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Lorena Ochoa Invitational - 1st Round

An octet of players - that would be eight of them - posted 68 today to tie for the lead at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.  Annika Sorenstam, Yani Tseng, Seon Hwa Lee, Angela Stanford, Hee-Won Han, Karen Stupples, Nicole Castrale and Brittany Lang lead the way with four other players one shot behind.  The rest of the scores are after the jump:

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69  Na Yeon Choi, Jee Young Lee, Sophie Gustafson, Meena Lee

70  Helen Alfredsson, In-Kyung Kim, Laura Diaz, Ji Young Oh

70  Christina Kim, Sun Young Yoo

71  Cristie Kerr, Eun-Hee Ji, Katherine Hull, Juli Inkster

72  Teresa Lu

73  Lorena Ochoa, Jeong Jang, Song-Hee Kim, Angela Park

74  Inbee Park, Maria Hjorth, Candie Kung, Jane Park, Marisa Baena

75  Paula Creamer, Suzann Pettersen, Laura Davies

76  Sophia Sheridan

Sorenstam chipped in for birdies at 12 and 18.  Stupples eagled the par-4 14th while Seon Hwa carded a more conventional one at the par-5 3rd hole.  Han and Castrale were the only leaders to play bogey-free.  Lang birdied four of the last five holes to reach -4.

Ochoa had to birdie 18 - only her second of the day - to get home in 73.  The Golf Channel commentators mentioned one factor which might have been working against Lorena today - she usually plays Guadalahara CC from "the tips" so the shorter yardages of the LPGA setup could have thrown off her home-course advantage!

As might be expected, Futures Tour invitee Sophia Sheridan brought up the rear but she actually was quite competitive with Ochoa and Creamer in the final group and stayed within a shot of her more famous playing partners the entire day.  A double-bogey at 8 was Sophia's primary undoing.

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did you see how Candie Kung got that 8?

she had a pretty decent round, otherwise.

Eun-Hee Ji had a bogey-free round, bu that 1 double dropped her 3 shots back.

looks like a 72-hole free-for-all is shaping up!

http://mlyhlss.blogspot.com/2008/11/lorena-ochoa-invitational-thursday-fast.html

by The Constructivist on Nov 13, 2008 5:32 PM PST reply actions  

didn't see Kung's double

Either I missed it or GC didn’t show it. Not to pick nits but since Ji had a double-bogey, she didn’t have a bogey-free round.

by hound dog on Nov 14, 2008 4:19 AM PST up reply actions  

is a double bogey a bogey?

I always thought of them as different things!

by The Constructivist on Nov 14, 2008 9:02 AM PST up reply actions  

they are different...

But since they both have the term “bogey” in them, I’ve never been comfortable calling a round “bogey-less” if it has a double (or triple or worse) in it.

by hound dog on Nov 14, 2008 10:17 AM PST up reply actions  

What a crazy weekend this is going to be. Over at PackPicker I am sure everyone has at least one pick sitting in the #1 spot. There could be some wild swings in the coming days. I agree with Constuctivist that at this point, pretty much everyone is still in it.

Rjay

by rjay on Nov 13, 2008 6:30 PM PST reply actions  

golf channel

So, I’m watching my DVR’d Golf Channel coverage of Lorena’s tournament last night when at about 20 minutes into the program I realized I had yet to see an Asian golfer despite them being in evidence all up and down the leaderboard. They finally showed an I.K. Kim shot at the 30 minute mark. The next Asian shown (sorry I forget who, maybe Seon Hwa Lee?) was at the 1 hour 7 minute mark.

Did anyone else notice that? Is GC trying to “hide” the Asians in the hope the casual audience will stick around longer?

Truth has a well-known liberal bias.

by dianemarie on Nov 14, 2008 5:58 AM PST reply actions  

don't have GC...

…but they sure make an effort to keep any Asians out of Golf Central highlight reels that I’ve seen online—pretty consistently since the big English policy push got pushed back.

At least they showed Choi’s eagle on 18:

http://www.thegolfchannel.com/core.aspx?page=26000&select2=10972

by The Constructivist on Nov 14, 2008 9:13 AM PST up reply actions  

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