Annika Sorenstam edged out Paula Creamer in a one-hole sudden death playoff to pick up her 71st victory today at the Stanford International Pro-Am, her second win of the season. After Thursday’s first round, Sorenstam called the course “silly tough.” I’m sure Creamer is thinking along the same lines today after one missed birdie opportunity after another. The playoff hole (Creamer’s first playoff as a pro) was particularly underwhelming. Both Sorenstam and Creamer laid up on the long par-5, then hit their third shots over water, Sorenstam hitting the green, Creamer landing on the fringe. Both missed their birdie putts, Creamer ... full post »

Lorena Ochoa showed she’s perfectly capable of a come-from-behind win this weekend at the Ginn Open. Entering the weekend a stroke behind rookie Yani Tseng, she went seven under on Saturday, three under on Sunday to make up all the ground she needed and then some, for her fourth consecutive win. The four-peat ties the LPGA record of most consecutive wins currently held by Mickey Wright, Kathy Whitworth, and Annika Sorenstam. One more win will put her in the record books for good. What was most surprising about Ochoa’s win wasn’t the relatively small three-stroke victory margin (she’s been winning by as ... full post »

After winning four of her five tournaments this season, it’s getting to the point where the big news isn’t when Lorena Ochoa is ahead, but when she’s not. “It’s nice to be a few shots behind,” Ochoa said yesterday after her second round at the Ginn Open. Yes, I’m sure it gets old to always be ten or eleven strokes out front. It must be a real drag. Ochoa shot 68, 67–good enough for her current position of T3, three strokes behind the current leader, rookie Yani Tseng. The Taiwanese teenager shot a blistering 64 yesterday to take the lead going into ... full post »

I don’t really need to write the rest of this blog, you got the main dope right there in the headline. That’s right, Lorena Ochoa shot three consecutive 66s and is entering the final round of the Corona Championship with a seven-stroke lead over current runner-up Inbee Park. Think she’s going to win? At the risk of jinxing the woman, I’d say it’s a safe bet. Of the three wins she’s already chalked up this season, the smallest margin she won by was five strokes. Improving her chances is the fact that several of the LPGA’s top performers–Annika Sorenstam, Paula Creamer, ... full post »

Sports writers love a good storyline. And in the world of golf, the storyline this season has been “Will Tiger win the Grand Slam?” Personally, I think we might see not just one Grand Slam this year, but two. That’s right, two Grand Slams. One for the men, and one for the ladies. This weekend we’re treated to the Masters, and you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who’s betting against Tiger. But Lorena Ochoa is already a quarter of the way there with Sunday’s win at the Kraft Nabisco. This has been a season of supremacy for Ochoa. She’s played in four tournaments and ... full post »

The final round of the Kraft Nabisco looks to be a race—we’ve got a top ten that features Lorena Ochoa, Cristie Kerr, and Annika Sorenstam, all ready and waiting to take a dip in Champions Lake. Ochoa is holding off the rest of the pack with a one-stroke lead. If she wins this thing, she’ll have a 75% win percentage on the season, having already picked up two wins this year out of three starts. Ochoa’s been taking the rest of the LPGA to school this season with some seriously muy grande victory margins. In February she beat Annika by ... full post »