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Dates: Thursday, April 26th through Sunday, April 29th
Site: Onion Creek Club (Original and North Courses), Austin, Texas
Course Architect: Jimmy Demaret and Jimmie Connolly (1974),
Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore (1995)
Par: 70
Yardage: 6,067
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 5 498 yds 10 - Par 4 381 yds
2 - Par 3 131 yds 11 - Par 3 164 yds
3 - Par 4 337 yds 12 - Par 4 342 yds
4 - Par 4 404 yds 13 - Par 4 380 yds
5 - Par 4 369 yds 14 - Par 4 388 yds
6 - Par 3 161 yds 15 - Par 4 416 yds
7 - Par 5 545 yds 16 - Par 4 386 yds
8 - Par 3 156 yds 17 - Par 3 144 yds
9 - Par 4 375 yds 18 - Par 5 490 yds
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35 2,976 yds 35 3,091 yds
Annual: 3rd
Defending Champion: Laura Davies
Runner-Up: Dottie Pepper
Tournament Record: 267 (Akiko Fukushima, 1999)
54-Hole Record: 196 (Akiko Fukushima, 1999)
36-Hole Record: 131 (Akiko Fukushima, 1999)
Course Record: 62 (Beth Daniel, 1999)
9-Hole Record: 29 (Beth Daniel, 1999)
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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Laura Davies 275 Kelly Robbins 279
Dottie Pepper 277 Dawn Coe-Jones 279
Moira Dunn 278 Sherri Steinhauer 279
Alison Nicholas 278 Seven players at 280
Susie Redman 278
Past Kathy Ireland Championship Honoring Harvey Penick Winners and
Runners-Up
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2000 -- Laura Davies (275) -- Dottie Pepper
1999 -- Akiko Fukushima (267) -- Charlotta Sorenstam, Mi Hyun Kim
Note: Formerly called Philips Invitational Honoring Harvey Penick (1999-2000).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Laura Davies - Defending champion, missed 3 cuts in 2001, 1 top-10
Helen Alfredsson - Tied for 9th last week, but failed to crack 71
Sophie Gustafson - Opened with 75-74 in California and tied for 32nd
Rosie Jones - Shot final round of 70 last week to tie for 4th
Lorie Kane - Has five top-10's in just 8 events this year with 1 win
Mi Hyun Kim - 69-71 over the weekend last week to tied for 7th
Meg Mallon - 33rd on money list in 5 events with 2 top-10's
Michelle McGann - Finished 32nd last week with two rounds of 74
Se Ri Pak - Won last week's rain-shortened Longs Drugs Challenge
Grace Park - Failed to break par last week as she tied for 68th
Dottie Pepper - 2nd at this event last year, 4 top-5's in 7 events
Michele Redman - Contended last week until Sunday 73 (finished 3rd)
Golftoday Network Selections
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Pick to Win - Dottie Pepper
Darkhorse - Catriona Matthew
Last week's Pick to win (Juli Inkster) - Finished tied for 51st
Last week's Darkhorse (Dorothy Delasin) - Finished tied for 25th
NOTES:
England's Laura Davies struggled to a final-round, two-over 72 in windy
conditions but still managed to post a two-shot victory over Dottie Pepper in
last year's event at the par-70 Onion Creek Club. Davies, who captured her
first LPGA title at the 1987 U.S. Women's Open prior to becoming a member of
the LPGA Tour, won for the second time in 2000 and the 19th time in her LPGA
career. The $127,500 winner's check helped Davies become the ninth LPGA
player to amass over $5 million in career earnings. The big-hitting Brit
hoisted her first trophy of the 2000 season at the Los Angeles Women's
Championship. Should she successfully defend her title this week, Davies
would earn the requisite number of points to qualify for the LPGA Tour Hall
of Fame. Her best showing of this year came in the second event of the
season, as she managed a tie for fifth at the Memorial of Naples tournament
in January. Although Annika Sorenstam, who saw her streak of consecutive wins
end at four this past weekend, will take a well-deserved break. The
144-player field will include Se Ri Pak, who triumphed this past week in
California for her second win of the year. The Korean also bagged the
season-opening event in Orlando. Japan's Akiko Fukushima led from start to
finish to notch her breakthrough victory in the inaugural edition of the
event at Onion Creek in 1999. American-born players are 0-10 thus far on the
LPGA Tour this season. This is the second LPGA event sponsored by Kathy
Ireland. Ireland lent her name to last year's Kathy Ireland Greens.com LPGA
Classic in Myrtle Beach. This is the LPGA Tour's lone stop in Texas. This
event, sponsored by Philips for its first two years, honors legendary golf
teacher and Austin resident Harvey Penick, who passed away in 1995. The purse
was increased $50,000 from last year to $900,000. The LPGA Tour will make its
way east to Georgia next week for the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship hosted
by Nancy Lopez. Sweden's Sophie Gustafson is the defending champion.
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