Maria Hjorth has won her fifth-career LPGA Tour victory with a two-shot win over Song-Hee Kim at the Avnet LPGA Classic. Hjorth, shot a 5-under 67 in the final round to take victory after starting the day three shots back from Kim and 16-year-old sponsor’s invite Lexi Thompson who were the third-round leaders. 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... Read More »

Jiyai Shin is currently ranked 2nd in the world according to the Rolex rankings, behind Yani Tseng as of the 28 of March 2011. Her best ranking ever was number one in the world. She achieved number one ranking just before or as Lorena Ochoa retired and held it until June 21, 2010 when it was taken over by Ai Miyazato. She also held the number one position after winning the Evian Masters and was taken over by Cristie Kerr on the 16 of August 2010.  Read More →

Grace Park and Song-Hee Kim shot rounds of 5-under 67 on Thursday to share the round one lead of the Avnet LPGA Classic. Song-Hee Kim is looking to win her first LPGA victory. While Grace Park is looking for her first LPGA win since 2004. Grace Park, who has been troubled with back injury the last few years stands a good chance after the opening round. Michelle Wie hits her tee shot on the 11th hole. She finished with 4-over-par for the day. Natalie Gulbis hits her tee shot on the 11th hole. Finished... Read More »

Usually you will find Blair O’Neal on the LPGA Futures tour. This week she plays on the LPGA Tour for the Avnet LPGA classic on a sponsors exemption. The first round she scored a 5-over-par or 77.  Blair O’Neal Recently posed for Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue recently in which she is promoting Cobra Golf in a Bikini. She was two-time NCAA Long-Drive Champion while playing college golf for Arizona State University.  Read More →

Grace Park Grace Park, and Song-Hee Kim lead the first round of the Avnet LPGA Classic in Mobile Alabama. They both finished with a 5-under-par 67. Following closely are Karen Stupples, Stacy Lewis who shot a 4-under-par 68 for the day. Defending champion Se Ri Pak sits at joint 3rd place along with Na Yeon Choi, and Angela Oh who shot a 3-under-par 69. Park eagled the par-5 13th and had had five birdies and two bogeys. Brittany Lincicome, who lost in a playoff to Pak last year, opened with a 71. Grace... Read More »

Stacy Lewis shot a final round 69 finishing with a total of 275 or 13-under-par for the tournament. The 26 year old Lewis beat the defending champion Yani Tseng by three strokes to win her first Major. Stacy Lewis last win was the LPGA NW Arkansas Championship in 2007 where she won the tournament as an amateur. Lewis started the final day two shots behind Tseng and the lead was tightly contested between the two throughout the day. Lewis and Tseng both shot birdies on hole No. 2. The lead went down... Read More »

The 2010 LPGA schedule included 31 events with four mid-season cancellations. In all 27 events were played with a total prize money of 43,900,000. Na Yeon Choi, from Korea, topped the official 2010 money list ahead of Jiyai Shin and Cristie Kerr, with earnings of $1,871,166. At the end of the year Jiyai Shin was ranked number one in the world. Rolex Player of the Year was awarded to Yani Tseng. Runner-up: Cristie Kerr The Vare Trophy was awarded to Na Yeon Choi. Runner-up: Cristie Kerr The Louise... Read More »

The cart path is a free drop, so one club length from the nearest point. No moving backwards along any line between the spot on the path and flag. Lateral hazard you have options. One of them allows you to go backward as far as you want. You create an imaginary line from the flag to the entry spot, and extend the line backward and drop on this extended line. But I have to say most people decide based upon which half of the cart path the ball is on. They are (apparently mistakenly) just measuring... Read More »

I’ve been thinking of buying one of these for a while now. The golf course I play at has fairly narrow fairways, and a rough that stand higher then my waist. I hit the ball fairly far, however accuracy is a problem on this course as a few degrees off and you spend the time looking for your golf ball in the rough. I constantly lose golf balls which adds about 10 strokes to my game. I’m not worried about this however, looking for golf balls is sometimes a pain but its good exercise,... Read More »