Quest For The Card - Final Update

I mentioned in the Navistar epilogue that Lexi Thompson secured Cat-7 status for next year (winning is a great way to avoid Q-School!) but here are the other changes that the Navistar results hath wrought:

Top 80:

Haeji Kang finished T14 to end up #75 and secure Category 1 status.  Jennifer Song withdrew after the first round (must have had a really good reason in this situation) but still held on the 80^th spot, $4500 ahead of #81 Jin Young Pak.  Pak's T25 was not quite good enough - two shots fewer would have earned enough to pass Song.  #82 Meaghan Francella (T65) made the cut but shot 80 on Saturday to ruin her last-minute chances.  #83 Alison Walshe (T51) and #84 Gwladys Nocera (T14 to move up from #98) came up $8000 and $10,000 short respectively.  #86 Sarah Kemp (T71), #87 Grace Park (T34), #88 Lorie Kane and #89 Sarah Jane Smith (both MCs) never got going this weekend, although Park shot 68 on Sunday to move up a couple of spots.

Top 100:

It was fairly close but all my Locks did finish in the Top 100 and make Cat-11.  Taylor Leon missed the cut but wound up #100, $2700 to the good.  #99 Na On Min wasn't a Lock but finished T51 to hang on to the penultimate spot.  #94 Giulia Sergas was the only player to jump into the Top 100, thanks to her T11 finish.  The $23,071 check nearly doubled her 2011 total.  Giulia's gain was #101 Stephanie Sherlock's loss.  Sherlock made the cut but shot 81 on Saturday and finished T68.  While the $2700 margin she missed by doesn't seem like much, she would have had to finish T44 to pass Leon and Stephanie would have had to save seven strokes somewhere to do that.  #102 Michele Redman (DNS) didn't take an active player's Cat-11 spot but she did take one in Cat-15.  #103 Mariajo Uribe (T39) missed the Top 100 by three shots.  #104 Stephanie Louden (MC) and #106 Ashli Bunch (MC) couldn't get going and #105 Moira Dunn (T39) needed five fewer shots to catch Leon.

Top 125:

Only one player passed the idle (and now #126) Maria Hernandez - Jennifer Rosales finished T56, good enough for position #124 and Cat-15 status.  Dori Carter, Janice Moodie (both MCs), Lisa Meldrum (T65), Jean Reynolds (MC) and Jimin Jeong (WD) all came up short.  Meldrum needed $3100 more to catch #125 Christine Song (MC) - seven fewer shots would have done it.  Carter missed the cut by two shots and Moodie by only one - making it would have resulted in at least $2530, which would have been enough for either to pass Song.  The margin between #125 and Q-School is that thin.