Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) season is opening ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open from ninth of February till twelfth of February. The best golfers in the world will be unveiled by Melbourne at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club next month. Rolex World Number one and defending champion Yani Tseng headlines six of the top ten players in the world. Rolex World Number one champion Yani Tseng will battle for an Australian Open record US$1.1 million prize money. The other names along with the Rolex number one champion Yani Tseng  includes Norway’s Suzann Pettersen at number two , Korean Jiyai Shin at number seven and Americans Cristie Kerr at number four , Stacy Lewis at number nine and Brittany Lincicome at number ten.

There is a new Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) member Lexi Thompson that will join Australian World Golf Hall of Fame member Karrie Webb and Americans Morgan Pressel, Angela Stanford. Last September, Thompson became the youngest player in history to win a Ladies Professional Golf Association LPGA event at 16 years of age at the Navistar Classic. Lexi Thompson after winning the Ladies Professional Golf Association also became the youngest professional to win on the Ladies European Tour at the season ending Dubai Ladies Masters. She has being playing in Melbourne for last two years now.

The other lists, list of Korean players include 2011 US Women’s Open champion So-Yeon Ryu, 2008 and 2009 US Women’s Open champions Inbee Park and Eun-Hee Ji and Hee Young Park who won the Ladies Professional Golf Association, LPGA’s season ending CME Group Titleholders in November. The impressive European list is led by former Open champions Laura Davies and Sophie Gustafson as well as Sandra Gal, Melissa Reid, Anna Nordqvist and Ladies European Tour Player of the Year Caroline Hedwall. In Melbourne there will be 18 of the 2011 Solheim Cup representatives in total that will be seen in action. The list of home challengers includes Australians Katherine Hull, Nikki Campbell, Sarah Kemp, Kristie Smith, Lindsey Wright and Frances Bondad.

The Host Broadcaster for covering all the four days of action and excitement filled championship will be ABC TV. The ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open is a fully sanctioned Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour event and is sanctioned by the ALPG Tour and Ladies European Tour. Victorian Government Minister for Sport and Recreation, Hugh Delahunty said that it is a great opportunity to host the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian open as it will help to showcase the talent in Melbourne and even inspire the players and people to enjoy watching and playing golf. It will surely be a great time for golf lovers.

South Korea’s Hee Young Park won her first tour title in the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) 2011 Season on Sunday at Grand Cypress Resort. Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) started in 1950 and Rolex has been associated with it since 1980. Rolex supports the development and growth of all young golfing talent by hosting the Rolex tournament of Champions and Rolex Girl’s Championship. It has been in the development process for more than twenty five years, sponsoring the American Junior Golfers Association (AJGA) and also presents the Rolex Player of the Year Award along with honouring the Rolex All American Teams.

This year the women’s tour has definitely made great efforts to establish an identity and widening fan base. Twenty two year old Taiwanese superhero Yani Tseng, who is also at number one position in the Rolex Ranking of 21 November 2011 won the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) 2011 season. The two other major victories were the Rolex Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Championship and The Women’s British along with other four international titles.

Taiwanese superhero Yani Tseng was at the fourteen top ten position in twenty two events in the seven tournaments won. With two Rolex Player of the Year honors, twelve career Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), five major championships and 2011 Vare Trophy, Tseng is headed towards the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) and World Golf halls of fame with twenty points. Yani Tseng needs ten years as member of Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) and seven more points to enter the toughest halls of fame.
With so many victories at such a young age, Yani Tseng is ahead of all professional golfers whether male or female.

South Florida’s sixteen year old Lexi Thompson was the attention grabber for the season. She surprisingly bagged five shot victory at the Navistar LPGA Classic in September. A year earlier she was not even the member of Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) due to her age that was below minimum age requirement of eighteen years. The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) had some other tournaments as well. The Evian Masters was also tagged for main status that will begin in 2013. Evian Masters has been favourite player among the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) for Paris Stage. She will be joining Kraft Nabisco, U.S. Women’s Open LPGA championship and British Women Open on the Grand Slam Schedule.

The shot of the year was won by Brittany Lincicome. Brittany hit the lob wedge after three wood second shot that came with a one shot win for the player. This was her first such winning shot in the two years. The season wrapped up in with some good highlights all together.

In the forthcoming Navistar LPGA Classic, the tournament will feature 11 of the world’s top women golfers in the world Rolex rankings. Among the top 15 players in the world Rolex rankings, No.1 Rolex woman golfer of the world Yani Tseng along with No. 2 Suzann Pettersen, No. 9 Brittany Lincicome, No. 11 Stacy Lewis, No. 13 Karrie Webb, No. 14 Inbee Park, No. 3 Christie Kerr, No. 4 Na Yeon Choi, No. 8 Paula Creamer, No. 12 Michelle Wie and No. 10 I.K. Kim. The event will take place in the in Montgomery, Alabama and will be sponsored by Monaco RV. A huge pool of 144 quality golf players will take part in this grand tournament. All the players will be fighting out for the mammoth prize money of $1,300,000 in total and a first place prize of   $195,000. The event was flagged off this Thursday on the Robert Trent Jones Trail’s Capitol Hill Senator Course. After winning the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship presented by P & amp; G, Rolex world No.1 Yani Tseng is all set for another feather in her hat in her winning streak this year. Yani Tseng said that she is looking forward to win her sixth LPGA tournament and ninth tournament victory worldwide this year itself.

