ON TOUR Pro golf events this week



PGA
BellSouth Classic
Duluth, Ga.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: TPC at Sugarloaf (7,293 yards, par 72).
Purse: $4.5 million. Winner's share: $810,000.
Television: USA (Thursday-Friday, 3-6 p.m.) and NBC (Saturday-Sunday, 3-6 p.m.).
Last year: Ben Crane won his first tour title, finishing with a back-nine 29 to match the course record of 9-under 63. Bob Tway was second, four strokes behind.
Last week: Adam Scott beat Ireland's Padraig Harrington by a stroke in The Players Championship, making the 23-year-old Australian the youngest champion of golf's richest tournament. Scott earned $1.44 million, a five-year exemption on the PGA Tour and a three-year pass to the Masters.
Notes: The Masters is next week at Augusta National. ... Masters champion Mike Weir tops the field along with Scott, Harrington, 2000 winner Phil Mickelson, David Toms, two-time champion Scott McCarron and Sugarloaf-designer Greg Norman.
LPGA TOUR
Office Depot Championship
Los Angeles.
Schedule: Friday-Sunday.
Course: El Caballero Country Club (6,394 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1.75 million. Winner's share: $262,500.
Television: ESPN2 (Friday, 1-3 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 5-7 p.m.).
Last year: Annika Sorenstam won the first of six 2003 LPGA Tour titles. Pat Hurst, Heather Bowie and South Korea's Se Ri Pak, tied for second, four strokes back.
Last week: South Korea's Grace Park made a 6-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to hold off 17-year-old Aree Song by a stroke in the Kraft Nabisco. The victory was Park's first in a major championship. Fourteen-year-old Michelle Wie was fourth.
Notes: Sorenstam came from 10 strokes back to win in 2001 at Wilshire Country Club, completing the biggest turnaround in LPGA Tour history. Taking advantage of Hurst's back-nine collapse, Sorenstam shot a 66 and beat Mi Hyun Kim on the first playoff hole.
PGA EUROPEAN TOUR
Algarve Open
Portimao, Portugal.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Le Meridien Penina Golf and Resort (6,875 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1.52 million. Winner's share: $253,800.
Television: The Golf Channel (Thursday, 9 a.m.-noon; Friday-Sunday, 1-2:30 a.m., 9 a.m.-noon; Monday, 1-2:30 a.m.).
Last year: Sweden's Fredrik Jacobson won at Vale do Lobo, beating England's Brian Davis and Welshmen Bradley Dredge and Jamie Donaldson by a stroke.
Last week: Sweden's Christopher Hanell won the Madeira Island Open for his first European tour title.
-- Associated Press