This Week August 5-11

PGA

Buick Open, Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club, Grand Blanc, Mich.
Vijay Singh beware—nobody has won back-to-back Buicks since Tony Lema in 1964 and '65

LPGA

Star Bank Classic, Country Club of the North, Beavercreek, Ohio
With Se Hi Pak and Annika Sorenstam out, Donna Andrews is the top-ranked Star Bank star

Senior

Burnet Classic, Bunker Hills Golf Club, Coon Rapids, Minn.
Jim Colbert, Dave Stockton and Lee Trevino hope to relieve the Irwin-Morgan monotony

Europe

German Open, the Sporting Club, Berlin
Defending champ Ignacio Garrido will be keeping one eye on six-time winner Bernhard Langer

PGA Tour
Gentlemen, Heft Your Drivers
In his 17 years as a pro, Vijay Singh has won two Buick Classics, a Buick Open, two Volvos—the Open di Firenze and the German Open—and a Toyota World Match Play Championship. That's why he can afford to drive a Range Rover. After winning the 1997 Buick Open (above), Singh narrowly missed at the Honda Classic this year, but he has earned $743,853 in '98 and merits the pole position at the Buick Open. With many big wheels bypassing Warwick Hills to tune up for next week's PGA, Singh has a souped-up import from the Japanese tour to contend with: Brian Watts, playing on a sponsor's exemption after his British Open heroics. Late entry Tiger Woods is no jalopy either.
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LPGA
Bonus Compounds Interest in Star Bank
Star Bank officials felt shortchanged last week when the supremely bankable Se Ri Pak made an untimely withdrawal. Still, their tournament has something in reserve—a $100,000 bonus for the winner. The fine print: She must have won at least once before in '98. That puts Donna Andrews, Brandie Burton, Dale Eggeling, Tammie Green, Pat Hurst, Rosie Jones and Lisa Walters in line for the dividend, but leaves Colleen Walker locked out. The defending champ is win-less this year after banking the bonus last summer.