By Greg Robertson
ESPN Golf Online
Tuesday, April 25

Details
When	Friday-Sunday
Course	TPC at Summerlin, Las Vegas
Par/Yardage	Par 72; 6,963 yards
Purse	$1.4 million (Winner: $210,000)
1999 champion	Vicente Fernandez
Tournament record	13-under 203 (Al Geiberger, 1987; Raymond Floyd, 1994)
Television	Friday: 3-5 p.m. ET (ESPN) Saturday-Sunday: 5:30-7 p.m. ET (ESPN)

The tournament

	Hole by hole
	Hole	Par	Yards
	1	4	408
	2	4	424
	3	5	492
	4	4	429
	5	3	187
	6	4	407
	7	4	382
	8	3	190
	9	5	531
	Out	36	3450
	10	4	420
	11	4	415
	12	4	413
	13	5	579
	14	3	156
	15	4	341
	16	5	560
	17	3	196
	18	4	433
	In	36	3513
	Total	72	6963

The Senior Tour leaves the misery of weather problems for an oasis of sun in Las Vegas this week.

Seven weather delays and nine inches of rain played havoc with last week's PGA Seniors' Championship, turning the year's second major into a five-day, 54-hole event won by Doug Tewell.

The first-time Senior Tour winner hopes to continue his hot streak in Las Vegas, which features a new format this season. Formerly a 72-hole event played on two courses, this year's edition has switched to a 54-hole format on a single course, the TPC at Summerlin.

The TPC at The Canyons had been used exclusively or in combination with Summerlin the past three years.

Most of the top players on the Senior Tour are in the field this week, with only three players in the top 25 on the money list not entered. Tom Kite, Tom Watson and John Bland are skipping this week.

That leaves defending champion Vicente Fernandez with plenty of competition, including former champions Hale Irwin and Jim Colbert. Irwin won back-to-back Vegas titles in 1997 and 1998, while Colbert pulled off the same trick in 1995 and 1996.

Bruce Fleisher, Dana Quigley, Allen Doyle, Larry Nelson, Gil Morgan, Bruce Summerhays and Lanny Wadkins are among the top players in the field.

The TPC at Summerlin is one of the longest courses the Seniors will play this season, but the 6,963 yards are somewhat deceiving. At nearly 3,000 feet, the altitude and dry air will make the ball carry as much as one club farther.

The key to Summerlin is the weather. When the wind blows -- which it usually does at some point during the week -- it becomes a monster of a course. When it's still, however, the wide fairways and accessible greens make for good scoring opportunities.

The stop in Las Vegas is a one-week stint on the West Coast for the Seniors, who head back to Alabama next week for the Bruno's Memorial Classic, then on to North Carolina for the Home Depot Invitational.