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Preseason Top 30

Did you know there are only three weeks remaining before the LPGA season tees off at the Honda LPGA Thailand?  I'd better put on the magic glasses and fill out my entry for the 2010 LPGA Prognostication Derby!  You can do it too - just make a FanPost or list your choices for the Top 30 in the comments of this post.  Here are mine:

1.  Lorena Ochoa

2.  Jiyai Shin

3.  Paula Creamer

4.  Cristie Kerr

5.  Ai Miyazato

6.  Suzann Pettersen

7.  Na Yeon Choi

8.  Michelle Wie

9.  In-Kyung Kim

10. Song-Hee Kim

11. Yani Tseng

12. Angela Stanford

13. Brittany Lang

14. Kristy McPherson

15. Sun Young Yoo

16. Anna Nordqvist

17. Seon Hwa Lee

18. Maria Hjorth

19. Vicky Hurst

20. Karrie Webb

21. Lindsey Wright

22. Hee Young Park

23. Amy Yang

24. Morgan Pressel

25. Helen Alfredsson

26. Catriona Matthew

27. Katherine Hull

28. Sophie Gustafson

29. Paige Mackenzie

30. Natalie Gulbis

 

Honorable Mention:

Eun-Hee Ji

Wendy Ward

Se Ri Pak

Hee-Won Han

Janice Moodie

Inbee Park

Jeong Jang

Karin Sjodin

Not too many surprises - every year I seem to get more and more conservative with these things.  Picking between Ochoa and Shin at the top is a crapshoot.  I went with Lorena because her peripheral numbers across the board were a little bit better than Jiyai's.  Wie won't go any higher until she proves she can hit the fairway better than 60% of the time.  Sun Young Yoo at #15, Vicky Hurst at #19 and Amy Yang at #23 are my big "reaches" in the middle of the list and Paige Mackenzie cracks the Top 30 because of her surprisingly good '09 stats for a player who finished #51 in my rankings.  As for the Honorable Mentions, Eun-Hee Ji is certainly good enough to be a Top 30 player but I'm not going to put her there until I'm sure the U.S. Open jinx has been properly broken.  Janice Moodie is this year's "veteran I'm picking to step forward" but I'm stopping short of calling for her to make the best 30.  The others either just missed my final 2009 Top 30, their peripherals show them as being better players or I'm just flat out guessing.

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