Phil Mickelson is in the mix at the FBR Open after early trouble, trailing by three strokes in Scottsdale.

Davis Love III plans to play next week at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, his first tournament since he had surgery on his left ankle to repair torn tendons. "I'm eager to get back into competition and get this year started," Love said Thursday. "I have some goals I want to achieve in 2008 and beyond, so I am excited to get back into the mix." He has some catching up to do. Love was No.

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How do you improve on an 8-shot win? Try shooting a 7-under 65 four days later to take a 2-shot lead in Dubai.

Tiger Woods shot a 7-under 65 to take a two-stroke clubhouse lead in the first round of the Dubai Desert Classic. "I had two good days of practice the last couple days and started to hit the ball a lot better than I did last week," Woods said after the bogey-free round at the Emirates Golf Club. Woods, going for a fifth straight tournament victory, won the Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines last week. Woods, the 2006 Dubai winner, was plagued by poor putting last year when he finished third.

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For a change, the FBR Open isn't the biggest show in town, not with the Super Bowl just down the freeway. Still, it's "party on" when the PGA Tour's most raucous event begins a four-day run Thursday at TPC Scottsdale. The FBR draws the largest crowds on the PGA tour. The biggest day is Saturday, when more than 150,000 revelers are expected to attend. Some even watch the golf. Total attendance has topped a half-million each of the past four years.

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Annika Sorenstam will begin the year at the LPGA Tour's season-opening SBS Open, tournament officials said Wednesday. It will be the first Hawaiian appearance in years for the 69-time winner. The Swedish star recently said she planned to enter about 18 to 20 tournaments. She played in only 13 events last year because of neck and back injuries and had one of the worst seasons of her career, going winless for the first time since 1994.

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Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger is switching the format with hopes of giving his American team an edge, going back to alternate shot in the opening matches for the first time since 1999. "I felt like the Americans had an edge in alternate shot," Azinger said Wednesday at the FBR Open. "And I think it's partly responsible for why Europe has gotten off to a pretty hot start." The Ryder Cup will be played Sept. 19-21 at Valhalla, and the home captain gets to decide the order.

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After Tiger tore apart the field at the Buick, there's no question who's No. 1 as Sports Xchange lists its Top 20.

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Michelle Wie will begin her golf season in Hawaii for the fifth straight year, this time against the women. Wie accepted a sponsor's exemption Monday to play in The Fields Open at Ko Olina, hopeful of getting her career back on track after a troublesome season of injuries, missed cuts and withdrawls. An 18-year-old first-year studged at Stanford University, Wie has started her season at the Sony Open on the U.S.

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Tiger Woods tied Arnold Palmer with his 62nd PGA Tour victory. Hear from Woods after winning his fourth consecutive Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines.