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Dates: Friday, September 10th through September 12th Location: Pinnacle Country Club, Rogers, Arkansas Course Architect: Don Sechre Par: 71 Yardage: 6,284
36-Hole Record: 132 (Meena Lee, Eun-Hee Ji, 2008) Annual: 4th Course Record: 62 (Angela Park, Jane Park, 2008) Defending Champion: Jiyai Shin Runner-Up: Angela Stanford, Sun Young Yoo Shares: 1st Place - $300,000; 2nd Place - $182,650; 3rd Place - $132,500 Television: Golf Channel - Friday -- 12:30-2:30 p.m. (et),- Saturday/Sunday -- 4-6 p.m. (et) Total Purse: $2,000,000 Tournament Record: 201 (Seon Hwa Lee, 2008)
SN Pick To Win: Suzann Pettersen SN Dark Horse: Jee Young Lee SN Last Week Pick To Win: Finished tied for 11th
| 1 - Par 4 311 yds | 10 - Par 4 335 yds |
| 2 - Par 5 539 yds | 11 - Par 3 142 yds |
| 3 - Par 3 156 yds | 12 - Par 4 366 yds |
| 4 - Par 4 425 yds | 13 - Par 4 403 yds |
| 5 - Par 4 338 yds | 14 - Par 5 545 yds |
| 6 - Par 3 199 yds | 15 - Par 3 147 yds |
| 7 - Par 5 509 yds | 16 - Par 4 391 yds |
| 8 - Par 4 402 yds | 17 - Par 3 189 yds |
| 9 - Par 4 341 yds | 18 - Par 5 546 yds |
| 36 3,220 yds | 35 3,064 yds |
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| Jiyai Shin * | 204 | | Sun Young Yoo | 204 | | Angela Stanford | 204 | | Shi Hyun Ahn | 205 | | Song-Hee Kim | 205 | | Taylor Leon | 206 | | Hye Jung Choi | 207 | | Na Yeong Choi | 207 | | Becky Morgan | 208 | | Four players at | 209 |
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| 2009 | *Jiyai Shin (204) | Sun Young Yoo, Angela Stanford | | 2008 | Seon Hwa Lee (201) | Jane Park, Meena Lee | | 2007 | @#(a) Stacy Lewis (65) | Teresa Lu, Kristy McPherson, Katherine Hull | @ - Not an official event
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Formerly called LPGA NW Arkansas Championship (2007). |
Notes: NOTES:The LPGA Tour travels to Arkansas this week for the P&G NW ArkansasChampionship. The top nine players in the world are in the field this week.World No. 1 Ai Miyazato will be looking for her sixth victory of 2010. Sheleads the tour with five wins. No other player has more than two. Miyazatocurrently trails world No. 3 and defending champion Jiyai Shin on the moneylist by $71,840. The purse was increased $200,000 from last year to $2million, with the winner receiving $300,000.Last year, Shin birdied the second playoff hole to defeat Angela Stanford andSun Young Yoo. The victory was Shin's third of 2009. Shin needed a seven-under64 in the final round to post nine-under 204. Yoo posted a three-under 68 tojoin Shin in the clubhouse, then Stanford eagled the 18th in regulation toshoot a 69 and it was off to the par-five 18th to begin the extra session.Shin was the only player to miss the fairway at 18, but none of the threelanded on the green in two. Shin pitched her third to six feet, then Stanfordnearly holed her eagle chip, but settled for a tap-in birdie. Yoo landed in aback bunker and blasted out to four feet. With Stanford in with birdie, Shinand Yoo had to convert to move on in the playoff. Both did just that and itwas off to the par-three 15th to continue sudden death. Yoo and Stanford bothhit their tee balls on the front part of the green, but left themselves withlong birdie tries. Shin knocked her's to 10 feet and the pressure was on Yooand Stanford. Neither was able to hole their long birdie efforts and Stanfordleft herself with a long par putt. It wouldn't matter, as Shin ran home herbirdie effort to give her the title.Seon Hwa Lee birdied the 18th hole in the final round of 2008 to pick up aone-shot win. Lee completed her fourth tour title at 15-under-par 201 after afinal-round, four-under 68. The second and final rounds were both completed onSunday after a five-hour weather delay on Friday and a 98-minute stoppage onSaturday pushed the completion of the second round into Sunday morning.In 2007, Stacy Lewis' seven-under 65 held up as the best score at this eventin what officials believed was the first full-length LPGA Tour event evershortened to 18 holes. Lewis, an amateur and the 2007 NCAA champion, finishedher round on Saturday before a weather suspension left 32 players stillneeding to complete rounds on Sunday. The LPGA Tour did not credit Lewis withan official win. Statistics and earnings were also not counted as official forthe 2007 LPGA Tour season. It was believed to be a first for the LPGA Tour.There have been unofficial tour events where only an 18-hole score wasrecorded, as well as some official 18-hole events in 1952. Spectators were notallowed on the soggy Pinnacle Country Club grounds to watch the final 32players complete their rounds on Sunday.This week's event is being held at Pinnacle Country Club, which was designedby Don Sechrest and opened for play in 1990. The 2007 tournament was the firstin Arkansas for the LPGA Tour since the 1956 Arkansas Open, won by Patty Berg.The LPGA Tour heads to Alabama in four weeks for the Navistar LPGA Classic,where Lorena Ochoa captured the 2009 tournament.09/07 14:42:16 ET
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