LPGA

LONGS DRUGS CHALLENGE

* Site: Lincoln, Calif.

* Schedule: Today-Sunday.

* Course: Twelve Bridges Golf Club (6,388 yards, par 72).

* Purse: $800,000. Winner’s share: $120,000.

* TV: The Golf Channel (today-Friday, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.); Saturday-Sunday, 1:30-4:30 p.m.).

* Last year: Juli Inkster successfully defended her title, beating Brandie Burton by five strokes.

* Last week: Annika Sorenstam came from 10 strokes back to win the Office Depot at Wilshire Country Club, completing the biggest turnaround in LPGA history for her fourth consecutive victory. Taking advantage of Pat Hurst’s back-nine collapse, the Swede closed with a six-under 66 and beat Mi Hyun Kim with a par on the first hole of a playoff.

* Notes: Sorenstam, the 1997 winner, is trying to match Nancy Lopez’s tour record of five consecutive victories. Sorenstam, Mickey Wright (1962, 1963) and Kathy Whitworth (1969) are the only players to win four consecutively scheduled events. Lopez skipped a tournament after her third consecutive victory in 1978. Sorenstam became the first woman to shoot a 59 in tournament play last month in Phoenix, and won the Nabisco Championship the following week for her first major title since 1996. After opening with two runner-up finishes in Hawaii, she successfully defended the Welch’s-Circle K title in Tucson. She has earned $756,448 this year to top the tour’s all-time money list with $6,957,044. . . . The Kathy Ireland Championship is next week at Onion Creek in Austin, Texas.

* On the Net: https://www.lpga.com

PGA

HOUSTON OPEN

* Site: The Woodlands, Texas.

* Schedule: Today-Sunday.

* Course: TPC at the Woodlands (7,018 yards, par 72).

* Purse: $3.4 million. Winner’s share: $612,000.

* TV: The Golf Channel and Fox Sports Net (today-Friday, 1-3:30 p.m.) and CBS (Saturday, 1-3 p.m.; Sunday, noon-3 p.m.).

* Last year: Australia’s Robert Allenby beat Craig Stadler with a 10-foot par putt on the fourth hole of a playoff.

* Last week: Argentina’s Jose Coceres won the WorldCom Classic in Hilton Head Island, S.C., beating Billy Mayfair with a scrambling par on the fifth hole of a playoff. The final three holes were played Monday.

* Notes: Tiger Woods is skipping the tournament. He’s expected to return to the tour for the Byron Nelson Classic May 10-13. . . . Allenby is 7-0 in playoffs worldwide, with all three of his PGA Tour victories coming in extra holes. He beat Nick Price in the Western Open last July and won a record six-man playoff two months ago in the Nissan Open. . . . The Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic is next week, followed by the Compaq Classic of New Orleans.

* On the Net: https://www.pgatour.com

SENIOR PGA

LAS VEGAS SENIOR CLASSIC

* Site: Las Vegas.

* Schedule: Friday-Sunday.

* Course: TPC at Summerlin (6,963 yards, par 72).

* Purse: $1.4 million. Winner’s share: $210,000.

* TV: PAX (Friday, 1-3 p.m.) and CNBC (Saturday-Sunday, 3-5 p.m.).

* Last year: Larry Nelson won the first of six 2000 titles, finishing with a tournament-record 19-under 197 total for a five-stroke victory over Hale Irwin and Bruce Fleisher.

* Last week: Doug Tewell won The Tradition by nine strokes, setting tournament records with his closing 10-under 62 and 23-under 265 total. Mike McCullough finished second.

* Notes: Las Vegas resident Jim Colbert won the 1995 and 1996 tournaments. He shot a nine-under 63 in 1996, the lowest round in senior play at Summerlin and one stroke off the course record. . . . Bruce Lietzke will be 50 July 18. He won the 1994 Las Vegas Invitational at Summerlin for the last of his 13 PGA Tour titles. . . . The Bruno’s Memorial Classic is next week in Birmingham, Ala., followed by the Home Depot Invitational in Charlotte, N.C.

* On the Net: https://www.pgatour.com