Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic

• Site: Paradise Island, Bahamas. • Course: Ocean Club GC. Yardage: 6,625. Par: 73.

• Purse: $1.4 million (First place: $210,000).

• Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm; Saturday-Sunday, 3-5 pm).

• Defending champion: Hyo Joo Kim.

• Last tournament: Charley Hull won the CME Group Tour Championship to end the 2016 season.

• Notes: This is the first LPGA Tour event of the year, kicking off an international schedule of four tournaments before its first domestic event on March 16-19 in Phoenix ... Ariya Jutanugarn highlights the field after coming off a season in which she won LPGA Tour player of the year. Also playing is Brooke Henderson of Canada ... Lydia Ko is skipping the tournament ... Four of the top 10 in the world and 10 of the top 20 from last year’s money list are in the field ... US Solheim Cup captain Juli Inkster starts her 35th season on the LPGA Tour by playing in the Bahamas. The Solheim Cup will be played in Iowa in August ... Stacy Lewis is in the field. The Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic was her 11th runnerup finish dating to her last victory in June 2014 at the Walmart Northwest Arkansas Championship ... Natalie Gulbis is playing on a sponsor’s exemption ... Also in the field is Michelle Wie, who hasn’t won since her US Women’s Open title in 2014.

• Online: www.lpga.com