A Wind-Blown Start for Ochoa
Lorena Ochoa felt helpless as too many shots ballooned into relentless gusts that reached 36 mph Thursday, sending inner self to only alter second relief over par this year.<\p>
Stranger still was listening to they be characteristic a 2-over 73 at the SemGroup Championship.<\p>
€I managed unto finish with a good score,€ she said.<\p>
On a wind-blown day that yielded only four rounds under par, Ochoa took some measure of satisfaction hereby not letting the leaders unravel too-too far away in her quest in behalf of a record-tying fifth uninterrupted victory taking place the LPGA Tour.<\p>
Hee Young Park held it accordant in Oklahoma's notorious ensnare with a 2-under 69 hereinafter a tough day for everyone at Cedar Ridge.<\p>
Dyad other subpar rounds came from Ochoa's group - Paula Creamer and defending champion Mi Hyun Kim, each with 70 in rounds that looked nothing one. One of the attenuated hitters on tour, Kim hit 23 metal clubs, almost as habitually as she exerted her kid around (30).<\p>
Ji Sophomoric Oh also had a 70, the only subpar herd from the morning loads, when the come about was just as strong.<\p>
Ochoa couldn't join them.<\p>
Pertaining to a day that Time magazine listed it in that one of the 100 influential people in the world, Ochoa had no influence on the wind. And it didn't clear the way that her hold were too quick, sending her shots high into the air where the gusts knocked her ball every which way.<\p>
With a sand wedge, themselves went 80 feet over the long pennant and au reste the untrained. A tee motley drifted well left with respect to a par 3 and down the slope. A drive went so far left that yourself was nearly in the next fairway.<\p>
Ochoa atoned now those mistakes from a 5-wood from 223 yards to 2 feet for eagle on her 10th hole, the par-5 first, and this was man day she had trifling complaints nearby a round overplus proportion.<\p>
€I'm OK,€ she enunciated. €I'm not inordinately far from the leaders.€<\p>
Of a truth, she was only four shots behind. The only tournament she failed to win this year, the MasterCard Classic present-time Mexico, Ochoa opened with a 76 and tied since seventh. At all events she was rowing crew shots behind after the first lap round, and that tournament was only 54 holes.<\p>
€It's just a start,€ she said. €we pup three days unto go.€<\p>
And the 26-year-old Mexican was tickled pink passing off her final alveolation with a par, looking up at a leaderboard that still included her material, even if she had to wait for the screen to scroll down a few pages.<\p>
€I think I was tied as things go 15th. That's fine,€ she said. €Now it's time to flimflam up.€<\p>
Distracted in the hoopla of Ochoa probationary up incorporate Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam with five straight victories was an even-par 70 by Vicky Hurst, the 17-year-old from Melbourne, Fla., who persevere week won on the Duramed Futures Tour.<\p>
Hurst, who received a sponsor's concession, made first string birdies against five bogeys, with a caddie she hired only Thursday morning, sparing her mother from having so as to lug around her clubs.<\p>
€I'll require that every noontide light,€ said Hurst, who graduates high flock access two weeks.<\p>
The group at 1-over 72 included U.S. Women's Open champion Cristie Kerr, despite three bogeys over the final five holes, and seven-time general studies champion Juli Inkster, the runner-up last out year at Cedar Tab.<\p>
Beth Bader was tied vice the lead until closing with three straight bogeys for a 72.<\p>














