Steve Elling at CBS Sports has more on the incident at the CN Canadian Open  which I wrote about yesterday.

Initially, the LPGA seemed satisfied with the player actions and sanctions.

“No one with the LPGA was privy to any discussions between the players and caddies in advance of the players’ efforts to seek out a rules official to explain the situation,” a spokesman said Saturday. “We know only that the players came forward, admitted their issue and received the appropriate result based on the rules of golf.”

However, that stance has clearly changed.

LPGA communications chief David Higdon confirmed Sunday morning to CBSSports.com that the tour intends to interview all the parties involved and then mull a possible course of action.

“We have treated this situation very seriously, and have or will speak to all principles involved,” Higdon said in an email Sunday morning. “Yes, we are looking very closely at it.”

The LPGA has had issues in the past with South Korean natives, who have been accused by other players of bending rules by conversing with friends or parents and receiving advice in their native tongue, among other perceived violations. The LPGA at one point put players on notice that such conversations and interaction would not be tolerated. One longtime LPGA caddie with his own blog site claimed this weekend that Korean players have been getting away with rules violations for years, causing some to accuse him of racism.

The LPGA has to investigate what happened, and if Ahn and Chung’s actions were deliberate, they should be suspended from the tour. Ryan at Waggle Room now writes

On Saturday evening, Waggle Room learned that it was Ahn’s caddie who told the story direct to Smich but may not be willing to share details publicly for fear of being shunned in the golf community.

Ahn’s caddy could be in position of  causing great harm to a pro golfer’s career and reputation.  It is very understandable why he wouldn’t want to talk publicly.

One last comment about Smich.  He has a long history of making derogatory comments  about the South Korean players.  People who have read his blog for any length of time, would  have a basis to say he is a racist.  I think his anger at being fired by Mi Hyun Kim 11 years ago has made him very bitter and his lack of success as a caddie of late,(He hasn’t been close to a winning bag in all the time he’s blogged, and if I checked, the top 20 finishes of his players in that time can be counted on one hand easily) caused his feelings to turn to hate or racism. His outspokenness has undoubtedly caused these players also not to want to hire him.

Interestingly enough I checked Smich’s archives, he worked for Ahn once at the  Wegmans. So he has caddied for both Ahn and Chung in the past.

Update- Golf writer and blogger Bob Weeks has more

A source told me on Sunday that the two players allegedly knew about the mix up by the time they reaced the scorer’s tent and discussed it in Korean, agreeing not to bring it up. The source then alleged that Ahn’s caddie also knew about the situation and threatened to turn them in.

Reportedly, the players waited two hours after their final round before contacting the LPGA Tour to report the incident, calling from their hotel.

Weeks is a much more credible source than Larry Smich. Chung and Ahn are in for big trouble.

Hat tip- Geoff Shackelford

LPGA Blogger and Caddy Larry Smich wrote the following-

Finally, caught in the act! All this time, I’ve been detailing cheating by the Koreans and been called a racist and more for my observations. Even been taken to the woodshed by the head honcho. Well yesterday, it all became evident that I was spot on. Did you notice that Shi Hyun Ahn and Ilmi Chung were disqualified? The reason is that they both played the wrong ball on their final hole and not correcting the infraction before signing their cards, to put it mildly.

Here is what I’ve heard of the alleged incident. Both balls were in the fairway. Ahn missed the green and Ilmi hit hers on. Ahn chipped it close and tapped in for par. This is where it all begins. Apparently, Ahn noticed that this was not her ball and conversed in Korean with Ilmi. In the mean time, at least one caddie in the group noticed it also but did not say anything. They finished the hole, went to the scoring tent, checked the scores and signed their cards. Somewhere, either before or after going to the tent, Ahn told her caddie (a Nationwide looper and only working for her this week) “You did not see anything”. As of right now, I do not know who owned up and went to the officials. The third player in the group was oblivious to the situation and was not involved. BTW, Ahn shot 72 and Chung a 76.

Before I go any further I’ll give some background on Smich and the golfers he is accusing. He has been an LPGA caddy for over 30 years. In that time, he has had three winning bags. The last of which was with Mi Hyun Kim in 1999. Shortly after that win, Kim fired Smich.

