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Eight advance to LPGA's ADT final
Published on Sunday, Nov 23, 2008
From Beacon Journal wire services
Paula Creamer will use a pink ball today, her custom for the final round. Odds are, she'll play those 18 holes with a different color in mind: green. Lots and lots of green, provided she can coax 18 more holes from her ailing body.
Creamer will have a chance to be the first American to win the LPGA Tour's season money crown in 15 years today, when she's one of eight remaining competitors at the ADT Championship at Trump International. All will start tied at par when they embark on an 18-hole shootout for the $1 million winner's prize in West Palm Beach, Fla.
''Money title or not, I want to win this event,'' Creamer said.
Last week, she wasn't even sure she'd play this event. She began experiencing sharp stomach pains Wednesday night and they haven't subsided much since. Creamer cut her usual 90-minute warmup to a half-hour to conserve energy, and hasn't been able to eat solid food for three days except for nibbling on dry toast and bagels during her round Saturday.
At times during the third round, Creamer hit a shot, then doubled over in pain for seconds.
''The best position for me is hunched over,'' Creamer said. ''I'm not a big complainer, but one more day — that's what I keep telling myself.''
If Creamer wins the season-ending event that'll probably be best remembered as Annika Sorenstam's presumed finale on the LPGA Tour, she will nudge Lorena Ochoa by $41,457 for the money title.
Ochoa made $8,000 this week, but didn't qualify for the weekend rounds. A victory would push Creamer just over $2.8 million for 2008.
Creamer said she would see doctors Saturday night, but promised to be on the tee this morning.
''If I was going to withdraw, it would have been earlier,'' Creamer said.
Suzann Pettersen put together the best round Saturday with a 4-under 68, shaking off a triple-bogey at the par-4 fourth with almost flawless golf the rest of the way. Pettersen got back to even by the seventh, then ensured her spot in today's field with four consecutive birdies on holes 13-16.
Angela Stanford shot 69, 1 shot back of Pettersen, to earn her spot in today's dash for the cash, which was displayed in a clear plastic box, with 10,000 bills — all $100s — neatly bundled. Creamer and Seon Hwa Lee shot 70, and Ji-Yai Shin and Jeong Jang were another shot back.
A three-way playoff decided the final two spots: Karrie Webb and Eun-Hee Jee advanced when Sun Young Yoo three-putted the par-3 17th.
More golf: Wilson leads in Hong Kong
• Oliver Wilson made six birdies and held off a charge from Bernhard Langer to take a 1-stroke lead after three rounds of the Hong Kong Open. Wilson shot a 5-under 65 for a three-round total of 13-under 197, a shot better than Taiwan's Lin Wen-tang (64). Langer had a 63 and was 2 back of the leader. John Daly struggled after two solid rounds, shooting a 73 and falling 12 back of Wilson.
• Thailand's Prayad Marksaeng shot a 4-under 67 to take a 2-stroke lead at the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Miyazaki, Japan. Marksaeng birdied the first and last holes at the par-71 Phoenix Country Club, and had three birdies and a bogey in between to finish the third round at 8-under 205, 2 strokes ahead of second-round leader Tomohiro Kondo of Japan. Kondo had a 70 and is 2 strokes ahead of American Brandt Snedeker (70), and compatriots Ryo Ishikawa (70) and Masaya Tomida (69).
Tennis: Connors arrested at game
• Tennis great Jimmy Connors was arrested outside the campus arena where host UC Santa Barbara and top-ranked North Carolina were playing a basketball game Friday night. The eight-time Grand Slam champion was taken into custody at the beginning of the game when he refused to follow an order to leave an area near the entrance of the Thunderdome after a confrontation, police Sgt. Dan Massey said. A Santa Barbara County jail employee said Connors was booked and released.
• Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco won the doubles match to give Spain a 2-1 lead in the Davis Cup final in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Lopez and Verdasco defeated David Nalbandian and Agustin Calleri 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (5), 6-3, boosting Spain's hopes of winning the best-of-five championship. The title will be decided by today's singles matches.
Other: F1 driver Webber breaks leg
• Formula One driver Mark Webber had surgery on his broken leg after being hit by a car during his charity multisports race in Hobart, Australia. He will be hospitalized for at least three days. Webber, who drives for F1's Red Bull team, was riding a bicycle along a road in the southeast of the island state of Tasmania when he collided with a four-wheel-drive vehicle, police said.
• The United States men's soccer team will open the final round of regional qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup at home against Mexico and finish its run against Costa Rica. The other three teams in CONCACAF'S qualifying tournament, played between February and October, are El Salvador, Honduras and Trinidad and Tobago. The top three advance to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, and the No. 4 team meets South America's fifth-place nation in a home-and-home playoff for another berth.
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