By The Associated Press
WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS
CADILLAC CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Doral, Fla.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: TPC Blue Monster at Doral (7,334
yards, par 72).
Purse: $8.5 million. Winner’s share: $1.4 million. Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 1-6
p.m., 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Saturday, noon-2
p.m., 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Sunday, 1-3 p.m.,
10:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m.) and NBC (Saturday, 2-6
p.m.; Sunday, 3-7 p.m.).
Last year: Nick Watney won his first WGC title,
closing with a 67 for a two-stroke victory over
Dustin Johnson. Watney also won the AT&T
National in July at Aronimink.
Last week: Rory McIlroy won the Honda Classic
to take the top spot in the world ranking from
Luke Donald. McIlroy finished with a 69 to beat
Tiger Woods and Tom Gillis by two strokes at
PGA National. Woods closed with a 62, his lowest final round ever.
Notes: Woods has won the event six times — in
1999 at Valderrama in Spain, 2002 at Mount
Juliet in Ireland, 2003 at Capital City in Atlanta,
2005 at Harding Park in San Francisco, 2006 at
The Grove in England and 2007 at Doral. He
also won regular tour events at Doral in 2004
and 2006. Winless on the PGA Tour since September 2009, he has 16 WGC victories and 71
overall PGA Tour titles. … Phil Mickelson won in
2009. Taken to a hospital on the eve of the final
round because of heat exhaustion and dehydration, he parred the final seven holes to beat
Watney by a stroke. Mickelson won at Pebble
Beach last month for his 40th PGA Tour title. …
Hunter Mahan won the first WGC event of the
season, beating McIlroy two weeks ago in the
final of the Match Play Championship in Arizona. … Ernie Els won the 2010 tournament. …
Donald Trump recently acquired the Doral complex. Online:
http://www.worldgolfchampionships.com
PGA Tour site: http://www.pgatour.com
European Tour site:
http://www.europeantour.com
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PGA TOUR
PUERTO RICO OPEN
Site: Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Trump International Golf Club-Puerto
Rico (7,506 yards, par 72).
Purse: $3.5 million. Winner’s share: $630,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday, 6:30-8:30
p.m.; Friday, 1:30-3:30 a.m., 6:30-8:30 p.m.;
Saturday, 1:30-3:30 a.m., 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Sunday, 3-5 a.m., 7:30-10:30 p.m.; Monday, 3-5
a.m.).
Last year: Michael Bradley won the tournament
for the second time in three years, taking advantage of Troy Matteson’s short par miss on the
first extra hole.
Last week: Rory McIlroy won the Honda Classic
to take the top spot in the world ranking from
Luke Donald. McIlroy finished with a 69 to beat
Tiger Woods and Tom Gillis by two strokes at
PGA National. Woods closed with a 62, his lowest final round ever.
Notes: Bradley is in the field along with Argentina’s Angel Cabrera, Venezuela’s Jhonattan
Vegas, Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa and former Oklahoma State star Peter Uihlein. … Edward Loar is
coming off a victory Sunday in the Nationwide
Tour’s Panama Championship. … The Transitions Championship is next week at Innisbrook
in Palm Harbor, Fla., followed by the Arnold
Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Orlando, Fla.
Online: http://www.pgatour.com
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NATIONWIDE TOUR
CHILE CLASSIC
Site: Santiago, Chile.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Prince of Wales Country Club (6,711
yards, par 72).
Purse: $600,000. Winner’s share: $108,000.
Television: None.
Last year: Inaugural event.
Last week: Edward Loar won the Panama
Championship for his first Nationwide title, surviving a triple bogey in the final round for a onestroke victory.
Notes: Skip Kendall won the season-opening
Colombia Championship on Feb. 19. … The tour
is off next week. The Louisiana Open is March
22-25.
Online: http://www.pgatour.com
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LPGA TOUR
Next event: LPGA Founders Cup, March 15-18,
JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, Wildfire Golf Club, Phoenix.
Last event: Angela Stanford won the HSBC
Women’s Champions on Feb. 26 in Singapore
for her fifth LPGA Tour victory. She beat Jenny
Shin with a birdie on the third hole of a playoff.
Shanshan Feng was eliminated on the first extra
hole, and Na Yeon Choi dropped out on the second. Online: http://www.lpga.com
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CHAMPIONS TOUR
Next event: Toshiba Classic, March 16-18, Newport Beach Country Club, Newport Beach, Calif.
Last event: Kenny Perry won the ACE Group
Classic on Feb. 19 in Naples, Fla., beating Bernhard Langer by five strokes. Perry closed with a
70 after opening with rounds of 64 and 62 to
break the tour’s 36-hole record at 18-under 126.
Online: http://www.pgatour.com
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OTHER TOURNAMENTS
MEN
NGA TOUR: Golden Hills Golf and Turf Club,
Thursday-Sunday, Golden Hills Golf and Turf
Club, Ocala, Fla. Online:
http://www.ngatour.com
JAPAN LPGA TOUR: Yokohama PRGR Ladies
Cup, Friday-Sunday, Tosa Country Club, Kochi,
Japan. Online: http://www.lpga.or.jp