Smich has worked for other South Korean players, but the last was over two years ago. He did work for Chung at some point in the middle of the last decade.

Anyone who reads Smich’s blog knows he doesn’t like the Korean players. Ryan at Waggle Room uses the word vendetta towards how Smich writes about players from South Korea. In 2007, Smich also accused LPGA player Young Kim of cheating. Most of the time Smich doesn’t name players when he makes cheating allegations.

Ahn is a one-time winner on the LPGA Tour and was the 2004 Rookie of the Year. She is a looker, and is nicknamed Cinderella. I get lots of hits at my home blog from people looking either for Ahn photos or are looking to find out what golfer is nicknamed Cinderella.

At the 2009 LPGA Championship, a golf ball of Ahn’s struck and killed a bird.

Chung has never won on the LPGA Tour and since the retirement of Pearl Sinn, I believe she is the oldest South Korean born player on the LPGA Tour.

Ryan at Waggle Room apparently got someone to corroborate part of what Smich says(Remember he didn’t see it happen)

We have learned of a second account of the situation. The second account is all the same until the green.

When Ahn and Chung realized what had happened, Chung’s caddy approached Downey’s caddy and said, “We have a bit of a problem, but I’m not saying anything.” Downey’s caddy went into the scoring tent. Ahn and Chung signed for their scores. Downey’s caddy was prepared to turn in Ahn and Chung, which then prompted their seeking of LPGA officials for a ruling and their certain disqualification.

The LPGA’s Mike Scanlan also made the following comment to Ryan-

“The players sought out a rules official after their round to explain the situation and were subsequently disqualified.

“No one with the LPGA was privy to any discussions between the players and caddies in advance of the players’ efforts to seek out a rules official to explain the situation. We know only that the players came forward, admitted their issue and received the appropriate result based on the Rules of Golf.”

Bob Weeks, who is also blogging on the incident, went looking for Larry Smich at the tournament. Interestingly enough, Smich couldn’t be found. The golfer who he was caddying for, Stephanie Loudon, had her husband carrying her bag for the third round.

At the moment, the golf tournament is on television, and so far as I know, no mention has been made of the Ahn and Chung incident.

Deliberate cheating in professional golf is very serious and not unheard of. A Latin American player was suspended by the PGA Tour around 40 years ago. Jane Blalock was suspended for a year by the LPGA in1972. That was till she filed a antitrust lawsuit. The accusations against Blalock was probably the sport’s biggest cheating scandal of the last 50 years. She was one of the tour’s stars at the time. What we have today involves two fairly obscure players. I don’t know if we’ll ever learn what did happen. The golf media rather write repetitive article after repetitive article on Tiger Woods than give the LPGA even five minutes of their time.

On a side note, Michelle Wie is leading the Canadian Open. Should she hold on to win, the LPGA attention deficit might decrease at least for one week.

The broadcast is supposed to be live. Then why are scores at LPGA.com ahead of the broadcast. When JiYai Shin birdied the 13th hole, LPGA had the result several minutes before the Golf Channel broadcast did.

On the 12th hole they had Shin making bogey before Golf Channel showed the result. Also Michelle Wie's drive on the 10th hole was described as in the middle of the fairway before Wie even hit her shot.

A few minutes behind is no big deal. I just find it interesting and wonder why it is taking place.

This news isn’t very surprisingly in light of these facts

1- Yani Tseng is at present holder of two of the tour’s major championships and ranked as one of the top five rated players in the world. Tseng is from Taiwan.
and
2- The increasing popularity of golf in Asia.

Of course people continue to grumble about the lack of United States based tour stops on the LPGA Tour. These people are being short sighted.

1- Any tournaments for the tour is good news

2- The LPGA could be close to bankruptcy at the moment. When a tournament is played, the tour takes a cut of the purse for operating expenses. I heard from a reliable source that the LPGA needs 30 tournaments a year to stay solvent. At the moment the LPGA schedule for next year looks like it will be under 30 events like it has been since 2009.

