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**truebluefan** · 12-21-2007, 10:32 AM

Kahuku, Hawaii

**truebluefan** · 01-23-2008, 09:56 PM

Last years winner was Paula Creamer $1,100,000

**truebluefan** · 02-14-2008, 11:45 AM

SBS Open at Turtle Bay

Site: Kahuku, Hawaii.

Schedule: Thursday-Saturday.

Course: Turtle Bay Resort, The Arnold Palmer Course (6,582 yards, par 72).

Purse: $1.1 million. Winner's share: $165,000.

Television (Hawai'i times): Golf Channel (Thursday, Friday, Saturday 1:30-4 p.m., 8-10 p.m.).

Last year: Paula Creamer won the season-opening tournament for her first victory since 2005, holing a long birdie putt on the 17th hole to beat Julieta Granada by a stroke. Creamer also won the Tournament of Champions in November.

Last event: The Philippines' Jennifer Rosales and Dorothy Delasin won the Women's World Cup of Golf on Jan. 20 in South Africa.

Notes: Michelle Wie will open the season next week in the Fields Open at Ko Olina. ... Annika Sorenstam is making her first appearance in the event, while top-ranked Lorena Ochoa is taking the week off. Creamer, Suzann Pettersen, Cristie Kerr, Morgan Pressel, Natalie Gulbis, Brittany Lincicome and Pat Hurst also are in the field. ... Rosales won the inaugural event in 2005, beating Wie and Kerr by two strokes. ... South Korea's Joo Mi Kim won in 2006, beating Soo Young Moon in a playoff.

**truebluefan** · 02-14-2008, 11:46 AM

Professionals Cindy Pasechnik and Allison Hanna-Williams today finished two strokes ahead of Punahou senior Stephanie Kono to qualify for this week's SBS Open at Turtle Bay.

Pasechnik and Hanna-Williams each shot a 3-under-par 69 at the Turtle Bay's Palmer Course. Kono was tied for third with Sung Ah Yim.

Honolulu's Ayaka Kaneko shot a 75.

The SBS Open at Turtle Bay, the LPGA season opener, begins Thursday.

**truebluefan** · 02-15-2008, 11:00 PM

KAHUKU — Next to player of the year, there's no better honor than being rookie of the year. And it's actually tougher to achieve because there's only one chance at it.

So, it's interesting watching the 2008 LPGA rookies in the SBS Open at Turtle Bay starting off the new season at the Palmer Course yesterday.

Ten of this year's 30 first-timers are playing in the opener, including the two most likely finalists for the 2008 Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie-of-the-Year Award.

That would be Japan's Momoko Ueda and Taiwan's Yani Tseng.

complete article

**truebluefan** · 02-15-2008, 11:03 PM

KAHUKU — While huge waves crashed on one side, golf scores crashed on the other as the wind picked up as the SBS Open at Turtle Bay progressed yesterday.

Kelli Kuehne, sheltered from the North Shore's bluster by a sunrise start, leads the LPGA's first 2008 stop after shooting a 5-under-par 67 at the resort's Palmer Course.

No one could catch her in the morning, with Jacqueline Yang (68) coming closest. Sherri Steinhauer and Meena Lee, who both have had success in Hawai'i before, were next with 69s.

Complete article

**truebluefan** · 02-17-2008, 08:37 PM

KAHUKU, Hawaii – Annika Sorenstam is in a position she's been in many times – on the verge of winning. She just hasn't been there for a while.
“I feel good about my game and I'm hungry,” said Sorenstam, coming off an injury-shortened season where she failed to win for the first time since her rookie season in 1994. “I've missed being at the top and winning tournaments. That's why I play.”

Complete article

**truebluefan** · 02-17-2008, 08:40 PM

2008 Champion
Annika Sorenstam

Winning Scores
70-67-69=206 (-10)

Victory Margin: defeated three players by two strokes

**King Woods** · 02-17-2008, 09:49 PM

Could Annika really be as healthy as she says she is? She's my favorite LPGA tour player, but even I thought it would all be downhill from here for her. But she just opened the year with a statement win. At 37, she's just passing her prime as a golfer. Traditionally, female golfers have not aged as well as male golfers, so it will be interesting to see if Annika, the consumate athlete, whill be able to age gracefully into her rightful place as the GOAT.