Na Yeon Choi, the second-round leader, was nine strokes ahead of Pettersen at the start the day, but lost her chance of a clear victory when she finished the day with a two-over 73. Na Yeon Choi bogeyed the final hole which forced a playoff between Suzann Pettersen and Na Yeon Choi to decide the tournament winner.

The playoff began of the 18th hole, with her first shot Choi found the fairway and Pettersen’s tee ball got a good bounce out of the rough into the fairway. Choi hit her second shot into the water right of the green, While Pettersen second shot bounced just off the back of the green. Choi played her fourth shot to 18 feet, but missed the bogey putt on the right side. Pettersen chipped to five feet with her third shot and knocked in the par putt to claim her eighth LPGA Tour title.

The lowest round score of the week also went to Suzann Pettersen, she fired a 7-under 64 in the last round, at the Ghost Creek Course on Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club. For winning the tournament Pettersen picked up a check of $225,000, she also moved to 2nd on the Rolex rankings taken Cristie Kerr previous position. Suzann Pettersen is still third on the money list behind world number one Yani Tseng, and Cristie Kerr.

Rookie Ryann O’Toole  shot a final-round 70 to finish her up in 5th position (t5)  for second top-10 finish of the season. Hee Young Park bogeyed the 18th hole to miss the playoff by one shot. Park finished in third place at 5-under-par for the tournament, Defending champion Ai Miyazato shot a 3-under 68 in Sunday’s final round to finish in a tie for eight position at 1-under-par.

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With her victory  becomes the youngest golfer in history to win five career major titles. 22 year old Tseng beat Tiger Woods record having won his fifth major at 24 years, 7 months. The win is also the first time that Tseng, has been able to successfully defend a tournament title.

Tseng started the final round two shots behind Caroline Masson of Germany. After a bogey on the first hole dropped her to three strokes behind, Tseng  recovered on the third hole with a birdie, Masson shot two bogey’s in a row to place them at 13-under-par each on the leaderboard.

A birdie on the sixth hole put Tseng in outright lead for the first time in the championship. Caroline Masson Faltered on the back nine with several more bogey’s finishing the tournament with 9-under-par, While Tseng headed to the 18th hole with a three-shot lead and finished the hole with a birdie to finish at 16-under-par for the tournament.

Brittany Lang started Sunday’s final round in a tie for sixth and with a round of 67,  to finish her up at 12-under-par for the tournament and the runner-up position, Sophie Gustafson trailed one stroke behind came in third.

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Stacey Lewis also shot a 70 on the last day to finish two shots back for second place with three players I.K. Kim, Miki Saiki, and Angela Stanford finishing third (T3) one stroke behind Lewis.

Ai Miyazato is the fourth player to win multiple titles at the Evian Masters in the 18-year history of the tournament. The others include Helen Alfredsson, Annika Sorenstam and Laura Davies.

Evian Masters was Miyazato first LPGA tournament victory which she won back in July 2009 when she beat Sophie Gustafson in a playoff.

For placeing first Miyazato picked up a winners check of $487,000 which she plans on donating part of to her homeland of Japan, for relief towards the disasters that struck earlier in the year.

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On Monday the challenge was on for Ryu who was one stroke behind the lead with three holes to play. She recorded a par on No. 16 and then had a birdie putt on No. 17 that just miss the edge of the hole. On the 18th hole Ryu hit her second shot a 6-iron over the lake to eight feet from the pin and rolled the putt in for birdie to force the  tie with Hee Kyung Seo and the three-hole playoff.

Kerr also with a chance to make the playoff.  trailed by two shots with two holes to play, but couldn’t convert a 12-foot putt on 17th hole. She finished third at 1-under par. Starting the playoff on the 16th hole par 3, Seo and Ryu both hit onto the green and missed a birdie putt to score a par each.