The LPGA is losing at least one United States LPGA event for 2011, the Jamie Farr, as it goes on hiatus for a year. Also CVS will no longer sponsor a California tour stop. That leaves 12 LPGA events in the United States, plus the foreign events. As it stands, the tour will visit Singapore, Thailand, Mexico(at least 3 times), Canada, England, France, Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea next year with possible additions of Brazil and China.

The LPGA is in trouble right now. Nationalistic based pride and paranoia about Asia and Asians need to be shelved.

Hat tip- Ryan at Waggle Room who apparently hasn’t gotten the memo about CVS not renewing its sponsorship.

I'm as excited as the next LPGA fan over Lexi Thompson, but she's had so few tournaments that there's little data from which to predict her next result. One gauge is to "follow the money", in particular to see what bookies think. The pre-tournament lines are pretty amazing, quoting odds from 28-1 to 33-1 for Lexi to win the tournament. She is roughly 10th to 12th favorite; more of a favorite than Katherine Hull, who finished runner-up at the WBO. (All odds are for recreational purposes only! I like Mina Harigae at 200-1 on Bodog.)

Among other Americans, she is only clearly less favored compared to Cristie Kerr (who at 8-1 or 9-1 is a co-favorite with Ai, Jiyai, and NYC). According to the oddsmakers, Thompson is as likely to win as Creamer or Pressel, and more likely to win than Inkster, Wie, Christina Kim, or Angela Stanford. Is Lexi really better than most of the US Solheim Cup team? That seems a bit excessive, but we'll just have to wait until Thompson plays in more tournaments.  

In the meantime, make your prediction:

As an engineer, I could discern patterns and trends in large amounts of data. I used those trends and patterns to spend money to improve the process control of chemical processes. As a retired engineer and LPGA  fan I look at the available player data to find patterns and trends. The problems is to explain those trends and patterns to non engineering types of LPGA fans in a sports blog without a ten page report, that nobody would read, because it would be too long. The second problem is to include enough information to explain the logic behind the conclusions, which I did not do. Then third, hope people don't read too much into what I write.

What I see are trends and patterns of data that the players that joined the LPGA in the 1990's were, as a whole, not as competitive as I would have expected. The table below looks at the Top 30 players from each year from 1990 through 2009. For each year it gives the number of players that started in each decade that made the Top 30 players list. Looking at the years from 1990 to 1999 it took until 1998 for the 1990 decade players to outnumber the 1980 decade players in the Top 30. The yearly average number of 1980's players in the Top 30 was 17.2  versus 8 for the 1990's players. Looking at the years from 2000 to 2009 it only took until 2005 for the 2000 decade players to outnumber the 1990 decade players in the Top 30. The yearly average number of 1990's players in the Top 30 was 12.9 versus 13.6 for the 2000's players. Looking at the table for number of players from the 1990's decade in the Top 30 for the years from 1990 through 1999 and comparing that to the number of players from the 2000's decade in the Top 30 for the years from 2000 to 2009 also shows the difference in competitiveness. Compare the year of 1999 to 2009, and year 1998 to 2008, etc. Starting with 2003 versus 1993 the 2000 decade players started to significantly exceed the 1990 decade players in taking over the Top 30 List.

This data plus the low number of 1990 decade players with at least 10 wins and their places on my Top 100 LPGA Players Of All Time List, all contribute to my questioning the competitiveness of the 1990 decade players as a whole. I do not question the competitiveness of the 1980 decade players or the 2000 decade players. I said the lack of 10 win players among the 1990 decade players made it easier for the best among them, I did not say it made it easy. Maybe there are 14 players with 10 wins instead of 18 that I would have expected that those players would be competiting against. 14 assuming another player from the 1990 decade wins their 10th and that 9 of the 2000 decade players make the 10 wins mark. There were 9 players from the 1980's decade with at least 10 wins.

