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Dates: Thursday, May 24th through Sunday, May 27th
Site: Corning Country Club, Corning, New York
Course Architect: Tom Winton (1929)
Par: 72
Yardage: 6,060
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 4 402 yds 10 - Par 4 364 yds
2 - Par 5 446 yds 11 - Par 3 158 yds
3 - Par 3 191 yds 12 - Par 5 465 yds
4 - Par 4 355 yds 13 - Par 4 412 yds
5 - Par 5 449 yds 14 - Par 5 510 yds
6 - Par 4 307 yds 15 - Par 3 125 yds
7 - Par 3 152 yds 16 - Par 4 304 yds
8 - Par 4 345 yds 17 - Par 4 334 yds
9 - Par 4 364 yds 18 - Par 4 377 yds
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36 3,011 yds 36 3,049 yds
Annual: 23rd
Defending Champion: Betsy King
Runner-Up: Vicki Goetze-Ackerman, Kelli Kuehne
Tournament Record: 268 (Tammie Green, 1998)
54-Hole Record: 201 (Patti Rizzo, 1985)
36-Hole Record: 133 (Sherri Turner, 1985; Ok-Hee Ku, 1988)
Course Record: 63 (Patty Sheehan, 1983; Sherri Turner, 1988)
9-Hole Record: 30 (Helen Dobson, 1997)
Total Purse: $900,000
Shares: 1st Place - $135,000; 2nd Place - 83,783; 3rd Place - 61,139
2000 Finish
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Player Score Player Score
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Betsy King * 276 Leslie Spalding 278
Vicki Goetze-Ackerman 276 Sherri Turner 280
Kelli Kuehne 276 Emilee Klein 281
Pat Hurst 277 Liz Earley 281
A.J. Eathorne 277 Three players at 282
* - Won in playoff.
Past LPGA Corning Classic Winners and Runners-Up
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2000 -- *Betsy King (276) -- Vicki Goetze-Ackerman, Kelli Kuehne
1999 -- Kelli Kuehne (278) -- Rosie Jones
1998 -- Tammie Green (268) -- Emilee Klein, Brandie Burton
1997 -- *Rosie Jones (277) -- Tammie Green
1996 -- Rosie Jones (276) -- Val Skinner
1995 -- Alison Nicholas (275) -- Barb Mucha, Danielle Ammaccapane
1994 -- Beth Daniel (278) -- Stephanie Farwig, Nancy Ramsbottom
1993 -- *Kelly Robbins (277) -- Alison Nicholas
1992 -- Colleen Walker (276) -- Alice Miller, Beth Daniel
1991 -- Betsy King (273) -- Deb Richard
1990 -- Pat Bradley (274) -- Patty Sheehan
1989 -- Ayako Okamoto (272) -- Beth Daniel
1988 -- Sherri Turner (273) -- JoAnne Carner, Ok-Hee Ku
1987 -- Cindy Rarick (275) -- Patty Sheehan, Jane Geddes, Betsy King
1986 -- Laurie Rinker (278) -- Pat Bradley, Beth Daniel
1985 -- Patti Rizzo (272) -- Jane Crafter
1984 -- JoAnne Carner (281) -- Ayako Okamoto
1983 -- Patty Sheehan (272) -- Cindy Hill
1982 -- Sandra Spuzich (280) -- Patty Sheehan
1981 -- Kathy Hite (282) -- JoAnne Carner
1980 -- Donna Caponi (281) -- Myra Van Hoose
1979 -- Penny Pulz (284) -- Judy Rankin
* - Won in Playoff
Top Contenders in the Field
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Betsy King - Defending champion, 8 of 11 cuts made, no top-10's
Brandie Burton - 24th on money list with four top-10 finishes
Laura Diaz - Two-time runner-up this year, 11th on money list
Sophie Gustafson - Won earlier this year, 4th on money list, 3 top-10's
Maria Hjorth - Made 10 of 13 cuts with 3 top-10's, 28th in money
Pat Hurst - Perfect 12-for-12 in cuts made, 6 top-10's
Rosie Jones - Has 1 win and 3 top-10's in only seven tournaments
Lorie Kane - 6th on money list with one win, has six top-10's
Kelli Kuehne - Won this event in 1999 and finished second last year
Grace Park - 16th on money list with one win and a pair of top-10's
Dottie Pepper - Has finished in the top-five seven times in 10 events
Michele Redman - 10th on money list, has five top-10's, only 1 missed cut
Rachel Teske - Has missed only 1 cut in 11 events, 21st on money list
Golftoday Network Selections
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Pick to Win - Rosie Jones
Darkhorse - A.J. Eathorne
Last week's Pick to win (Annika Sorenstam) - Finished tied for 8th
Last week's Darkhorse (Wendy Doolan) - Finished 1st
NOTES:
Betsy King sank a 10-foot putt for birdie on the second hole of a
sudden-death playoff to beat defending champion Kelli Kuehne and Vicki
Goetze-Ackerman and capture last year's event. The victory was King's
second of the 2000 season and 33rd of her Hall-of-Fame career. The win
enabled King to join Rosie Jones as the only two-time winners of this
event. King, who also won this event in 1991, ran her all-time playoff
record to 8-6. Kuehne had all but wrapped up her second-career win and
first successful title defense when she double-bogeyed the 72nd hole to
fall back into a three-way tie at 12-under-par 276 with King and Goetze-
Ackerman. Kuehne had a chance to win the event in regulation, but her 12-
foot par putt missed the mark. Jones is the only player to win this event
in back-to-back years, accomplishing the feat in 1996-97. Jones has fared
well at this event the last five years, winning twice, finishing second,
10th, and 32nd last year. The purse was increased by $100,000 from last
year and has increased seven straight years. This four-day event begins on
Thursday. Corning Country Club has hosted this event since its inception in
1979. This is the final tune-up for next week's second major of the season,
the U.S. Open at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club in North Carolina. Karrie
Webb, the defending U.S Open champion, and Annika Sorenstam, winner of this
year's Nabisco Championship, as well as the winner of the U.S. Open when it
was last held at Pine Needles in 1996, will be on hand.
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