Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Torrey Pines Golf Course, South Course (6,721 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1 million. Winner's share: $250,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Thursday, 8:30-10:30 p.m., Friday, 2-4 a.m., 8:30-10:30 p.m.; Saturday, 2-4 a.m.) and NBC (Saturday, 1:30-3:30 p.m.; Sunday, 4-6 p.m.).
Last year: Paula Creamer won the elite 20-player event for the last of her four 2008 titles, beating Song-Hee Kim by a stroke at Half Moon Bay.
Last week: South Korea's Jiyai Shin won the NW Arkansas Championship for her tour-leading third victory of the year. Shin made up a seven-stroke deficit with a final-round 64, then beat Angela Stanford and Sun Young Yoo with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff. The 21-year-old Shin has six career LPGA Tour victories.
Notes: No. 1 Lorena Ochoa tops the field along with Creamer, Shin and 2009 major winners Brittany Lincicome, Anna Nordqvist, Eun-Hee Ji and Catriona Matthew. ... Creamer is winless this year. ... Three-time winner Juli Inkster received an exemption. ... The tournament is the LPGA Tour's first at Torrey Pines—the site of Tiger Woods' 2008 U.S. Open victory—since the 1983 Inamori Classic. ... The CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge is next week in Danville, Calif.
On the Net: http://www.lpga.com
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