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[Waggle Room] With all the well-deserved noise erupting over the creepy crawly pace of play on the PGA Tour (we’re talking to you, Kevin Na), the rules officials on the men’s side might want to take a page from the LPGA’s playbook. Because on Thursday, the honchos at this week’s Kia Classic actually assessed rookie Shasta Averyhardt a two-stroke penalty for holding up play.

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[Golf Video Lessons] Golf Video Lessons » Waggle Room :: LPGA Tour penalizes rookie ...: Thursday, the honchos at this week's Kia Classic actually assessed rookie. Shasta Averyhardt a two-stroke penalty for holding up play.

[Golf TV - Golf News, Videos and Lessons.] Pick up the pace: LPGA rookie tagged for slow play | Golf TV ...: Details are sketchy based on a local report, but Averyhardt, along with playing partners Jennifer Song and Lindsey .issue of the golf world, with PGA Tour players like Ben Crane, Kevin Na, Webb Simpson and JB Holmes apparently believing it's their right to take long enough on the golf course to need to shave at the turn.

[LPGA.com News & Entertainment] RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup”¦ - LPGA.com: Averyhardt, 25, of Flint, Mich., who is of African-American and Hispanic background, is just the fourth player with African-American heritage to play in an LPGA event (the others are Althea Gibson, Renee Powell and Laree Sugg). After graduating from Jackson State University in 2008, she turned professional and played the Sun Coast Tour in Florida, then earned her way onto the LPGA Futures Tour.

[GeoffShackelford.com] LPGA Gives A Two-Shot Penalty For Slow Play! - GeoffShackelford ...: Larry Morgan reports on the first round two-shotter doled out by the LPGA Tour at the KIA Classic. The rude golfer in question?

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[BBC Day] Pick up the pace: LPGA rookie tagged for slow play | BBC Day: Averyhardt was later hit with a two-stroke penalty. Of course, since her final score was a 7-over 80, it’s not like the penalty took her out of the championship hunt or anything, but still…not the kind of thing you want hanging around your neck.

[Rolex Watch Blog by Melrose Jewelers, USA's #1 Online Rolex Retailer] Top Rolex Players Set To Participate In The RR Donnelley LPGA ...: The RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup was created by the LPGA to honor the 13 women who founded the LPGA - Alice Bauer, Patty Berg, Bettye Danoff, Helen Dettweiler, Marlene Bauer Hagge, Helen Hicks, Opal Hill, Betty Jameson, Sally Sessions, Marilynn Smith, Shirley Spork, Louise Suggs and Babe Zaharias. There are two 18-hole championship courses at Wildfire Golf Club.

[LPGA.com News & Entertainment] Kia Classic Pre-Tournament Notes and Interviews: The field also includes defending champion Hee Kyung Seo and sponsor exemptions Shasta Averyhardt, who’s the fourth African-American player ever to earn LPGA membership and Blair O’Neal, who appeared in last month’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in an ad for Cobra PUMA golf.

[Scott's Golf Blog] Slow Play Hot Topic Again This Week | Scott's Golf Blog: Over the span of three seasons, that’s like 120 tournaments? You mean to tell me that in three years of analysis, three years worth of player meetings having this issue dredged up over and over, with over 120 tournaments at his disposal to pinpoint exactly who the slow players are, 36 months to hash over some sort of viable solution…

[Daily Golf News and Video] LPGA News, Notes & Interviews - Kia Classic @lpga: Last Sunday at the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup, she fired a final-round, six-under 66 to overcome second-round leader Angela Stanford and outlast Brittany Lincicome and Paula Creamer by one shot. “I don't want to question it too much as to what's going right, but I think it's such a fine line between having great results or having OK results, great results and winning,”

[thegolfnewsnetwork.com] Kia Classic Pre-Tournament Notes and Interviews: 1 early this season after winning four straight events worldwide, including the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open and ANZ RACV Ladies Open co-sanctioned by Australian Ladies Professional Golf (ALPG) and the Ladies European Tour (LET) and the season-opening Honda LPGA Thailand on the LPGA Tour. Tseng won two major championships last season - the Kraft Nabisco Championship and RICOH Women's British Open - and needs only a U.S. Women's Open win to complete the career Grand Slam.

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