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LPGA TOUR

ADT Championship

Site: West Palm Beach, Fla.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Trump International Golf Club (6,519 yards, par 72).

Purse: $1.55 million. Winner’s share: $1 million.

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Sunday, 2-4 p.m., 6:30-8:30 p.m.) and NBC (Sunday, 3-6 p.m.).

Format: The 32-player field will be cut to 16 after the second round and to eight after the third. Scores will be reset at even after the second and third rounds.

Last year: Paraguay’s Julieta Granada won the season-ending event for her first LPGA Tour title, closing with a bogey-free 68 to top the eight-player final round. Player of the year Lorena Ochoa finished second to win the season money title.

Last week: Paula Creamer ran away with the Tournament of Champions for her second victory of the year and fourth in three seasons on the LPGA Tour. She won by eight strokes, bogeying the final hole to finish at 20 under — a stroke off the tournament record. The dropped stroke ended her bogey-free run at 62 holes.

Notes: The $1 million first-place check is the tour’s largest. The runner-up will get $100,000. ... Ochoa clinched the player of the year award last month with her Samsung victory, her seventh win of the year and 16th in five full seasons on the tour. She has earned a record $3,364,994 this season, finishing in the top 10 in 20 of 24 starts. ... Suzann Pettersen, second on the money list with $1,788,400, has won three of her last five tournaments. She has five victories, topped by the LPGA Championship, in her last 16 starts after failing to win in her first 81 tour events. ... Four-time winner Annika Sorenstam, making only her 13th start of the season after missing nearly two months because of neck and back injuries, needs a victory to avoid her first winless season since she was a rookie in 1994. The Swede has 69 career victories, the last in September 2006. She won the 1997 event in Las Vegas and took the 2002, ’04 and ’05 titles at Trump International. ... Se Ri Pak was inducted into the Hall of Fame on Monday night. ... Catriona Matthew and Meaghan Francella got the final two spots in the 32-player field as the top eligible players on the money list not otherwise qualified. ... The Lexus Cup is Dec. 7-9 in Perth, Australia.

On the Net: http://www.lpga.com

PGA EUROPEAN TOUR/ASIAN TOUR

Hong Kong Open

Site: Hong Kong.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Hong Kong Golf Club (6,703 yards, par 70).

Purse: $2.25 million. Winner’s share: $360,000.

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Sunday, 1-4 a.m., 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.).

Last year: Spain’s Jose Manuel Lara won his first European tour title, beating the Philippines’ Juvic Pagunsan by a stroke at 15-under 265.

Last week: Phil Mickelson won the HSBC Champions in a wild finish in Shanghai. Mickelson blew a three-shot lead with seven to play, then beat Englishmen Ross Fisher and Lee Westwood with a birdie on the second playoff hole. Fisher made a double-bogey 7 on the 72nd hole, allowing Mickelson to get into the playoff with a bogey.

Notes: Canadian Mike Weir and Retief Goosen are in the field along with Presidents Cup teammates K.J. Choi, Stuart Appleby and Trevor Immelman. Weir beat Tiger Woods in singles at Royal Montreal and won the Fry’s Electronics Open last month. ... David Howell, Paul McGinley and European Ryder Cup captain Nick Faldo also are entered. ... The event has been played at Hong Kong Golf Club since 1959. ... The European tour will team with the Australasian circuit the next two weeks for the Australian Masters and New Zealand Open, then join the Southern Africa tour in December for the Alfred Dunhill Championship and South African Open. ... The Mission Hills World Cup also is next week in China.

On the Net: http://www.europeantour.com

Asian Tour site: http://www.asiantour.com

JAPAN GOLF TOUR

Dunlop Phoenix

Site: Miyazaki, Japan.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Course: Phoenix Country Club (6,907 yards, par 70).

Purse: $1.82 million. Winner’s share: $364,250.

Television: None.

Last year: Ireland’s Padraig Harrington beat Tiger Woods with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff. Harrington overcame a three-stroke deficit with six holes to play to force the playoff. Woods won the 2004 and 2005 tournaments.

Last week: Australia’s Brenden Jones won the Taiheiyo Masters for his second Japanese tour win of the year, beating Toru Taniguchi by a stroke.

Notes: Woods is skipping the tournament. ... Harrington is in the field along with Jones, Luke Donald, Ian Poulter, Tim Clark, Henrik Stenson, Brandt Snedeker and Craig Parry. ... The Casio World Open is next week at Kochi Kuroshio, followed by the Golf Nippon Series JT Cup at Tokyo Yomiuri.

On the Net: http://www.jgto.org

Associated Press