JODI EWART MAKES TOP TEN IN LPGA FUTURES TOUR OPENER
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HAVEN, Florida: There will be a Facebook message waiting for LPGA superstar Yani Tseng sometime this evening from LPGA Futures Tour member Tzu-Chi (“Winny”) Lin.
Lin, who played as an amateur on the same Chinese Taipei National Team with the world’s top-ranked player, will keep it simple and to the point.
“I’ll tell her I did it,” said Lin, 20, of Taichung, Taiwan. “I’ll tell her I won my first professional tournament.”
Lin closed out today’s final round to win the $110,000 Florida’s Natural Charity Classic at 10-under 206, posting rounds of 69-68-69 in the Futures Tour’s season opener at Lake Region Yacht and Country Club.
But she did it by outlasting local favorite Jackie Barenborg (70) of Vero Beach, Florida, with a birdie on the final hole. The former Florida Southern College player held the lead for most of the front nine while Lin recorded one bogey and all pars. Lin trailed by two strokes when they made the nine-hole turn.
“That’s when I started singing,” said Lin. “I knew I had to relax. And I knew I could make more birdies because there are three par 5s on the back.”
When Barenborg bogeyed No. 10, and Chin birdied the par-five 11th hole, the player from Taiwan moved into a tie with Barenborg and Ashley Bunch (71) of Morristown, Tennessee, at seven under. But Bunch fell back, finishing in a tie for eighth at 5-under 211.
Both Barenborg and Lin birdied the 12th and 13th holes to move into a tie for the lead at nine under with five holes remaining. Lin added her fourth consecutive birdie on the 14th hole to take a one-stroke edge over Barenborg, but dropped back into a tie when she bogeyed the 15th and the scrappy Floridian holed out from the woods for birdie from 95 yards.
Playing a group ahead, Tiffany Joh (69) of San Diego was making a late charge, with birdies on the 13th and 14th holes. The 2010 Futures Tour tournament winner had an eagle chance from 33 feet on the 18th green for a share of the lead, but Joh could only tap in a three-foot birdie on the 18th to take sole possession of third place at 8-under 208.
That left only the duel between Lin and Barenborg coming into the par-five 18th green that is bordered on the front by water and a bunker on the back. Lin had birdied the final hole in each of the previous two rounds, so she knew she had to give it one more try.
“I had to make birdie on 18 to have a chance to win,” said Lin, a third-year pro. “I knew I had to try.”
The player from Taiwan had 182 yards to the flagstick, so she pulled her 4-hybrid and landed her second shot 30 feet from the hole to set up an eagle putt. Barenborg laid up and then watched her 9-iron approach land 20 feet from the hole. Two putts later, Barenborg took par.
And Lin’s eagle putt slid four feet past the hole, setting up her birdie to win.
“I was nervous on that last putt,” said Lin, who used 27 putts today and earned $15,400 for her win. “I took a big breath and watched the ball go straight into the hole. It was done. It felt so good.”
And with that stroke, Lin joined her old pal from Taiwan junior golf at the top of women’s golf in North America.
Weather: Thirty-minute fog delay in the morning, turning sunny with temperatures in the high-80s. Winds 5-12 mph, with gusts in the afternoon.
+BRIT WATCH. Former Curtis Cup player, Jodi Ewart from Yorkshire, finished joint 10th and earned $1,787.
$110,000 Florida's Natural Charity Classic
Lake Region Yacht and Country Club, Winter Haven, Florida
FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72). Yardage 6184.
