Golf this week

Quotable

"(Growing up), every time I'd leave here I'd go back to the putting green or the driving range and pretend I was winning the tournament. I thought how cool that would be someday if I could be one of those guys and play against the best players in the world." — J.J. Henry, who became the first Connecticut native to win the 55-year-old Buick Championship, staged in Cromwell, Conn.

Player of the week

ANNIKA SORENSTAM

It took her 10 years, but Annika Sorenstam finally won her third U.S. Women's Open. Sorenstam defeated Pat Hurst in an 18-hole playoff at the famed Newport Country Club in Rhode Island, giving her 10 major victories.

This week

PGA TOUR

Tournament: Western Open

Course: Cog Hill Golf and Country Club, Dubsdread Course (Lemont, Ill.)

When: Thursday-Sunday

Purse: $5 million

Winner's share: $900,000

Last year: Jim Furyk won his 10th PGA Tour title and first since the 2003 Buick Open, holding off three-time champion Tiger Woods by two strokes.

Of note: Woods and Phil Mickelson are making their first starts since the U.S. Open . . . Woods, the 1997, 1999 and 2003 winner, matched Scott Hoch's 2001 tournament record in 2003, finishing at 267.

CHAMPIONS TOUR

Tournament: U.S. Senior Open

Course: Prairie Dunes Country Club (Hutchinson, Kan.)

When: Thursday-Sunday

Purse: $2.6 million

Winner's share: $470,000

Last year: Allen Doyle won his third senior major title, shattering the tournament final-round record with an 8-under 63 at NCR Country Club in Kettering, Ohio.

Of note: Fred Funk is making his Champions Tour debut. The seven-time PGA Tour winner also is scheduled to play next week in the Ford Senior Players Championship in Dearborn, Mich.

LPGA TOUR

Tournament: HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship