Ladies to play for the big bucks this week at ADT Championship

The money for winning an LPGA event is relatively paltry compared to what the men earn on the PGA Tour. In every PGA tour event, the winner makes over $500,000, and the average winner's take is over $800,000. Meanwhile, on the LPGA, the women rarely take more than $200,000 home for a win, and often much less than that.

This week, however, in which the LPGA culminates its new LPGA Playoffs at the ADT Championship, the ladies with be playing for the big bucks. As detailed here, the "2006 winner of the ADT Championship will earn $1 million, the largest first-place prize in the history of women's golf."

Lorena Ochoa, who I believe has now dethroned Annika Sorenstam as the best female golfer in the world, has to be the favorite going in.