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Annika Sorenstam Wins the Michelob Ultra Open at Kingsmill

May 15th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Annika Sorenstam has convincingly shown that she is back to her pre injury form with a superb 7 shot victory at the Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill. After starting the day with a three-stroke lead, Sorenstam proceeded to card a final-round 66 with seven birdies and just two bogies on her way to a tournament-record 19-under-par (64-66-69-66=265) for the week. In doing so, Sorenstam captured her 72nd career win and became the first LPGA player to surpass the $22 million mark in career earnings.

It’s never flawless with Sorenstam, who believes that it’s possible to make birdie at every hole in a round and shoot 54, but coming down the stretch she was very close. She had five birdies on the back nine, including three in a row, before a bogey on the final hole.

“Winning this tournament is just a wonderful feeling,” Sorenstam said “I think I feel just relieved, I feel at peace with myself knowing I can play this golf course.”

The victory was the Swede’s third in eight events this season, and in the process she also answered the doubters who said she could no longer play with new No. 1 Lorena Ochoa.

The eight-time player of the year pulled away from Ochoa on Saturday, using her typical steadiness for a 2-under 69, then did the same to Jang on Sunday, leaving no doubt that her injuries are behind her, and that her once-unrivaled game is almost all the way back.

“I’m very proud of the way I played this week and I’m very happy with the way I’ve been hitting especially my iron shots and I’ve been making a lot of the putts,” Sorenstam said.

Sorenstam is planning a January wedding to fiance Mike McGee, has opened her own golf academy and also developed an appreciation for playing golf when her back didn’t let her.

Top Ten Results

1 Annika Sorenstam 64-66-69-66 265 Total -19 $330,000

T2 Allison Fouch 69-71-68-64 272 Total-12 $138,548

T2 Karen Stupples 67-69-70-66 272 Total-12 $138,548

T2 Christina Kim 70-67-66-69 272 Total-12 $138,548

T2 Jeong Jang 67-66-69-70 272 Total-12 $138,548

6 Katherine Hull 70-69-70-64 273 Total-11 $74,793

T7 Sophie Gustafson 71-71-66-66 274 Total-10 $58,727

T7 Candie Kung 66-74-66-68 274 Total-10 $58,727

T9 Stacy Prammanasudh 66-72-69-69 276 Total-8 $45,245

T9 Jee Young Lee 68-71-67-70 276 Total-8 $45,245

T9 Maria Hjorth 68-71-66-71 276 Total-8 $45,245

Annika Sorenstam wins the Stanford Internatinal Pro-Am

May 1st, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Annika Sorenstam became the second multiple winner on the LPGA Tour this season, winning the Stanford International Pro-Am and simultaneously punching her ticket to the season-ending ADT Championship. The 71-time Tour winner outlasted five-time winner Paula Creamer in the first playoff of the season, improving her career playoff record to 16-6. It was the first playoff of Creamer’s four-year LPGA Tour career. “I thought I played very well, and so did Paula. I know it came down to the last, well, it took 19 holes to separate us. It could have gone really any way,” Sorenstam said. “I’m just fortunate that this time it was my turn, and I’m going cherish this moment. Like I said, I felt like I played well the whole week. This is a big tournament on our schedule, and it meant a lot to me to come down the stretch there and hit some really crucial shots and finish strong.”

“It’s incredibly disappointing. You know, I had the lead for quite a while out there, and then I bogeyed and she had a birdie in there. It’s very disappointing,” Creamer said. “But at the same time, I’m going against on of the best players in the world that’s ever to play golf. There’s a lot to learn from that. This is was my first playoff as a professional, and probably the most nervous I’ve ever been.”

Final Scores:-

1 Annika Sorenstam 68-67-70-70–275 8-under

2 Paula Creamer 68-71-67-69–275 8-under
3 Young Kim 67-67-73-69–276 7-under
Karrie Webb 73-69-70-64–276
5 Momoko Ueda 68-72-67-71–278 5-under
6 Cristie Kerr 69-72-67-72–280 3-under
Seon Hwa Lee 74-68-69-69–280
Angela Park 71-72-68-69–280
9 Eun-Hee Ji 75-69-69-68–281 2-under
Hee Young Park 69-73-71-68–281
Lindsey Wright 70-71-75-65–281

Lorena Ochoa Wins the HSBC Women’s Champions in Singapore

March 3rd, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

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

Fields Open In Hawaii - Paula Creamer Wins

February 24th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Paula Creamer wins Fields Open in Hawaii. Feb 23, 2008.

Creamer really turned it on and birdied four of the last five holes to win the Fields Open. Playing with Jeong Jang who was the leader for 36 holes, Creamer carded 6 birdies in her final round to win by 1 shot at 16 under par 200 (66-68-66). This is her 5th LPGA Tour win the last being The Mitchell Company LPGA Tournament of Champions last November.

Creamer who was fighting flu-type symptoms earned $195,000 for the win. She started the final round two strokes behind Jang at 10 under par. She had birdies at 1 and 3 closing the gap. Jang went ahead again by making a 10 ft putt for birdie on the 6th hole. Both players birdied the par 5 14th hole. Jang then went ahead again with a birdie on 15. But then Creamer made her decisive move and birdied the last 3 holes to win. Her score was a tournament record.

Jeong Jang shot 3 under to take second place. (64-68-69=201, -15).
Lindsey Wright’s 14-under-par 202 (69-66-67) resulted in a third-place finish.

Annika Sorenstam shot a final round of 4 under par to take a fourth place finish in her second tournament of the year (70-66-68=204, -12) , after winning last weeks SBS Open at Turtle Bay.

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