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(China Daily) Updated: 2017-01-26 07:39

PGA Farmers Insurance Open

Site: San Diego.

Course: Torrey Pines GC. Yardage: 7,698 Par: 72 (South Course); Yardage: 7,258. Par: 72. (North Course).

Purse: $6.7 million (First place: $1,206,000).

Television: CBS Sports (Saturday 3-6 pm; Sunday, 3-6:30 pm); Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday 3-7 pm; Saturday-Sunday, 1-2:30 pm)

Defending champion: Brandt Snedeker.

Last week: Hudson Swafford won the CareerBuilder Challenge.

Notes: Tiger Woods makes his 2017 debut at the tournament he has won eight times, most recently in 2013 ... Also making a debut is the North Course that Tom Weiskopf renovated. The nines have been reversed, bunkers reduced and the size of the greens have been expanded ... Since his last victory at Torrey Pines, Woods has missed the 54-hole cut (2014) and withdrew after 11 holes with tightness in his back ... This is the first time Jason Day is competing against a full field since the Deutsche Bank Championship in early September ... The tournament last year finished on a Monday (wind) for the second time in four years ... Dustin Johnson and Rickie Fowler entered the tournament. Both were in Abu Dhabi last week ... Bubba Watson (2011) is the only past champion at the Farmers Insurance Open who is not playing this year. That doesn't include those on the PGA Tour Champions ... Justin Rose, who missed the cut at Torrey in 2015 and 2016, is playing for the third straight year.

Online: www.pgatour.com

Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic

Site: Paradise Island, Bahamas.

Course: Ocean Club GC. Yardage: 6,625. Par: 73.

Purse: $1.4 million (First place: $210,000).

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm; Saturday-Sunday, 3-5 pm).

Defending champion: Hyo Joo Kim.

Last tournament: Charley Hull won the CME Group Tour Championship to end the 2016 season.

Notes: This is the first LPGA Tour event of the year, kicking off an international schedule of four tournaments before its first domestic event on March 16-19 in Phoenix ... Ariya Jutanugarn highlights the field after coming off a season in which she won LPGA Tour player of the year. Also playing is Brooke Henderson of Canada ... Lydia Ko is skipping the tournament ... Four of the top 10 in the world and 10 of the top 20 from last year's money list are in the field ... US Solheim Cup captain Juli Inkster starts her 35th season on the LPGA Tour by playing in the Bahamas. The Solheim Cup will be played in Iowa in August ... Stacy Lewis is in the field. The Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic was her 11th runner-up finish dating to her last victory in June 2014 at the Walmart Northwest Arkansas Championship ... Natalie Gulbis is playing on a sponsor's exemption ... Also in the field is Michelle Wie, who hasn't won since her US Women's Open title in 2014.

Online: www.lpga.com

European Tour Commercial Bank Qatar Masters

Site: Doha, Qatar.

Course: Doha GC. Yardage: 7,400. Par: 72.

Purse: $2.5 million.

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 1:30-4:30 am, 6-8:30 am; Saturday-Sunday, 4-8:30 am).

Defending champion: Branden Grace.

Last week: Tommy Fleetwood won the HSBC Abu Dhabi Championship.

Notes: Grace, the first back-to-back winner of the tournament, is not playing this year because of a family matter ... This is the 20-year anniversary of the tournament. Andrew Coltart won the first Qatar Masters ... Ernie Els won the Qatar Masters in 2005 and is playing for the ninth time. He missed the cut last week in the Singapore Open ... Wang Jeung-hun of South Korea and Li Haotong of China, the top two rookies on the European Tour last year, both make their 2017 debut. At 21, they were the youngest golfers at the Olympics last summer ... Alex Noren, a four-time winner on the European Tour last year, is the highest-ranked player at No 10.

Online: www.europeantour.com

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