NOTEBOOK: TRICKY GREENS NO EASY TEST TO ACE.Byline: Dave Shelburne Staff Writer Kristi Albers got it started, knocking her first shot of the day into the cup for a hole-in-one on the 120-yard, par-3 10th shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday, just minutes into the second round of the Office Depot Championship The Office Depot Championship was an annual golf tournament for professional female golfers on the LPGA Tour. It took place every year from 1997 through 2005 at various sites in the South Carolina and in the Los Angeles area. . Silvia Cavalleri Silvia Cavalleri (born 10 October 1972 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian professional golfer who plays on the US based LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour. She was the first Italian to win a tournament on the LPGA Tour. added a second ace nearly eight hours later - on the 160-yard, par-3 16th hole. In between, Jill McGill Jill McGill (born January 30, 1972 in Denver, CO) is a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour. McGill played college golf at the University of Southern California and won the United States Women's Amateur title in 1993. She currently lives in San Diego. and Rosie Jones Rosie Jones (born November 13, 1959 in Santa Ana, California) is an American professional golfer. In her amateur career Rosie Jones was a three time New Mexico Junior Champion (1974 – 1976) and won the New Mexico State Championship in 1979. both eagled from the fairway on par-4 holes and tournament leader Annika Sorenstam twice nearly eagled par-5 holes from off the green. Then, Catherine Cartwright came within a foot of aceing the 181-yard, par-3 eighth hole and followed that by bouncing her approach shot from the fairway off the flagstick flag·stick n. A removable pole with a flag marking the placement of each hole on the putting greens of a golf course. on No. 9. It almost seemed as if one of the best fields of the still-young 2004 LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association season was doing everything it could to avoid putting those tricky El Caballero cab·al·le·ro n. pl. cab·al·le·ros 1. A Spanish gentleman; a cavalier. 2. A man who is skilled in riding and managing horses; a horseman. Country Club greens. ``That's a good idea,'' two-time club champion Ron Cherney said. ``These greens are giving them fits, as well they should.'' Jones, who vaulted into title contention with a round of 70 spiced by a brilliant 9-iron shot into the cup on the 375-yard par-4 15th hole, was the most recent tour winner to praise El Cab's difficult, undulating greens. ``The way the greens are designed, it's really hard to get close to the pins,'' the 13-time LPGA champion said. ``And when you do, then your job is not done, because they are very sloppy, they are very fast, they're tricky to read. ``If you're not on the right deck, if you're not on the right place, putting at the hole, then you have to play more of a defensive game ... and that's hard to score when you are playing defense.'' --Almost an all-star par: Meg Mallon Meg Mallon (b. April 14 1963, Natick, Massachusetts) is an American professional golfer. Mallon attended Mercy High School in Farmington Hills, Michigan and The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1987. , who enters today's final round just two strokes off the lead, nearly scrambled for the par of the tournament Saturday, during a roller-coaster round of 71 that included three birdies and four bogeys. After hitting her tee shot into the right-side tree line on the 498-yard, par-5 first hole - her 10th hole of the day - the 15-time tour winner punched her next shot into the adjacent ninth fairway and nearly into the tree line on the other side of that. A long third shot left her shy of a bunker flanking the right side of the first green, and after pitching over that, she lipped out a 12-foot par putt, settling for bogey. --All in the family: Second-year LPGA Tour player Carrie Roberts had her husband, Cory, working as caddie Saturday, following a stint on the bag earlier in the week by her father, former Stanford coach and Champions Tour winner Bruce Summerhays Bruce Patton Summerhays (born February 14, 1944) is an American golfer. Summerhays was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the University of Utah and turned pro in 1966. . Roberts has been continuing the family success in golf, earning full-exempt status in her first try at LPGA qualifying school in 2002 after earning honorable mention All-American honors as a collegian at Brigham Young, where she won six tournaments. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Tournament-leader Annika Sorenstam, who twice nearly eagled par-5 holes, enjoys herself Saturday. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer |
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