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PGA Tour

AT&T Classic

Site: Duluth, Ga.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: TPC Sugarloaf (7,311 yards, par 72).

Purse: $5.5 million. Winner's share: $990,000.

FedExCup points: 25,000. Winner's share: 4,500.

TV: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 2-5 p.m., 7:30-10:30 p.m.) and CBS (Saturday-Sunday, 2-5 p.m.).

Last year: Zach Johnson beat Ryuji Imada with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff. The 2007 Masters champ also won the 2004 event.

Last week: Sergio Garcia won The Players Championship, making a clutch par putt to force a playoff and hitting the island green 17th on the first extra hole to beat Paul Goydos. After Goydos hit into the water, Garcia hit his shot to 4 feet.

Notes: Greg Norman, the TPC Sugarloaf designer, is making his first start in the event since 2004. …The Colonial is next week in Fort Worth, Texas. Tiger Woods, coming off knee surgery, hopes to return the following week for the Memorial in Ohio.

On the Web: www.pgatour.com

LPGA Tour

Sybase Classic

Site: Clifton, N.J.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Upper Montclair Country Club (6,433 yards, par 72).

Purse: $2 million. Winner's share: $300,000.

TV: ESPN2 (Friday, 12:30-2:30 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m.).

Last year: Lorena Ochoa successfully defending her title, beat Sarah Lee by three strokes.

Last week: Annika Sorenstam won the Michelob Ultra Open for her second straight victory, third of the year and 72nd career LPGA Tour win. The Swedish star shot 64-66-69-66 for a tournEY-record 19-under 265 total.

Notes: Ochoa and Sorenstam top the field. After winning in four straight starts and five times in her first six events of the year, Ochoa tied for fifth two weeks ago in Oklahoma in the SemGroup Championship and tied for 12th last week at Kingsmill.

On the Web: www.lpga.com

Champions Tour

Regions Charity Classic

Site: Hoover, Ala.

Schedule: Friday-Sunday.

Course: Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Ross Bridge (7,503 yards, par 72).

Purse: $1.7 million. Winner's share: $255,000.

TV: Golf Channel (Friday, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 11 p.m.-1 a.m., 5:30-8 p.m.; Sunday, 12-2:30 a.m., 5:30-8 p.m.).

Last year: Brad Bryant successfully defended his title, beating R.W. Eaks with a birdie on the third hole of a playoff.

Notes: The Senior PGA Championship, the tour's first major of the year, is next week at Oak Hill in Rochester, N.Y.

On the Web: www.pgatour.com

PGA European Tour

Irish Open

Site: Adare, Ireland.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort (7,453 yards, par 72).

Purse: $3.88 million. Winner's share: $646,280.

TV: Golf Channel (Thursday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-noon; Sunday, 8-11 a.m.).

Last year: Padraig Harrington became the first Irish winner since John O'Leary in 1982, beating Wales' Bradley Dredge on the first hole of a playoff.

Last week: South Africa's Hennie Otto won the Italian Open for his first European tour title, holding off England's Oliver Wilson by a stroke.

On the Web: www.europeantour.com

Nationwide Tour

BMW Charity Pro-Am

Site: Greer, S.C.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Courses: Thornblade Club (6,669 yards, par 71); The Carolina Country Club (6,877 yards, par 72); Bright's Creek Golf Club (7,435 yards, par 72).

Purse: $675,000. Winner's share: $121,500 and BMW X5.

TV: Golf Channel (Thursday, noon-2 p.m.; Friday, 1:30-3:30 a.m., noon-2 p.m.; Saturday, 1:30-3:30 a.m., noon-3 p.m., 9-11 p.m.; Sunday, noon-3 p.m., 9-11 p.m.).

Last week: U.S. Amateur champion Colt Knost won the Fort Smith Classic for his first pro victory, beating Darron Stiles by a stroke.

Notes: The celebrity field includes Wayne Gretzky, wife Janet and son Ty, along with Kurt Russell, Dennis Quaid, Luke Wilson, Joe Pesci, Greg Kinnear, Branford Marsalis and Catherine Bell.

On the Web: www.pgatour.com

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