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Sunday, March 21, 2010

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US Duramed Futures Tour Scoreboard
$100,000 FLORIDA'S NATURAL CHARITY CLASSIC
Lake Region Yacht and Country Club, Winter Haven, Florida
FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72) 6,176yd (Final round cancelled)
1 Angela Oh (Maple Shade, N.J.) 72-65 - 137 $14,000 (won play-off)
2 Jane Rah (Torrance, Calif.) 70-67 - 137 $10,000 (lost play-off)
3 Cindy LaCrosse (Tampa, Fla.) 69-69 - 138 $7,125
T4 Gerina Mendoza (Roswell, N.M.) 72-67 - 139 $4,558
Garrett Phillips (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 70-69 - 139 $4,558
6 Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.) 69-71 - 140 $3,109
T7 Dewi Claire Schreefel (Diepenveen, Netherland75-66 - 141 $2,434
Esther Choe (Scottsdale, Ariz.) 73-68 - 141 $2,434
9 Yoora Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 73-69 - 142 $1,959
T10 Stephanie Connelly (Pasadena, Md.) 73-70 - 143 $1,400
Kristie Smith (Perth, Australia) 72-71 - 143 $1,400
Jennie Lee (Henderson, Nev.) 73-70 - 143 $1,400
Elisa Serramia (Barcelona, Spain) 72-71 - 143 $1,400
Kelly Froelich (Raizeux, France) 71-72 - 143 $1,400
Carolina Llano (Medellin, Colombia) 71-72 - 143 $1,400
T16 Kathleen Ekey (Sharon Township, Ohio) 76-68 - 144 $908
Dori Carter (Valdosta, Ga.) 71-73 - 144 $908
Ryann O'Toole (San Clemente, Calif.) 71-73 - 144 $908
Amanda Mathis (Picayune, Miss.) 71-73 - 144 $908
Nicole Jeray (Berwyn, Ill.) 70-74 - 144 $908
Victoria Elizabeth (Orlando, Fla.) 70-74 - 144 $908
Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 69-75 - 144 $908
T23 Julie Wells-Shenfield (Wilsonville, Ore.) 73-72 - 145 $771
Tiffany Joh (San Diego, Calif.) 74-71 - 145 $771
Kylene Pulley (Kokomo, Ind.) 72-73 - 145 $771
Min Seo Kwak (Seoul, South Korea) 74-71 - 145 $771
Paola Moreno (Cali, Colombia) 71-74 - 145 $771
Isabelle Beisiegel (St. Hilaire, Quebec) 75-70 - 145 $771
Ashli Bunch (Morristown, Tenn.) 75-70 - 145 $771
T30 Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.) 75-71 - 146 $700
Caroline Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden) 73-73 - 146 $700
Carling Coffing (Middletown, Ohio) 73-73 - 146 $700
Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 72-74 - 146 $700
Susan Nam (Edmonton, Alberta) 72-74 - 146 $700
Taryn Durham (Glasgow, Ky.) 74-72 - 146 $700
Sara Brown (Tucson, Ariz.) 71-75 - 146 $700
Whitney Myers (York, Pa.) 74-72 - 146 $700
Marlowe Boukis (Lutherville, Md.) 71-75 - 146 $700
T39 Jennifer Song (a) (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 76-71 - 147
Amanda Costner (Claremore, Okla.) 76-71 - 147 $645
Marcela Leon (Monterrey, Mexico) 76-71 - 147 $645
Christine Song (Fullerton, Calif.) 72-75 - 147 $645
Samantha Richdale (Kelowna, British Columbia)73-74 - 147 $645
Virada Nirapathpongporn (Bangkok, Thailand) 72-75 - 147 $645
Seema Sadekar (Toronto, Ontario) 74-73 - 147 $645
Kelly Lagedrost (Brooksville, Fla.) 74-73 - 147 $645
Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 74-73 - 147 $645
Hannah Yun (Bradenton, Fla.) 69-78 - 147 $645
Maria Hernandez (Pamplona, Spain) 75-72 - 147 $645
T50 Adrienne White (Red Deer, Alberta) 77-71 - 148 $592
Madison Opfer (a) (Plant City, Fla.) 78-70 - 148
Tara Goedeken (Dodge City, Kan.) 76-72 - 148 $592
Kendall Dye (Edmond, Okla.) 79-69 - 148 $592
Leanne Bowditch (Queensland, Australia) 75-73 - 148 $592
Nannette Hill (Pelham, N.Y.) 72-76 - 148 $592
Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 72-76 - 148 $592
Kitty Hwang (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 72-76 - 148 $592
Katie Miller (Jeannette, Pa.) 74-74 - 148 $592
Sue Ginter (Appleton, Wis.) 72-76 - 148 $592
Kristen Simpson (Norfolk, Va.) 74-74 - 148 $592
Jenny Shin (Torrance, Calif.) 74-74 - 148 $592
Christi Cano (San Antonio, Texas) 75-73 - 148 $592
Aimee Cho (Orlando, Fla.) 75-73 - 148 $592
T64 Nicole Smith (Riverside, Calif.) 73-76 - 149 $560
Laura Bavaird (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 74-75 - 149 $560
Lindsey Bergeon (Sarasota, Fla.) 74-75 - 149 $560
Erica Moston (Belmont, Calif.) 75-74 - 149 $560
T68 Kay Hoey (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) 78-72 - 150 $536
Sarah Olsen (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 78-72 - 150 $536
Rachel Connor (Manchester, England) 77-73 - 150 $536
Libby Smith (Essex Junction, Vt.) 79-71 - 150 $536
Sofie Andersson (Angelholm, Sweden) 76-74 - 150 $536
Heather Burgner (Lakeland, Fla.) 75-75 - 150 $536
Jackie Barenborg (Vero Beach, Fla.) 73-77 - 150 $536
Brandi Jackson (Greenville, S.C.) 72-78 - 150 $536
Michaela Cavener (Ponca City, Okla.) 73-77 - 150 $536
Marina Choi (Los Angeles, Calif.) 74-76 - 150 $536
Tiffany Tavee (Tempe, Ariz.) 75-75 - 150 $536
Melissa Eaton (Port Shepstone, South Africa) 75-75 - 150 $536
Emma Calderone (Toronto, Ontario) 75-75 - 150 $536

