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Jan 09th
| Lorena On Course For Record Earnings |
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| Written by MICHAEL FORBES | |
| Saturday, 01 September 2007 | |
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World number one golfer Lorena Ochoa won the Safeway Classic at the Columbia Edgewater Country Club in Portland, Oregon on Sunday, her third LPGA tournament in a row.
In the last 25 years, only Sweden's Annika Sorenstam has won three consecutive events on the LPGA Tour. The 24-year-old Tapatia claimed her first major title at the Women's British Open on August 5, followed by the Canadian Women's Open in Edmonton on August 16, before her triumph last weekend in Portland. Ochoa's 255,000-dollar winner's check gives her a total of 2,891,590 dollars in season earnings, which ranks as the highest official single-season earnings in LPGA history. Ochoa now has a chance to become the first player in LPGA history to earn three million dollars in a season. Ochoa declined to enter this week's State Farm Classic in Springfield, Illinois, and try for a LPGA record-equalling four consecutive wins, preferring instead to return to Guadalajara for a rest. Rafael Alarcon, Ochoa's coach in Mexico, predicted that no golfer would be able to challenge Ochoa in the next two or three years and that the gap between her and the rest of the female pros will get wider. |
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