PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

* Where: Mamaroneck, N.Y.

* Course: Winged Foot Golf Club, West Course (6,987 yards, par 70).

* When: Today-Sunday.

* Purse: To be announced ($2.4 million in 1996).

* Winner’s share: To be announced ($430,000 in 1996).

* Television: TBS (Today-Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 8-10:30 a.m.) and Channel 2 (Saturday-Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.).

* Last year: Mark Brooks won with a five-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff with Kenny Perry. Brooks closed with a two-under 70 and Perry shot a 68 for 11-under 277 totals at Valhalla in Louisville, Ky.

* Last weekend: Fiji’s Vijay Singh won the Buick Open at Grand Blanc, Mich., closing with a six-under 66 for a four-stroke victory over six players. Singh had a 15-under 273 total.

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FAST FACTS

* Tiger Woods earned $43,500 for an eighth-place tie in the Buick Open to break the PGA Tour’s single-season money record. He has $1,821,895 in 15 starts. Tom Lehman set the previous mark of $1,780,159 in 22 events last year. Woods has six victories and $2,611,789 in earnings in 23 PGA Tour events as a pro.

* Fuzzy Zoeller won the 1984 U.S. Open at Winged Foot, beating Greg Norman, 67-75, in an 18-hole playoff.

* Hale Irwin’s seven-over total in the 1974 U.S. Open at Winged Foot was the highest winning mark in a major since the 1963 U.S. Open. The 1974 scoring average of 76.99 was highest in relation to par in a major since 1958 U.S. Open.

* The A.W. Tillinghast-designed course also was the site of two other U.S. Opens, with Bobby Jones winning in 1929 and Billy Casper in 1959.

* Jack Nicklaus, 57, a five-time winner, is making his 152nd consecutive start in a major championship for which he has been eligible. He is trying to make the cut in all four majors for the first time since 1991. . . . The tournament is the final event in the points race for the 10 automatic berths on the U.S. Ryder Cup team.

* The winner receives a 10-year tour exemption. The top eight qualify for the Masters and the top 15 and ties earn spots in the 1998 tournament at Sahalee in Redmond, Wash.

* Bruce Zabriski won the PGA Club Professional Championship at Pinehurst, N.C., to top the 25 qualifiers. Zabriski is an assistant pro at nearby Westchester Country Club, site of the PGA Tour’s Buick Classic.

* The PGA was contested at match play from 1916 to 1957.

TEE TIMES

First- and second-round tee times (times Pacific):

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Today Friday Threesomes 3:40 a.m. 7:52 a.m. Ron Philo, John Hickson, Rob Wilkin 3:49 a.m. 8:01 a.m. Doug Martin, Mike Standly,Ignacio Garrido 3:58 a.m. 8:10 a.m. Brandel Chamblee, Pete Jordan, Ronnie Black 4:07 a.m. 8:19 a.m. Mike Brisky, Kevin Sutherland, Len Mattiace 4:16 a.m. 8:28 a.m. Wayne Grady, Hal Sutton, John Mahaffey 4:25 a.m. 8:37 a.m. Darren Clarke, Phil Mickelson, Nick Faldo 4:34 a.m. 8:46 a.m. Per-Ulrik Johansson, Ben Crenshaw, Craig Stadler 4:43 a.m. 8:55 a.m. Bob Tway, Paul Azinger, John Daly 4:52 a.m. 9:04 a.m. Andrew Magee, Paul Goydos, Duffy Waldorf 5:10 a.m. 9:22 a.m. Fred Couples, Jesper Parnevik, Frank Nobilo 5:19 a.m. 9:31 a.m. Clarence Rose, Ed Fiori, Dudley Hart 5:28 a.m. 9:40 a.m. Payne Stewart, Nick Price, Steve Elkington 5:37 a.m. 9:49 a.m. Stuart Appleby, Joe Ozaki, Tim Herron 5:46 a.m. 9:58 a.m. Brad Faxon, Lee Westwood, Tom Watson 5:55 a.m. 10:07 a.m. Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Justin Leonard 6:04 a.m. 10:16 a.m. Larry Mize, Jay Haas, Curtis Strange 6:13 a.m. 10:25 a.m. Tommy Tolles, David Duval, Robert Damron 6:31 a.m. 10:43 a.m. Tom Kite, Lanny Wadkins, Jeff Sluman 6:40 a.m. 10:52 a.m. Darrell Kestner, Russ Cochran, Kirk Triplett 6:49 a.m. 11:01 a.m. Vijay Singh,Ian Woosnam, Lee Janzen 6:58 a.m. 11:10 a.m. Don Pooley, Jim Carter, Chris Perry 7:07 a.m. 11:19 a.m. Kelly Gibson, Billy Andrade, Tom Byrum 7:16 a.m. 11:28 a.m. Brian Henninger, Mike Hulbert, Jay Don Blake 7:25 a.m. 11:37 a.m. Mike Burke Jr., Frank Dobbs, John Mazza 7:34 a.m. 11:46 a.m. Steve Schneiter, Jay Overton, Bret Taylor 7:52 a.m. 3:40 a.m. Christopher Toulson, John Stone, Mark Fuller 8:01 a.m. 3:49 a.m. James D. Mason, Pete Oakley, Bob Boyd 8:10 a.m. 3:58 a.m. Peter Senior, Mark O’Meara, Costantino Rocca 8:19 a.m. 4:07 a.m. Olin Browne, Sam Torrance, Jim Furyk 8:28 a.m. 4:16 a.m. Fred Funk, Billy Mayfair, Guy Boros 8:37 a.m. 4:25 a.m. Craig Parry, Scott Hoch, Yoshinori Kaneko 8:46 a.m. 4:34 a.m. Paul Stankowski, John Cook, Lee Rinker 5:55 a.m. 4:43 a.m. Jose Maria Olazabal, Mark Wiebe, Jeff Maggert 6:04 a.m. 4:52 a.m. Michael Bradley, Peter Jacobsen, Phil Blackmar 6:22 a.m. 5:10 a.m. Bruce Zabriski, Joey Sindelar, Brian Watts 6:31 a.m. 5:19 a.m. Mark Brooks, Jack Nicklaus, Larry Nelson 6:40 a.m. 5:28 a.m. Rick Fehr, Steve Jones, Scott McCarron 6:49 a.m. 5:37 a.m. Hale Irwin, Fuzzy Zoeller, Bernhard Langer 6:58 a.m. 5:46 a.m. Steve Stricker, Peter Lonard, Shigeki Maruyama 7:07 a.m. 5:55 a.m. Tom Lehman, Greg Norman, Colin Montgomerie 7:16 a.m. 3:04 a.m. Eduardo Romero, David Toms, David Ogrin 7:25 a.m. 3:13 a.m. Davis Love III, Paul Broadhurst, Loren Roberts 7:43 a.m. 3:31 a.m. Kenny Perry, Billy Ray Brown, Steve Lowery 7:52 a.m. 3:40 a.m. Mark Calcavecchia, Taylor Smith, David Frost 11:01 a.m. 3:49 a.m. Frankie Minoza, Jerry Kelly, Robert Allenby 11:10 a.m. 3:58 a.m. Robert Gamez, Padraig Harrington, Carlos Franco 11:19 a.m. 7:07 a.m. Retief Goosen, Thomas Bjorn, Stewart Cink 11:28 a.m. 7:16 a.m. Shawn Kelly, John Paesani, Jeffrey Lankford 11:37 a.m. 7:25 a.m. Bob Ford, John Lee, Chris Tucker 11:46 a.m. 7:34 a.m. Bob Makoski, Jim White, Bob Sowards

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