LPGA OFFICE DEPOT NOTEBOOK: THERE'S NO ONE WHO'S HOTTER.Byline: Dave Shelburne Staff Writer Winning from in front or having to win from behind, Annika Sorenstam seems clearly the player to beat on the LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour this season. Her playoff victory Saturday at Wilshire Country Club - in the inaugural Office Depot Office Depot (NYSE: ODP) is one of the world's leading suppliers of office products and services. The Company's selection of brand name office supplies includes business machines, computers, computer software and office furniture, while its business services encompass copying, hosted by Amy Alcott Amy Alcott (born February 22, 1956) is an American professional golfer. Alcott was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She wasted little time establishing herself on the competitive scene, winning the 1973 United States Girls Junior Amateur Golf Championship. - where Sorenstam rallied from 10 strokes off the lead in the final round, gives the top-ranked LPGA player four wins and two seconds in six starts this year. The four wins set a tour record for consecutive starts, and Sorenstam will take aim at the LPGA standard for overall consecutive wins next week, when she plays in the Longs Drugs Longs Drugs (NYSE: LDG) is a pharmacy chain store located in the West Coast of the United States. It was founded in 1938 by brothers Thomas and Joseph Long (son-in-law of Marion Barton Skaggs, co-founder of Safeway Inc.), with their first store in Oakland, California. Challenge in Sacramento. Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez holds that mark with five wins, having won three in a row, and then, after a break, winning another two in a row during the 1978 LPGA season. Sorenstam heads for Sacramento leading the 2001 tour in earnings, victories, scoring average and Player of the Year points - she has more than three times more than her closest challenger. --Record comeback: In overcoming a 10-stroke deficit in the final round Saturday, Sorenstam bettered the old tour comeback record of eight strokes. She did it with seven birdies and a bogey in a round of 66 that was best of the week for her and shared second-best of the week for any of the 144 participants. --Wilshire wins: The LPGA field averaged 75.000, 74.336 and 73.831 for a 54-hole average of 74.492 in its first try at par-72, 6,349-yard Wilshire Country Club. The par-4, 404-yard 17th hole - the one that vaulted eventual playoff winner Sorenstam into the lead and that Pat Hurst bogeyed Saturday - wound up toughest overall, playing to an average of 4.316. The LPGA field totaled 16 eagles in the 54-hole competition, the most dramatic a hole-in-one Friday by Jennifer Hubbard on the par-3, 155-yard 18th hole. Wilshire nicked the women professionals for 1,372 bogeys, 227 bogeys and 26 scores of triple bogey or higher while yielding 985 sub-par holes - 969 of them birdies. --Area watch: Emilee Klein, the 1996 Women's British Open The Women's British Open, also known for sponsorship reasons since 2007 as the Ricoh Women's British Open, is a leading event in women's professional golf and the only tournament which is classified as a major by both the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. champion who played high school golf at Notre Dame High of Sherman Oaks, finished tied for 31st at 3-over-par 219 after rounds of 74-73-72. Jennifer Rosales, the former USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. star who won the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association individual championship in 1998, shot 72-78-150 and missed the cut by one stroke. |
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