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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Women's British Open champion wins
$1million prize at Trump International

Women's British Open champion Ji-Yai Shin of South Korea became the one-million-dollar-woman today.
With a final round of 70, she held off Karrie Webb and Paula Creamer to win the ADT Championship at Trump International Golf Club, Palm Beach, Florida and with it the $1million first prize.
Shin began 2008 believing that she would end the year playing in the LPGA Tour Qualifying School. Instead she won a major and now the biggest cash prize on the LPGA Tour with a four-birdie, two-bogey final day.
"It's been a really special year for me," said Shin, who is not a full member of the LPGA Tour - but won three times this year, has 21 wins worldwide since 2007 and will likely be an instant LPGA front-runner in 2009.
Webb took second and Creamer, who spent Saturday night in the hospital because of an inflamed abdominal wall, finished tied for third with Seon Hwa Lee after both shot 74s.
Creamer needed to win the $1million prize to top the year-long LPGA Tour money table, something no American player has done since Betsy King in 1993. Instead, Lorena Ochoa -- who didn't qualify for the weekend play at ADT -- finished with the money title at $2,762,660.
"I gave it all I had," said Creamer, who fell ill Wednesday night and could barely eat since then
Creamer made two birdies in a three-hole span on the back side, but took a three-putt bogey at the par-5 15th, ending her chances at her fifth win of the year and taking the money crown.
Eun-Hee Ji was alone in fifth with a 75, Angela Stanford was sixth after a 78, while Suzann Pettersen -- who shot Saturday's round of the day but struggled badly 24 hours later -- and Jeong Jang both finished with 79s.

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