On the 17th par 5 Seo found trouble by hitting her drive into a bunker, her third shot found the rough and she ended the hole with a bogey. Ryu hit the green in three solid strokes and finished the hole with a birdie to lead the playoff by two shots.coming onto the 18th and last hole both players hit drives in the fairway,  Ryu stuck her approach to four feet and sunk a birdie putt to win.

So Yeon Ryu is the first player from South Korea to win an LPGA Tour event this season. Ryu is normally found on Korea Tour and has won 7 KLPGA tournaments in the past four years. This is Ryu first LPGA and major win and she takes home $585,000 of the $3.25 million purse for winning the tournament. Thanks to her victory at the U.S. Women’s Open, Ryu has the option of accepting LPGA membership for the rest of 2011 or waiting and accepting membership next year.

The last time that the U.S. Women’s Open was decided by a playoff was in 2006 when Annika Sorenstam defeated Pat Hurst by four strokes in an 18-hole match at Newport Country Club in Newport, R.I. to pick up her 10th major championship. Defending champion Paula Creamer shot a final-round 75 to finish in a tie for 15th at 6-over-par.

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Tseng entered the final round with a five-shot lead over Cindy LaCrosse and Morgan Pressel. Tseng bogeyed the first hole, then went on to make three straight birdies which increases her lead to seven strokes. She Also birdied the 6th and 8th holes which increased Tseng’s lead to 10 strokes. Tseng had a chance to break another record as she tried to match the lowest score in relation to par at a major championship, which is 19-under-par. Birdies on 14th and 17th helped her to tie that mark however Tseng missed a birdie putt on her final hole that would have given her the record.

For Tseng, it was her eighth career victory on the LPGA Tour and four of those wins have been majors. Other LPGA players that have won four majors are Susie Berning, Donna Caponi,
Laura Davies, Sandra Haynie, Meg Mallon, and Hollis Stacy. The player with the most major wins was Patty Berg who won 15 majors between 1937 and 1958.

Tseng became the 15th player to win a major as well as win a previous tournament which was the LPGA State Farm Classic. Lorena Ochoa was the last to accomplish this feat in 2008 when she won the Safeway International and Kraft Nabisco Championship.

Suzann Pettersen made a final-round push as she shot a 5-under 67 to finish in a tie for third with Cristie Kerr and Paula Creamer. Pettersen, who won the LPGA Championship in 2007, recorded six birdies and one bogey in her final round.

Looking to defend: In the cusp of her attempt to defend her U.S. Women’s Open title, Paula Creamer posted an impressive tie for third finish week. Creamer fired rounds of 67-72-72-69 for an 8-under par total. The Pink Panther ended a 19 hole birdie drought on Sunday with four birdies and one bogey.

Ace!: Sarah Kemp came out of the gates firing on all cylinders during Sunday’s final round shooting an opening nine 6-under par 29. The blistering front-9 included four birdies and a hole-in-one at the par-3 fifth. Kemp used a five-iron from 158 yards to record only the second ace in competition at Locust Hill Country Club.

Kemp etched her name in the record books tying fellow Aussie Karrie Webb for the lowest 9-hole score in Wegmans LPGA Championship history. Webb shot a 6-under par 29 during the second round of the 2001 Wegmans LPGA Championship.

Of Note… Cindy LaCrosse, who trailed Tseng by 5-strokes heading into the final round, shot a 5-over par 77 on Sunday to finish in a tie for 14th…Karen Stupples shot the best round of the day with a 7-under par 65…Amateur Danielle Kang ended the tournament at 3-over par, good enough for a tie for 50th finish.

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Starting the last day as overnight leader at 17-under-par, Tseng had a one-shot lead over Mindy Kim when she teed off for the final round. Tseng got off to a good start, making a birdie on the first hole. She then made five consecutive pars while Kim recorded back-to-back birdies on No. 5 and 6 to pull even with Tseng at 18-under-par. Kim’s bogey on No. 7 gave Tseng the outright lead back, she continued to pull away from the field. Birdies on eight and 13 moved Tseng to 20-under-par. She sealed her seventh-career LPGA Tour victory with a birdie on 17 to finish at 21-under-par 267.

