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A Major Win for Lorena Ochoa
The #1 LPGA player finishes #1 again. Dinah Shore, beloved matriarch of this LPGA major, would be proud of Lorena Ochoa’s steady tournament and excellent final round in capturing the title at the Kraft Nabisco Championship at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, CA. Low-rena does it again with a sparkling five-under 67 and a dominating winning margin of five strokes.
Annika Sorenstam, feeling peppier after an I.V. at the hospital and a good night’s rest for her ailing stomach, carded a 68 for the day and a score of -6 for a second-place tie with Suzann Petterson. Suzann, after hurtling from 62nd place to 9th following yesterday’s round, shot an impressive Sunday 68.
But this Sunday belonged the Lorena, the enchantress of the short grass, who sank every putt in sight today and boomed 300+ drives that left even her errant tee-shots with only a short-iron approach. All of it added up to a celebratory leap with her mother, father, sister, and assorted friends into Poppy’s Pond (named for longtime tournament director Terry "Poppy" Wilcox) beside the 18th green, a tradition begun by Amy Alcott in 1988.
Not that Lorena should be looking behind her, but Annika and Suzann raced aggressively up the leaderboard this Sunday, stoking the fires under an already hot year on the LPGA tour.
Here are the top 10:
1 Lorena Ochoa -11
T2 Annika Sorenstam -6
T2 Suzann Pettersen -6
T4 Maria Hjorth -5
5 Seon Hwa Lee -4
T6 Mi Hyun Kim -3
T6 Na Yeon Choi -3
T6 Hee-Won Han -3
T8 Inbee Park -2
T10 Se Ri Pak -1
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Photos from the 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans
GolfWRX is live on site this week at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans for the PGA Tour’s one-and-only two-man team event.
As usual, general galleries, WITBs, and pullout albums — including some pretty spicy custom putters and headcovers — await your viewing.
Be sure to check back for more photos from the Big Easy, as we’ll continue to update this page with additional galleries throughout the week.
General Albums
- 2024 Zurich Classic – Monday #1
- 2024 Zurich Classic – Monday #2
- 2024 Zurich Classic – Tuesday #1
- 2024 Zurich Classic – Tuesday #2
WITB Albums
- Alex Fitzpatrick – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Austin Cook – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Alejandro Tosti – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Davis Riley – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- MJ Daffue – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Nate Lashley – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- James Nicholas – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Kevin Streelman – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Rasmus Hojgaard – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Tom Whitney – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- SangMoon Bae – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Daniel Berger – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Rory McIlroy – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Russ Cochrane – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Aldrich Potgieter – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Steve Stricker WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Drew Brees WITB (Legendary New Orleans Saints QB) – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Derek Carr (New Orleans Saints QB) – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Thriston Lawrence WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
Pullout Albums
- MJ Daffue’s custom Cameron putter – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Cameron putters – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Swag covers ( a few custom for Nick Hardy) – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Custom Bettinardi covers for Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Doug Ghim’s custom Cameron putter – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Patrick Cantlay spotted testing a Scotty Cameron blade putter – 2024 Zurich Classic
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Andy Brown
Apr 7, 2008 at 9:07 am
Just recently I had read some comments from Lorena Ochoa where she said she always keeps an eye on the leaderboard to look out for Annika and how she is doing. She did not have to worry about anyone else this week. Another commanding performance, another win and this time it’s a Major. People, stop worrying about Tiger Woods, it is Lorena where all the attention must be focused. Quite honestly she seems to have a better chance to put in a phenomenal season than even Tiger Woods. Of course if Tiger Woods comes across this message he might just take his game to the next level(whoa!) but just look at Lorena this season. This Major was a newspaper report put it “a slam dunk victory for herâ€.
She seems all set to improve upon her great run last year and that is no mean feat. Her only defeat this year has been at home and that probably hurts quite a lot. Now she is just a point shy of being inducted into the Hall of Fame but since she is yet to complete her ten years on tour she cannot be a part of that club till 2012.
Again the leaderboard this week made me wonder how the South Koreans manage to churn out so many top quality women golfers and why the same is not replicated on the men’s tour.