LOOK AT WHAT LOVE BUILT: SINGERS HELP MAINTAIN LPGA EVENT

          The LPGA Tour's Sara Lee Classic event in Nashville,
     TN, which "ended a 12-year run" last spring after title
     sponsor Sara Lee "did not renew its contract," has been
     replaced with the Electrolux USA Championship, hosted by
     Vince Gill and Amy Grant, according to Joe Biddle of the
     Nashville TENNESSEAN.  The new event is a "combination" of
     Gill's annual celebrity tournament and pro-am and the former
     Sara Lee event.  Electrolux USA has signed a three-year
     contract that "guarantees a CBS telecast of the LPGA
     tournament for the first year." The tournament's purse of
     $800,000 is a $50,000 increase from the final Sara Lee
     Classic (Nashville TENNESSEAN, 11/24).  Tournament Dir Clyde
     Russell said the LPGA put the deal together with Charlotte-
     based Raycom Sports "during the past six weeks."  Russell:
     "This is a pretty big statement that even with the Titans,
     the Predators and everything else already here, the LPGA is
     coming back" (Nashville TENNESSEAN, 11/24).