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ANZ Ladies Masters - Royal Pines Resort - Lisa Hall Wins

February 11th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Lisa Hall has won the Australia ANZ Ladies Masters at the Royal Pines Resort, in Queensland with a superb round of six under par 66 to take the tournament by one shot from Hyun-Ju Shin. Hall has with this win now qualified to play in the HSBC Champions tournament being played this month in Singapore.

Hall came from one stroke behind the overnight leaders - defending champion Karrie Webb, Hyun Ju Shin and Tamie Durden. With good course management and some high quality shots she posted a winning total of 13 under par, 203.

The tournament had been cut to 3 rounds because of heavy rain and flooding on the first day.Hall had posted her score, and could only watch and hope for a play-off as Shin approached the 18th green tied with a putt to win. Shin left her birdie putt 4 feet short, and missed the par putt, so handing the title to Hall.

“It was shocking,” said the 40-year-old Hall, who now lives in West Palm Beach, Florida with her husband David “It wasn’t shocking in that she didn’t make it because in golf anything can happen but at that point it was the realization that I had won.”

“I certainly thought I’d be in a play-off. In golf all sorts of things can happen so I was on the lucky end of it today I think. I was quite relieved that it didn’t go in.”

Shin who has won twice on the LPGA of Japan took second place with a 12 under par total. An interpreter translated “Over the 3 days I never missed a short putt, but there was so much pressure it was a bad stroke. I really wanted a victory, but I’m happy to be second.”

It was a good tournament for Englands Felicity Johnson who shot the best round with a 7 under par 65 to finish with a share of third with Louise Stahle from Sweden.
Karrie Webb who was the defending champion and has previously won this event 6 times finished in 5th place on 10 under par.
She said “Obviously I’m very disappointed not to have given myself a better chance today,” said Webb. “I really struggled with my driver all week and struggled again up until the last couple of holes.”

Lisa who won on the LET in 2007, in Denmark and Northern Ireland has really turned her game around from 3 years ago when she considered quitting the game in favour of coaching believes that this title is a huge achievement. “ I think with how I played the whole day and how the end result happened I don’t think it could get much better than that,” said Hall.To shoot six under in the last round and beat Karrie Webb in Australia, it’s got to be high up there. I had two wins last year, both in play-offs and both very different. One was an eight-hole play-off and one was just one hole.”

MFS Womens Australian Open - Kingston Heath Australia - 3rd Feb 2008

February 4th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Australia’s Karrie Webb defeated the Korean Ji-Yai Shin and retained the MFS Women’s Australian Open at Kingston Heath Golf Club with a birdie at the second hole of a sudden death play-off.

Webb who had previously won this event in 2000, 2002 and 2007 rolled in a twelve foot birdie putt at the par-four 18th hole to take her fourth national title

Both Shin and Webb carded six-under-par 67s in the final round of the championship, scores which tied for the lowest of the week and had finished tied on 8 under par and went forward to a play off.

Webb came from two strokes behind Shin with three holes to play . She birdied the 16th and 17th and ended up in a tie for the lead.
“When I got to the 15th green I hadn’t seen a leader board for quite a while so it was quite surprising to see that I was two shots behind and I had to put myself in another gear,” Explained Webb.

“I knew Shin wasn’t going to make any mistakes coming in and I needed to birdie at least two of the last three holes, which I managed to do. I guess the old girl still has plenty of petrol in the tank.”
Webb, at 33 is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.and has wone 45 tournaments around the world, which also includes seven major championships.
“The first time I played the 18th in regulation I hit it (the putt) actually where I thought and it broke so much more,” Webb said. “On the second play-off hole I couldn’t see the break so I just had to trust it.”

Ji-Yai Shin who is currently ranked at World No.7 felt that she might have done enough to secure the championship when she returned to the scorer’s hut to mark her card.
“Because I was two ahead I thought I might have won but because there was a lot of golf left, I wasn’t sure,” An interpreter translated for Shin.
Malissa Reid who is in her rookie year finished in third place on four under par. She had remained in touch throughout the competition, and briefly held a one shot lead at the 9th hole.

Reid said “I had so many putts that lipped and could have gone in today. I’m quite happy but I’m here to win. I’m not here to finish third”.

Amy Yang, the 200t ANZ Ladies Masters champion finished on two under par in fourth place with a final round of 70.

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