Annika Sorenstam is in and Lorena Ochoa is out on the preliminary list of golfers committed to playing the SBS Open at Turtle Bay, which opens the LPGA season Feb. 14 to 16 at the resort's Palmer Course. The list is not final until Tuesday.

The SBS is in its fourth year and this will be the first time Sorenstam, one of the most dominant golfers in LPGA history, will play. Tour rules require her to play in each event at least once every four years,

Sorenstam, 37, has won 69 tournaments, including 10 majors, and eight Player of the Year awards. She is the LPGA's career money leader, with nearly $21 million. She struggled with a back injury last year and played in just 13 events, going winless for the first time since 1994. Sorenstam won 11 events in 2002 and 10 in 2005.

This would be the first SBS Open Ochoa has missed. She tied for 14th at the inaugural event, won by Jennifer Rosales. The following year she was eliminated in a playoff ultimately won by Joo Mi Kim. Last year Ochoa tied for fourth, four shots behind winner Paula Creamer.

Ochoa surpassed Sorenstam to become the world's top-ranked female golfer last April. She has been the LPGA Player of the Year the past two seasons, and became the first to win more than $3 million last year when she won eight times.

Creamer will defend her title at the $1.1 million SBS Open. She beat Julieta Granada by one shot last year. The field also includes Turtle Bay's Dorothy Delasin, Kapalua's Morgan Pressel, Rosales, Granada, Natalie Gulbis, Ai Miyazato, Suzann Pettersen, former Hawai'i resident Grace Park and former Rainbow Wahine Cindy Rarick.

Stacy Prammanasudh, who won last year's Fields Open in Hawai'i, will play at Turtle Bay prior to defending her title at Ko Olina Feb. 21 to 23.

Reach Ann Miller at amiller@honoluluadvertiser.com.