1 Tzu-Chi Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) 69-68-69 - 206 $15,400
2 Jackie Barenborg (Vero Beach, Fla.) 69-68-70 - 207 $11,000
3 Tiffany Joh (San Diego, Calif.) 69-70-69 - 208 $7,838
4 Yu-Ling Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan) 71-69-69 - 209 $5,628
T5 Jennifer Johnson (Carlsbad, Calif.) 69-74-67 - 210 $3,666
T5 Hannah Yun (Bradenton, Fla.) 73-67-70 - 210 $3,666
T5 Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 70-69-71 - 210 $3,666
T8 Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.) 71-70-70 - 211 $2,355
T8 Ashli Bunch (Morristown, Tenn.) 72-68-71 - 211 $2,355
T10 Jodi Ewart (North Yorkshire, England) 70-71-71 - 212 $1,787
T10 Katie Kempter (Albuquerque, N.M.) 70-70-72 - 212 $1,787
T10 Laura Nochta (Cortland, Ohio) 67-69-76 - 212 $1,787
T13 Carolina Llano (Medellin, Colombia) 75-67-71 - 213 $1,475
T13 Nannette Hill (Pelham, N.Y.) 71-68-74 - 213 $1,475
T15 Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 74-71-69 - 214 $1,093
T15 Stephanie Na (Adelaide, Australia) 70-74-70 - 214 $1,093
T15 Min Seo Kwak (Seoul, South Korea) 75-68-71 - 214 $1,093
T15 Benedikte Grotvedt (Nesbru, Norway) 71-71-72 - 214 $1,093
T15 Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 73-68-73 - 214 $1,093
T15 Jessi Gebhardt (Chandler, Ariz.) 72-69-73 - 214 $1,093
T15 Brittany Johnston (Akron, Ohio) 72-69-73 - 214 $1,093
T15 Kitty Hwang (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 70-70-74 - 214 $1,093
T23 Kelly Froelich (Raizeux, France) 72-73-70 - 215 $909
T23 Sarah Brown (Lopatcong, N.J.) 74-70-71 - 215 $909
T23 Victoria Elizabeth (Dayton, Ohio) 74-69-72 - 215 $909
T23 Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 74-69-72 - 215 $909
T23 Garrett Phillips (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 71-71-73 - 215 $909
T23 Caroline Westrup (Ahus, Sweden) 72-68-75 - 215 $909
T23 Kathleen Ekey (Sharon Township, Ohio) 76-64-75 - 215 $909
T30 Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Va.) 73-70-73 - 216 $846
T30 Molly Aronsson (Shelburne, Vt.) 72-70-74 - 216 $846
T30 Haru Nomura (Tokyo, Japan) 71-71-74 - 216 $846
T30 Dawn Shockley (Estes Park, Colo.) 73-69-74 - 216 $846
T30 Kendall Dye (Edmond, Okla.) 74-66-76 - 216 $846
T35 Eileen Vargas (Ibague, Colombia) 73-73-71 - 217 $811
T35 Jean Reynolds (Newnan, Ga) 74-70-73 - 217 $811
T35 Kyle Roig (a) (San Juan, Puerto Rico) 72-70-75 - 217
T35 Chelsea Curtis (New Seabury, Mass.) 70-72-75 - 217 $811
T35 Amelia Lewis (Jacksonville, Fla.) 69-71-77 - 217 $811
T40 Pamela Ontiveros (Gomez Palacio, Mexico) 74-72-72 - 218 $782
T40 Izzy Beisiegel (St. Hilaire, Quebec) 73-71-74 - 218 $782
T40 Jenny Kim (Los Angeles, Calif.) 73-70-75 - 218 $782
T40 Jamie Hullett (Mesquite, Texas) 73-69-76 - 218 $782
T40 Stefanie Kenoyer (a) (Lighthouse Point, Fla.)73-69-76 - 218
T40 Laura Bavaird (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 73-67-78 - 218 $782
T46 Juli Erekson (Chicopee, Mass.) 72-75-72 - 219 $755
T46 Junko Nakada (Fukushima, Japan) 76-71-72 - 219 $755
T46 Sydnee Michaels (Temecula, Calif.) 74-72-73 - 219 $755
T46 Hannah Jun (San Diego, Calif.) 72-74-73 - 219 $755
