LPGA Tour

Published 5:00 am Wednesday, April 18, 2012

LPGA LOTTE CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Kapolei, Hawaii.

Schedule: Wednesday-Saturday.

Course: Ko Olina Golf Club (6,421 yards, par 72).

Purse: $1.7 million. Winner’s share: $255,000.

Television: Golf Channel (Wednesday-Friday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon, 3:30-6:30 p.m., 9 p.m.-midnight; Sunday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.).

Last year: Inaugural event.

Last event: Sun Young Yoo won the Kraft Nabisco Championship on April 1 with an 18-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole, earning her first major title after I.K. Kim missed a 1-foot putt on the final hole of regulation. Yoo and Kim finished at 9 under, a stroke ahead of top-ranked Yani Tseng.

Notes: Tseng has won three of the first six events this year. The Taiwanese star led the tour last season with seven victories — including major wins in the LPGA Championship and Women’s British Open — and finished the year with 12 worldwide titles. She has 15 career LPGA Tour titles. … Michelle Wie, from Hawaii, has missed the cuts in her last two starts. … Ko Olina was the site of LPGA Tour events in 1990-95 and 2006-08. Paula Creamer in 2008. … The Mobile Bay LPGA Classic is next week in Alabama.