THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008
SPORTS
PGA & LPGA
7B
Golfers land unexpected victories
Creamer wins SemGroup Championship; Kim takes first PGA Tour victory
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BROKEN ARROW, Okla.
- Paula Creamer made two long birdie putts to pull away from the field Saturday in the SemGroup Championship, only to drop two shots on the closing holes for the third straight day to give her challengers a chance.
But that small group chasing her doesn't include the player everyone expected to see. Lorena Ochoa, going for her record-tying fifth straight LPGA Tour victory, lost momentum with back-to-back bogeys and wound up eight shots behind, needing the best comeback of her career.
It doesn't look likely, even with Creamer still trying to figure out how to stop making bogsys with the finish line in sights. A three-putt on the 16th and a bogey from the bunker on the 18th gave her a
2-under 69 and a two-shot lead over Juli Inkster.
Inkster, a 47 year old with two daughters and seven majors, turned in a tournament-best 67 in more blustery conditions, ending her solid round with a 20-foot par putt on the 18th hole after trouble in the trees.
Creamer was at three-under 210 and will play in the final pairing Sunday with Inkster, at 212 the only other player under par.
Brittany Lang, who tied for second at the 2005 U.S. Women's Open while still an amateur, had a 71 to finish at 1-over 214, with Angela Stanford (71) and Leta Lindley (72) another shot behind.
Ochoa closed with six pars for an even-par 71 and was at 5-over 218, putting her in unfamiliar territory. She has won five of her six tournaments this year by a combined 37 shots.
WACHOVIA
CHAMPIONSHIP
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Anthony Kim closed in on his first PGA Tour victory, shooting a 6-under 66 in the Wachovia Championship to take a four-shot lead over Jason Bohn and Heath Slocum after the third round.
Kim, a month shy of his 23rd birthday, had a 13-under 203 total on the Quail Hollow Club course. Bohn recovered from a poor day of putting with a chip-in for par on the 18th for a 72 and a second-place tie with Slocum (68).
Stewart Cink (65) and Dudley Hart (70) were 8 under, and Geoff Olgilvy (69) and Jim Furyk (71) followed at 7 under.
FEDEX KINKO'S CLASSIC
LAKEWAY, Texas — Nick Price
moved a step closer to his first Champions Tour victory, shooting a 5-under 67 to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the FedEx Kinko's Classic.
Price had a tournament-record 12-under 132 total on The Hills Country Club course.
Scott Simpson and Loren Roberts, who teamed together last week in the Legends of Golf tournament, were tied for second after matching 66s.
Tim Simpson (69) and Denis Watson (70) were five strokes back at 7 under.
SPANISH OPEN
SEVILLE, Spain — Spain's Ignacio Garrido shot an even-par 72 to take a three-stroke lead into the final round of the Spanish Open.
Garrido had a 15-under 201 total.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paula Creamer waves to the crowd after putting for birdie on the third green in the final round of the LPGA's SemGroup Championship golf tournament at Cedar Ridge Country Club in Broken Arrow, Okla., Sunday.
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