LOCAL LINKS: Cypress teen Tiger Woods isn’t...

LOCAL LINKS: Cypress teen Tiger Woods isn’t playing the Los Angeles Open this year, but Orange County still will be represented when the PGA tour event starts today at Riviera Country Club. . . . Chris Tidland, a junior All-American at Oklahoma State who attended Placentia’s Valencia High, and Bob May, a tour rookie who grew up in La Habra, will play in the same threesome. They tee off at 12:50 p.m.

WATER SPORT: The annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue hit the newsstands Wednesday, with a different twist--some of those people wearing very little are male. . . . Splashing amid the usual bikini-clad beauties like Kathy Ireland are five members of the summer Olympics-bound U.S. water polo team, which practices out of Newport Beach. Says Irvine attorney Rich Foster, president of U.S. Olympic Water Polo: “It’s the greatest PR to ever happen to our sport.”

ON THE MOVE: These are busy times for Tony Lam. The Westminster councilman leaves next week for an Asian American educational seminar in Israel, sponsored by the American Jewish Committee. Says Lam, the only Vietnamese American participant: “All my life, I have been interested in Jewish history, the perseverance of the people and their sense of community.” . . . When he returns, there’s a Ted Koppel “Nightline” special in the works about Lam and Little Saigon. “The more positive attention Little Saigon gets, the better,” he says.

AS THE WORLD TURNS: How is this for awkward moments: Phyllis Gallagher, the lawyer who represented a Cypress police sergeant in her successful sexual harassment lawsuit against the department, was heading back to her office this week when her Jeep Cherokee was sideswiped. . . . So who stops to help her? Cypress Police Lt. James Weuve: He was one of Gallagher’s targets. “This is really embarrassing,” she told him. But he replied: “Don’t think of it that way. This is a separate matter.”