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This week's pro golf events | March 2-8, 2015

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WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS 
CADILLAC CHAMPIONSHIP 
 
Site: Doral, Florida. 
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. 
Course: Trump National Doral, Blue Monster (7,528 yards, 6,884 metres, par 72). 
Purse: $9.25 million. Winner's share: $1.57 million. 
 
Last year: Patrick Reed won his first World Golf Championship title for his third US PGA Tour victory in 14 starts. Bubba Watson and Jamie Donaldson were a stroke back. 
 
Last week: Padraig Harrington won the rain-delayed Honda Classic on Monday in Palm Beach Gardens. He beat Daniel Berger with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff. 
 
Notes: Top-ranked Rory McIlroy missed the cut last week in Palm Beach Gardens in his first US PGA Tour start of the year, shooting 73-74. He also has played two European Tour events, winning in Dubai after finishing second in Abu Dhabi. ... Reed opened the year with a victory at Kapalua. ... Tiger Woods failed to qualify for the event for the first time. He has won the tournament six times on six courses, the last in 2007 at Doral. He also won regular tour events at Doral in 2004 and 2006. 
 
 
PGA TOUR 
PUERTO RICO OPEN 
 
Site: Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. 
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. 
Course: Trump International Golf Club-Puerto Rico (7,506 yards, 6,863 metres, par 72). 
Purse: $3 million. Winner's share: $540,000. 
 
Last year: Chesson Hadley won his first US PGA Tour title, beating Danny Lee by two strokes. 
 
Last week: Padraig Harrington won the rain-delayed Honda Classic on Monday in Palm Beach Gardens. He beat Daniel Berger with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff. 
 
Notes: John Daly is in the field along with fellow major champions Lee Janzen, Mark Calcavecchia, Ben Curtis, David Duval, Trevor Immelman, David Toms and Y.E. Yang. ... Tom Kite and Bruce Besse Jr. designed the course. ... The Valspar Championship is next week at Innisbrook in Palm Harbor, Florida, followed by the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Orlando, Florida. 
 
EUROPEAN TOUR/SUNSHINE TOUR 
AFRICA OPEN 
 
Site: East London, South Africa. 
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. 
Course: East London Golf Club (6,678 yards, 6,106 metres, par 72). 
Purse: $1.24 million. Winner's share: $195,965. 
 
Last year: South Africa's Thomas Aiken beat England's Oliver Fisher with a 30-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff. 
 
Last week: England's Andy Sullivan won the Joburg Open for his second European Tour title in Johannesburg this year. He won the South African Open in January. 
 
Notes: Sullivan is in the field. ... The tours will team again next week for the Tshwane Open at Pretoria Country Club in Waterkloof. 
 
LPGA TOUR 
HSBC WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS 
 
Site: Singapore. 
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. 
Course: Sentosa Golf Club, The Serapong Course (6,600 yards, 6,035 metres, par 72). 
Purse: $1.4 million. Winner's share: $210,000. 
 
Last year: Paula Creamer won with a 75-foot eagle putt on the second hole of a playoff with Azahara Munoz. 
 
Last week: South Korea's Amy Yang won the LPGA Thailand for her second US LPGA Tour title. Stacy Lewis, Yani Tseng and Mirim Lee tied for second, two strokes back. 
 
Notes: Top-ranked Lydia Ko is coming off consecutive victories in the Women's Australian Open and New Zealand Women's Open. The 17-year-old New Zealander has six US LPGA Tour victories and 10 worldwide victories in professional events. ... Lewis won in 2013. ... South Korea's Hyo Joo Kim, the Evian Championship winner, is making her first tour start of the year. ... The tour is off next week. Play will resume with the JTBC Founders Cup in Phoenix on March 19-22. 
 
OTHER TOURNAMENTS 
 
MEN
 
WEB.COM TOUR: Karibana Championship, Thursday-Sunday, TPC Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia. 
 
PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA: New Zealand PGA Championship, Thursday-Sunday, Remuera Golf Club, Auckland, New Zealand. 
 
eGOLF GATEWAY TOUR: Mid Pines Classic, Wednesday-Friday, Mid Pines Inn, Southern Pines, North Carolina. 
 
WOMEN 
 
LEGENDS TOUR: Walgreens Charity Classic, Saturday-Sunday, Grandview Golf Course, Sun City West, Arizona.
 
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