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Player Profiles - Part 8

#38  Meena Lee

Winner of the 2008 Yu Ping Lin Award for leading the Tour in driving accuracy, Meena only finished 40th in Total Driving due to a paltry 237-yard average distance (T140).  Tied for second in Arkansas and tied for fourth at the Ochoa Invitational, the best of her four Top 10 finishes while missing four cuts.  Lee's putting stats this year were the worst of her career - T89 in putting average, T103 in PPGIR - so if she can get that turned around, a Top 30 season is certainly possible in 2009.

#39  Lindsey Wright

By the end of April, Lindsey had three Top 10 finishes (third place at Fields) and was ranked #23 in May.  Then over a 14-event stretch she failed to collect a single Top 10, only making the Top 20 twice and missing four cuts.  Wright finished T9 in China to snap that streak but her subsequent results don't suggest that the hard times are over.

#40  Teresa Lu

This third-year player from Taiwan made one appearance in the Top 30 this year, at #30 in July.  Teresa finished in the Top 10 four times, although three of those were 10th-place finishes.  Her best performance came at the Ginn Open, where she collected a T3 and almost 30% of her season's earnings.  Lu drives the ball well but loses a lot of ground approaching the green (68th in GIR) and loses more while putting.

#43  Hee Young Park

The only fully-exempt Korean rookie this year, Park finished in the Top 10 four times with her T4 at the Bell Micro being her best.  She had missed six cuts by mid-July but missed no more after that and played very well in August and September.  Faded a little over the last five events as rookies often do.

Only two players drove the ball better this year than did Park - Lorena Ochoa and Becky Lucidi.  Her approaches could use a lot of work, as she only came in 43rd in GIR.  If Hee Young can get that number up to where players of her length generally hang out (20th or better), she'll be a Top 30 player for sure and might even win herself a tournament one of these weeks.

#44  Michele Redman

Michele might have had the quietest season of any player in my Top 70.  She never finished in the Top 10, she missed only one cut and she collected only five Top 20s with her best being a T12 at Wegmans.  I only remember seeing her on TV a time or two, which for a veteran American player with experience at four Solheim Cups is rather remarkable.

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