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Sunday 26 June 2011LPGA TourYear in Review
Tseng wins Wegmans LPGA Championship
Locust Hill Country Club, Pittsford, New York · Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 June 2011 · Yani Tseng’s win no. 8 on the LPGA Tour · purse $2,500,000 USD · Wegmans
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 11 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 70° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R129°/20°C · wind 10 km/h SSW, gusts 40 · 6.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R223°/19°C · wind 14 km/h SW, gusts 38 · 14.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R321°/18°C · wind 17 km/h WSW, gusts 41 · 0.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R421°/16°C · wind 11 km/h W, gusts 21 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- LPGA Championship
- Eve-LPGA Championship
- Mazda LPGA Championship
- McDonald's LPGA Championship
- McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by AIG
- McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by Coca-Cola
- LPGA Championship presented by Wegmans
- Wegmans LPGA Championship
- KPMG Women's PGA Championship
1955–2026 in our record, 72 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Morgan Pressel USA · 279Closed with a 71, birdying the par-5 17th to break a four-way tie for second, ten strokes behind Tseng Tseng scores runaway victory (Reuters via TimesLIVE)
150 started · cut +2, 78 made it
Same week
Women's major
Wegmans LPGA Championship
Locust Hill Country Club, Pittsford
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Morgan Pressel
From the papers
Reuters (via TimesLIVE)
26 June 2011
I almost cry, because it was so emotional. I'm from Taiwan. It's a little country and the people here are very, very supportive of me. I feel really good about that.
Reuters (via TimesLIVE)
26 June 2011
My caddie said, 'I'll buy you dinner if you make 20-under. I said, 'is that all I get?'
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yani Tseng | 66 · 70 · 67 · 66 | 269 | −19 |
| 2 | Morgan Pressel | 69 · 69 · 70 · 71 | 279 | −9 |
| T3 | Suzann Pettersen | 72 · 72 · 69 · 67 | 280 | −8 |
| T3 | Cristie Kerr | 72 · 72 · 67 · 69 | 280 | −8 |
| T3 | Paula Creamer | 67 · 72 · 72 · 69 | 280 | −8 |
| T6 | Meena Lee | 68 · 73 · 70 · 71 | 282 | −6 |
| T6 | Stacy Lewis | 69 · 72 · 70 · 71 | 282 | −6 |
| T8 | Mika Miyazato | 72 · 72 · 68 · 71 | 283 | −5 |
| T8 | Maria Hjorth | 71 · 71 · 70 · 71 | 283 | −5 |
| T8 | Azahara Muñoz | 70 · 71 · 71 · 71 | 283 | −5 |
| T8 | Pat Hurst | 70 · 67 · 75 · 71 | 283 | −5 |
The golfer
born 1989-01-23, Guishan Township, Taoyuan County, Taiwan; TPE; turned pro 2007; age 22 that week; tour wins to date: 8; majors to date: 4; world No. 1 that week (Women's world ranking as stated by AP ('The top-ranked Tseng', Bangor Daily News) and Reuters ('women's world number one', TimesLIVE)).
What’s in the bag
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