I did not and do not propose 10 wins as any type of absolute borderline for a definition of a top player. It is more of the recognition that by the time the 2000 decade players finish their careers, the top 50 in victories and the Top 50 on the LPGA All Time Greatest List will probably take at least 10 wins to be on the two lists. Does anybody believe that none of the current top players  (the top 10 of the Rolex Rankings without 10 wins) will win at least 10 times before their careers are over. I might be wrong, but I believe that most of those players will have at least 10 wins, since most of them are 25 years of age or less and their best days should be ahead of them. I have speculated in the past that a lot of the best players tend to really get their game together around age 25 (for example Sorenstam and Ochoa). Ai Miyazato turned 25 this year and has 4 victories this year and Cristie Kerr started to win consistantly around that age. I believe that the quality depth of the LPGA tour is getting deeper, but that it is not yet to the point that will prevent a bunch of players from the 10 win mark during their careers. I just believe that for some currently unknown reason enough of the 1990 decade players just did not compete at the level (number of wins) that I expected, based on the past player records. The 1990 decade players were squeezed between the 1980 decade players and the 2000 decade players whom I believe to be better as a whole, but maybe not individuallly as I do not expect anybody to overtake Annika Sorenstam as the #1 player.

        YEAR          #     DECADE            YEAR          #     DECADE

         1990          7      1970's                2000           8      1980's

                         23     1980's                                  21     1990's

                          0      1990's                                   1      2000's

          1991         8      1970's                2001           6     1980's                         

                         21     1980's                                  22     1990's

                           1     1990's                                   2       2000's

           1992         7     1970's                2002           5       1980's

                          18    1980's                                 18       1990's

                            5     1990's                                 7        2000's

           1993          6     1970's               2003           4        1980's

                           18    1980's                                13       1990's

                             6    1990's                                13       2000's

            1994          7    1970's               2004           3        1980's

                            16   1980's                                  15       1990's

                              7    1990's                                 12       2000's

            1995          5    1970's                2005           3       1980's

                             18   1980's                                  10      1990's

                              7    1990's                                  17      2000's

            1996          3    1970's                2006            2       1980's 

                             17   1980's                                    9       1990's

                             10   1990's                                   19      2000's

            1997           2   1970's                2007            3       1980's

                             17   1980's                                    8       1990's

                             11   1990's                                   19      2000's

            1998          2    1970's                2008            1       1980's

                             13   1980's                                    7       1990's

                             15   1990's                                  22       2000's

             1999         1    1970's                 2009          0        1980's

                             11   1980's                                   6        1990's

                             18   1990's                                 24       2000's

          Average     4.8  1970's               Average          3.5      1980's

                          17.2 1980's                                 12.9      1990's

                             8    1990's                                 13.6      2000's

Yani Tseng from Taiwan leads the Women’s British at Royal Birkdale by four shots with 36 holes to play. Should she win, Tseng would already have amassed three of the four major championships in Women’s professional golf.

I won’t be conceding the tournament to Tseng quite. Just two years ago, Lorena Ochoa was on a roll and was leading the LPGA Championship by one shot after 36 holes. One golf scribe at the time was all but ready to crown Ochoa at that point. Ochoa ultimately finished third, to Yani Tseng.

Royal Birkdale is an interesting place for Tseng to be going for her third major. Thirty-nine years ago, or 1971 to be precise, the Open Championship was played at Birkdale. It was won by Lee Trevino. The golfer who finished second by one shot that week was Lu Liang Huan. Lu, who is still alive today at age 75, is from Taiwan just like Yani Tseng.

Lu, or as Open Championship fans in 1971 nicknamed him Mr. Lu, was an obscure golfer to even knowledgeable golf people at the time. His three career wins were all in Asia before the 1971 Open Championship.

Mr. Lu’s obscurity didn’t prevent him from being a fan favorite that week in 1971. He didn’t speak much English, but through tips of his straw cap and smiles to the gallery, he had many people in England and through television cheering for him that week.

A week after the 1971 Open Championship, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club issued an invitation to Mr. Lu. It said- “come back to this country as often as you like and we hope you’ll bring more fine golfers from the Far East.”

Many fine golfers have come to the United Kingdom and the United States since then. Unfortunately, the attitude of people has regressed since then. Asian golfers, even Asian American golfers, are seen as a threat by the media and or fans. No one was bothered by Mr. Lu’s poor English in 1971, so I have trouble understanding the attitude of some people today. 

I wasn’t following pro golf in 1971. At the time I was ten-years-old and more interested in New York Mets baseball. What I learned about the 1971 Open Championship is through media accounts at the time. Even these are hard to find.

