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**truebluefan** · 07-20-2008, 09:40 PM

Mobile, Alabama

**truebluefan** · 09-12-2008, 09:10 PM

After round one of the Bell Micro LPGA Classic, rookies Anna Rawson and Shanshan Feng share the lead, each with 5-under-par 67 scorecards. Rawson (32-35=67) recorded the lowest opening-round score of her rookie season with the aid of six birdies and just one bogey. The Australian gained entry into the field from the first spot on the alternate list after Natalie Gulbis withdrew before the start of the event, and she is playing strong in just her 10th tournament of the year in hopes of carding her maiden victory on the LPGA Tour. Meanwhile, fellow first-year player Feng (31-36=67) fired subpar scores on holes 15-18, including an eagle on 16, which was the second of her rookie campaign. Making the turn at 5-under-par 31, the lone Chinese player on Tour recorded a pair of birdies and bogeys, and she finished with the 5-under score for the day.

**truebluefan** · 09-12-2008, 09:11 PM

A quartet of players including Nicole Castrale (37-31), Angela Park (35-33), Michelle Ellis (36-32) and Irene Cho (35-33) are tied for third place at 4-under-par 68 after the first round of the Bell Micro LPGA Classic. The foursome is close on the heels of first-round co-leaders Anna Rawson and Shanshan Feng who posted opening-round scores of 5-under 67 in their morning rounds.

Castrale – a Rolex First-Time Winner at the 2007 Ginn Tribute Hosted by ANNIKA – caught fire quickly on the back nine of the RTJ Golf Trail’s The Crossings as she carded five birdies on her opening holes before turning in a 1-over front-nine scorecard for the 68. Park, the 2007 LPGA Tour Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year, countered two bogeys with six birdies to match Castrale in the morning rounds, while Ellis carded one of the busiest scorecards of the day with seven birdies and three bogeys. Cho, a fellow member of Park’s 2007 LPGA Tour rookie class, matched Ellis’ afternoon scorecard while playing in one of the final groups of the day to join the group at 4-under 68.

The race atop the leaderboard of the inaugural Bell Micro LPGA Classic is tightly congested, as six more players including 2008 LPGA Tour winners Cristie Kerr and Yani Tseng are tied for seventh place at 3-under.

**truebluefan** · 09-12-2008, 09:11 PM

Two weeks removed from the most recent LPGA Tour event and her 11th career victory at the Safeway Classic Presented by Pepsi, Cristie Kerr continued her solid play and carded a 3-under-par 69 (34-35) in the opening round of the Bell Micro LPGA Classic. Kerr notched her first of five birdies on the opening hole of the RTJ Golf Trail’s The Crossings and followed with her second on the fifth hole to make the turn at 5-under. After playing the opening three par-4 holes on the back side with as many birdies, Kerr found back-to-back subpar opportunities on the 13th and 14th holes before countering those with a double bogey on the par-5, 463-yard 16th hole. She rebounded with a final birdie on the 17th hole to finish the day at 3-under and in a six-way tie for seventh place.

At the Safeway Classic in Portland, Ore., Kerr emerged victorious after carding a final-round 7-under 65 and defeated Helen Alfredsson and Sophie Gustafson in a one-hole, sudden-death playoff.

**truebluefan** · 09-15-2008, 02:06 PM

Angela Stanford won the Bell Micro LPGA Classic on Sunday for her second career LPGA Tour title, holing a 3 1/2-foot par putt on the final hole for a 1-over 73 and a one-stroke victory over China's Shanshan Feng.