LAURA DAVIES AND TRISH JOHNSON IN LEGENDS TOUR OPEN FIELD THIS WEEKEND IN FLORIDA

 By LISA MICKEY

Pairings have been set for the Legends Tour’s ISPS Handa Legends Tour Open Championship.

The 36-hole event will be played this weekend (Nov. 9-10) on the Island Course at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida.

The fifth annual event will offer a purse of $200,000, with the winner taking home a prize check of $30,000.

The championship will conclude the 2013 season for the Legends Tour, the official senior tour of the LPGA.

England’s Laura Davies returns as the event’s defending champion. She won the 2012 Legends Tour Open Championship by two strokes over runners-up Beth Daniel and Barb Moxness.

One of five LPGA and World Golf Hall of Famers in the championship, Daniel hopes to secure her first Legends Tour win. She has four top-10 finishes in five starts of stroke-play events on the Legends Tour and has finished in the top five in two appearances at the season-ending tournament.

Hall of Famers joining Daniel in this year’s tournament field will be: Pat Bradley, JoAnne Carner, Nancy Lopez and Hollis Stacy. Legends Tour Hall of Fame member Jan Stephenson, whose singles match clenched the World Team’s first ISPS Handa Cup, also will be in the field.

Past champions of the Legends Tour Open include six-time Legends Tour winner Rosie Jones and Michele Redman, career winner of two Legends Tour events.

Both Jones and Redman were tournament winners in 2013 and will join other season winners in the tournament field this week. Those 2013 tournament winners are: Betsy King/Jane Crafter (team event), Nancy Scranton, Alicia Dibos, Sherri Turner, Sherri Steinhauer and Canada’s Lorie Kane, the Legends Tour’s 2013 season money leader.

England’s Trish Johnson will join compatriot Davies in the field. Liselotte Neumann of Sweden, who was the captain of the winning 2013 European Solheim Cup team in August, also will play in this week’s season-ending event.

Georgia native Cindy Schreyer earned a spot in the tournament field in Thursday's 18-hole pre-qualifier. Schreyer carded a 4-under 68 and scored a hole-in-one on the par-3 13^th hole on the Island Course at Innisbrook to advance into the championship.

Here are the ISPS Handa Legends Tour Open Championship first-round pairings:

8:00 AM        Dina Ammaccapane             Laura Shanahan Rowe

8:10 AM        Donna Andrews                    Jean Bartholomew

8:20 AM        Marilyn Lovander                  Kathryn Young Robyn

8:30 AM        Martha Nause                        Cindy Schreyer

8:40 AM        Jenny Lidback                       Cathy Johnston-Forbes

8:50 AM        Jane Crafter                           Lori West

9:00 AM        Judy Dickinson                      Shelley Hamlin

9:10 AM        Allison Finney                        Elaine Crosby

9:20 AM        Trish Johnson                        Cindy Figg-Currier

9:30 AM        Kris Tschetter              Barb Moxness

9:40 AM        Barb Mucha                            Alicia Dibos

9:50 AM        Cindy Rarick                          Laurie Rinker

10:00 AM      Christa Johnson                    Val Skinner

10:10 AM      Sherri Turner                 Danielle Ammaccapane

10:20 AM      Liselotte Neumann                Lorie Kane

10:30 AM      Jan Stephenson                    Nancy Scranton

10:40 AM      Hollis Stacy                            JoAnne Carner

10:50 AM      Michele Redman                   Rosie Jones

11:00 AM      Pat Bradley                            Nancy Lopez

11:10 AM      Beth Daniel                            Laura Davies