What I do know about that Open Championship is-

1 Trevino and Mr. Lu were paired together for the last 18 holes.
2 Lee Trevino made double bogey at 17
3 Mr. Lu and Trevino both made closing birdies on 18
4 As he played 18, an errant golf shot of Mr. Lu’s struck a person in the gallery injuring the woman. After the Open Championship, Mr. Lu paid for the woman and her husband to visit Taiwan.

Mr. Lu never again seriously contended for a Major Championship. He did however win the French Open the following week and in 1972 partnered with Hsieh Min-Nan to win the World Cup. When his professional career was over, Mr. Lu had at least twenty professional wins to his credit but he is probably still best remembered for his runner-up finish at the 1971 Open Championship.

So far as I know, Mr. Lu is still alive today at age seventy-four.

 Current data in my database shows 275 different players have won a tournament on the LPGA Tour. Three winners were amateurs (Polly Riley, Pat O'Sullivan, and Catherine LaCoste), and a fourth amateur (JoAnne Carner) won once and then 42 times as a LPGA member. There are 8 professional players that have won LPGA tournaments and not become LPGA members. One of those players, Woo-Soon Ko is the only one to win twice.  There are 4 players that won and became LPGA players who have not yet won since becomming members. There are three players that won LPGA tournaments as non-members and won again after becomming LPGA members. That leaves 264 LPGA members that have won tournaments. The database has about 1000 LPGA members and is not complete due to lack of complete data from the 1950's and early 1960's. There are only about 1 in 4 players who gain an LPGA card that actually win a tournament. So approximately 75% of the players never win during their careers on the LPGA. A non winning player's career can vary from 1 year to more than 20 years.

 Of those players who win, a little over 42% win only once. Almost 14% of the winners win exactly twice. So a little over 56% win two times or less. Almost 75% of the winners win 5 times or less. Almost 82% of the winners win 8 times or less. The top 50 players in wins, which is 18% of the winners, each has at least 9 wins and have won a total of a little over 70.5% of all the tournaments. There are 45 players with at least 10 wins, and 26 players who have won at least 20 times. Of the 26 players that have won at least 20 tournaments, all but three are in the LPGA Hall Of Fame. Jane Blalock won 27 times and has enough points, but is not in the Hall Of Fame because she never won a major tournament or was the player of the year or won the Vare Trophy for the lowest stroke average for the year. Lorena Ochoa has also won 27 times and has enough points for the Hall Of Fame, but does not have 10 years as an active member. Unless the LPGA changes that requirement, Ochoa cannot become a LPGA Hall Of Fame inductee as the rules state that a player must have 10 years as an active member to even be voted in the Hall Of Fame. Laura Davies has 20 wins and needs two more points to have the required 27 points for induction into the LPGA Hall Of Fame. So, only about 2.5% of the LPGA players win enough to get into the LPGA Hall Of Fame.

 As I look at the history of the LPGA and the average number of professional players that played a full schedule each year for each decade and the average number of wins by winning players during the decades as shown in the following table, there are a number of conclusions drawn. In the 1950's at the start of the LPGA there were less than 30 professional players. In the 1960's the number of players had started to increase and the available data shows an average of 45 professional players per year. The average number of professional players in the 1970's had grown to around 80. By the 1980's the tour had grown to include more than 150 players playing a full schedule each year and has remained at 150+ since 1983. As the number of players has increased the average number of wins by the players winning tournaments has decreased. That should be expected as increased competetion from more and better players should result in less wins per winning player. In the 1950's the avaerage wins per winning player was 11.7 wins and decreased to 9.13 in the 1960's and down to 5.14 in the 1970's. With 150+ players playing a full schedule the number of wins per winning player has decreased to 4 wins or less.

