ON TOUR | This week's events
PGA OF AMERICA
PGA Grand Slam of Golf
Schedule: Friday-Saturday.
Course: Poipu Bay Golf Course (7,014 yards, par 72), Poipu Beach, Hawaii.
Purse: $1 million. Winner's share: $400,000.
Television: TNT (Friday, 3:30-7 p.m.; Saturday, 4-7 p.m.).
Players: Ben Curtis, British Open winner; Jim Furyk, U.S. Open winner; Shaun Micheel, PGA winner; Mike Weir, Masters winner.
Last year: Tiger Woods won for the fifth straight year, finishing with a tournament-record 11-under 61. He had a record 17-under 127 total for a 14-stroke victory.
Notes: All four players are first-time major champions. ... Woods' Target World Challenge is next week in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PGA TOUR
Final Qualifying Tournament
Schedule: Today through Monday.
Courses: Orange County National, Palmer Lake Course (7,295 yards, par 72) and Crooked Cat Course (7,277 yards, par 72), Winter Garden, Fla.
Television: The Golf Channel (Saturday-Sunday, 1:30-4 p.m., 8-10 p.m.; Monday, 2-4 a.m., 12:30-3:30 p.m., 8-11 p.m.).
Last year: Jeff Brehaut had a 16-under 416 total in La Quinta, Calif., to lead the tour qualifiers. He finished 97th on the money list this year to retain his tour card.
Notes: The top 30 and ties and will receive 2004 PGA Tour cards. The next 70 will receive Nationwide Tour cards, and the remaining players will receive conditional Nationwide Tour status.
PGA EUROPEAN TOUR/ASIAN PGA TOUR
Hong Kong Open
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Hong Kong Golf Club (6,749 yards, par 70).
Purse: $700,000. Winner's share: $117,000.
Television: The Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 1:30-3:30 a.m., 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 12:30-3:30 a.m., 11 a.m.-1 p.m.).
Last year: Sweden's Fredrik Jacobson won his first European tour title, closing with a 64 for a two-stroke victory over countryman Henrik Nystrom and Argentina's Jorge Berendt.
Notes: The tournament, co-sanctioned by the European and Asian tours, is the first event of the 2004 European schedule. ... Northern Ireland's Darren Clarke tops the field along with Jacobson, 2001 winner Jose Maria Olazabal of Spain, Ireland's Padraig Harrington, Denmark's Thomas Bjorn and England's Nick Faldo. ... Bjorn won the Dunlop Phoenix two weeks ago in Japan.
-- Associated Press
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