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Justin Timberlake will join the ranks of notables such as Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. by becoming the 14th celebrity to  host a PGA Tour event. The 26-year-old singer has signed a five year contract and will begin with hosting the 2008 event in Las Vegas, which will be renamed the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

“We will make sure to make this event unique and memorable, and we will raise money for charity while participating in the greatest game ever played,” Timberlake said in a statement Monday. “Raising money to better children’s lives while playing golf? I can’t think of a better way to pass the time.” Golf Digest’s recent ranking of golf-playing musicians has Timberlake in 15th place with a 6-stroke handicap.

The annual event in Las Vegas has taken place each year since 1983, with Tiger Woods, Greg Norman, Davis Love III, Paul Azinger, Jim Furyk, Curtis Strange and Fuzzy Zoeller among the previous champions. George McNeill won this year’s edition, at the time called the Frys.com Open