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Sunday, October 22

Details
When	Thursday-Sunday
Course	Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove, Mobile, Ala.
Par/Yardage	Par 72; 6,231 yards
Purse	$750,000 (Winner: $122,000)
1999 champion	Akiko Fukushima
Tournament record	272, 16-under (Annika Sorenstam, 1997)
Television	Saturday: 2-4 p.m. ET (Lifetime) Sunday: 4-6 p.m. ET (Lifetime)

The tournament

	Hole by hole
	Hole	Par	Yards
	1	4	387
	2	3	155
	3	4	352
	4	5	448
	5	4	378
	6	5	502
	7	4	365
	8	3	170
	9	4	373
	Out	36	3130
	10	4	380
	11	4	373
	12	4	371
	13	5	486
	14	3	139
	15	4	380
	16	5	463
	17	3	155
	18	4	354
	In	36	3101
	Total	72	6231

Since winning the AFLAC Champions a year ago, Japan's Akiko Fukushima's game has vanished.

A winner of two tournaments last year, she won nearly $500,000 and ranked 15th on the LPGA money list. This year she is winless in 19 tournaments and ranks only 91st in earnings with $89,965. Were she not a defending champion she would not be included in the exclusive field.

Fukushima hopes to change her 2000 fortunes as she looks to become the first player in the event's history to successfully defend the title.

The competition could not be any tougher for Fukushima. The tournament features a limited field of 45 players comprised of LPGA tournament champions and Hall of Fame members. They will be competing for a $122,000 first prize.

At the top of the list are Karrie Webb, a winner of six tournaments on the LPGA Tour this year, and Annika Sorenstam, a five-time winner in 2000 and the champion here in 1997.

Betsy King, Meg Mallon, Laura Davies, Sophie Gustafson and Lorie Kane, all two-time winners this season, are also in the field.

In addition to King, other Hall of Famers competing are Amy Alcott, Pat Bradley, JoAnne Carner, Beth Daniel and Nancy Lopez.

Juli Inkster, coming off a dominating win last week at the Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf, withdrew from the AFLAC Champions following her victory on Sunday.