ON TOUR This week's pro golf events

PGA TOUR
Chrysler Classic of Greensboro
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Forest Oaks Country Club (7,246 yards, par 72), Greensboro, N.C.
Purse: $4.5 million. Winner's share: $810,000.
Television: USA (Thursday-Friday, 4-6 p.m.; Saturday 3-6 p.m.) and ABC (Sunday, 3-6 p.m.).
Last year: Rocco Mediate held off Mark Calcavecchia by three strokes. Mediate also won the 1993 tournament.
Last week: Australia's Stuart Appleby won the Las Vegas Invitational, beating Scott McCarron with a 15-foot putt birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff.
Notes: Davis Love III, the 1992 winner who shares the course record of 62, oversaw a $3.5 million renovation project that including rebuilding the greens and lengthening the layout by 184 yards. ... Sam Snead won the tournament a tour-record eight times from 1938-65, including consecutive victories in 1949-50 and 1955-56. His 1965 victory made him the tour's oldest winner at 52 years, 10 months, 8 days. ... U.S. Open champion Jim Furyk is in the field after passing up a spot in the lucrative World Match Play Championship in England. ... The tournament is being played in the fall for the first time. ... Tiger Woods will return to the tour next week for the Funai Classic in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
CHAMPIONS TOUR
SBC Championship
Schedule: Friday-Sunday.
Course: Oak Hills Country Club (6,661 yards, par 71), San Antonio.
Purse: $1.5 million. Winner's share: $225,000.
Television: The Golf Channel (Friday-Saturday, 5-7:30 p.m., 8-10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 5-7:30 p.m., 9-11 p.m.).
Last year: Dana Quigley held off Bob Gilder by a stroke.
Last week: Hale Irwin won the Turtle Bay Championship in Hawaii to become the first Champions Tour player to win an event four straight times and five times overall. Jan Stephenson, the first woman to play on the tour, tied for last, 34 strokes behind Irwin.
Notes: The tournament is the final full-field event of the year, with the top 30 on the money list securing 2004 exemptions and spots next week in the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Sonoma, Calif. Spain's Jose Maria Canizares is 29th with $649,045, followed by Fuzzy Zoeller ($643,330), Jim Ahern ($610,795), Ed Dougherty ($559,296) and Stewart Ginn ($549,966). Bruce Lietzke is the leader with $1,571,486, followed by Tom Watson ($1,534,608) and Gil Morgan ($1,454,023). ... The event moved to Oak Hills last year after 17 season at The Dominion.
-- Associated Press