Navistar LPGA Classic is the final tournament before the start of the biennial Solheim Cup which scheduled to start next week at Killeen Castle in Ireland. All the 12 players of the USA Solheim Cup team and 12 European Solheim Cup members will be participating in the upcoming Solheim Cup. All of them are also participating in the Navistar LPGA Classic tournament. On Wednesday, Sandra   Gal and Maria Hjorth – two of the players from the European team and three players from the American team - Paula Creamer,

Christina Kim and Michelle Wie addressed a press conference to step into the event. Among all the above five players who faced the media on Wednesday, Sandra   Gal will participate for the first time in Solheim Cup. On the other hand, Maria Hjorth will participate for the fifth time in this tournament. Also, this Solheim Cup will be the third stint for Christina Kim and the second one for Michelle Wie.

Michelle Wie was a rookie in the 2009 U.S. Solheim Cup team. This year’s Solheim Cup will be her first time when she will be playing in event overseas. She is quite familiar with the fact about what the three U.S. rookies (Stacy Lewis, Ryann O’Toole and Vicky Hurst) will go through when they participate in the tournament. In the last five years of the Solheim Cup, the Americans have dominated except one year (in 2003). This year too, the members of the US team are the favorites.

Miki Saiki has moved up by nine spots in the Rolex rankings after winning the Fundokin Ladies event on the Japan LPGA Tour. The world no. 1 in the Rolex rankings Yani Tseng remained at the top followed by Jiyai Shin and Suzann Pettersen. Christie Kerr moved to fourth position in the Rolex rankings and Na Yeon Choi slipped to fifth position in the world Rolex rankings.

Miki Saiki continued her winning streak in the Fundokin Ladies Golf tour this year. She captured 29 holes–a span in which she made 9 birdies, including 3 in 4 holes midway through the front side. This was before a bogey on the long par-4 11th which dropped her back to -8 for the week. Her opponent Inbee Park was just behind her by 4 shots. She came back with a birdie on the 9th hole to return to -6 for the tournament.  When Miki Saiki stumbled, Inbee Park was suddenly within 2 of the lead with only 7 holes left to play. But a double bogey on the medium-length par-4 15th and being unable to take advantage of either of the 2 closing par 5s made her slip all the way to T5. In the meantime, Miki Saiki returned to -9 with a birdie on the 16th.

The Japan LPGA Tour is a professional golf tour for women organized by the Ladies Professional Golfers’ Association (LPGA) of Japan. It is the second richest women’s golf tour in the world.

Miki Saiki’s steadiness and brilliance made a few nice final rounds doubtful. Ritsuko Ryu made 5 birdies on the back to climb to -5 for the week, good enough for a T3 finish. Mi-Jeong Jeon birdied 3 of her last 4 holes to climb to T5. Sakura Yokomine played her last 17 holes bogey-free and made 5 birdies in that stretch to fire a 68 and squeak into the top 10. Yuri Fudoh posted her 2nd-straight 69 to join her there, as did Esther Lee, who birdied 6 of her last 13 holes to recover from a double-par-bogey start to her round.

And Kaori Ohe fired a 6-birdie 68 to tie for low round of the day and end the week at T13.

On a day in Fukuoka when Inbee Park’s fellow dual LPGA-JLPGA members Meena Lee and Momoko Ueda blew up with a 77 and a 78 respectively. Na Yeon Choi, Shiho Oyama, and Soo-Yun Kang treaded water with roller-coaster 72s, and Mika Miyazato could only put together a 71. Very few players made a run at the 2nd-round co-leaders. Down the stretch, Rui Kitada was the only one of them to put real pressure on Saiki, as she made 5 birdies from the 5th hole on with the last coming on the final hole in a 16-hole bogey-free run that brought her to -7 for the tournament. Having parred the 17th as Kitada was finishing her round 2 groups ahead of her; Saiki could get her 3rd career JLPGA victory with a bogey or better on the 18th.

Current Rolex number 29 player Sun Young Yoo will be back to defend Sybase Match Play Championship that she won last year. Sun Young Yoo will be joining 63 best female golfers as they play face to face during the LPGA Tour match-play event that will be returning to the Hamilton Farm Golf Club from the 19th of May to the 22nd. In the matches that were played last year Sun Young Yoo had to face stiff competition. 28th seeded Sun Young Yoo won the game against Cristie Kerr (5), Karen Stupples (34), Angela Stanford (10), Jiyai Shin (1) and Yani Tseng (4) to win the title. The Executive Director of the tournament, Andy Bush stated that they were excited to have Sun Young Yoo back to defend her title. He praised her and said that she demonstrated endurance as well as determination during the event as she overcame some of the strongest players in women golf.

Sun Young Yoo had a very impressive LPGA tour campaign in the year as she was able to record 3 top 10 finishes. After her win at the Sybase Match Play Championship she finished T11 in the following week at State Farm Classic and T8 at LPGA Hana Bank Championship in the month of October. Her win was coupled with superb play that helped her catapult to the 29th position in the Rolex World Rankings. Sun Young Yoo who was originally from South Korea turned into a professional player in the year 2004 and completed the Futures Tour next year. With her excellent play where she earned 10 top ten finishes and one victory she went up to the fifth spot in money earning list that earned her the exempt status in 2006 LPGA tour. In this season she has again started off pretty well as she posted 2 top 10 finishes in the first four events that she played. However she still has to work very hard if she wants to get to the number one spot. Yani Tseng who is currently on the number one spot has been playing incredibly well since this season started.

She dethroned Jiyai Shin as the season started to gain the top spot. However Sun Young Yoo too won’t let her title slip away from her hands and will be trying her best in the Sybase Match Play Championship.

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