LPGA Tour rookie Anna Nordqvist won the season-ending Tour Championship, capping off a year in which she started with limited playing privileges on the Tour and went on to also win the LPGA Championship, finish second in the Rookie of the Year race and end the season 15th on the official LPGA money list. Read More >>
Her fans have been waiting a long time for this moment. After years of anticipation, and waiting the child star prodigy has finally made good, and has taken out her first LPGA title at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational held at the Guadalajara Country Club in Guadalajara, Mexico. The 20-year-old Korean-American, fired a three-under par 69 Read More >>
Song Bo-bae claimed her first LPGA victory the Mizuno Classic held this year at the Kintetsu Kashikojima Country Club, Japan. The 23-year-old scored a 68 on the final day to take her to 15-under-par (201) total for the tournament and a three-stroke win over Lorena Ochoa, Brittany Lang and Park Hee-young, Read More >>
Jiyai Shin was named the 2009 Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year, the LPGA Tour announced on Monday Nov. 2, 2009. The 21-year-old is the 48th Tour member to earn Rookie of the Year honors since the award began in 1962. The award is named after Louise Suggs, one of the founders of the LPGA. Shin, who has accumulated 1,406 points in the rookie race this season, has eliminated the other rookies in the running, including Michelle Wie Read More >>
Na Yeon Choi from South Korea shot a 5-under-par on the final day of the tournament to win the Hana Bank KOLON Championships. Choi scored a total of 10-under-par (206) over the three days to beat Yani Tseng and Maria Hjorth by one stroke. This is Choi's second win for the year earlier in the year she won the Samsung World Championship taking home $250,000 for winning the tournament. She received $255,000 for winning Read More >>