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Article: Column: LPGA Tour Hype at All-Time High
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DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer
AP Online
03-29-2006
Dateline: RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.
For all the hype about the LPGA Tour, it still comes down to performance.
On the golf course, the LPGA season has started nicely. There were two playoffs in Hawaii, won by players named Kim and Lee (or maybe it was the other way around). Annika Sorenstam won her '06 debut in a tournament that resembled the Champions Tour (54 holes and the players rode in a cart).
And in a reminder that women's golf isn't only for teenagers, 45-year-old Juli Inkster won the Safeway International for her first victory in three years.
"I like beating the kids," Inkster said Tuesday. "I like to let them know I'm still around."
But ...