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LPGA - Walmart NW Arkansas Championship
From The Sports Network
| DATES: Friday, June 29th through Sunday, July 1st |
| SITE: Pinnacle Country Club, Rogers, Arkansas |
| COURSE ARCHITECT: Don Sechrest and Bruce Lietzke (1989), |
| Randy Heckenkemper (2008-09) |
| Hole-By-Hole: | 1 - Par 4 311 yds | 10 - Par 4 335 yds | |
| 2 - Par 5 539 yds | 11 - Par 3 142 yds | |
| 3 - Par 3 156 yds | 12 - Par 4 366 yds | |
| 4 - Par 4 425 yds | 13 - Par 4 403 yds | |
| 5 - Par 4 338 yds | 14 - Par 5 545 yds | |
| 6 - Par 3 199 yds | 15 - Par 3 147 yds | |
| 7 - Par 5 509 yds | 16 - Par 4 391 yds | |
| 8 - Par 4 402 yds | 17 - Par 3 189 yds | |
| 9 - Par 4 341 yds | 18 - Par 5 546 yds | |
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| 36 3,220 yds | 35 3,064 yds | |
| Annual: | 6th |
| Television: | Golf Channel - Friday -- 6:30-8:30 p.m. (et), |
| | - Saturday/Sunday -- 5-7 p.m. (et) |
| Defending Champion: | Yani Tseng |
| Runner-Up: | Amy Yang |
| Tournament Record: | 200 (Yani Tseng, 2010) |
| 36-Hole Record: | 132 (Meena Lee, Eun-Hee Ji, 2008; Michelle Wie, 2010) |
| Course Record: | 62 (Angela Park, Jane Park, 2008) |
| Total Purse: | $2,000,000 |
| Shares: | 1st Place - $300,000; 2nd Place - $182,650; 3rd Place - $132,500 |
| 2011 Finish |
| Player | Score | Player | Score |
| Yani Tseng * | 201 | Sandra Gal | 204 |
| Amy Yang | 201 | Belen Mozo | 204 |
| Ai Miyazato | 202 | Paula Creamer | 205 |
| Cristie Kerr | 203 | Stacy Lewis | 205 |
| Amy Hung | 204 | Six players at | 206 |
| Past Walmart NW Arkansas Championship Winners |
| Year | Winner (Score) -- Runners-Up |
| 2011 | *Yani Tseng (201) -- Amy Yang |
| 2010 | Yani Tseng (200) -- Michelle Wie |
| 2009 | *Jiyai Shin (204) -- Sun Young Yoo, Angela Stanford |
| 2008 | Seon Hwa Lee (201) -- Jane Park, Meena Lee |
| 2007 | @#(a) Stacy Lewis (65) -- Teresa Lu, Kristy McPherson, Katherine Hull |
| @ - Not an official event |
| NOTE:Formerly called LPGA NW Arkansas Championship (2007); |
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P&G NW Arkansas Championship (2008-10).
