Q-School Final – Final Round
by hound dog on Dec 7, 2008 1:59 PM PST
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Stacy Lewis posted a 69 to take medalist honors at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament. Lewis finished at -18, three strokes ahead of Amy Yang and four in front of Anna Grzebien.
No playoff holes were needed to settle things as only two players tied for 19th place. The twenty players who earned Category 11 status this week are:
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-18 Stacy Lewis -15 Amy Yang -14 Anna Grzebien -13 Beth Bader, Sophie Giquel, Shiho Oyama -12 Michelle Wie, Lisa Strom -10 Mollie Fankhauser -9 Charlotte Mayorkas, Carolina Llano -8 Mika Miyazato, Anna Rawson, Jeehae Lee -7 Jeanne Cho-Hunicke, Anja Monke -6 Louise Stahle, Ashleigh Simon -5 Marcy Hart, Audra Burks |
Simon carded a 68 to climb from T35 into the Top 20. Monke, Hart and Burks all started the day T21 and earned Cat-11 status with rounds of 69, 71 and 71 respectively. The other 16 "winners" were in the Top 20 going in and managed to stay there. Cho-Hunicke had the closest call - 74 dropped her from T9 to T15.
Thirteen players earned Category 16 status:
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-4 Allison Hanna-Williams, Chella Choi, Leah Wigger, Na Ri Kim -3 Anna Nordqvist, Angela Buzminski, Samantha Richdale, Sarah Kemp -2 Christi Cano, Tania Elosegui, Nontaya Srisawang, Brandi Jackson, Haeji Kang |
Wigger shot 73 to fall from T18 and miss the Top 20 by one shot. Kim's 70 came up one shot short as well, as she rose from T35. Srisawang carded 71 to climb from T44.
Eleven more players earned Category 20 status:
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-1 Sunny Oh, Nicole Hage, Maru Martinez, Paige Mackenzie, Pornanong Phatlum, Janell Howland E Sarah Oh, Angela Oh, Taylor Leon, Garrett Phillips |
Oh and Mackenzie started the day T18 - their 76s cost them two status levels and about 45 priority positions. Hage and Howland were T21 and rounds of 75 shot them down. But the biggest disappointments were left to Carri Wood, Jennifer Gleason and Alison Walshe. Wood shot 81 to fall from T16 to T54 while Gleason and Walshe both posted 77 and dropped from T29 to T49 - positions which earn just as much priority as those players who missed the Saturday cut. Emily Bastel was the only other player who started the day in the Top 40 who was unable to stay there - a 77 dropped Emily from T35 to T54.
So we now have our 2009 rookie class defined, in a way that many of us expected - Wie, Lewis, Oyama and Miyazato join Ji-Yai Shin, Vicky Hurst and Mindy Kim in what is certainly the highest-profile LPGA rookie class since 2006 and maybe the highest-profile class of all time. I'm already looking forward to it!
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did you see?
…that Chella Choi and Leah Wigger won the playoff for the last 2 cards? Apparently because a pair had other priority status already, the LPGA could offer 2 more. Sounds weird to me,but it’s confirmed on LPGA.com (if not explained well). Personally, I don’t see how having worse status in a different category affects the fact that you won better status this week.
by The Constructivist on Dec 8, 2008 2:25 AM PST reply actions
Confused
How did Fankhauser and Mayorkas improve their status by playing in the qualifying tournament? They were in the 81-100 on the money list category which is the same category as 1-20 in the qualifying tournament. Are the 1-20 actually ahead of the 81-100 in priority. Maybe I misread the categories.
it's a ranked list
It alternates Q-School #1, LPGA money list #81, Q-School #2, money list #82, until you get to Q-School #20 and money list #100.
by The Constructivist on Dec 8, 2008 4:44 AM PST up reply actions
thanks for pointing that out
Another example of LPGA “rules” that don’t get explained properly. Is it any wonder people (besides me and TC) give up trying to understand the qualification procedure?
Exempt and Non-Exempt
Aren’t the players who finish 1-20 in the qualifying tournament considered Exempt while the players who finished 81-100 are considered Non-Exempt?
technically no
The new process of assigning priority status to each player – starting with #1 Ochoa, to #80 Wendy Doolan, to the players promoted from the Futures Tour and Q-School, etc – is supposed to replace the old Exempt, Non-exempt and Conditional classes.
Correction on categories 16 and 20
Just so it’s even more confusing, it’s not the case that thirteen players get category 16 and eleven players get category 20. The rules state that ties are broken by their lowest most recent round score. That means that there could be at most ten each in categories 16 and 20. However, some of the players finishing 21-40 actually have category 15 status from being 101-125 on the money list; therefore category 20 (and possibly category 16 as well) has fewer than ten players. To confirm this, notice that Garrett Phillips is not listed on the rookie list on the “News for the week of December 8” page on lpga.com.
http://lpga.com/content_1.aspx?pid=18431&mid=4
It seems inconsistent to reach down two spots to give category 11 exactly 40 players but not to do likewise to bring category 20 to a total of 10 players.
So, HD and TC, are you ready to cry uncle yet as far as understanding this stuff?
r u serious???
I was specifically looking to see how/whether ties would be broken to make the 30th and 40th spots as hard as the 20th was supposed to be. So why make 20 soft and 30 and 40 hard?!! That makes no sense to me!
by The Constructivist on Dec 9, 2008 3:33 AM PST up reply actions
Sarah Oh got knocked out, too
totally unfair!
by The Constructivist on Dec 9, 2008 3:39 AM PST up reply actions
notice, too...
…that there are at least 4 players in Category 11 (from the ‘08 money list) who because of wins or top 40 finishes in ’07 are in higher priority status categories for ’09—Francella, Granada, Davies, Lincicome—so if we’re throwing out Mayorkas’s and Fankhauser’s money list results, why not open up 26 spots rather than 22?
by The Constructivist on Dec 9, 2008 3:42 AM PST up reply actions
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