It was a third straight runner-up finish for Cristie Kerr on Sunday. Her attempt at a 15th LPGA Tour victory fell just shy, as she wound up three strokes behind Tseng despite shooting a 5-under 67 in the final round. Three weeks ago, Kerr lost to Suzann Pettersen in the finals of the Sybase Match Play Championship and she fell one shot shy of victory at last week’s ShopRite LPGA Classic. Kerr now has six top-10 finishes in nine tournaments this season, five of which were top-5 finishes. In two weeks, Kerr will try to defend her title at the Wegmans LPGA Championship.

Brittany Lincicome came up just short in her bid for two consecutive victories. One week after capturing her fourth career LPGA Tour victory at the ShopRite LPGA Classic, Lincicome finished in a tie for third with Paula Creamer at 16-under-par. Despite a slow start with a bogey at the second hole, Lincicome played the next 11 holes in 4-under to pull within two shots of the lead but she couldn’t maintain her charge. Lincicome, who shot a final-round 70 to snap a streak of five straight rounds in the 60s, now has three top-10 finishes this season.

Golden ticket winners: Se Ri Pak, Mindy Kim and Wendy Ward punched their “Ticket to CME Group Titleholders” at the LPGA State Farm Classic, each earning a spot in the season-ending CME Group Titleholders event, which will be held Nov. 17-20, 2011 at Grand Cypress Golf Club in Orlando, Fla. The inaugural CME Group Titleholders, a season finale with a field made up of three qualifiers from every LPGA Tour tournament, is a format never previously used in professional golf.

LPGA and World Golf Hall of Fame member Se Ri Pak recorded her best finish of the 2011 season, finishing in a tie for fifth at 15-under-par. Her previous best finish was a T10 at the Kraft Nabisco Championship …Vicky Hurst shot the low round of the day on the Sunday with a 6-under-66 to move from a T47 to a T19…Next week, the LPGA Futures Tour tees it up down the road in Decatur at the Tate & Lyle Player’s Championship, the Tour’s only major championship of the year.

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With former LPGA Tour member A.J. Eathorne on her bag, Lincicome started the day two shots behind second-round leader Kerr and carded an eagle on the third hole to move into a day-long fight for first.

Kerr started the day with birdies at three, five and six, but faltered with bogies at seven and eight, opening the door for Lincicome and Shin, who posted the clubhouse lead at 10-under-par with Lincicome in 18th fairway. Lincicome hit her second shot to the par-5 into the tall grass left of the 18th green, but managed to chip out to five-feet and sink the birdie. Kerr left a 80-foot eagle try short that could have forced a playoff, tapping in for birdie and a share of second at 10-under.

Lincicome played her final 38 holes bogey-free dating back to the 16th hole on Friday where she made double bogey. Her previous-best finish this season came at the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup, where she tied for second and punched her ticket to the CME Group Titleholders.

Cristie Kerr’s bid for a 15th LPGA victory fell one shot short on Sunday, but she added another runner-up finish to her impressive play this season. Just two weeks ago, Kerr lost to Suzann Pettersen in the finals of the Sybase Match Play Championship. She has five top-10 finishes in eight tournaments played this season. Next up for Kerr? She’ll try to defend her titles at next week’s LPGA State Farm Classic and the Wegmans LPGA Championship in late June.

There were a lot of red numbers on the scoreboard Sunday and to have a shot at contending, players had to put up a low score in the final round. Of the players who finished in the Top-10, six of them fired rounds of 67 or better on Sunday.

Anna Nordqvist, Catriona Matthew and Brittany Lang punched their “Ticket to CME Group Titleholders” at the ShopRite LPGA Classic, each earning a spot in the season-ending CME Group Titleholders event, which will be held Nov. 17-20, 2011 at Grand Cypress Golf Club in Orlando, Fla. The inaugural CME Group Titleholders, a season finale with a field made up of three qualifiers from every LPGA Tour tournament, is a format never previously used in professional golf.

