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LPGA - Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic Preview

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DATES: Thursday, July 1st through Sunday, July 4th

SITE: Highland Meadows Golf Club, Sylvania, Ohio

COURSE ARCHITECT: Harold Weber (1925), Sandy Alves (1928),

Arthur Hills (1974)

PAR: 71

YARDAGE: 6,428

Hole-By-Hole:	1 - Par 4 347 yds	10 - Par 4 376 yds
	2 - Par 3 162 yds	11 - Par 4 391 yds
	3 - Par 4 380 yds	12 - Par 4 395 yds
	4 - Par 4 375 yds	13 - Par 4 355 yds
	5 - Par 4 392 yds	14 - Par 3 184 yds
	6 - Par 3 155 yds	15 - Par 4 389 yds
	7 - Par 5 575 yds	16 - Par 4 400 yds
	8 - Par 3 132 yds	17 - Par 5 513 yds
	9 - Par 4 375 yds	18 - Par 5 532 yds
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	34 2,893 yds	37 3,535 yds

Annual:	26th
Television:	None
Defending Champion:	Eunjung Yi
Runner-Up:	Morgan Pressel
Tournament Record:	261 (Se Ri Pak, 1998)
54-Hole Record:	195 (Se Ri Pak, 1998; Paula Creamer, 2008; Eunjung Yi, 2009)
36-Hole Record:	125 (Paula Creamer, 2008)
Course Record:	60 (Paula Creamer, 2008)
Total Purse:	$1,400,000
Shares:	1st Place - $210,000; 2nd Place - $128,670; 3rd Place - $92,750

2009 Finish
Player	Score	Player	Score
Eunjung Yi *	266	Suzann Pettersen	269
Morgan Pressel	266	Yani Tseng	269
Michelle Wie	268	Lindsey Wright	270
Seon Hwa Lee	268	Nicole Castrale	270
Song-Hee Kim	268	Lorena Ochoa	270
		Mikaela Parmlid	270

* - Won in Playoff

Past Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic Winners
Year	Winner (Score) -- Runners-Up
2009	*Eunjung Yi (266) -- Morgan Pressel
2008	Paula Creamer (268) -- Nicole Castrale
2007	Se Ri Pak (267) -- Morgan Pressel
2006	*Mi Hyun Kim (266) -- Natalie Gulbis
2005	*Heather Young (274) -- Gloria Hee Jung Park
2004	Meg Mallon (277) -- Se Ri Pak, Karen Stupples
2003	Se Ri Pak (271) -- Marisa Baena, Hee-Won Han
2002	Rachel Teske (270) -- Beth Bauer
2001	Se Ri Pak (269) -- Maria Hjorth
2000	*Annika Sorenstam (274) -- Rachel Teske
1999	*Se Ri Pak (276) -- Kelli Kuehne, Carin Koch, Sherri Steinhauer,
	Karrie Webb, Mardi Lunn
1998	Se Ri Pak (261) -- Lisa Hackney
1997	Kelly Robbins (265) -- Tammie Green
1996	Joan Pitcock (204) -- Marianne Morris
1995	Kathryn Marshall (205) -- Sherri Steinhauer
1994	*Kelly Robbins (204) -- Tammie Green
1993	Brandie Burton (201) -- Hollis Stacy
1992	Patty Sheehan (209) -- Brandie Burton, Tammie Green, Heather Drew,
	Deb Richard
1991	*Alice Miller (205) -- Deb Richard
1990	Tina Tombs (205) -- JoAnne Carner, Chris Johnson
1989	Penny Hammel (206) -- Nancy Lopez, Liselotte Neumann, Hollis Stacy
1988	Laura Davies (277) -- Nancy Lopez
1987	Jane Geddes (280) -- Jill Briles-Hinton, Nancy Taylor
1986	Not Held
1985	Penny Hammel (278) -- Nancy Lopez
1984	Lauri Peterson (278) -- Nancy Lopez

* - Won in Playoff

Note:Formerly called Jamie Farr Toledo Classic (1984-96), Jamie Farr Kroger

Classic (1997-2003).