 The table also includes data on the top players that became professionals in each decade. The table gives the number of top professionals that started in each decade and the average number of  wins by those top players. For the decades of the 1950's and 1960's a player had to win at least 15 times to be considered a top player. For the 1970's a player had to win at least 12 times. Since the 1980's a top player has to have at least 10 wins. There were 4 players for the 1940's and 5 players for the 1950's, together averaging about 50 wins per year per player. For the 1960's there were 6 players and 9 players for the 1970's averaging just less than 30 wins per player. There were 9 players starting in the 1980's averaging just less than 20 wins per player. That is the kind of decrease one should expect. The 1990's produced only 4 players that have won at least 10 times and they averaged 36.5 wins per player. There was one player with 9 wins, 2 players with 8 wins and one with 7 wins, so it is still possible that additional players could make the threshold. My conclusion is that the 1990's did not produce as many top players as should have been expected. When I calculated the top 50 LPGA players of all time, I found that there were less players from the 1990's than I expected. Winning or in reality a lack of winning is the reason. Annika Sorenstam, Karrie Webb, and Se Ri Pak all deserve to be in the LPGA Hall Of Fame, but a lack of top level competition certainly made it easier for them to win and obtain the required points. It is too early to conclude anything about players starting in the 2000's decade

 Since my crystal ball is always cloudy, I do not do predictions. However, for the 2000's decade Lorena Ochoa already has greater than 10 wins, and the following players are at least half the way to 10 wins: Paula Creamer - 9,  Jiyai Shin - 7, Suzann Pettersen - 6, Hee Won Han - 6, Grace Park - 6, and Ai Miyazato - 5.  Hee Won Han and Grace Park do not look promising as top players at the moment. Yani Tseng and Na Yeon Choi each has only 3 wins but look more promising at the moment.

 Next, winning majors.

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With a little over three months till the tournament's startup date, I'm having increasingly strong doubts this tournament will be played.

With every day that passes, I think my view is well justified. First of all the tournament is listed as TBA on the LPGA's website. This has been the status of the Tour Championship ever since the 2010 LPGA schedule was announced.

The organizing needed to run a tournament has to start well ahead of when the tournament is actually played. In fact the old ADT*, the Tour Championship's predecessor, would already be through taking volunteer applications

The LPGA is silent in the matter. I emailed Mike Scanlan in Daytona Beach. Mike said an announcement will be coming. I believe that, but the news in the announcement may not be good.

Another source(not directly affiliated with the LPGA) told me that they heard the LPGA is talking with ADT again and that also that the tournament will not be in Texas or possibly not played at all. Whether an event is played could be dependent on IMG who floated last year's tournament after the Stanford Financial debacle.

Caddie blogger Larry said in one of his blog posts that the tournament may be played in central Florida.

I'm sure Commissioner Michael Whan has worked very hard on the 2010 LPGA Tour Championship. He and others have done miracle work since Carolyn Bivens resigned. I am not being critical. All I hope is that there is a LPGA Tour tournament after the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in 2010.

*- The ADT was my hometown tournament and one I was credentialed by the LPGA to blog in 2007. I'd love to see the LPGA return to Palm Beach County.

It's match play at the Sybase--so anything can happen.  FWIW, here are my predictions for the week!

Whitworth Bracket

Round 1
Ji-Yai Shin (1) v. Kyeong Bae (42): SHIN
Hee-Won Han (32) v. Mika Miyazato (38): M. MIYAZATO
Brittany Lincicome (16) v. Beatriz Recari (62): LINCICOME
Se Ri Pak (17) v. Azahara Munoz (54): PAK
Michelle Wie (8) v. Stacy Prammanasudh (50): WIE
Hee Young Park (25) v. Ji Young Oh (33): H.Y. PARK
Na Yeon Choi (9) v. Karine Icher (57): N.Y. CHOI
Eun-Hee Ji (24) v. Janice Moodie (49): MOODIE

Round 2
Ji-Yai Shin (1) v. Mika Miyazato (38): SHIN
Brittany Lincicome (16) v. Se Ri Pak (17): PAK
Michelle Wie (8) v. Hee Young Park (25): WIE
Na Yeon Choi (9) v. Janice Moodie (49): N.Y. CHOI

Round 3
Ji-Yai Shin (1) v. Se Ri Pak (17): SHIN
Michelle Wie (8) v. Na Yeon Choi (9): N.Y. CHOI

