SINGAPORE -- Grace Park hopes to end an injury-hampered, lackluster season by helping Asia wrest the women's golf Ryder Cup-style Lexus Cup from top-ranked Annika Sorenstam's International team this week.

South Korea's Park has had six LPGA Tour victories -- but her last win was in 2004, the same year she rose to second place on the money list behind Sorenstam.

"It all started out with some injuries, recurring injuries, and then I had to take a few weeks off here and there and just couldn't really come back strong on the course," Park said of her season Thursday. "I got burned out, I'd been competitive for too long,"

The U.S. $960,000 Lexus Cup tees off Friday, with each member of the winning team will pocketing U.S. $50,000. Park, who is again leading the Asian team, said she was refreshed after a three-month break in the middle of the season to treat her back and neck injuries.

"Now I'm back. I can't say I'm physically fit to compete yet because I took so much time off, but I'm ready to start working on it and I've got my hunger back for the game," she said. "We're going to play better, and we're going to win."

Along with Park, the Asian team includes 11 players, including South Korean stars Hee-Won Han and Se Ri Pak, ninth and 13th on the money list respectively.

Sorenstam, meanwhile, describes her season as "up and down" despite three wins in official LPGA events this year and nearly U.S. $2 million in Tour earnings.

Sorenstam captains an International team which features Paula Creamer, ADT Champion Julieta Granada of Paraguay, Natalie Gulbis, Morgan Pressel and veteran Laura Davies of England.

Last year, Sorenstam beat Park 2 and 1, and Creamer routed Birdie Kim 7 and 5 to help the International team win eight of 12 singles matches for a 16-8 victory in the inaugural event at the Tanah Merah Country Club.

Sorenstam's dominance on the Tour was tested this year by a couple of players, including Mexico's world No. 2-ranked Lorena Ochoa, who ended the Swede's five-year reign of the U.S. LPGA Tour's Player of the Year.

"I had some tournaments that were not so great. When I have some time off I'm going to think about what happened this year and figure out what my goals are next year, and hopefully come out a lot stronger than I did this year," Sorenstam said.

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