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Is Ochoa More Dominant Than Tiger?

Every Monday during the PGA Tour season, Monday Pin Placement will run as a wrap-up of the weekend's action. Basically, we'll focus on what you missed while you were out grinding on the putting green.

Ochoa vs. Woods -- When Annika Sorenstam was at the peak of her game, a stretch between 2001-05 that had Annika claim eight major championships in 18 stars, she became buddies with Tiger Woods, text-messaging Woods after majors to compare their big tournament wins.

With Lorena Ochoa continuing to dominate the LPGA, it might be time for Tiger to land Lorena's phone number.

Wie, Ochoa Set Pace at Corona

If the LPGA was looking for an energy boost after three weeks of no tournaments, they might have got it.

On Thursday at the Corona Championship, the LPGA's current star and hopeful star both played out of their minds, as Lorena Ochoa carded an 8-under 65 to lead all golfers and Michelle Wie is just a shot back at 7-under.

Serena Now Richest Female Athlete Ever

With the retirement of Annika Sorenstam, this was inevitable, as long as, say, Serena Williams didn't want to start writing for GQ or start her own puppy clothing line.

Williams, who absolutely erupted through the Australian Open, winning the finals match 6-0, 6-3 against Dinara Safina, became the all-time career money leader in all of women's sports.

Lorena Ochoa Is Reportedly Engaged

If your goal in the last year was to marry an LPGA golfer that was ranked at the top of her sport (and went to the University of Arizona), sadly, you might be searching for a new goal.



Less than a week ago, Annika Sorenstam, who retired from the game in 2008, was married to a gentleman by the name of Mike McGee (who some think looks a lot like Padraig Harrington). Now it is Lorena Ochoa's turn.

Annika Sorenstam Gets Married, Promptly Puts Husband to Work

Annika Sorenstam retired last month because, well, she's dominated the LPGA for more than a decade. Since joining the tour in 1994, she's racked up 72 career victories, including 10 major titles, and now she's ready to get on with the rest of her life. Can't say that I blame her.

Back in May, Sorenstam hinted at wanting to devote more time to her growing business ventures and perhaps start a family. In this Nov. 2008 interview with Portfolio.com, it sounds like she will be plenty busy with the former. She has a foundation, a fragrance line, a clothing line and is in designing her sixth golf course. She also launching a wine label and will host golf tournaments.

As for the later, Sorenstam just got hitched to her boyfriend of three years, Mike McGee. Conveniently, McGee is the managing director for the ANNIKA business brand, which means they'll be spending every minute of every day together. Woo hoo, nuptials!

FanHouse Talks to Anna Rawson About the LPGA and Jamming Out to Britney Spears

Anna Rawson, one of the LPGA's newest members, recently took time to sit down with FanHouse and talk about Q-school, playing on tour, her relationship status, and what's bumping on her iPod.

Will Brinson: First of all, Anna, thanks for taking the time out to talk to FanHouse.

Anna Rawson: No problem at all.

Brinson: And congratulations, of course, on picking up your Tour Card recently. You want to tell us a little bit about Q-school and that whole experience?

Why Is Annika Sorenstam Retiring Again?

I have thought long and hard over Annika Sorenstam's decision to retire.

A fellow Wildcat and absolute menace to the LPGA society, Sorenstam has decided at the ripe age of 38 she was going to cash in her putter for Pampers and become a mother and a family lady. That sounds wonderful.

What I don't get is the fact that in what is sure to be the toughest economic time the LPGA has ever seen, the biggest draw in the sport is hanging up her spikes when she is still really dominant.

Annika is playing in her last official tournament as a professional this week at the Dubai Ladies Masters and lo and behold, is leading the damn thing. A two-under 70 to open and a six-under 66 that included four birdies, one eagle and no bogeys has her a shot clear of Nikki Garrett and Maria Verchenova.

I know what the pro-retire fans will say. She's leaving in her prime. She is going out on her own terms. This is a fairytale ending. Maybe you're right. I just don't see why getting out of the game when you can still dominate makes any sense.

Michelle Wie Gains Her 2009 LPGA Tour Card


All Michelle Wie needed to do today to gain full status on the LPGA Tour was not throw up on herself, a golf term some use for completely falling apart on the course. She didn't play her best, shooting a two-over 74 in the fifth and final round of LPGA Qualifying school, but it was all she needed to gain full-time status on the LPGA tour for 2009.

Wie put herself in a position with stellar play over the first four rounds, which allowed room for error on Sunday, a thing that any golfer knows is helpful. In her Sunday red, a la Tiger Woods, Wie was steady and composed amongst a ton of pressure put on her by expectations.

All those eyes on Wie -- the media attention from all around the world and critics still shaking their head at the 19-year-old -- can make those eight-foot par putts on the final day seem a lot longer.

Wie has never been a full-time member of the LPGA until now. What does all this mean?

FanHouse Chats With Natalie Gulbis

In women's sports, there are two types of athletes -- the successful ones and the attractive ones. Luckily for golf fans, Natalie Gulbis is both, a golfer that wins and looks good doing so. Natalie, in partnership with RSM McGladery, hosted a contest all across the nation to find the perfect golfer to tell "Who's Behind Your Success?" Contest winner Taylor Anderson, a student at George Washington University who is paralyzed on his right side but still plays this crazy game, won with a video about his mother. Before Anderson got to enjoy his Sunday with the pro, Gulbis chatted with us about what Taylor could expect, pro-ams, and if she'd ever play on the PGA Tour. She even touched on the media's criticism of Michelle Wie, who just earned her LPGA Tour card at Q-School.

Editor's Note: This interview was conducted early in the week of Dec. 1, prior to Gulbis' meeting with Taylor Anderson.

Shane Bacon:
First, talk about the "Who's Behind Your Success?" contest. What are you and Taylor (Anderson) going to do in Las Vegas?

Natalie Gulbis: I am going to meet him on Sunday. He is going to come in the morning, we are going to work out, and then he is going to play my home golf course with me at Lake Las Vegas, and we have a boatload of gifts and stuff for him and he is going to come over to my house for dinner.


Bacon: And this was a national contest to find the winner?

Gulbis: We ran a national contest that anybody could write in an essay on who's behind your success and then RSM actually narrowed it down to 10, and then I voted on the 10 (to narrow it) to three, as did all the RSM McGladery employees nationwide, then we got it down to three and I picked the winner based on a video.

Bacon: You went to University of Arizona, as did I. You went there, Annika Sorenstam went there, Lorena Ochoa, Erica Blasberg ... what's in the water for the female golfers?

Annika Sorenstam to Play Last LPGA Tournament This Week Before Retirement

She isn't just the queen of golf, she was the LPGA when golf hit its boom. Annika Sorenstam was the female equivalent of Tiger Woods when Tiger became the face of the sport and not surprising, the two became competitive buddies.

Sorenstam, in news that has to make golf fans a little disappointed, is stepping down from the game this week in her final event as a full-time LPGA member, at the ADT Championship. Just 38, Sorenstam made the announcement in May to leave competitive golf because she, like so many other prominent females, has made the difficult decision to trade the birdies for the babies.

Annika's legacy is undeniable. She burst on the scene in 1995 with a U.S. Open victory that she successfully defended the following year. A product of the highly successful University of Arizona women's golf department, Sorenstam took some years to find that major championship touch again, but find it she did.

From 2001 to 2006, Sorenstam won the same amount of majors as Tiger has in any six-year stretch of his career. Annika claimed eight out of the possible 24 majors, putting her career total at 10 and placing her fourth all-time in major victories on the LPGA.

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