GOLF EXTRA

PGA

Buick Invitational

* Site: San Diego.

* Schedule: Today-Sunday.

* Courses: Torrey Pines Golf Course, South Course (7,033 yards, par 72) and North Course (6,874 yards, par 72).

* Purse: $3.5 million. Winner’s share: $630,000.

* TV: USA (Today-Friday, 4-6 p.m.) and CBS (Saturday-Sunday, noon-3 p.m.).

* Last year: Phil Mickelson ended Tiger Woods’ PGA Tour winning streak at six. Mickelson had an 18-under 270 total. Woods and Japan’s Shigeki Maruyama tied for second, four strokes back.

* Last week: Davis Love III won the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, overcoming a seven-stroke deficit in the first seven holes of the final round. Love closed with a nine-under 63 for his first tour victory since April 1998. Vijay Singh finished one stroke back.

* Notes: Woods tied for 13th at Pebble Beach, extending his tour winless streak to six. He opened the season with an eighth-place tie in the Mercedes Championships, and tied for fifth in the Phoenix Open. . . . Mickelson, from San Diego, also won the 1993 tournament. . . . South Africa’s Ernie Els will return to the tour March 1-4 at Doral. . . . The final two rounds will be played on the South Course. . . . The Bob Hope Chrysler Classic is next week at La Quinta, followed by the Nissan Open at Riviera.

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

LPGA

LPGA Takefuji Classic

* Site: Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

* Schedule: Today-Saturday.

* Course: Kona Country Club (6,257 yards, par 72).

* Purse: $850,000. Winner’s share: $127,500.

* TV: The Golf Channel (today-Saturday, 2-5:30 p.m. and 5-7:30 p.m.).

* Last year: Australia’s Karrie Webb ran her season-opening winning streak to four, beating Sweden’s Annika Sorenstam with a 10-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff.

* Last event: South Africa’s Grace Park won The Office Depot on Jan. 28 at Doral in Miami, closing with a one-under 71 for a one-stroke victory over Webb.

* Notes: Webb also finished second three weeks ago in the Subaru Memorial of Naples, a stroke behind Sweden’s Sophie Gustafson. The Australian star has 23 victories in 124 LPGA Tour starts. . . . Sorenstam is making her first start of the year. She won five times last season and has 23 career victories. . . . The Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open is next week.

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

SENIOR PGA

ACE Group Classic

* Site: Naples, Fla.

* Schedule: Friday-Sunday.

* Course: Pelican Marsh Golf Club (6,915 yards, par 72).

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

* TV: PAX (Friday, 10 a.m.-noon) and CNBC (Saturday-Sunday, 3-5 p.m.).

* Last year: Lanny Wadkins became the ninth player to win his senior debut, parring the third hole of a playoff with Spain’s Jose Maria Canizares. Tom Watson and Walter Hall dropped out with bogeys on the first playoff hole.

* Last week: Larry Nelson won for the sixth time in his last 10 tour starts, beating Japan’s Isao Aoki by a point in the Royal Caribbean Classic in Key Biscayne, Fla. Nelson had 29 points under the Modified Stableford scoring system.

* Notes: Nelson won the season-opening MasterCard Championship in his only other 2001 start. He has 13 victories in 89 senior events. . . . Bob Gilder tied for ninth last week in his first senior start. . . . John Havlicek, Al Kaline, Sonny Jurgensen and Steve Carlton are among the former athletes playing in the Hall of Fame Challenge pro-am. . . . The Verizon Classic is next week at the TPC of Tampa Bay.

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