Tag Archives: Players
Spotlight: Angela Stanford
Angela Stanford recorded her second win of the 2008 LPGA Tour season with her victory at the inaugural Lorena Ochoa Invitational at the Guadalajara Country Club in Mexico.
Stanford is enjoying a great season with both wins coming in the last five events. She earlier won at the Bell Micro LPGA Classic in September and has [...]
Spotlight: Ryan Palmer
Ryan Palmer got his first win since 2004 at the Ginn sur Mer Classic, finishing in dramatic fashion in breaking a six way tie with a birdie putt on the final hole.
Palmer has played well in the 2008 season making 11 cuts with six top 25 finishes. His best finish before the win came at [...]
Spotlight: Helen Alfredsson
Helen Alfredsson won her second event of the 2008 LPGA season at the Grand China Air LPGA in Hainan Island, China.
Alfredsson has played in 23 events this season with nine top 25 finishes. In July, she notched her first win of the season at the Evian Masters. She started the 2008 season missing four straight [...]
Spotlight: Cameron Beckman
Cameron Beckman won last week at the Frys.com Open at Grayhawk Golf Club in Arizona. It is his first win since the 2001 Southern Farm Bureau Classic.
Playing in 27 events in 2008, Beckman has three top 25 finishes. He finished tied for 23rd at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans and had a tie for [...]
Spotlight: Carl Pettersson
Carl Pettersson won the Wyndham Championship for his first trophy in two years. The host venue Sedgefield Country Club is somewhat a home away from home as Pettersson serves on the board of directors.
Pettersson is having a good 2008 season and heads into the FedEx Cup playoffs in 13thplace, a jump up 45 spots thanks to the win. He finished the [...]
Spotlight: Katherine Hull
Fifth-year pro Katherine Hull grabbed her first LPGA Tour trophy at the CN Canadian Women’s Open at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club, coming back from six strokes on the final day.
The win pulls Hull up to 17th on the LPGA’s Official Money list and qualifies her for the season ending ADT Championship tournament.
Professionally, Hull has three [...]
Spotlight: Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh captured his first World Golf Championship trophy at the Bridgestone Invitational and became the oldest WGC champion in the events history. Marking his 32nd career win, Singh becomes the PGA Tours career wins leader among international players.
This season, Singh has five top five finishes. He lost in a playoff at the AT&T Pebble Beach National [...]
Spotlight: Stewart Cink
Stewart Cink reached the winners circle for the first time since 2004 with a one-shot victory at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.
The 2008 season has been good to Cink as he has only missed one cut in 15 events, recording 11 top 25 finishes. He has seven top 10s, including two runner-ups and two third [...]
Spotlight: Eun-Hee Ji
Eun-Hee Ji recorded her first LPGA Tour victory at the Wegmans LPGA in Pittsford, New York. She is enjoying a good sophomore season with two top 10s to go along with the win in 13 events, making nine cuts.
Ji finished fourth at the Safeway International, presented by Coca-Cola for her best finish before the Wegmans [...]
Spotlight: Justin Leonard
Justin Leonard claimed his first victory of the 2008 PGA Tour season at the Stanford St. Jude Championship, beating Trevor Immelman and Robert Allenby on the second hole of a sudden death playoff.
Having a successful 2008, Leonard has only missed one cut in 15 events and recorded five top 10 finishes. He was the runner-up [...]
Spotlight: Yani Tseng
With her sudden death playoff victory, rookie Yani Tseng captures her first major championship at the McDonald’s LPGA Championship and her first LPGA victory.
Tseng turned pro in 2007, playing on the Asian Golf Tour and the CN Canadian Women’s Tour. On the Asian Tour, she won the DLF Women’s Indian Open. She also won the [...]
Ochoa will be tough to catch
She only has a one-shot lead but the world’s number one is playing with a little extra this week and will be tough to knock off that top spot at the McDonald’s LPGA Championship. She has said that she is dedicating this one for her uncle who passed away last week.
With one major title [...]
Players don’t like it rough
Coming out of last week’s tournament, the players did not like the very thick rough and lightning greens. The response is pretty predictable as whenever a tournament pushes the elements, players respond that it was unfair. Jack Nicklaus did something similar a few years ago when he altered the bunker rakes to make [...]
Spotlight: Kenny Perry
Having made it know that his season goal is to make the Ryder Cup team and play for his country in his home state of Kentucky, Kenny Perry is the hottest golfer on the PGA Tour right now. He just claimed his first win of the season with a final round of 69 at the [...]
Spotlight: Seon Hwa Lee
In her third year on the LPGA Tour, Seon Hwa Lee pulled off a nine-shot comeback win at the Ginn Tribute Hosted by ANNIKA at the RiverTowne Country Club. She outlasted Hall of Famer Karrie Webb with a par on the first playoff hole.
She joined the LPGA Tour in 2006 after finishing first on the [...]
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