ON TOUR This week's golf events

PGA TOUR
Tour Championship
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta (6,980 yards, par 70).
Purse: $5 million. Winner's share: $900,000.
Television: ESPN (Thursday, noon-5 p.m.; Friday, 12:30-1 a.m., noon-5 p.m.; Saturday, 12:30-1 a.m.; Sunday, 1-2 p.m.) and ABC (Saturday, 1-3:30 p.m.; Sunday, 2-5 p.m.).
Last year: Canada's Mike Weir won at Champions in Houston, holing a 5-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff with Ernie Els, Sergio Garcia and David Toms.
Last week: Jonathan Byrd became the tour's record 17th first-time winner, closing with a 63 to beat Toms by a stroke in the final Buick Challenge.
Notes: The top 30 players on the money list qualified for the season-ending tournament. Weir failed to qualify. He's 77th on the money list, a spot ahead of Duval. ... Tiger Woods leads the tour with five victories and $6,747,625, raising his career totals to 34 and $32,938,852. He took last week off after closing with a 63 to finish third at Disney World. ... Phil Mickelson is second on the money list with $4,121,971, followed by Els ($3,180,695) and Toms ($3,116,794). ... Mickelson won the 2000 tournament at East Lake, beating Woods by four strokes. Woods won in 1999 at Champions. ... Kenny Perry finished fourth last week to jump from 31st to 27th on the money list with $1,831,598. Scott McCarron took the final spot with $1,765,214. Brad Faxon was 31st, $36,692 behind McCarron. Stuart Appleby was another $63 back. ... East Lake -- the course where Bobby Jones learned the game -- is the primary host of the event under a new four-year marketing deal with Coca-Cola. The tournament, played at East Lake in even-numbered years and Champions in odd-numbered years since 1997, will rotate back to Champions in 2003 and return to East Lake in 2004 and 2005. ... The previous record for first-time winners was 14 in 1991.
Southern Farm Bureau Classic
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Annandale Golf Club, Madison, Miss. (7,199 yards, par 72).
Purse: $2.6 million. Winner's share: $468,000.
Television: The Golf Channel (Thursday-Saturday, 3:30-6 p.m., 8-10 p.m., 11 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sunday, 5-7:30 p.m., 9-11 p.m.).
Last year: Cameron Beckman won his first PGA Tour title, beating Chad Campbell by a stroke.
Last week: Jonathan Byrd became the tour's record 17th first-time winner, closing with a 63 to beat David Toms by a stroke in the last Buick Challenged. Byrd, a 24-year-old rookie, finished at 27-under 261.
Notes: The tournament is the final event in the race for exempt spots on the 2003 tour, with the top 125 retaining their cards. Per-Ulrik Johansson is 120th at $538,230, followed by Andrew Magee ($537,887), Pat Bates ($537,284), the exempt Spike McRoy ($531,664), Craig Barlow ($528,569), No. 125 David Frost ($509,845), Craig Stadler ($505,778), Kaname Yokoo ($490,473), Kent Jones ($489,879), Jay Don Blake ($489,710) and Mike Sposa ($457,672). ... Byrd and Beckman are in the field with U.S. Ryder Cup player Stewart Cink and 18-year-old Ty Tryon. ... Patrick Moore earned a spot in the 120-man field with his victory last week in the season-ending Buy.Com Tour Championship, his third win of the season. ... The six-round final qualifying tournament -- with 35 PGA Tour cards at stake -- is Dec. 4-9 at PGA West in La Quinta, Calif.
LPGA TOUR
World Ladies Match Play Championship
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Narita, Japan, Golf Club (6,469 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1.02 million. Winner's share: $144,000.
Television: None.
Last year: Annika Sorenstam wrapped up the money title and player of the year honors, beating Se Ri Pak 1-up on the Sohsei course. It was the seventh of Sorenstam's eight 2001 titles.
Last week: Pak won the Nine Bridges Classic in cold and windy conditions in her native South Korea, her second straight victory and fifth of the year. Sweden's Carin Koch finished second, six strokes back.
Notes: Pak has five victories this year and 18 in five full seasons on the tour. She's second on the money list with $1,600,518. ... Sorenstam tied for fifth last week in South Korea, earning $58,497 to push her record total to $2,467,404. The Swedish star has won nine times this year on the LPGA Tour and has 11 worldwide victories in 22 events. ... LPGA Tour and Japan LPGA players will face each other in all 16 first-round matches, with Sorenstam, the LPGA's top seed, playing Taiwan's Hsiu-Feng Tseng, the No. 16 JLPGA player. Second-seeded Pak will open against Chieko Amanuma. Yuri Fudoh, the top seed from the JLPGA, will play Beth Bauer. ... The tour will remain in Japan next week for the Mizuno Classic, with Sorenstam again the defending champion. ... The season-ending ADT Championship is Nov. 21-24 at Trump International in West Palm Beach, Fla.
-- Associated Press