With her victory at the 2011 ShopRite LPGA Classic, Brittany Lincicome earned an all-inclusive stay for two at a Canyon Ranch resort. In a combined effort to promote health and overall well-being among Tour players, Canyon Ranch will provide every winner of an LPGA event with one all-inclusive stay at one of Canyon Ranch’s two destination resorts.

Rolex Rankings No. 1 Yani Tseng, Karrie Webb, and Maria Hjorth each shot 6-under 65s to tie for the low round on the final day of the tournament…Defending champion Ai Miyazato shot a 1-under 70 to finish this year’s ShopRite LPGA Classic in a tie for 20th at 1-under-par… Jiyai Shin recorded her second runner-up finish of the season (Kia Classic)…The final round scoring average of 71.57 was the lowest of the three rounds.

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Last year Uribe finished runner-up at the HSBC Brazil Cup after loosing a six-hole playoff with Meaghan Francella. She has become the third champion of the HSBC LPGA Brazil Cup following Meaghan Francella’s win in 2010 and Catriona Matthew in 2009.

Mariajo Uribe’s final-round six-under par was the best round of the day. Uribe birdied five of the first seven holes and had two more birdies and a bogey on the back nine before closing with four straight pars to record her lowest round on the LPGA Tour.

Defending champion Meaghan Francella tied for 19th at 2-over-par…Due to an increased amount of rain, 18th was moved from a par-4 to a par-three for the second consecutive day.

“I knew I had to go out there and take advantage of the par 5s,” said Uribe, who birdied four of the six par 5s. “I just went out and had a good start. I was really excited, I just tried to keep my mind in the present and tried to keep playing how I was playing.”

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After a strong season of second places in 2010 and no victories, Pettersen victory here takes her to number two spot in the world rankings, just below Yani Tseng. For winning the Championship Suzann picked up the first-place winner’s check of $375,000 which took her to 2nd place on the 2011 money list.

Fighting the flu and fatigue all week, Pettersen, had four of her six matches play to the 18th hole. In her final battle with Cristie Kerr, Pettersen took a 2 UP lead over Kerr, with birdies on the 2nd and the 4th, but Kerr, took the score back to square with two birdies on the 5th and 8th hole. A birdie on the 9th by Pettersen gave her a 1 UP lead. The scores remained close as the players halved the next five holes on the back nine until Pettersen won the 15th hole to take a 2 UP lead. Kerr fought back on the 17th with a birdie to force the match to the final hole. Kerr’s chance of a extended playoff ended when the players halved the last hole.

Cristie Kerr runner-up finish is her best for this year. Last year she won two events including a major the LPGA Championship.

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Hjorth recorded four birdies on the front nine of the Crossings Course at Magnolia Grove to take her to the top of the leaderboard. She converted a couple bogeys on the back nine to finish at 10-under-par for the tournament.

Maria Hjorth shot rounds of 70-74-67-67 to finish with a total of 278. Hjorth collected a purse of $195,000 US. Maria Hjorth, said after her win that she would donate $20,000 of her winnings to the Red Cross charity for tornado victims.

Hjorth’s last victory on the LPGA Tour was at the LPGA Tour Championship in 2010 when she defeated Amy Yang by a stroke. The best one day score over the tournament was recorded from SEO, Hee Kyung who scored a 65 or 7-under-par on the third day.

16-year-old Lexi Thompson, who was the co-leader with Song-Hee Kim after 54 holes of play. Shot two early bogeys leaving Lexi to try and catch-up during the day. She lost her chance after shooting two consecutive double bogeys at holes 14 and 15. Thompson, 16, was looking good to replace Marlene Hagge as the LPGA’s youngest champion. Hagge was two weeks past her 18th birthday when she won the 1952 Sarasota Open, then an 18-hole event.

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