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June 5, 2008

LPGA
Event:
McDonald's LPGA Championship
Site: Bulle Rock Golf Course (6,633 yards, par 72), Havre de Grace, Md.
Schedule: Today-Sunday.
Purse: $2 million. Winner's share: $300,000.
Television: Golf Channel (today-tomorrow, 12:30-3:30 p.m., 7-10 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 4-7 p.m., 7:30-10:30 p.m.).
Last year: Norway's Suzann Pettersen won her first major title, finishing with a 5-under 67 for a one-stroke victory over Karrie Webb.
Last week: South Korea's Seon Hwa Lee won the Ginn Tribute for her third tour victory, beating Webb with a par on the first hole of a playoff after overcoming a nine-stroke deficit in the final round.
Of note: Lorena Ochoa has won the last two major championships, the Women's British Open at St. Andrews last August and the Kraft Nabisco in early April. The top-ranked Mexican star has six victories in nine starts this year . . . Annika Sorenstam, retiring at the end of the season, swept the 2003-05 titles, winning at DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Del., in 2003 and 2004 and Bulle Rock in 2005 . . . Se Ri Pak won in 1998, 2002, and 2006 . . . Pete Dye designed Bulle Rock . . . The Tour is off next week. Play will resume June 19-22 with the Wegmans LPGA in Pittsford, N.Y. The US Women's Open is the following week at Interlachen in Edina, Minn.

PGA
Event:
Stanford St. Jude Championship
Site: TPC Southwind (7,239 yards, par 70), Memphis.
Schedule: Today-Sunday.
Purse: $6 million. Winner's share: $1.08 million.
FedExCup points: 25,000. Winner's share: 4,500.
Television: Golf Channel (today-tomorrow, 3:30-6:30 p.m.); and Channel 4 (Saturday-Sunday, 3-6 p.m.).
Last year: Woody Austin rallied to win his third PGA Tour title, closing with an 8-under 62 - the best final round of his career and the best in the event's history - for a five-stroke victory over Brian Davis.
Last week: Kenny Perry joined Tiger Woods as the only three-time Memorial winner, beating Jerry Kelly, Justin Rose, Mathew Goggin, and Mike Weir by two strokes. The 47-year-old Perry has 10 career PGA Tour victories.
Of note: The US Open is next week at Torrey Pines in San Diego . . . Perry and Austin are in the field along with Sergio Garcia, Ernie Els, Masters champion Trevor Immelman, Retief Goosen, and 2003-04 winner David Toms . . . Al Geiberger shot the first 59 in PGA Tour history in his 1977 victory at Colonial Country Club . . . John Cook won in 1996 with a tournament-record 26-under 258 total, shooting 64-62-63-69.

PGA EUROPEAN
Event:
Bank Austria Open
Site: Fontana Golf Club (7,071 yards, par 71), Vienna.
Schedule: Today-Sunday.
Purse: $2.02 million. Winner's share: $336,645.
Television: Golf Channel (today-tomorrow, 9 a.m.-noon; Saturday-Sunday, 8-11 a.m.).
Last year: Australian lefthander Richard Green beat France's Jean-Francois Remesy with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff.
Last week: Australia's Scott Strange won the Celtic Manor Wales Open for his first European Tour title, closing with a 7-under 64 for a four-stroke victory.
Of note: In 2006, Markus Brier won the tournament for the third time to become the first Austrian champion in European Tour history. The event was part of the second-tier PGA European Challenge Tour when Brier won in 2002 and 2004 . . . The Saint-Omer Open is next week in France, opposite the US Open.

NATIONWIDE
Event:
Rex Hospital Open
Site: TPC Wakefield Plantation (7,257 yards, par 71), Raleigh, N.C.
Schedule: Today-Sunday.
Purse: $500,000. Winner's share: $90,000.
Last year: Kyle Thompson won his first Nationwide Tour title, finishing at 16 under to beat Bob Burns by two strokes.
Last week: Kris Blanks won the Bank of America Open for his first Tour title, closing with a 4-under 68 for a one-stroke victory over Bob May.
Of note: David Mathis, the Tour money leader with $235,763, lives in Raleigh. He's from Winston-Salem and played at nearby Campbell University . . . The Tour is off next week. Play will resume June 19-22 with the Knoxville Open.

CHAMPIONS
Next event:
Bank of America Championship, June 20-22, Nashawtuc Country Club, Concord, Mass.
Last week: Jay Haas followed his Senior PGA Championship victory with a successful title defense in the Principal Charity Classic. Andy Bean finished a stroke back.

Compiled by Associated Press

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