Angela Oh Wins Rain-Shortened Event After One-Hole Play-off

With rain blowing sideways, fairways flooding and palm trees showing their wind-dancing resilience in Florida storm conditions, players hunkered inside the clubhouse at Lake Region Yacht and Country Club, wondering how Sunday’s final round of the $100,000 Florida’s Natural Charity Classic would play out.
In a word, it was a wash. Sunday’s final round was suspended at 1:23 p.m., and at 4 p.m., the final round was cancelled.
After 36 holes on Saturday, two players, Angela Oh and rookie Jane Rah, were tied for the lead at 7-under 137. Once the lashing rains left the area on Sunday afternoon, leaving a waterlogged and largely unplayable course behind, Duramed Futures Tour officials shortened the event to a 36-hole tournament with a sudden-death play-off between the two players who were tied.
The play-off hole was to have been No. 18, but this hole, bordered by Lake Hamilton, was unplayable because of standing water. So Oh and Rah were moved to the 154yd par-3 17th hole to play for the win.
Rah won the coin toss and played first, hitting her 6-iron to 25 feet below the hole. She two-putted for par.
Oh stood on the tee, trying to decide between a “hard 6-iron or a choked-down 5-iron” when wind began blowing in her face. She opted for the 5-iron and her shot landed one foot past the cup and rolled to four feet. She drained the putt for birdie to win her first professional tournament.
“It ended as quickly as it started,” said Oh, 21, of Maple Shade, N.J., winning the Florida’s Natural Charity Classic in the one-hole playoff. “But it also felt like the longest hole ever.”
And it was one long afternoon once the rain began hammering the course. At the time of the suspension, three players -- Rah, Gerina Mendoza of Roswell, N.M., and Garrett Phillips of St. Simons Island, Ga. -- were tied for the final-round lead at eight under, with Cindy LaCrosse of Tampa, Fla., one shot back at seven under. On the other hand, Oh was struggling four shots off the lead with a double-bogey, one birdie and one bogey.
“I was on the 11th green about to putt when they suspended play,” said Oh, who played for two years at the University of Tennessee. “I was three over at that point.”
“I had a 10-foot birdie chance on the 11th green when they called it,” said Rah, 19, of Torrance, Calif. “It was one of those days when I was in between clubs all day, but I was kind of hanging around, with one birdie and pars everywhere else.”
Rah’s chance to close out her first professional win ended when the round was washed out.
Tournament officials were pressed not only with a aturated golf course, but also with a daylight constraint and 59 players still on the course.
When play was called, Oh was fading and Mendoza and Phillips, also chasing their first Tour title, were in hot pursuit of Rah, with LaCrosse right on their heels.
“We had eight holes left, but that’s golf,” said LaCrosse, a second-year pro out of the University of Louisville who is an LPGA Tour member this year. “You can’t be too disappointed about it. There’s just too much water out there.”
“It is what it is,” added Phillips, also a second-year pro out of the University of Georgia. “If we didn’t have to travel to Mexico tomorrow, maybe we could have played on Monday.”
Mendoza had just eagled the 11th hole to jump into a share of the lead and was on the 12th green when play was suspended, but as the rains pounded against the clubhouse windows for more than two hours, Mendoza slept soundly on a couch in a players’ area, waking up to be told that her work for the day was done.
Neither Oh nor Rah, who last played together in junior golf five years ago, had ever competed in a play-off to win.
“I had a putt-off once, but that was in junior golf when I was like 10 or 11 years old,” said Rah, making her pro debut on the Futures Tour this week following her departure from Oklahoma State University after one semester.
But Oh, who carded a second-round score of 7-under 65 to put herself into position on Saturday, was in the right place at the right time today, making her birdie when she needed it to pocket the winner’s $14,000 check and walk away with a new Bulova watch and Med/3 skin care products.
“It feels awesome,” said Oh, who was a 2009 LPGA Tour member. “I haven’t played on a course in three months because it’s been cold in New Jersey, so just being able to hit shots on grass and get that feeling back has been great.
“But if I can do it once, hopefully more will come,” added Oh. “I’m looking forward to Mexico next week.”
Weather: Cloudy, turning into heavy rain with lightning and high winds and temperatures in the mid-70s

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