Top Contenders in the Field
Player	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Eunjung Yi	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	T-26	Won
Morgan Pressel	---	---	---	---	---	T-23	T-54	2nd	---	2nd
Seon Hwa Lee	---	---	---	---	---	---	T-32	T-13	---	T-3
Song-Hee Kim	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	mc	---	T-3
Wendy Ward	T-62	---	T-52	---	T-20	---	---	T-3	T-46	T-12
Jiyai Shin	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	T-17
Eun-Hee Ji	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	3rd	T-21
Natalie Gulbis	---	---	T-7	57th	T-40	T-19	2nd	T-65	mc	T-21
Reilley Rankin	---	---	---	---	T-52	mc	5th	T-65	T-52	T-33
Angela Stanford	---	mc	---	---	T-47	T-19	T-79	T-7	9th	T-49
Momoko Ueda	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	T-22	T-54
Meena Lee	---	---	---	---	---	T-36	mc	mc	T-30	T-54
Heather B. Young	T-5	T-3	T-28	T-4	mc	Won	T-75	T-68	T-17	82nd
Brittany Lincicome	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	T-18	T-7	mc
Kristy McPherson	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	T-18	T-7	mc
Stacy Lewis	---	---	---	---	---	---	mc	T-51	T-17	mc
Stacy Prammanasudh	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	T-9	T-26	mc
Reilley Rankin	---	---	---	---	T-52	mc	5th	T-65	T-52	mc
Laura Davies	T-47	---	T-28	---	---	---	T-13	T-3	mc	mc
Meg Mallon	mc	T-5	T-39	T-14	Won	T-7	T-20	T-11	mc	mc
Mi Hyun Kim	---	T-9	11th	T-4	mc	T-12	Won	T-14	T-26	---

Sports Network Selections

Pick to Win - Jiyai Shin
Darkhorse - Inbee Park

Last Week's Pick to Win (Anna Nordqvist) - Finished tied for 25th
Last Week's Darkhorse (M.J. Hur) - Finished tied for 34th

NOTES:

The LPGA Tour travels to Ohio this week for one of the most prestigious tournaments on the LPGA schedule, the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic. This event will serve as the final tune-up for the U.S. Women's Open Championship. Three of the top-10 players in the world are in the field - Jiyai Shin (3), Song-Hee Kim (8) and Angela Stanford (10). Kim finished second to Cristie Kerr last week at the LPGA Championship.

Last year, Eunjung Yi birdied the first playoff hole to defeat Morgan Pressel and win this event. Yi carded rounds of 68-66-61-71 and finished with Pressel at 18-under-par 266. The duo headed back to the 18th hole at Highland Meadows Golf Club for the playoff and both found the short grass off the tee. Both players laid up in the fairway, then Pressel knocked her approach to 25 feet on the fringe. Yi dropped her third 14 feet below the hole. Pressel missed her birdie putt left and tapped in for par. Yi ran her 14-footer into the center of the cup for birdie and her first tour title.

In 2008, Paula Creamer struggled to a two-over 73 in the final round, but it was enough for a two-shot victory over Nicole Castrale at this event. She led wire-to-wire and finished the event at 16-under 268 for her third of four wins in 2008. Creamer opened the tournament with a 60, the second-lowest score in LPGA Tour history, then followed with a 65. That score on Friday got Creamer within one shot of the tour record for lowest 36-hole score.

Se Ri Pak fended off Pressel in the final round back in 2007 to win this event for the fifth time. Pak led wire-to-wire after opening with a first-round 63 for the low round of the tournament. She fired four rounds in the 60s to finish at 17-under-par 267. Pak became the first player in the history of this event to win in wire-to-wire fashion.

Pak has dominated this tournament. She has five wins and nine top-10 finishes at this event in the past 12 seasons. Pak has a scoring average of 68.46 at Highland Meadows Golf Club. Not to mention, Pak has earned $1,025,105 in her last 12 trips here. However, she is not in the field this week.

In 2006, with a long birdie putt at the third playoff hole, Mi Hyun Kim won this event over Natalie Gulbis. Kim came from as many as four shots back to tie Gulbis for the lead, making three birdies on the back nine in her final round, including two straight at the 16th and 17th holes.

This is the 22nd consecutive year that Highland Meadows is hosting the tournament. Prior to Highland Meadows, Glengarry Country Club hosted the tournament the first four years of the event. Highland Meadows was designed by Harold Weber, a nationally prominent amateur golfer, after the property was purchased September 15, 1925. The original prospectus gave a total of 140 acres of high rolling land through which the Ottawa River quietly meanders. It is believed that this description resulted in the club's name. The original layout of the golf course is how the LPGA plays the course, however the membership plays with the nines reversed.

There are three multiple winners of this tournament, led by Pak's five titles. Kelly Robbins and Penny Hammel are two-time champions. With Eunjung Yi's victory in 2009 over Pressel, there have now been seven playoffs in tournament history.

Next week, the LPGA Tour moves to Oakmont, Pennsylvania for the U.S. Women's Open Championship at Oakmont Country Club. Last year, Eun Hee Ji defeated Candie Kung by one stroke for the title.

06/29 16:39:22 ET

As of June 29, 2010, at 04:39 PM ET