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| Top Contenders in the Field |
| Player | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | | | | | | |
| Yani Tseng | --- | T-14 | Won | Won | | | | | | |
| Amy Yang | --- | mc | T-65 | 2nd | | | | | | |
| Ai Miyazato | T-3 | T-10 | T-9 | 3rd | | | | | | |
| Cristie Kerr | T-11 | T-27 | T-32 | 4th | | | | | | |
| Stacy Lewis | T-49 | T-21 | T-9 | T-8 | | | | | | |
| Paula Creamer | T-63 | T-14 | --- | T-8 | | | | | | |
| Na Yeon Choi | T-8 | T-7 | T-9 | T-10 | | | | | | |
| Brittany Lincicome | T-29 | mc | T-16 | T-10 | | | | | | |
| Chella Choi | --- | T-50 | T-23 | T-10 | | | | | | |
| Suzann Pettersen | --- | --- | T-23 | T-10 | | | | | | |
| Mika Miyazato | --- | T-63 | 3rd | T-22 | | | | | | |
| Brittany Lang | mc | T-44 | mc | T-22 | | | | | | |
| Morgan Pressel | T-17 | T-36 | T-16 | T-25 | | | | | | |
| Angela Stanford | --- | T-2 | T-70 | T-25 | | | | | | |
| Inbee Park | 10th | mc | 4th | T-38 | | | | | | |
| Kristy McPherson | T-3 | T-36 | T-5 | T-38 | | | | | | |
| Stacy Prammanasudh | T-43 | T-21 | T-29 | T-38 | | | | | | |
| Hee Kyung Seo | --- | --- | --- | T-48 | | | | | | |
| Jane Park | T-2 | T-21 | T-32 | T-69 | | | | | | |
| Eun-Hee Ji | T-8 | T-27 | T-41 | T-69 | | | | | | |
| Seon Hwa Lee | Won | T-10 | T-5 | mc | | | | | | |
| Shanshan Feng | T-58 | mc | T-47 | --- | | | | | | |
| Lexi Thompson | --- | --- | T-57 | --- | | | | | | |
| Sports Network Selections |
| Pick to Win - Shanshan Feng |
| Darkhorse - Mika Miyazato |
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| Last Week's Pick to Win (Stacy Lewis) - Finished tied for 5th |
| Last Week's Darkhorse (Karrie Webb) - Finished tied for 40th |
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| NOTES: |
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The LPGA Tour travels to Arkansas this week for the Walmart NW Arkansas
Championship. The top 6 players in the world are in the field - Yani Tseng,
Stacy Lewis, Shanshan Feng, Na Yeon Choi, Suzann Pettersen and Ai Miyazato.
World No. 1 and two-time defending champion Tseng will be looking for her
tour-leading fourth win of the year. Lewis is the only other player with at
least two wins. Lewis has finished in the top 5 in her last 5 events. She
trails Tseng by nearly $100,000 on the money list. Feng followed up her
victory at the Wegmans LPGA Championship with a top 10 finish at the Manulife
Financial LPGA Classic.
This week's event is being held at Pinnacle Country Club, which was designed
by Don Sechrest and opened for play in 1989. The 2007 tournament was the first
in Arkansas for the LPGA Tour since the 1956 Arkansas Open, won by Patty Berg.
Last year, Tseng squandered a chance to win in regulation, but was given a
reprieve in a playoff with Amy Yang. After Yang pulled a four-foot birdie putt
left on the par-five 18th, the first playoff hole, Tseng made her birdie
chance from the same distance to win her second straight title at this
tournament.
In 2010, Tseng collected five birdies on the back nine, including one on the
final hole, to fend off Michelle Wie and win. Tseng closed with a 6-under 65
to finish her fifth LPGA Tour title at 13-under-par 200, a new tournament
scoring record. Seon Hwa Lee established the old mark of 201 in 2008.
In 2007, Lewis' 7-under 65 held up as the best score in what officials
believed was the first full-length LPGA Tour event ever shortened to 18 holes.
Lewis, then an amateur and the 2007 NCAA champion, finished her round on
Saturday before a weather suspension left 32 players still needing to complete
rounds on Sunday. The LPGA Tour did not credit Lewis with an official win.
Statistics and earnings were also not counted as official for the 2007 LPGA
Tour season. It was believed to be a first for the LPGA Tour. There have been
unofficial tour events where only an 18-hole score was recorded, as well as
some official 18-hole events in 1952. Spectators were not allowed on the soggy
Pinnacle Country Club grounds to watch the final 32 players complete their
rounds on Sunday.
The LPGA Tour heads to Kohler, Wisconsin next week for the third major
championship of the season, the U.S. Women's Open, where So Yeon Ryu will
defend her title.
06/26 16:45:27 ET
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As of June 26, 2012, at 04:45 PM ET
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