Tickets are on sale for the PGA Tour's season-opening SBS Championship at Kapalua's Plantation Course, Jan. 7 to 10. The $5.6 million event is for the previous year's champions.

Along with a new title sponsor, there are new ticket options, including "Good Any Day" and "Weekender" passes. The Weekender costs $90 and has two Saturday and two Sunday tickets, four lunch coupons at Spectator Village and a 15-percent discount in the merchandise tent. After Jan. 3, the Weekender ticket goes up to $125.

Good Any Day passes provide access to the Pro-Am, first or second rounds for $15 in advance or $20 at the gate. Third- or fourth-round Good Any day passes are $20 each in advance or $30 at the gate.

Season passes are available and provide unlimited access, including practice rounds, pro-am and the four competition rounds. The cost is $55. After Jan. 3, the price increases to $80.

Advance ticket prices are available online only at http://www.kapalua.com. Tickets bought online can be transferred by e-mail, and lost and stolen tickets can be replaced.

Tickets will also be available at the gate. Children under the age of 16 enter free with a ticket-holding adult.

WHO'S PLAYING WHERE

Hawai'i's Mari Chun, Ayaka Kaneko, Shayna Miyajima and Lehua Wise are among the 139 hopefuls in next week's LPGA Sectional Qualifying Tournament at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Top finishers in each of two sectional qualifiers advance to the Final Qualifying Tournament in December.

The qualifier starts next Thursday and the field is cut to the low 70 and ties after Friday's second round. The top 30 and ties advance. The second sectional is Sept. 29 to Oct. 2 in Florida.

Michelle Wie's last LPGA start before the beginning of her semester at Stanford is this week's P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship. The Punahou graduate is still getting Solheim Cup questions. Yesterday she was asked what it was like to let her personality come out at the international event.

"I actually am that kind of person at the Solheim Cup," Wie said. "It's just when there's 125,000 fans around you and the stakes are that high, you kind of get elevated a little bit. I mean I am that person, but obviously playing in that situation brings it out as well. But I'm like that in other things that I do, you know, pretty not emotional, but I like to show my emotion from time to time, but at the same time I'm just like ... I guess I'm just kind of chilled or whatever. But there's nothing chilled about that week. Everything is high stake, and everything is very high and very low, which really got to me."

Moanalua graduate Tadd Fujikawa is playing the Nationwide Tour's Utah Classic, beginning today at Willow Creek Country Club in Sandy. Fujikawa tees off at 10:20 a.m. HST today and 5:30 a.m. tomorrow.

Punahou junior Alina Ching tied for 32nd in the team portion of last week's Champions Tour Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach. Ching and senior Mark Wiebe shot 5-under-par 67 at Pebble Friday and 2-under 70 at the Old Del Monte Course Saturday. Ching's caddie was her high school coach, Ed Kageyama.

Hawai'i Bev Kim and Shigeru Matsui play in the 48th USGA Women's and 55th USGA Senior Amateurs, starting Saturday. Kim is on the Homestead's Cascade Course in Hot Springs, Va. Matsui is playing at Beverly Country Club in Chicago. Format is 36 holes of stroke play, with the top 64 advancing to match play.

FUNDRAISER

The Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort & Spa is hoping to raise more than the $53,000 it earned last year for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Hawai'i, at the third annual Swing for Wishes! Golf Tournament, Oct. 15 at Hawai'i Prince Golf Club. For more information, or to become a sponsor, contact James Michael Kaleo Te'o at 237-6105 or sfwhnlrw@hyatt.com.