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[The Olympian Online -- Golf] Lorena Ochoa's second-place finish at the LPGA Tour Championship in November vaulted her past Jiyai Shin on the tour's season-long points list, giving the Mexican star her fourth consecutive Player of the Year award.

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[LPGA.com News & Entertainment] Michelle Wie Rocks Headlines - LPGA.com: It seems Michelle Wie's career has just taken off as the LPGA Tour enters the final stage of the 2009 season.

[Golf.com: Tours & News] Lorena Ochoa leads rain-delayed LPGA Tour Championship - Tours ...: Rain swamped the Houstonian Golf and Country Club before dawn and the start of the second round was pushed back six hours. The tournament resumed at 1 p.m., but light rain started falling about two hours later and play was halted for the day at 5:05 p.m.

[LPGA.com News & Entertainment] Final-round notes and interviews - LPGA.com: Nordqvist, who won her first-career major at the McDonald’s LPGA Championship Presented by Rolex, carded a 7-under-par 65 in the final round on Monday to join Ochoa, Jiyai Shin and Na Yeon Choi as multiple winners on Tour in 2009. Her three-day tally of 13-under-par 203 (70-68-65) was enough to defeat world number one and four-time Rolex Player of the Year Lorena Ochoa by two shots.

[Waggle Room] Winner and Still Player of the Year...Lorena Ochoa! - Waggle Room: By the smallest of margins - one whole point - Lorena Ochoa will be the reigning LPGA Tour Player of the Year for the fourth consecutive year. She finished two strokes behind Anna Nordqvist at the Monday finish of the LPGA Tour Championship in Houston. 

[Wayne Joseph's Blog] Wie Captures First LPGA Tour Win - Lorena Ochoa Invitational ...: The 20 year old from Honolulu got a little help from Paula Creamer and Cristie Kerr in the final three holes of the Lorena Ochoa Invitational from Guadalajara, Mexico.

[LPGA.com News & Entertainment] LPGA Tour Championship First-round notes and interviews - LPGA.com: Ochoa takes first-round lead at season-ending Tour Championship.  World number one Lorena Ochoa put herself in position to take a fourth-consecutive Rolex Player of the Year award with a 6-under-par 66 (34-32) today at the LPGA Tour Championship Presented by Rolex.  Fresh off her second-annual Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico, Ochoa carded eight birdies and two bogies to take a one-shot lead over Reilley Rankin at the 6,650-yard Houstonian Golf and Country Club.  Ochoa trails Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year Jiyai Shin by eight points in the race for Rolex Player of the Year.  If the tournament ended today, Ochoa would earn 30 points and claim the award.  Ochoa, Rankin (67, -5) and Texas native Taylor Leon (68, -4) all went low in the morning before the winds picked up and kept scores lower in the afternoon.

[Hound Dog LPGA] LPGA Tour Championship - Nordqvist wins, Ochoa takes Player of the ...: Kristy McPherson and Na Yeon Choi tied for third place three shots back while Hee Young Park, Sophie Gustafson and Song Hee Kim tied for fourth.  Jiyai Shin finished tied for eighth, leaving her one point behind Ochoa in the Rolex Player of the Year race.

[LPGA.com News & Entertainment] Lorena Ochoa Invitational Presented by Banamex and Corona - LPGA.com: GUADALAJARA, Jalisco, Mexico - The wait is over for Michelle Wie who recorded her first professional victory on Sunday at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational Presented by Banamex. In her 65th LPGA tournament - 18th as a member this season - the 20-year-old clinched the win with a 30-yard sand shot to one foot on the 72nd hole for birdie.

[Rolex Watch Blog by Melrose Jewelers, USA's #1 Online Rolex Retailer] Lorena Ochoa Leading After Round One At LPGA Tour Championship ...: Among the three contenders for the Rolex Player of the Year award Cristie Kerr had the worst round of all as she ended the first round at a lowly placed tied 26th position. The good thing is that she is still expected to make the cut and the battle for the prestigious Rolex Player of the Year award is still a three way race with Lorena Ochoa being the one who is most comfortably placed.

[www.mylpga.com] Lorena Ochoa wins Navistar LPGA Classic 2009: Ochoa shot a total of 18-under-par (270) over the 4 days to win comfortably by four shots over second place winners Michelle Wie and Brittany Lang (T2) who both scored 14-under-par (274). The lowest score over the four days was from Yani Tseng who scored a 63 (9-under-par) on the 2nd day of the tournament.

[Rolex Watch Blog by Melrose Jewelers, USA's #1 Online Rolex Retailer] Field Finalized For The LPGA Tour Championship Presented By Rolex ...: The list also includes Mexican Lorena Ochoa who is placed fifth on the money list and would be taking part in the LPGA Tour Championship after visiting Guadalajara to take part in the tournament that goes by her name, the Lorena Ochoa Invitational. These two players would be competing in the field of best golfers which will include players like Ai Miyazato from Japan and Cristie Kerr from USA who are ranked number two and number three on the Money List, respectively.

[19th Hole - The Golf Blog From Your Golf Travel] LPGA announce 2010 Tour schedule : 19th Hole - The Golf Blog From ...: The season will get underway on February 18th with the Honda PTT LPGA Thailand and the season will be punctuated with no less than seventeen free weeks between the first event and last - the LPGA Tour Championship.

[www.mylpga.com] LPGA Trials and Opportunities: I love the LPGA and its amazing athletes.  The women of the tour are as skilled at what they do as any sportspeople in the world.  They show mental toughness, emotion, clutch play under pressure, endurance and fortitude. But the Ladies Professional Golf Association, like many sports organizations, is adrift in turbulent waters.  Sponsors are walking out the door taking their money with them.  New sponsors are difficult to find.  To be fair, the LPGA has contributed in part to the exodus with some questionable negotiating tactics given their lack of mainstream bargaining power.  The Association’s vision of what the LPGA could and should be has not always matched what sponsors felt the return on their investment was worth.  Alarmed at the shrinking schedule of events for the future, a select group of high profile players engaged in a summit to vet the crisis that threatened to collapse the very existence of their 59 year old tour, the longest ongoing women’s professional sports organization in the United States.

[Michelle Wie Blog] Michelle Wie Wins First LPGA Tournament | Lorena Ochoa Invitational: After a few years of empty promises, injuries, drama, and even controversy, Michelle Wie has finally bagged her first LPGA tour victory. Michelle was able to overpower Paula Creamer to win the Lorena Ochoa Invitational at Guadalajara.

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