T46 Cathryn Bristow (Auckland, New Zealand) 68-77-74 - 219 $755
T51 Jennifer Hong (Granger, Ind.) 72-74-74 - 220 $730
T51 Seul Ki Park (Northbrook, Ill.) 74-71-75 - 220 $730
T51 Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Ky.) 74-69-77 - 220 $730
T51 Kim Augusta (Rumford, R.I.) 72-70-78 - 220 $730
T55 Lauren Doughtie (Suffolk, Va.) 74-72-75 - 221 $709
T55 Christine Cho (Kent, Wash.) 75-71-75 - 221 $709
T55 Kylene Pulley (Kokomo, Ind.) 74-71-76 - 221 $709
T55 Paz Echeverria (Santiago, Chile) 70-75-76 - 221 $709
T55 Stephanie Connelly (Pasadena, Md.) 72-71-78 - 221 $709
T60 Rebecca Kim (Tigard, Ore.) 74-73-75 - 222 $681
T60 Lili Alvarez (Durango, Mexico) 71-76-75 - 222 $681
T60 Kirby Dreher (Fort St. John, Canada) 71-76-75 - 222 $681
T60 Ayaka Kaneko (Honolulu, Hawaii) 72-75-75 - 222 $681
T60 Alison Whitaker (Melbourne, Australia) 77-69-76 - 222 $681
T60 Melissa Eaton-Jackson (Port Shepstone, South 75-71-76 - 222 $681
T60 Jaclyn Burch (Melbourne, Fla.) 73-71-78 - 222 $681
T60 Erica Moston (Belmont, Calif.) 72-72-78 - 222 $681
T68 Marina Choi (Los Angeles, Calif.) 74-72-77 - 223 $661
T68 Naomi Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 75-70-78 - 223 $661
T68 Leah Wigger (Louisville, Ky.) 68-74-81 - 223 $661
71 Erika Malik (Hinsdale, Ill.) 74-73-77 - 224 $654
72 Tracy Stanford (Midland, Texas) 72-75-78 - 225 $651
73 Lene Krog (Lier, Norway) 70-76-83 - 229 $650
HAVEN, Florida: There will be a Facebook message waiting for LPGA superstar Yani Tseng sometime this evening from LPGA Futures Tour member Tzu-Chi (“Winny”) Lin.
Lin, who played as an amateur on the same Chinese Taipei National Team with the world’s top-ranked player, will keep it simple and to the point.
“I’ll tell her I did it,” said Lin, 20, of Taichung, Taiwan. “I’ll tell her I won my first professional tournament.”
Lin closed out today’s final round to win the $110,000 Florida’s Natural Charity Classic at 10-under 206, posting rounds of 69-68-69 in the Futures Tour’s season opener at Lake Region Yacht and Country Club.
But she did it by outlasting local favorite Jackie Barenborg (70) of Vero Beach, Florida, with a birdie on the final hole. The former Florida Southern College player held the lead for most of the front nine while Lin recorded one bogey and all pars. Lin trailed by two strokes when they made the nine-hole turn.
“That’s when I started singing,” said Lin. “I knew I had to relax. And I knew I could make more birdies because there are three par 5s on the back.”
When Barenborg bogeyed No. 10, and Chin birdied the par-five 11th hole, the player from Taiwan moved into a tie with Barenborg and Ashley Bunch (71) of Morristown, Tennessee, at seven under. But Bunch fell back, finishing in a tie for eighth at 5-under 211.
Both Barenborg and Lin birdied the 12th and 13th holes to move into a tie for the lead at nine under with five holes remaining. Lin added her fourth consecutive birdie on the 14th hole to take a one-stroke edge over Barenborg, but dropped back into a tie when she bogeyed the 15th and the scrappy Floridian holed out from the woods for birdie from 95 yards.
