If there’s any player that can be called the female Tiger Woods, it has to be Lorena Ochoa.  Well, as long as Annika Sorenstam stays retired that is.  Otherwise, that unofficial title belongs to Ochoa, who just won her fourth consecutive LPGA Player of the Year, despite finishing second in the LPGA Tour Championship, which was won by Anna Nordqvist.  But a runner-up finish, and the fact that her main competitor for the title, Jiyai Shin, finished five strokes behind her, sealed the deal for Ochoa.
As well as being named the player of the year, Ochoa also captured her fourth …read more

The news just keeps getting worse for the LPGA.  The tour played only 27 tournaments this year, down from the 34 in 2007, as well as losing all three events in Hawaii and long-time sponsor Corning.  And now it was announced that Anheuser-Busch does not plan to renew its sponsorship of the Michelob Ultra Open, one of the tour’s marquee events, after a seven year run.  Executives at Anheuser-Busch have said that they plan to spread the wealth of sponsorship money over multiple pro golf tournaments.
Losing the Michelob Ultra Open will be tough for fans to handle, but it may …read more

At the Jamie Farr Classic this past weekend, won by South Korean Yi Eun-jung in a playoff, the ladies were doing more than just playing golf.  According to a report in Golfweek, as many as fifteen of the top LPGA players met with player directors on July 2nd to discuss the apparent disrepair of the tour, and more specifically, the ousting of Carolyn Bivens as commissioner of the LPGA.
The meeting was attended by some of the top names in women’s golf, including Lorena Ochoa, Paula Creamer, Morgan Pressel, Cristie Kerr and Natalie Gulbis.  After the meeting was over, a letter …read more

The ladies of the LPGA are getting ready to tee off in the season’s second major, the McDonald’s LPGA Championship, set to be played at Bulle Rock Golf Course in Havre De Grace, Maryland.  But the optimism the golfers may have as they prepare to tackle Bulle Rock is being offset by the anxiety and uncertainty many of them are feeling as the future of the tournament remains up in the air.  As was announced last year by LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens, the championship is being taken over by the LPGA starting next year, a move that effectively ends a …read more

Lorena Ochoa, the charismatic Mexican golfer, successfully defended her title Sunday at the Corona Championship in Morelia, Mexico. Ochoa carded a -5 on Sunday, finishing the tournament at -25, one shot better than Norway’s Suzzan Pettersen. This is the third time Ochoa has won this event.

This is the 26th career win for Ochoa. South Korea’s Na Yeon Choi finished in third place.
The Corona Championship, founded in 2005, is sponsored by the Corona beer company. Morelia, the capital of Mexico’s Michoacan province is an historic town located in the hills of central Mexico.
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