LPGA MAKES WILSHIRE DEBUT.

Byline: GREG WILCOX Golf

It won't be a surprise if Laura Davies and Grace Park seem disoriented this weekend during the LPGA Tour's annual stop in the Los Angeles area.

For this we can credit the shell game that each year seems to be the LPGA schedule, where tournaments are here one year and gone the next.

The official program for The Office Depot hosted by Amy Alcott, which starts today at venerable Wilshire Country Club, will list Park as the defending champion.

But she isn't all that familiar with the course or the tournament's name.

Davies, the long-hitting Brit, is the defending champion of the tour's last stop here, the 2000 Los Angeles Women's Championship at Simi Valley's Wood Ranch Country Club.

That event went poof, but at least Davies got the trophy and her winner's check cleared the bank.

But now she doesn't have a tournament to defend.

Both golfers are taking the situation in stride.

Last June, Park, a native of South Korea who lives in Phoenix, won the Kathy Ireland Greens.com Classic at Wachesaw Plantation's East Golf Course in Murrells Inlet, S.C.

That tournament was rescheduled to an earlier position in the year - next weekend - and given a new name. Office Depot emerged as the sponsor a couple of weeks ago.

This being L.A., an image transplant is no big deal, especially to Park, even though she is defending a new title on an unfamiliar course.

``Well, in the tournament I won last year I was a rookie, so it was the first time playing that course. It was that way for me in every event I played, so I know I can make the adjustment,'' she said this week during a conference call with reporters. ``I like the L.A. area, I am very familiar with the area and I am closer to home, too.''

For Davies, it's a case of ``been there and I can't do that anymore.''

Her trophy case includes hardware from several tournaments that no longer exist, so she won't dwell on what once was.

``It has happened to me so many times I have stopped counting,'' she said. ``The list is rather long. I would say a minimum of eight. (They) just vanished in the night. I don't know if it's me or what it is.''

One thing both have in common is a desire to play Wilshire, the former home of the Senior PGA tour stop in Los Angeles.

Davies is especially keen to give the layout a go.

``I have heard that it is a great course and it is the main reason I am coming out to play in Los Angeles. I was going to take three weeks off, but when I heard about the course, which I understand is like the traditional courses, I decided to play. I have been one to moan about some of the places we play, so when I hear about a great one, I guess I better show up,'' she said.

So how about making the Wilshire stop the tournament with two defending champions?

Notes:

--In a somewhat unusual twist The Office Depot tournament's final round will be Saturday.

--Talk about your crowded trophy case.

Not only does Tiger Woods hold all four major titles at the same time, he also is the current defending champion of just about every other significant title on tour.

Two weeks before the Masters he won The Players Championship, which in some quarters means he really won five majors in a row.

He is also defending champion at The Memorial, Jack Nicklaus' tournament which is also majorly in stature; the NEC Inventional, a World Golf Championship event; and the Canadian Open.

No one has ever held all these titles at the same time.

Also noteworthy is that in his six major wins, Woods shot 94 under par. Nicklaus' scores in his first six majors put him at 39 under.

ON THE GREEN

PGA TOUR

Worldcom Classic at Hilton Head Island, S.C.

Course: Harbour Town Golf Links (6,976 yards, par 71)

Schedule: Today through Sunday

Purse: $3.5 million, $630,000 to winner

TV: The Golf Channel and Fox Sports Net (today and Friday, 12:30-3:30 p.m.); Ch. 2 (Saturday and Sunday, noon-3 p.m.)

LPGA TOUR

Office Depot Classic at Los Angeles

Course: Wilshire Country Club (6,531 yards, par 71)

Schedule: Today through Saturday

Purse: $800,000, $120,000 to winner

TV: ESPN2 (today-Friday, 2:30-4 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.- 2 p.m.)

PGA SENIOR TOUR

The Tradition at Scottsdale, Ariz.

Course: Desert Mountain, Cochise Course (6,998 yards, par 72)

Schedule: Today through Sunday

Purse: $1.7 million, $255,000 to winner

TV: ESPN (today-Friday, 1-3 p.m.) and Ch. 7 (Saturday, 2-4 p.m.; Sunday, noon-3 p.m.).

SCORING AVERAGE

PGA

1 Tiger Woods68.89

2 Vijay Singh 69.26

3 Davis Love III  69.36

4 Mark Calcavecchia 69.53

5 Nick Price 69.82

LPGA

1 Annika Sorenstam 68.17

2 Se Ri Pak  69.21

3 Dottie Pepper 70.60

4 Kris Tschetter 70.36

5 Karrie Webb 70.48

PGA SENIOR

1 Gil Morgan 69.00

2 Larry Nelson 69.14

3 Hale Irwin 69.33

4 Jose Maria Canizares 69.48

5 Allen Doyle 69.57

SPOTLIGHT

ANNIKA SORENSTAM

Another week and another golfer taking a shot at history. Only this week it's Annika Sorenstam, who is in the midst of a Tiger Woods-like assault on the LPGA Tour record book. Sorenstam is seeking a fourth consecutive victory this weekend at Wilshire Country Club, which would tie her with Hall of Famers Mickey Wright and Kathy Whitworth as the only LPGA players to win four consecutively scheduled tour events.

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