Inside the Ropes

Lorena Ochoa held onto her lead at the Navistar LPGA Classic after the third round and with an impressive three stroke lead between her and current second place Sandra Gal. Ochoa was 6-under-par 66 for a total 16-under-par . Sandra Gal is 13-under-par. She hit an eagle on her sixth hole. Janice Moodie and Brittany Lang is tied for 3rd with 12-under-par 204. 

Cristie Kerr clocked in 8-under-par today to move up from T68 to tie for 13th at 8-under-par 208. While amateur wunderkid Alexis Thompson carded a 2-over-par to drop from the top ten to tie for 13th alongside Kerr and Michelle Wie. 

Team VTech’s Alena Sharp finished 1-over-par to finish 5-under-par 211 while Diana D’Alessio and Becky Morgan tied for 60 with 2-under-par 214. 

On Sunday, the final round, with the threat of rain, defending champion Lorena Ochoa continued as she had all week/weekend and stayed in the lead and…. won!! She successfully repeated her win and cashed in on the $1.3 million purse by walking away with $195,000. She increased her lead today by 2 strokes and finished 18-under-par 270. Finishing four strokes behind Ochoa were Brittany Lang and Michelle Wie at 14-under-par 274. Wie hit an impressive 6-under-par to clench her second place finish. 

A big surprise in the top ten was our good friend Beth Bader, who finished tied for 6th at 12-under-par 276, and recording a second best.  Another surprise this tournament was junior Alexis Thompson finished T27 with 6-under-par 282. Team VTech’s Alena Sharp also finished T27. Diana D’Alessio finished T61 at even-par 288 and Becky Morgan had a little trouble and dropped to finish at 80 with 5-over-par 293. 

Team VTech continues to do a great job! Congratulations Girls.

With the first and second round complete of the Navistar LPGA Classic, we find Lorena Ochoa, Laura Davies, Yani Tseng, Giulia Sergas and 14-year-old Alexis Thompson in a five way tie for 1st place. All are 10-under-par 134. The young rookie Thompson started the competition off in the lead mostly throughout the competition and finished in second place behind Janice Moodie on day one with 7-under-par and made three birdies today to put her in fighting position as we move into the weekend and the final round on Sunday. Yani Tseng bounded up the leaderboard today by shooting an amazing 9-under-par today. But last year’s winner Lorena Ochoa is making a run to defend her title, we’ll see if she can keep it up tomorrow. 

Today was cut day and though two of our players didn’t make it, 3 did. And right in the thick of things is Team VTech member Alena Sharp who’s currently tied for 16th at 6-under-par 138. Our good friend Beth Bader is one stroke behind at 5-under-par 139. Diana D’Alessio and Becky Morgan both made it with 2-under-par 142 and the latter with at even par 144. Eighty-three players advance to weekend play and we’ll check back to see how girls and everyone fairs on the greens.