Golf Sports Blog > LPGA: Driving Down to the Shore for the Shoprite Classic

[The Sand Trap .com - Golf News, Reviews, and Opinions for Golfers, By Golfers] Number-one player on tour Annika Sorenstam (1998, 2002) won her 14th LPGA title here creating a new tournament record of 17-under par. Sorenstam captured her second Shoprite Classic title four years later with a final bogey-free round overcoming a three-shot deficit to card a 5-under par 66 for her 37th victory on tour. With a second-place finish last weekend at the Corning Classic Annika has now topped the $1 million earnings mark. A sniffle-free Annika will challenge the field this weekend.

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[Sports - Golf] Leonard wins by stroke: Not long after winning his first pro title at the 1997 Quad City Classic, David Toms became a father for the first time.He's hoping to follow that formula again this year - either winning this week's Memorial Tournament or possibly the U.S. Open in two weeks - before wife Sonja has a daughter to go with son Carter."She's actually not due until midweek after the U.S. Open, somewhere in there,"Toms said Wednesday."She's got a C-section scheduled for Monday after the U.S.

[Sports - Golf] Reid'shocked'as anyone with titleThe: Jimin Kang aced the 15th hole just moments after a deflating bogey and shot a 6-under 66 on Sunday to win the LPGA Corning Classic, edging Annika Sorenstam and rookie Meena Lee by two strokes for her first career title.Kang finished with a 15-under 273 and took home the winner's check of $165,000, by far her biggest payday since joining the tour in 2003.Kang and Lee began the final hole tied at 15 under, two shots ahead of Sorenstam.

[Miva.stargazette.com] Star-Gazette.COM 2005 LPGA Corning Classic: Tourney committee member Dave Goff presented the two runners-up, Meena Lee and Annika Sorenstam, who shot 13 under, with Steuben bowl's and a check for $86,450 for each of them.

[Travelgolf.com] Travel Golf: Annika returns to LPGA riding high from Colonial: Time will flush all of this out. But for now, Annika is the queen of golfand her status in the game and her fan appeal are soaring like so manydimpled spheres off the face of her Big Bertha. When she stepped onto thefirst tee for a pro-am event at the Kellogg-Keebler Classic she found closeto 500 fans applauding her arrival.

[Travelgolf.com] Jennifer Mario - Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie breaking new ...: It's just a pretty version of a quest for inclusion, that we experience in Augusta of lately. Drop the Wie media stuff, and focus on the top ten grinding it out every event! Anyway, Paula Creamer should have proved that your looking in the wrong direction for a story. Thanks for this slot to vent, and don't hate me because I call it the way I hear it on the courses of everyday players.

[Travelgolf.com] Travel Golf: Sorenstam needs to take sideshow somewhere else: From time to time, undeserving PGA teaching professionals are granted sponsor's exemptions because of their connections with the big wig CEO's underwriting the event. The most embarrassing example being that of Mason Wolf who received a free ticket into the USF&G Classic in New Orleans in 1990 and subsequently fired a 90-93 to log the highest 36-hole total on the PGA Tour in 30 years.

[Thegolfblog.com] The Golf Blog: In fact, JD said it's totally "unfair" to judge Annika on her 1 PGA tournament at Colonial b/c 1 tournament is not a good measure of her ability. First, Annika doesn't regularly play courses of that length, probably 700-1000 yards longer. Second, Annika had all that media following her, and she probably was the most nervous she's ever been, even more so than the women's majors. JD said that what's fair is having Annika play at least 5 or 6 times -- only then would we all be able to see what she can do on the PGA tour.

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