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By DON MARKUS and DON MARKUS,SUN REPORTER | June 6, 2006
Professional golf in the Baltimore area has a long and rich, if not quite deep, history. Back in '99 - 1899 that is - Willie Smith won the U.S. Open at Baltimore Country Club. It was the fifth Open ever played and the last major professional golf championship contested in the city until 1988, when Liselotte Neumann won the U.S. Women's Open at the same club in a different location. LPGA Championship Bulle Rock, Havre de Grace, Thursday-Sunday TV: The Golf Channel, 4-7 p.m. each day
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June 8, 2005
LPGA CHAMPIONSHIP Tomorrow through Sunday Bulle Rock Golf Course, Havre de Grace SPECTATORS' GUIDE AND MAP, PAGES 4-5S BOOZ ALLEN CLASSIC Tomorrow through Sunday Congressional Country Club, Bethesda COURSE MAP AND PREVIEW, PAGE 7S
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By DON MARKUS and DON MARKUS,SUN REPORTER | June 4, 2006
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- The 2005 season was winding down, and the way Rosie Jones had it figured, so was her career on the LPGA Tour. As well as she was playing, as competitive as she was, the injuries weren't going away. Nor were the tour's upstarts, some of whom were young enough to be her daughter. "Everything as far as my body goes is screaming at me, `What are you doing to me, just stop,' " Jones, 46, said one afternoon last week, standing on the practice tee at the Marriott Seaview Resort and Spa before the start of the ShopRite LPGA Classic.
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By John W. Stewart and John W. Stewart,Staff Writer | June 12, 1993
BETHESDA -- Jenny Lidback is making up for lost time with her play through two rounds of the LPGA Championship.Lidback, 30, in her fifth tour season, followed a bogey with a birdie and used a 17-foot putt for birdie on the 18th green to shoot 67 for a 36-hole total of 136, one shot off the pace of leader Cindy Rarick.It has been a fractured season for the native of Peru who now lives in Scottsdale, Ariz. She played in the year's second event, in Hawaii, then, with her non-exempt status did not get into another event until the Lady Keystone Open in Hershey, Pa., a month ago.That was the start of playing four straight weeks, and her play shows more consistency because of it.She tied for 21st in Hershey, used a 69 as the highlight of a tie for seventh in the Corning (N.Y.
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By RICK MAESE | June 8, 2007
Scanning the leader board at the LPGA Championship, you notice a couple of Chos, two Davies, four Lees, five Parks and nine Kims. Out of 149 names in yesterday's opening-round field, though, there are really only two that draw the attention of the casual sports fan, and both have done their part this week to illustrate what it means to be a professional golfer. Annika Sorenstam told us what to do; Michelle Wie showed us what not to do. The past several days - which began with Wie's curious withdrawal at the Ginn Tribute Hosted By Annika and continued with a public reprimand from Sorenstam and a Team Wie meeting with the LPGA's top boss - might ultimately push forward an important and inevitable realization: For the first time since Wie began making waves four years ago, the young golfer finds herself needing the LPGA just as much as the tour needs her. And if both are going to move forward and feed off each other profitably, they'd better come to a quick understanding that what's best for Wie is best for the tour and vice versa.
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By JOHN EISENBERG | June 10, 2006
You had to get up early to watch Michelle Wie in the second round of the LPGA Championship yesterday at Bulle Rock. She teed off before 8 a.m. The thousands of fans who came out were richly rewarded. Wie blasted long drives into the high blue sky, sank some birdie putts and finished with a 68 that could easily have been four strokes better. "She left a few shots out there, for sure. This isn't a terribly hard course for her. I could easily see her shooting a 63 or 64 in one of the weekend rounds," said her instructor, David Leadbetter, the renowned swing coach who has mostly tutored men's champions such as Nick Faldo and Ernie Els. Her round put her in position to compete for the championship - she finished second in this tournament a year ago - and also illustrated why many of the questions she seems to generate are irrelevant.