6,816 yards,
par 72), Monterey Peninsula Country Club,
Shore Course (6,900 yards, par 72) and Spyglass Hill Golf Club (6,833 yards, par 72).
Purse: $ 6.4 million. Winner’s share:
$1,152,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday, 3-7 p.m.,
8:30-11:30 p.m.; Friday, 12:30-3:30 a.m., 3-7
p.m., 8:30-11:30 p.m.; Saturday, 12:30-3:30
a.m., 1-2:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Sunday, 1-2:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.) and
CBS (Saturday, 3-6 p.m.; Sunday, 3-6:30 p.m.).
Last year: D.A. Points won his first PGA Tour
title and teamed with Bill Murray to win the proam competition. Hunter Mahan was second,
two strokes back.
Last week: Kyle Stanley rebounded from a devastating loss at Torrey Pines with a victory in
the Phoenix Open. He beat Ben Crane by a
stroke, overcoming an eight-stroke deficit with a
final-round 65. The previous week in San Diego,
Stanley made a triple-bogey 8 on the final hole
and lost a playoff to Brandt Snedeker. Spencer
Levin, six strokes ahead entering play Sunday at
TPC Scottsdale, had a 75 to finish third, two
strokes back.
Notes: Tiger Woods is making his first PGA Tour
start of the season after opening play two weeks
ago with a third-place tie in Abu Dhabi. He won
the last of his 71 PGA Tour titles in September
2009. Woods also won the 2009 Australian
Masters and his own Chevron World Challenge
last December. He swept the Pro-Am and U.S.
Open at Pebble Beach in 2000, winning the
Open by a record 15 shots. Woods, playing the
event from the first time since 2002, will team
with Dallas quarterback Tony Romo. … Ninthranked Dustin Johnson, the 2009 and 2010 winner, is the only player in the top 10 in the world
in the field. … Phil Mickelson is playing for the
fourth straight week. He won in 1998, 2005 and
2007. In 2007, he matched the tournament
record of 20-under 268 set by Mark O’Meara in
1997. … Stanley is taking the week off. Levin is
in the field. … Graeme McDowell, the 2010 U.S.
Open winner at Pebble Beach, is skipping the
tournament. … The final round will be played at
Pebble Beach. … The Northern Trust Open is
next week at Riviera in Los Angeles, followed by
the World Golf Championships- Accenture
Match Play Championship in Marana, Ariz.
Online: http://www.pgatour.com
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LPGA TOUR/AUSTRALIAN LADIES PROFESSIONAL GOLF/LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR
WOMEN’S AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Site: Melbourne, Australia.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Composite
Course (6,505 yards, par 73).
Purse: $1.1 million. Winner’s share: $165,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday,
12:30-2:30 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-
12:30 p.m.).
Last year: Taiwan’s Yani Tseng successfully
defended her title, winning by seven strokes at
Commonwealth Golf Club. She won the Australian Ladies Masters the following week and
went on to win 11 worldwide titles, including
major victories in the LPGA Championship and
Women’s British Open.
Last week: The Netherlands’ Christel Boeljon
won the Australian Ladies Masters, birdieing the
final hole for a one-stroke victory. The event
was sanctioned by Australian Ladies Professional Golf and the Ladies European Tour.
Notes: The tournament opens the LPGA Tour
season. … The top-ranked Tseng tops the field
along with No. 2 Suzann Pettersen, No. 4 Cristie
Kerr, No. 7 Jiyai Shin, No. 9 Brittany Lincicome,
No. 10 Stacy Lewis, four-time winner Karrie
Webb and 16-year-old Lexi Thompson … Fourteen year-old New Zealand amateur Lydia Ko
also is in the field. She won the New South
Wales Open two weeks ago to become the
youngest winner of a sanctioned professional
tour event. … Royal Melbourne, designed by
Alister MacKenzie and Alex Russell, was the site
of the Presidents Cup in November. … The 2013
tournament will be played at Royal Canberra. …
The LPGA Thailand is next week, followed by
the HSBC Women’s Champions in Singapore.
Online: http://www.lpga.com
Australian Ladies Professional Golf site:
http://www.alpg.com.au
Ladies European Tour site: http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com
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CHAMPIONS TOUR
ALLIANZ CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Boca Raton, Fla.
Schedule: Friday-Sunday.
Course: The Old Course at Broken Sound Club
(6,807 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1.8 million. Winner’s share: $270,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Friday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.;
Saturday, 12:30-2:30 a.m., 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1-3 a.m., 7-9:30 p.m.; Monday, 1-3 a.m.).
Last year: Tom Lehman won the first of his
three 2011 titles, birdieing the final hole for a
one-stroke victory over Jeff Sluman and Rod
Spittle.
Last event: Dan Forsman won the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship in Hawaii
on Jan. 22, beating Jay Don Blake by two
strokes.
Notes: The tournament is the first full-field event
of the year. … Fred Funk is making his first start
on the 50-and-over tour since July. He had
surgery in August to repair a torn ligament in
his left thumb and remove scar tissue from his
right knee. … In 2010, Bernhard Langer holed a
45-foot bunker shot for eagle to beat John Cook
on the first hole of a playoff. … The tour will
remain in Florida next week for the ACE Group
Classic in Naples.
Online: http://www.pgatour.com
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EUROPEAN TOUR
DUBAI DESERT CLASSIC
Site: Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Emirates Golf Club, Majlis Course
(7,301 yards, par 72).
Purse: $2.5 million. Winner’s share: $416,670.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 4:30-
8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Saturday, 4-8
a.m., 3-5 p.m.; Sunday, 4-8 a.m., 3-6:30 p.m.).
Last year: Spain’s Alvaro Quiros won by a
stroke, making a hole-in-one in a final-round 68.
Tiger Woods closed with a 75 to tie for 20th.
Quiros also won the season-ending Dubai
World Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates.
Last week: Scotland’s Paul Lawrie won the
wind-shortened Qatar Open, beating Jason Day
and Peter Hanson by four strokes. John Daly
was fourth, six strokes back.
Notes: Rory McIlroy, the 2009 winner, is in the
field along with Quiros, Lawrie, Daly, Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer, Fred Couples, Mark
O’Meara, 2010 champion Miguel Angel Jimenez
and former Oklahoma State star Peter Uihlein.
Couples won the 1995 tournament. O’Meara
won in 2004. … The Avantha Masters is next
week in India.
Online: http://www.europeantour.com
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OTHER TOURNAMENT
MEN
ASIAN TOUR: Philippine Open, Thursday-Sunday, Wack Wack Golf and Country Club, Manila
Philippines. Online: http://www.asiantour.com
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