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While the PGA Tour's Wachovia Championship is certainly an A-list event, discerning eyes should really be trained on the women this week, as Lorena Ochoa attempts to become the third player ever to win five consecutive LPGA starts (following Nancy Lopez in 1978 and Annika Sorenstam in 2004-05). The European Tour begins that part of the schedule where it actually plays in Europe, while the Japan Tour offers its first 2008 event of major prestige, The Crowns. Other than Tiger still being on the shelf, the week looks good...
PGA Tour: Wachovia Championship
Site: Quail Hollow Club - Charlotte, NC
Yards: 7,442 Par: 72
Defending: Tiger Woods 275 (beat Steve Stricker by 2)
Field: World Top 25: Phil Mickelson (2), Steve Stricker (4), Adam Scott (5), Geoff Ogilvy (6), Jim Furyk (9), Vijay Singh (9), Justin Rose (10), Rory Sabbatini (12), Stewart Cink (14), Trevor Immelman (15), Aaron Baddeley (16), Sergio Garcia (17), Luke Donald (18), Angel Cabrera (19), Zach Johnson (21), Andres Romero (22), Boo Weekley (23) & Stuart Appleby (25) Other Notables: Fred Couples, David Duval, Davis Love III & Jose Maria Olazabal.
Notes: This will be only the sixth playing of the Wachovia, but with a large sponsorship commitment and plenty of support from the commissioner’s office, the event has already risen to a spot among the elite of the non-Majors.........Four of the five previous winners have been Major champions: David Toms, Vijay Singh, Jim Furyk and Tiger Woods.........Among these, only Woods will be absent this week, continuing to nurse his surgically repaired knee.
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European PGA Tour: Open de Espana
Site: Real Golf Club de Sevilla – Seville, Spain
Yards: 7,140 Par: 72
Defending: Charl Schwartzel 272 (defeated Jyoti Randhawa by 1)
Field: World Top 25: Niclas Fasth Other Notables: Darren Clarke, John Daly, Paul McGinley, Colin Montgomerie & Charl Schwartzel.
Notes: Niclas Fasth may be the only world top-25 present, but Darren Clarke is coming off a victory at the BMW Asian Open, and Colin Montgomerie is still frequently capable of world-class golf.........Perhaps John Daly – who clearly can’t cut it in America these days – might considering venturing to Europe more frequently?.........Hardcore TV viewers may recognize the Real Golf Club de Sevilla as the site of the 2004 World Cup.
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Japan Tour: The Crowns
Site: Nagoya Golf Club (Wago course) - Nagoya, Japan
Yards: 6,547 Par: 70
Defending: Hirofumi Miyase 278 (defeated Toru Taniguchi in a playoff)
Field: World Top 25: None Other Notables: Tad Fujikawa, Toshi Izawa, Shingo Katayama, Wen-Chong Liang, Rory McIlroy , Tommy Nakajima, Jeev Milkha Singh & Toru Taniguchi.
Notes: This will be the 39th playing of Japan’s prestigious Crowns tournament, an event which has a long history of attracting high-level overseas talent.........Past foreign winners have included Peter Thomson, David Graham, Graham Marsh, Scott Simpson, Greg Norman, Seve Ballesteros, Davis Love III, Darren Clarke and Justin Rose.........Japan’s elite have also prospered here, with Isao Aoki claiming the title five times and Jumbo Ozaki four, including three straight from 1995-97.........This year’s foreign contingent is a bit less glamorous, but does include two noteworthy youngsters, Northern Ireland’s 18-year-old Rory McIlroy and American teenager Tad Fujikawa.
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Asian Tour: GS Caltex Maekyung Open
Site: Nam Seoul Country Club - Seoul, Korea
Yards: 6,962 Par: 72
Defending: Kyung-Tae Kim 270 (defeated Wen-Chong Liang by 5)
Field: World Top 25: None Other Notables: Thaworn Wiratchant.
Notes: With the European Tour returning to the Continent until autumn, here begins the smaller-field events which fill out the Asian Tour’s summer schedule.........Suffice to say that a victory here will not jack up one’s Official World Ranking standing too tremendously.
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LPGA Tour: SemGroup Championship Presented by John Q. Hammonds
Site: Cedar Ridge Country Club - Broken Arrow, OK
Yards: 6,602 Par: 72
Defending: Mi Hyun Kim 210 (defeated Juli Inkster in a playoff)
Field: Ranked: The entire Rolex top 20 except Annika Sorenstam (2), Suzann Pettersen (3), Karrie Webb (5), Ji-Yai Shin (7), Se Ri Pak (12), Sakura Yokomine (17) & Yuri Fudoh (19).
Notes: This event offers the possibility of history being made as world number one Lorena Ochoa returns to action after a week’s rest, and will attempt to become the third player ever to win five consecutive LPGA starts (following Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam).........Curiously, Sorenstam, a three-time winner here (2002, ’04 & ’05) will be absent from the field, as will number three Suzann Pettersen and number five Karrie Webb.........This will be the eighth edition of the SemGroup Championship and the fifth consecutive year it will be played at the Joe Finger-designed Cedar Ridge Country Club.
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Champions Tour: FedEx Kinko's Classic
Site: The Hills Country Club - Austin, TX
Yards: 6,879 Par: 72
Defending: Scott Hoch 201 (defeated D.A. Weibring by 2)
Field: Ranked: The entire Charles Schwab Cup to 20 except Bernhard Langer (1), Tom Watson (4), Andy North (17) & Vicente Fernandez (18) Other Notables: Isao Aoki, Ben Crenshaw, Hubert Green, Sandy Lyle, Gil Morgan, Larry Nelson, Mark O’Meara, Ian Woosnam & Fuzzy Zoeller.
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Elsewhere...
Aside from the LPGA, the three other major women’s tours are also in action: the Ladies European ventures north for the Aberden Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open, the JLPGA gathers for the Crystal Geyser Ladies, and the KLPGA contests the Phoenix Park Classic. On the male side, the Nationwide Tour remains in the Southeast, playing the South Georgia Open, while the European Challenge Tour also ventures south, to the Banco Popular Moroccan Classic.
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Hound Dog offers a correction on Ochoa--she's looking to tie the record for consecutive wins/starts, not set one.... And several top players are resting this week b/c we're in the middle of an 11-week stretch with no weeks off on the LPGA....
You know, I really wanted to take this week off because I'm buried under two book projects and some freelance stuff and, as you can see, the content here has been somewhat abridged of late as a result. But instead I've been trying to squeeze it in where I can, and...
Sadly, I actually remember Lopez's five straight...but the Annika/Wright/Whitworth thing was something I read last week. I just can't recall where...
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