This week: PGA Tour's Buick Invitational, Thursday through Sunday, Torrey Pines North and South Courses, San Diego.

World rankings: Moore is 144th; Kelly 1,170th.

Moore's 2009 earnings: $194,250 (32nd on the PGA Tour).

Kelly's 2009 earnings: $11,178 (142nd on the PGA Tour).

Last tournament: For the second time in his career, Moore shot every round of a tournament in the 60s – 69-67-68-69 at last week's FBR Open at TPC Scottsdale to finished tied for sixth. Seven of the Puyallup golfer's eight rounds this season have been in the 60s in fact. … Kelly's last appearance was an abbreviated one – he missed the cut (2-over 290) at the Bob Hope Classic in late January. The Tacoma native did not get into last week's FBR Open.

Moore's tee time Thursday: 8:40 a.m. PST off the North Course's 10th tee with Joe Durant and Lucas Glover.

Kelly's tee time Thursday: 10:30 a.m. PST off the North Course's 10th tee with Gregor Main and Aron Price.

Event: Nationwide Tour's Panama Digicel Championship at Panama Golf Club, Panama City.

2009 earnings: First tournament.

Stat of the week: The Tacoma golfer was ninth in all-around ranking in 2008, but 52nd in earnings ($130,981).

Tee time Thursday: 9:40 a.m. PST.

PGA TOUR's Buick Invitational

Site: San Diego.

Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.

Courses: Torrey Pines, South Course (7,568 yards, par 72) and North Course (6,915 yards, par 72).

Purse: $5.3 million. Winner’s share: $954,000.

Television (all times PST): Golf Channel (Thursday, noon-3 p.m., 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Friday, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m., noon-3 p.m., 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9 p.m.-midnight, 10-11:30 a.m., 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Sunday, 10-11:30 a.m., 6:30-8:30 p.m.) and CBS (Saturday, noon-3 p.m.; Sunday, noon-3:30 p.m.).

Last year: Tiger Woods won the tournament for the fourth straight year and sixth time overall, opening his season with an eight-stroke victory. Woods won again at Torrey Pines in June, beating Rocco Mediate in a playoff at the U.S. Open. He had knee surgery a week later and will not play the Buick Invitational this year as he continues to recover.

Last week: Kenny Perry won the FBR Open in Scottsdale, Ariz., beating Charley Hoffman with a 22-foot birdie putt on the third hole of a playoff. The 48-year-old Perry has 13 PGA Tour victories.

Notes: Woods is missing the Buick Invitational for the first time since 1997. … British Open and PGA winner Padraig Harrington is making his first PGA Tour start of the season. … Phil Mickelson, the winner of his hometown event in 1993, 2000 and 2001, also is in the field along with Retief Goosen and Camilo Villegas. So is Puyallup's Ryan Moore, who considers this venue one of his favorites. … Mickelson missed the cut last week in Scottsdale, shooting 76 and 72 in his season debut. … Goosen won the Sunshine Tour’s Africa Open on Jan. 18. … The final two rounds will be played on the South Course. … The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is next week, followed by the Northern Trust Open at Riviera.

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