Five winners from last season are scheduled to be in the field at the Lawrence Futures Tour Classic next week at Eagle Bend. Among them is a golfer who has competed at Eagle Bend before.

Naree Song and her twin sister, Aree Song, battled for the title of the American Junior Golf Assn.’s Lucent Technologies event at the Lawrence municipal course in the summer of 2000. At the time, the twins, then 14 years old, went by their full names of Song Wongluekeit.

Naree shot an even-par 72 on the final day of the 54-hole tournament and finished with a 211, one stroke ahead of Aree. Third place, four strokes back of Naree, was Virada Nirapathpongporn, who won her first Futures Tour event last week in McAllen, Texas.

Naree Song won the 2004 Futures event in Merrillville, Ind. Aree is on the LPGA Tour. The Song sisters will celebrate their 19th birthdays Sunday.

The other four ’04 Futures winners expected to participate here next week are:

• Hong Mei Yang of China. In winning last year at El Paso, Texas, Yang became the first Chinese professional to win in America. Her victory in El Paso, in her debut on the Futures Tour, drew wide news coverage in her homeland because China is a newcomer to women’s golf.
• Erica Blasberg of Corona, Calif. She left Arizona University after two seasons and won her second Future Tour event in New Hampshire with a second-round score of 10-under-par 62, setting a Futures Tour 18-hole record.
• Danielle Downey of Spencerport, N.Y. After playing collegiately at Auburn University, she won the Lima Memorial Hospital Futures Classic in Lima, Ohio.

Who: Golfers on the official developmental tour of the LPGAWhen: May 6-8Where: Eagle BendAlso: Practice rounds Monday-Wednesday; junior clinic Wednesday; pro-ams Thursday

• Courtney Wood of Brentwood, Tenn. A 2004 rookie out of Vanderbilt University, Wood won her first professional title in Beltsville, Md.

Many of the participants in this weekend’s El Paso Classic will make the long drive to Lawrence in time for Monday’s practice round. Others won’t arrive for practice until Tuesday or Wednesday. Also on tap Wednesday is a junior clinic at 4 p.m.

Pro-ams will be Thursday morning and afternoon at the course, located adjacent of Clinton Lake’s dam.

The 54-hole inaugural Lawrence Futures Classic will begin a week from today with 18 holes and continue May 7-8.