Lorena Ochoa Wins the HSBC Women’s Champions in Singapore
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HSBC Womens’s Champions - Singapore
March 2 2008
Lorena Ochoa has won the inagural HSBC Women’s Champions tournament with a wire-to-wire victory by 11 strokes. In her first competition of the year, the 26 year old Mexican sealed her victory with some impressive play. She is rewarded with a pay check of $300,000 and Ochoa has now gained her entrance into the LPGA end of season ADT championship which she won last year. She now has 18 career wins and over $10.7 million in earnings since joining the Tour in 2003.
“It’s a fantastic week,” said Ochoa, “Starting on Thursday, the first two days, pretty low rounds, and on the weekend I wasn’t as good with the putter but I managed to shoot under par every day.”
The last round was interupted by a couple of weather delays with heavy rains making it impossible to continue. Ochoa had just started her round when after 12 minutes the first halt was called. Play was delayed twice more before the round finished.
“I was able to keep my patience every time they called us off, just not get mad, so I was like okay, try to be positive about it, one more time,” said Ochoa. “I ate a couple times, they had good food, and I was just trying to relax.”
In fact Ochoa birdied holes 2,3,9 and 16 and coasted to victory and a final round of 68.
Her scores were 66-65-69-68 =268 (-20).
Annika Sorenstam and Paula Creamer, the world Rolex number 2 and 5 respectively fought it out in a great battle for second place. Sorenstam eventually birdied holes 13 and 16 to pull 2 shots clear and finished the day with a 1 under par 71.
2nd place Annika Sorenstam (71-67-70-73=279)-9
3rd place Paula Creamer (67-71-70=73=281)-7
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