Preview & outright plays:
Another LPGA event that has gone through numerous name changes and now has a rather grand title indeed! Annika Sorenstam and Karrie Webb tee it up this week, but their head-to-head in this important-sounding event will not be on view; this is one of the LPGA events that is not televised. The defending champion is Annika and she obviously like Ohio: she has won three times in six events in that State.
Once again though she is available at extremely short odds and is passed over. So is Karrie Webb who returned from a win in Japan last week, but finished some distance off the pace. Instead, the three outright picks are Mi Hyun Kim, Nancy Scranton and Heather Bowie. Kim missed the cut at the Chick-fil-A two weeks ago, but had recorded two 2nds and a 7th place finish in the three weeks beforehand. She should be able to regain that form easily and especially on a course for which she is the joint record-holder. That 63 was en-route to a 5th place finish last year and the year before she had finished 4th. It all points to another good week from the South Korean.
Nancy Scranton has been in excellent form of late with finishes of 9th, 5th and 4th in her last three events. That's a nice improvement each week and she can also boast a 4th place finish on this course two years ago. This may be Annika's tournament to lose, but Scranton is another who should be on the leaderboard on Sunday.
The third pick, Heather Bowie, has also shown a marked trend in her finishes of late: 53rd, 36th, 25th, 11th and 9th last week. She may have a high number of top-5 finishes in her career, but the momentum in her game is building and there is good reason to expect that she will improve on her debut at this course last year when she finished 16th.
Outright plays:
Mi Hyun Kim to win 20/1 e.w. @ Surrey
Nancy Scranton to win 28/1 e.w. @ Surrey
Heather Bowie to win 50/1 e.w. @ Surrey
Another LPGA event that has gone through numerous name changes and now has a rather grand title indeed! Annika Sorenstam and Karrie Webb tee it up this week, but their head-to-head in this important-sounding event will not be on view; this is one of the LPGA events that is not televised. The defending champion is Annika and she obviously like Ohio: she has won three times in six events in that State.
Once again though she is available at extremely short odds and is passed over. So is Karrie Webb who returned from a win in Japan last week, but finished some distance off the pace. Instead, the three outright picks are Mi Hyun Kim, Nancy Scranton and Heather Bowie. Kim missed the cut at the Chick-fil-A two weeks ago, but had recorded two 2nds and a 7th place finish in the three weeks beforehand. She should be able to regain that form easily and especially on a course for which she is the joint record-holder. That 63 was en-route to a 5th place finish last year and the year before she had finished 4th. It all points to another good week from the South Korean.
Nancy Scranton has been in excellent form of late with finishes of 9th, 5th and 4th in her last three events. That's a nice improvement each week and she can also boast a 4th place finish on this course two years ago. This may be Annika's tournament to lose, but Scranton is another who should be on the leaderboard on Sunday.
The third pick, Heather Bowie, has also shown a marked trend in her finishes of late: 53rd, 36th, 25th, 11th and 9th last week. She may have a high number of top-5 finishes in her career, but the momentum in her game is building and there is good reason to expect that she will improve on her debut at this course last year when she finished 16th.
Outright plays:
Mi Hyun Kim to win 20/1 e.w. @ Surrey
Nancy Scranton to win 28/1 e.w. @ Surrey
Heather Bowie to win 50/1 e.w. @ Surrey
