Great game, competitive spirit and technique as in the good old days. The show was given by two great champions in the Senior LPGA Championship, the Australian Karrie Webb, who won with 202 (69 66 67, -14) strokes, and the Swedish Annika Sorenstam, second with 206 (69 68 69, -10 ).
A revenge for the first, which in her career has almost always found herself ahead of the Swedish dominator of the world scene between the end of the nineties and 2008, when she left competitive sport. Karrie Webb, who is also the only one to have achieved the Super Grand Slam, that is to have won five different Majors, was the one who gave more than a displeasure to her opponent in the golden years and now she has added another.
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Senior LPGA Championship, statements
On the course of the Salina Country Club, in Salina, Kansas, Silvia Cavalleri (76 69 75), the only Italian to have won on the LPGA Tour (Corona Championship, 2007) took part in the race, both 31 and with 220 (+4).
), and Stefania Croce (74 73 73), also for some years on the American circuit and a second place in a major (LPGA Championship) overtaken in the playoff by Juli Inkster. Behind the two protagonists Laura Diaz, third with 209 (-7), and in fourth place with 212 (-4) Juli Inkster together with Michele Redman, Lisa DePaulo and the Welsh Becky Morgan.
In eighth place with 213 (-3) three other protagonists of the LPGA Tour in the past years, Pat Hurst, Rosie Jones and the Swedish Catrin Nilsmark. Karrie Webb was awarded a check for $ 60,000 out of a $ 400,000 prize pool. Karrie Ann Webb (Ayr, Queensland, Australia, December 21, 1974) is an Australian golfer who has competed on the LPGA Tour since 1996.
She finished first in the 1996, 1999 and 2000 seasons, second in 1997 and 2006, and third in 2001. , fourth in 1998 and fifth in 2002. She has achieved 41 victories in said circuit, for which she is tenth in the history, as well as 198 top 10 finishes.
Webb won seven major tournament titles: the 2000 and 2001 US Open, the 2002 British Open, the 1999 Canadian Open, the 2000 and 2006 Kraft Nabisco Championships, and the 2001 LPGA Championship. he had six second-place finishes, 24 top-fives and 34 top-10s in major tournaments.
The Australian herself won the Australian Open five times, the Australian Masters eight times, the British Open three times, the Evian Masters once and the European Masters once.
