Pro tours at a glance

May 10, 2007

PGA
Event: The Players Championship
Site: TPC Sawgrass (7,215 yards, par 72), Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Schedule: Today- Sunday.
Purse: $9 million. Winner's share: $1.62 million.
Television: Golf Channel (today-tomorrow, 1-7 p.m., 9 p.m.-midnight) and Channel 7 (Saturday-Sunday, 2-7 p.m.).
Last year: Stephen Ames routed the best field in golf, closing with a 67 for a six-shot victory over Retief Goosen.
Last week: Tiger Woods won the Wachovia Championship, beating Steve Stricker by two strokes for his third PGA Tour victory of the year and ninth in his last 12 Tour starts. Woods had a tournament-record 13-under 275 total.

Of note: Woods won the 2001 event. He also won the first of his record three straight US Amateur titles in 1994 on the Stadium Course . . . Fred Funk won the 2005 tournament to become the oldest champion in the event at 48.

LPGA
Event: Michelob Ultra Open
Site: Kingsmill Resort & Spa (6,306 yards, par 71), Williamsburg, Va.
Schedule: Today -Sunday.
Purse: $2.2 million. Winner's share: $330,000.
Television: ESPN2 (tomorrow -Saturday, 2-4 p.m.; Sunday, 3-5 p.m.).
Last year: Karrie Webb shot 66-68-66-70--270 to win the second of her five 2006 titles, beating Lorena Ochoa and Hee-Won Han by seven strokes.
Last week: Mi Hyun Kim won the SemGroup Championship in Oklahoma, beating Juli Inkster with a par on the first hole of a playoff. Kim, the first South Korean winner this year, has eight LPGA Tour victories. Her $210,000 winner's share boosted her from 28th to sixth on the money list.
Of note: Webb is winless in five LPGA Tour starts this season after opening the year with victories in the Women's Australian Open and Australian Ladies Masters. The third-ranked Webb tops the field along with No. 1 Ochoa, Kraft Nabisco winner Morgan Pressel, Brittany Lincicome, and Kingsmill winners Grace Park (2003), Se Ri Pak (2004), and Cristie Kerr (2005) . . . The field includes 29 of the top 30 players from the money list -- only Annika Sorenstam (back) is missing -- and the winner will get a spot in the ADT Championships . . . A victory would put Webb, who is second on the LPGA career money list, over $13 million in earnings since joining the tour in 1996 . . . Anheuser-Busch started the tournament after dropping its PGA event at Kingsmill in a cost-cutting move . . . Ji Yeon Lee has changed her playing name to Won Lee.

EUROPEAN
Event: Valle Romano Open of Andalucia
Site: Aloha Golf Club (6,881 yards, par 72), Marbella, Spain.
Schedule: Today-Sunday.
Purse: $1.36 million. Winner's share: $226,750.
Television: Golf Channel (today-tomorrow, 8-10 a.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-noon).
Last year: Inaugural tournament.
Last week: Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano won the rain-shortened Italian Open, beating Austria's Markus Brier with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff.
Of note: Longtime Spanish star Miguel Angel Jimenez and Fernandez-Castano are promoting the tournament. ... The Irish Open is next week at Adare Manor, followed by the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth and the Celtic Manor Wales Open.

CHAMPIONS
Next event: Regions Charity Classic
Site: Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Ross Bridge, Birmingham, Ala.
Schedule: May 18-20.
Last week: Scott Hoch won the FedEx Kinko's Classic for his first Champions Tour title, closing with a 68 for a two-stroke victory over D.A. Weibring. Hoch, 51, won 11 times on the PGA Tour.

NATIONWIDE
Next event: BMW Charity Pro-Am at The Cliffs
Site: The Cliffs Valley, Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards, and Cliffs at Walnut Grove, Travelers Rest, S.C.
Schedule: May 17-20,
Last week: Jay Williamson won the Fort Smith Classic for his first Nationwide Tour title, shooting 69-66-66-63 to beat Justin Bolli and Garrett Willis by a stroke.