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LPGA Tour Championship – Epilogue
Maria Hjorth's last victory came at the 2007 Navistar Classic. She returned from maternity leave in late spring 2009 and played well enough late in the year to reach my Top 30. It hasn't been the greatest season this year (she came in ranked just inside my Top 50) but she finished tied for third...
LPGA Tour Championship - Final Round
Maria Hjorth birdied 15 to take the lead and went on to win the LPGA Tour Championship. It is the fourth victory of her LPGA career but only her second since 1999. Consequently, Yani Tseng won the Rolex Player of the Year Award while Na Yeon Choi secured the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring...
LPGA Tour Championship - 3rd Round
Amy Yang is the leader at -6 through 54 holes at the LPGA Tour Championship. Maria Hjorth is one shot back in second place, Cristie Kerr and Seon Hwa Lee are tied for third at -3 while Laura Diaz is in fifth place at -2. Yang started the round with a three-shot lead but the margin vanished almost...
LPGA Tour Championship - Update
The second round was completed about 9:15am and as expected, the 70-and-ties cut was +8. Notables now done for the season are Laura Davies (84 Friday after opening with 70), Rookie of the Year Azahara Munoz, Vicky Hurst and Karen Stupples. The on-the-number survivors (and this week, that label is...
LPGA Tour Championship - 2nd Round
Amy Yang leads by three strokes after (nearly) two rounds of the LPGA Tour Championship. Seon Hwa Lee and Maria Hjorth are tied for second at -4 while Julieta Granada is fourth at -3. Four players including Player of the Year candidate Cristie Kerr are tied for fifth at -2. After taking three...
LPGA Tour Championship - 1st Round
Amy Yang and Seon Hwa Lee are your leaders after the first day of action at the LPGA Tour Championship. Julieta Granada is two shots back in third place at -3 while four others are tied for fourth at -2. Play was suspended on account of darkness at 5:30pm with a whopping nine groups still on the...
LPGA Tour Championship Preview
Defending Champion - Anna Nordqvist Grand Cypress Golf Club Orlando, Florida 72 holes, begins Thursday Par 72, 6518 yards Field Score - 76 Tournament Odds - from Oddschecker.com Last Player In - Michelle Ellis (Money List #152) First Players Out - Jessica Shepley (ML #155),...
Hot 20 - LPGA Tour Championship
As usual the players not at the TC are in bold and as has occasionally been the case, this list is based on who was "Hot" over two weeks ago (through the Ochoa Invitational). 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Na Yeon Choi Jiyai Shin In-Kyung Kim Suzann Pettersen Stacy Lewis Cristie...
Quest For The Card Update
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Updated with field changes Monday morning, 11-29 Now that the final field for the LPGA Tour Championship has been announced, we can accurately assess the chances for the bubble players to improve their Priority Status for 2011. This year, the TC used the current...
Vare Trophy - It's Down To Just Two
Thanks to the "minimum-70-rounds rule", the Vare Trophy (which otherwise could have been a barn-burner race much like for Player of the Year) has only two real candidates entering the final event of the season. Suzann Pettersen and Jiyai Shin - currently third and fourth on the Scoring Average...
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