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With bogey-free 65, Ochoa leads Evian Masters by one after Day 1

Lorena Ochoa shot a 7-under par 65 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the $3.25 million Evian Masters.
The 26-year-old Mexican started with a birdie on the first hole and added six more on the back nine in a bogey-free round in the event co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour and the [...]

The Lexus Cup Returns to Singapore Where It All Began

Lexus Cup 2008 organisers revealed today that the final event of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) season will be returning to Singapore where the tournament was inaugurated. Singapore Island Country Club (Bukit) will play host to the 4th edition of this prestigious women’s team event on its renowned Bukit Course, one of only three [...]

Ji Young Oh wins State Farm Classic

Second-year LPGA golfer Ji Young Oh won her first tournament, sinking a 6-inch putt for par to win the State Farm Classic in a playoff over rookie Yani Tseng.
A day after the tournament lost its marquee player, Michelle Wie, to disqualification for failing to sign her card, the sudden-death playoff injected life into what had [...]

Wie DQ’d from State Farm over scorecard mishap

After finishing Friday and Saturday in second place at the State Farm Classic, Michelle Wie was one good round away from finally living up to her deep potential.
Then, minutes after tapping in her last putt of the third round, Wie sat red-eyed at a folding table in front of a couple dozen baffled reporters and [...]

Kim holds State Farm lead, but Wie closes

Christina Kim’s second-round 68 at the LPGA State Farm Classic looked ordinary compared to her opening 63, but it included a birdie putt on her last hole that gave her a one-stroke lead over the charging Michelle Wie and three others.
Kim was the first-day leader, but said Friday was, by comparison, a fight.
She bogeyed the [...]

Kim off and running at State Farm Classic

Christina Kim shot a nine-under 63 to take a one-stroke lead at the LPGA’s State Farm Classic. Kim’s round included seven birdies, an eagle and no bogeys.
The field was stacked with low scores, including a 67 from Michelle Wie that was her best of the year. Wie, playing on a sponsor’s exemption, and most of [...]

Creamer hangs on at LPGA’s Jamie Farr Classic

Shoots 2-over 73 Sunday to beat Nicole Castrale for 3rd win this season
Just like the last two weeks, Paula Creamer didn’t play well in the final round of a tournament.
This time, she didn’t have to.
Creamer shot a two-over-par 73 Sunday and did just enough to make a big lead stand, going wire-to-wire to win the [...]

Creamer takes big lead into final

Paula Creamer fired a one-under par 70 here Saturday to keep her lead at four strokes after three rounds of the LPGA Jamie Farr Classic even as Australian and Asian rivals moved into contention.
“Obviously I wasn’t very pleased with the way I played today,” Creamer said. “I only shot one-under. But at the same time [...]

Creamer leaves Corning rivals trailing

Paula Creamer shot a 6-under-par 65 to build a six-stroke lead and post the LPGA Tour’s lowest 36-hole total of the season in the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic at Highland Meadows.
Chasing her third win this season on the LPGA Tour, Creamer shattered the tournament’s 36-hole record by six shots and the 2008 Tour two-round [...]

Creamer Shoots Course-Record 60 for LPGA Lead

Paula Creamer birdied nine of the last 11 holes, including the final three, for a course-record 60 on the par-71 Highland Meadows layout yesterday in Sylvania, Ohio. She holds a five-stroke lead after the opening round of the Jamie Farr Classic.
Creamer would have had to hole out a 137-yard, 7-iron from the fairway to shoot [...]