Playing a group ahead, Tiffany Joh (69) of San Diego was making a late charge, with birdies on the 13th and 14th holes. The 2010 Futures Tour tournament winner had an eagle chance from 33 feet on the 18th green for a share of the lead, but Joh could only tap in a three-foot birdie on the 18th to take sole possession of third place at 8-under 208.
That left only the duel between Lin and Barenborg coming into the par-five 18th green that is bordered on the front by water and a bunker on the back. Lin had birdied the final hole in each of the previous two rounds, so she knew she had to give it one more try.
“I had to make birdie on 18 to have a chance to win,” said Lin, a third-year pro. “I knew I had to try.”
The player from Taiwan had 182 yards to the flagstick, so she pulled her 4-hybrid and landed her second shot 30 feet from the hole to set up an eagle putt. Barenborg laid up and then watched her 9-iron approach land 20 feet from the hole. Two putts later, Barenborg took par.
And Lin’s eagle putt slid four feet past the hole, setting up her birdie to win.
“I was nervous on that last putt,” said Lin, who used 27 putts today and earned $15,400 for her win. “I took a big breath and watched the ball go straight into the hole. It was done. It felt so good.”
And with that stroke, Lin joined her old pal from Taiwan junior golf at the top of women’s golf in North America.
Weather: Thirty-minute fog delay in the morning, turning sunny with temperatures in the high-80s. Winds 5-12 mph, with gusts in the afternoon.
+BRIT WATCH. Former Curtis Cup player, Jodi Ewart from Yorkshire, finished joint 10th and earned $1,787.
$110,000 Florida's Natural Charity Classic
Lake Region Yacht and Country Club, Winter Haven, Florida
FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72). Yardage 6184.
1 Tzu-Chi Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) 69-68-69 - 206 $15,400
2 Jackie Barenborg (Vero Beach, Fla.) 69-68-70 - 207 $11,000
3 Tiffany Joh (San Diego, Calif.) 69-70-69 - 208 $7,838
4 Yu-Ling Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan) 71-69-69 - 209 $5,628
T5 Jennifer Johnson (Carlsbad, Calif.) 69-74-67 - 210 $3,666
T5 Hannah Yun (Bradenton, Fla.) 73-67-70 - 210 $3,666
T5 Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 70-69-71 - 210 $3,666
T8 Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.) 71-70-70 - 211 $2,355
T8 Ashli Bunch (Morristown, Tenn.) 72-68-71 - 211 $2,355
T10 Jodi Ewart (North Yorkshire, England) 70-71-71 - 212 $1,787
T10 Katie Kempter (Albuquerque, N.M.) 70-70-72 - 212 $1,787
T10 Laura Nochta (Cortland, Ohio) 67-69-76 - 212 $1,787
T13 Carolina Llano (Medellin, Colombia) 75-67-71 - 213 $1,475
T13 Nannette Hill (Pelham, N.Y.) 71-68-74 - 213 $1,475
T15 Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 74-71-69 - 214 $1,093
T15 Stephanie Na (Adelaide, Australia) 70-74-70 - 214 $1,093
T15 Min Seo Kwak (Seoul, South Korea) 75-68-71 - 214 $1,093
T15 Benedikte Grotvedt (Nesbru, Norway) 71-71-72 - 214 $1,093
T15 Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 73-68-73 - 214 $1,093
T15 Jessi Gebhardt (Chandler, Ariz.) 72-69-73 - 214 $1,093
