Angela Stanford's win yesterday was her fifth consecutive Top 5 finish.  She's collected two wins, one runner-up, one third and one fourth during that stretch.  When my final 2008 rankings come out next week, Angela will be among the Top 10.

Katherine Hull is listed today as having finished at -8, tied for fourth with four other players.  Her scorecard now shows a bogey at the par-4 11^th.  She definitely played 11 in four shots so a penalty stroke was assessed.  There is no mention of it in the post-round notes at LPGA.com but when I hear an explanation, I'll pass it along.

Brittany Lang's tie for second was her fifth straight Top 10 finish.  Before this stretch, she had never even had back-to-back Top 10s.  During her post-round interview on GC, Brittany said she is playing her best golf ever - the numbers certainly agree with her. 

Lorena Ochoa wasn't my first choice to win (considering all of the distractions) but her T14 finish wasn't expected either.  Dottie Pepper mentioned several times that Lorena was having trouble with the greens playing slower than normal.  Somebody needs to tell the course super to give the hostess her home-course advantage back next year!  It was Ochoa's second straight finish outside the Top 10, which hadn't happened since March 2006.

I'm going well outside the Top 10 this week to award the Big Surprise.  In a 36-player field where nearly all of her opponents ranked among the top 40 in the world, Sophia Sheridan finished alone in 27^th place - ahead of Suzann Pettersen, Song-Hee Kim, Laura Diaz, and Candie Kung.  I would have put 1-1 odds on Sophia finishing dead last but she surprised me and I'm sure her finish pleased the hostess.  All four of those players I just mentioned get to share this week's Big Disappointment.

Other websites have made plenty of comments on American media outlets being overly America-centric when it comes to reporting on women's golf (especially in regards to ignoring Asian players) so I usually don't bring that subject up very much.  But a Golf Central Update on GC late yesterday afternoon struck me as very odd.  The 5:30pm EST Update was a 60-second piece entirely focused on Cristie Kerr, with highlights of her win at the Safeway Classic (eleven weeks ago!) which ended with the statement that Kerr was "in contention" at the Ochoa Invitational.  At the moment this piece aired, Cristie was in the clubhouse at -5 - a full eight shots behind the leader who had only two holes to play.  It may have been simply a production mistake along the lines of playing a video clip in a time slot about two hours (or two days) too late.  But it came across as another example of American media doing something/anything to pump up American players to their dwindling audience.