Quarter-Finals: Round 4
Ji-Yai Shin (1) v. Na Yeon Choi (9): N.Y. CHOI

Berg Bracket

Round 1
Ya Ni Tseng (4) v. Wendy Ward (43): TSENG
Candie Kung (29) v. Natalie Gulbis (44): KUNG
Inbee Park (13) v. Laura Diaz (58): I. PARK
Maria Hjorth (20) v. Shanshan Feng (45): HJORTH
Cristie Kerr (5) v. Meaghan Francella (53): KERR
Sun Young Yoo (28) v. Karen Stupples (34): STUPPLES
Song-Hee Kim (12) v. Nicole Castrale (52): S.H. KIM
Momoko Ueda (21) v. Vicky Hurst (37): UEDA

Round 2
Ya Ni Tseng (4) v. Candie Kung (29): TSENG
Inbee Park (13) v. Maria Hjorth (20): I. PARK
Cristie Kerr (5) v. Karen Stupples (34): KERR
Song-Hee Kim (12) v. Momoko Ueda (21): S.H. KIM

Round 3
Ya Ni Tseng (4) v. Inbee Park (13): I. PARK
Cristie Kerr (5) v. Song-Hee Kim (12): S.H. KIM

Quarter-Finals: Round 4
Inbee Park (13) v. Song-Hee Kim (12): S.H. KIM

Wright Bracket

Round 1
Ai Miyazato (2) v. Jeong Jang (51): A. MIYAZATO
M.J. Hur (31) v. Hye Jung Choi (60): H.J. CHOI
Catriona Matthew (15) v. Grace Park (64): MATTHEW
Kristy McPherson (18) v. Meena Lee (47): MCPHERSON
Karrie Webb (7) v. Eunjung Yi (36): WEBB
Stacy Lewis (26) v. Amanda Blumenherst (55): BLUMENHERST
Angela Stanford (10) v. Amy Hung (60): STANFORD
Brittany Lang (23) v. Pat Hurst (41): LANG

Round 2
Ai Miyazato (2) v. Hye Jung Choi (60): A. MIYAZATO
Catriona Matthew (15) v. Kristy McPherson (18): MCPHERSON
Karrie Webb (7) v. Amanda Blumenherst (55): WEBB
Angela Stanford (10) v. Brittany Lang (23): STANFORD

Round 3
Ai Miyazato (2) v. Kristy McPherson (18): A. MIYAZATO
Karrie Webb (7) v. Angela Stanford (10): STANFORD

Quarter-Finals: Round 4
Ai Miyazato (2) v. Angela Stanford (10): A. MIYAZATO

Sorenstam Bracket

Round 1
Suzann Pettersen (3) v. Juli Inkster (35): PETTERSEN
Amy Yang (30) v. Michele Redman (39): YANG
Morgan Pressel (14) v. Jimin Kang (56): PRESSEL
Sophie Gustafson (19) v. Na On Min (63): GUSTAFSON
Anna Nordqvist (6) v. Shi Hyun Ahn (48): NORDQVIST
Jee Young Lee (27) v. Christina Kim (40): J.Y. LEE
In-Kyung Kim (11) v. Haeji Kang (61): I.K. KIM
Katherine Hull (24) v. Sandra Gal (46): HULL

Round 2
Suzann Pettersen (3) v. Amy Yang (30): YANG
Morgan Pressel (14) v. Sophie Gustafson (19): PRESSEL
Anna Nordqvist (6) v. Jee Young Lee (27): J.Y. LEE
In-Kyung Kim (11) v. Katherine Hull (24): I.K. KIM

Round 3
Amy Yang (30) v. Morgan Pressel (14): PRESSEL
Jee Young Lee (27) v. In-Kyung Kim (11): J.Y. LEE

Quarter-Finals: Round 4
Morgan Pressel (14) v. Jee Young Lee (27): J.Y. LEE

Semi-Finals: Round 5
Na Yeon Choi (9) v. Song-Hee Kim (12): N.Y. CHOI
Ai Miyazato (2) v. Jee Young Lee (27): A. MIYAZATO

Finals: Round 6
Na Yeon Choi (9) v. Ai Miyazato (2): N.Y. CHOI
Song-Hee Kim (12) v. Jee Young Lee (27): S.H. KIM