vanyogan
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 Posted: 12/17/11 10:01 am ::: **Spoiler** Ladies Dubai Masters |
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http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com/main_article.php?id=56839&pid=1001
16 year old Lexi Thompson wins it, youngest professional to win on the LET tour. She did it in style with a 67 and birdie on the last hole to win comfortably.
The Americans may finally have a real star who can carry the American side of the tour.
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American Lexi Thompson, 16, became the youngest professional golfer to win on the Ladies European Tour when she captured the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters by four shots at Emirates Golf Club.
Aged 16 years, 10 months, 8 days, she became the second youngest ever Ladies European Tour event winner after South Korean Amy Yang, who was aged 16 years, 6 months, 8 days, when she won the ANZ Ladies Masters in Australia as an amateur, in 2006.
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Wearing her traditional final round colour of blue and adorned in ‘good-luck’ ladybirds, she started the day one shot clear of the field but lost her lead to Lee-Anne Pace after seven holes.
The South African was red-hot with two birdies and an eagle in her first six holes and although Thompson birdied the second and the third, she lost her lead after a bogey on the seventh.
However, Thompson, who qualified to play in the US Women’s Open as a 12-year-old, chipped in for birdie at the par-four ninth hole to regain her one stroke advantage and played sensational golf on the back nine.
She birdied the 10th, 13th and 14th to gain a five stroke lead after Pace dropped shots at the eighth and the 12th holes.
Her second blemish was a three-putt bogey on 17 and there was a two-shot swing when Pace made birdie, reducing the gap to three strokes, but no nerves were visible as Thompson played the par-five 18th. She played her second shot safely in front of the lake before flicking a wedge to three feet and making the birdie putt.
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Taped coverage today on GC. 2:00pm CST I think.
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vanyogan
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| Posted: 12/19/11 7:57 am ::: |
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Interesting, GC will replay The Navistar Classic tonight at 7:00pm. It's the only real golf they will show all day and they will replay it again on Christmas Eve. This of course was Lexi's first and historic win.
It forced the LPGA to grant her membership in 2012.
I don't blame them if they don't show Dubai again. The coverage was terrible. Very few shots shown, they cut the 9th hole, the turning point in the game. It was like watching paint dry.
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