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The LPGA Tour will become the first golf organization to institute a drug policy. Penalties for violators are severe, including a one-year suspension for the first offense to a lifetime ban for the third offense.
With the policy, there will be no difference in the punishment for positive tests of performance-enhancing drugs or recreational drugs.
LPGA Tour general counsel Jill Pilgrim, who is administering the new program, said marijuana constitutes a downer and cocaine works like an upper.
“Technically, they are enhancing your performance,” Pilgrim said.
It was not announced at which tournament the random drug testing would start. However, the first opportunity …read more

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Lorena Ochoa overcame a double bogey on the 17th with an amazing shot out of the rough and over the water to 3 feet for birdie Sunday. With the victory, Ochoa won the ADT Championship and claimed the $1 million prize – the largest in women’s golf.
When Ochoa double-bogey’d on 17 and Natalie Gulbis birdied, Ochoa’s lead was cut to one stroke, but she held on for the victory.
The win was her eighth victory of the year, joining Annika Sorenstam and Nancy Lopez as the only players to accomplish that in the last 20 years.
Read more about Ochoa’s ADT …read more

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Annika Sorenstam was eliminated in a playoff at the ADT Championship on Friday. The former #1 player ended the year without a victory for the first time since 1994.
Sorenstam was one of three players trying to earn the last two spots in the quest of the tournament’s $1 million prize. But after she hooked a shot into a bunker, she was soon eliminated.
Mi Hyun Kim shot two-under-par on Friday to finish atop the leader board of the 16 golfers who qualified for the weekend. She finished one shot ahead of Morgan Pressel as they head into Saturday’s action. The …read more

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The LPGA Tour season ends this week with the four-day ADT Championship. Thirty-two golfers have qualified for the event. They will now compete for a $1.55 million purse with $1 million of it going to the winner. The $1 million prize is a record-tying amount for first-place on the LPGA Tour.
The ADT Championship is held at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. The 2006 ADT Champion was Julieta Granada, who beat Lorena Ochoa by two strokes.
The 32 players will compete in three days (November 15-17, 2007) of “playoffs” and then a …read more

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Jesper Parnevik shot a career-best opening 61 and followed it up with a 5-under 65 on Friday afternoon to take a four stroke lead midway through the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio.
His 14-under 126 total is the lowest 36-hole score on the PGA Tour this year, and amazingly just one stroke off the tour record of 125 held by four players, including Tiger Woods.
The 42-year-old, who is best known for his wild wardrobe, is in front Mathias Gronberg (-10) in second.
Fredrik Jacobson and Richard S. Johnson are tied for third at -9. Play continues at the Resort Course …read more

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