On the Tours

DUBLIN, Ohio – Tournament officials announced today that three-time Memorial winner and World No. 1 Tiger Woods will compete in the 34th Memorial Tournament scheduled for June 1-7 at Muirfield Village Golf Club.

Woods will be making his tenth appearance at the Memorial and his first since missing the 2008 Tournament due to a knee injury. He has recorded six top-10 finishes at Muirfield Village Golf Club and has never missed the cut. Woods and 2008 winner Kenny Perry are the only three-time winners of the Memorial, and Woods holds the only sub-70 scoring average in Tournament history at 69.59. He also holds the record for low back-to-back rounds with 63-65 during Rounds 2 and 3 in 2000, and he ranks No. 2 on the Memorial’s career money list with more than $2.7 million in earnings. 

HOUSTON – Long considered one of the top sports cities in the United States, it has been almost six years since the stars of the LPGA Tour have competed in Houston, Texas. But this fall, golf fans can look forward to the return of women's professional golf to Texas when The Houstonian Golf & Country Club plays host to the LPGA Tour Championship.

The 2009 LPGA Tour Championship, to be held November 17-22, will feature a field of 120 of the top LPGA professionals in the world, a $1,500,000 purse, and a unique format that will see a cut after 36 holes to the low 70 professionals and an additional cut after 54 holes to the low 30 pros.

Sporting a pink shirt in support of Amy Mickelson, wife of Phil Mickelson who'd recently been diagnosed with breast cancer, Rory Sabbatini broke a 10-year-old tournament record with a four-day total of 19-under-par on his way to winning the HP Byron Nelson Classic at TPC Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas.

The win was the fifth of Sabbatini's career on the PGA Tour and meant a great deal because the event honors Lord Byron.

BEACHWOOD, Ohio - Two months ago, Cynthia Allen sifted through the mail while her husband was lounging on the couch in their Scottsdale, Ariz. home.

"Honey, there's a letter from The PGA of America," she said. "Maybe you ought to open it up."

Michael Allen didn't pay much attention at first, believing it was a reminder to pay his dues.

BEACHWOOD, Ohio - The 70th Senior PGA Championship, the most historic and prestigious event in senior golf, will feature 23 major champions who have combined for 41 major championships, and who help form a world-class international field and the strongest field in senior golf, May 21-24, at Canterbury Golf Club.

Defending Champion Jay Haas heads a 156-player field, along with eight other past Senior PGA Champions.

CLIFTON, N.J. - The list of names crowded atop the Sybase Classic leader board is an eclectic grouping of major champions, unheralded internationals and one former child prodigy hoping to finally turn to the next chapter in her frequently debated and oft criticized golf career.

South Korea's Ji Young Oh, an LPGA rookie in 2007, and Suzann Pettersen, a five-time winner on Tour in 2007, vaulted ahead of second round leader Brittany Lincicome Saturday and into a share of the lead at 12-under-par. But it's anybody's tournament, as seven players enter Sunday's final round within five shots of the lead. 

CLIFTON, N.J. - Two consecutive bogey-free rounds bolstered by plenty of birdies have Brittany Lincicome on top of the leader board heading into the weekend at the LPGA Tour's Sybase Classic at Upper Montclair Country Club.

Lincicome, who holds a two-shot advantage over Suzann Pettersen and Ji Young Oh, backed up her first round 64 with a solid 69, giving her a chance to win another high profile event against a world-class field. Lincicome won last month's Kraft Nabisco Championship, the Tour's first major championship of the year. 

CLIFTON, N.J. - Helen Alfredsson's hat promoting Scandinavian sportswear company "Peak Performance" perfectly encapsulated her opening round at the 2009 Sybase Classic presented by ShopRite.

Alfredsson picked up nine birdies and an eagle on her way to a career best score of 62, which is the lowest in the tournament's 20-year history.

CLIFTON, N.J. - Lorena Ochoa will attempt to become the third golfer in LPGA Tour history to win the same event four consecutive times this week at the Sybase Classic hosted by Clifton, New Jersey's Upper Montclair Country Club. 

Ochoa was on track to pick up yet another victory at last week's Michelob Ultra Open in Virginia before she shot back-to-back 74s on the weekend to slide down the leaderboard. 

The R&A has named Muirfield as the venue for the 2013 Open Championship.

Muirfield last hosted The Open Championship in 2002, when South Africa's Ernie Els won his third Major after the first and only four-man, four-hole playoff in Open Championship history. This will be the sixteenth time that The Open has been staged at the club, which held its first Championship in 1892.