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Brown, Tucker Share Lead After First Round In Gettysburg

Rookie Sara Brown of Tucson, Ariz., and Tour winner Kristina Tucker of Stockholm, Sweden, each carded a 4-under-par 68 to share a one-stroke lead after today’s first round of the $100,000 Gettysburg Championship.

Six players are one stroke back at 3-under-par 69 in Briana Vega of Andover, Mass., [...]

Mindy Kim wins Futures Tour event

Mindy Kim won her third Duramed Futures Tour title of the year Sunday, holing a 6-foot eagle putt on the final hole for a one-stroke victory over teen star Vicky Hurst in the Falls Auto Group Classic.
Kim, from Diamond Bar, Calif., finished with a 3-under 69 for a 10-under 206 total on the Crooked Creek Golf [...]

Duramed FUTURES Tour - Two share lead at London golf event

Four-time Duramed Futures Tour winner Vicky Hurst of Melbourne, Fla., and Lisa Ferrero of Lodi, Calif., were tied for the lead at 4-under 68 after Friday’s first round of the inaugural $100,000 Falls Auto Group Classic at Crooked Creek in London.
Five players are one shot off the lead at 3-under 69: Leah Whiting, Yoora Kim, [...]

Vicky Hurst is tied for lead in Kentucky

Following Friday’s four-birdie, no-bogey opening round, Melbourne’s Vicky Hurst is tied for first in the FUTURES Tour’s Falls Auto Group Classic in London, Ky.
Hurst, the tour’s top money winner, and Lisa Ferraro shot a four-under 68 for a one-stroke lead in the 54-hole event that ends Sunday.
Satellite Beach’s Jaclyn Burch struggled, shooting 9-over 81.

Futures Tour makes a stop in Kentucky

The Duramed Futures Tour, a proving ground for women golfers trying to reach the LPGA Tour, stops in London, Ky., this weekend for the inaugural $100,000 Falls Auto Group Classic at Crooked Creek.
The 144-player field has an international flavor, including pros from 26 countries.
The tournament also features several Kentuckians, including former high school champions Whitney [...]

Jin Young Pak Off To Career-Best Season

Third-year Duramed FUTURES Tour member JIN YOUNG PAK of Kang Leung, South Korea, is having her career-best season with six top-10 finishes in 2008. Pak won the 2005 Lakeland FUTURES Classic in Lakeland, Fla., in her professional debut in the United States.
Since that win, she has demonstrated steady improvement each year. In 2005, she finished [...]

Martin earns second Duramed Futures Tour title

Mo Martin carded a five-under 67 Sunday to win the USI Championship at Beaver Meadow Golf Course.
Martin completed the event at 12-under-par 204, four strokes clear of the field. For Martin, this was her first win this season and second career victory on the Duramed Futures Tour.
Gerina Mendoza closed with a three-under 69 to [...]

Demers gets peek into future

If there was any doubt that Chelsea Demers belonged in this weekend’s Duramed Futures Tour event at Beaver Meadow Country Club in Concord, she answered if with her first shot.
The 18-year-old recent Wilton-Lyndeborough High School graduate, playing in a threesome with a pair of professionals, bombed a 250-yard drive straight down the middle of [...]

Kim Welch Talks About Winning The Big Break

Third-year Duramed FUTURES Tour member KIM WELCH got her 12 weeks of fame when she capped off a 4 and 3 victory over Sophie Sandolo of Monaco, Monte Carlo, last week to win the Golf Channel’s “Big Break Ka’anapali.”
With the win — which pitted 12 professionals against each other in a series of golf [...]

Hurst Wins Futures Event; Sheary 2nd

Two years ago, Vicky Hurst and Natalie Sheary were teammates in the Canon Cup, a national junior girls’ golf competition.
Their friendship has continued, and two spent a lot of time together during the Duramed Futures Tour’s CIGNA Golf Classic. Friday, Hurst had dinner at the Shearys’ home in West Hartford before the two made a [...]