MasterCard Championship at Hualalai

(Kaupulehu-Kona, Hawaii)  -- The field is set for the 2006 MasterCard Championship at Hualalai with 36 players competing for $1.7 million in prize money.  This year's championship, the first of 29 official Charles Schwab Cup events, returns to Hualalai Golf Club January 16-22.

  The field for this year's championship follows:

-  Ben Crenshaw*  -  Wayne Levi  -  Craig Stadler
-  Allen Doyle   -  Bruce Lietzke -  Curtis Strange*
-  David Eger   -  Mark McNulty  -  Ron Streck
-  Bruce Fleisher  -  Gil Morgan  -  Bruce Summerhays
-  Bob Gilder   -  Larry Nelson  -  Doug Tewell
-  Stewart Ginn   -  Pete Oakley  -  Jim Thorpe
-  Jay Haas   -  Gary Player*  -  Lanny Wadkins*
-  Hale Irwin   -  Don Pooley  -  Tom Watson
-  John Jacobs   -  Tom Purtzer  -  D.A. Weibring
-  Peter Jacobsen  -  Dana Quigley  -  Fuzzy Zoeller
-  Tom Jenkins   -  Mike Reid   
-  Mark Johnson   -  Loren Roberts  
-  Tom Kite   -  Des Smyth  

*Sponsor Invitees 

The MasterCard Championship at Hualalai features winners of Champions Tour major championships of the last five years (2001-2005) and winners of Champions Tour official money cosponsored and approved tournaments of the last two years (2004-2005), plus four tournament invitees.