T15 Brittany Johnston (Akron, Ohio) 72-69-73 - 214 $1,093
T15 Kitty Hwang (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 70-70-74 - 214 $1,093
T23 Kelly Froelich (Raizeux, France) 72-73-70 - 215 $909
T23 Sarah Brown (Lopatcong, N.J.) 74-70-71 - 215 $909
T23 Victoria Elizabeth (Dayton, Ohio) 74-69-72 - 215 $909
T23 Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 74-69-72 - 215 $909
T23 Garrett Phillips (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 71-71-73 - 215 $909
T23 Caroline Westrup (Ahus, Sweden) 72-68-75 - 215 $909
T23 Kathleen Ekey (Sharon Township, Ohio) 76-64-75 - 215 $909
T30 Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Va.) 73-70-73 - 216 $846
T30 Molly Aronsson (Shelburne, Vt.) 72-70-74 - 216 $846
T30 Haru Nomura (Tokyo, Japan) 71-71-74 - 216 $846
T30 Dawn Shockley (Estes Park, Colo.) 73-69-74 - 216 $846
T30 Kendall Dye (Edmond, Okla.) 74-66-76 - 216 $846
T35 Eileen Vargas (Ibague, Colombia) 73-73-71 - 217 $811
T35 Jean Reynolds (Newnan, Ga) 74-70-73 - 217 $811
T35 Kyle Roig (a) (San Juan, Puerto Rico) 72-70-75 - 217
T35 Chelsea Curtis (New Seabury, Mass.) 70-72-75 - 217 $811
T35 Amelia Lewis (Jacksonville, Fla.) 69-71-77 - 217 $811
T40 Pamela Ontiveros (Gomez Palacio, Mexico) 74-72-72 - 218 $782
T40 Izzy Beisiegel (St. Hilaire, Quebec) 73-71-74 - 218 $782
T40 Jenny Kim (Los Angeles, Calif.) 73-70-75 - 218 $782
T40 Jamie Hullett (Mesquite, Texas) 73-69-76 - 218 $782
T40 Stefanie Kenoyer (a) (Lighthouse Point, Fla.)73-69-76 - 218
T40 Laura Bavaird (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 73-67-78 - 218 $782
T46 Juli Erekson (Chicopee, Mass.) 72-75-72 - 219 $755
T46 Junko Nakada (Fukushima, Japan) 76-71-72 - 219 $755
T46 Sydnee Michaels (Temecula, Calif.) 74-72-73 - 219 $755
T46 Hannah Jun (San Diego, Calif.) 72-74-73 - 219 $755
T46 Cathryn Bristow (Auckland, New Zealand) 68-77-74 - 219 $755
T51 Jennifer Hong (Granger, Ind.) 72-74-74 - 220 $730
T51 Seul Ki Park (Northbrook, Ill.) 74-71-75 - 220 $730
T51 Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Ky.) 74-69-77 - 220 $730
T51 Kim Augusta (Rumford, R.I.) 72-70-78 - 220 $730
T55 Lauren Doughtie (Suffolk, Va.) 74-72-75 - 221 $709
T55 Christine Cho (Kent, Wash.) 75-71-75 - 221 $709
T55 Kylene Pulley (Kokomo, Ind.) 74-71-76 - 221 $709
T55 Paz Echeverria (Santiago, Chile) 70-75-76 - 221 $709
T55 Stephanie Connelly (Pasadena, Md.) 72-71-78 - 221 $709
T60 Rebecca Kim (Tigard, Ore.) 74-73-75 - 222 $681
T60 Lili Alvarez (Durango, Mexico) 71-76-75 - 222 $681
T60 Kirby Dreher (Fort St. John, Canada) 71-76-75 - 222 $681
T60 Ayaka Kaneko (Honolulu, Hawaii) 72-75-75 - 222 $681
T60 Alison Whitaker (Melbourne, Australia) 77-69-76 - 222 $681
T60 Melissa Eaton-Jackson (Port Shepstone, South 75-71-76 - 222 $681
T60 Jaclyn Burch (Melbourne, Fla.) 73-71-78 - 222 $681
T60 Erica Moston (Belmont, Calif.) 72-72-78 - 222 $681
T68 Marina Choi (Los Angeles, Calif.) 74-72-77 - 223 $661
T68 Naomi Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 75-70-78 - 223 $661
T68 Leah Wigger (Louisville, Ky.) 68-74-81 - 223 $661
71 Erika Malik (Hinsdale, Ill.) 74-73-77 - 224 $654
72 Tracy Stanford (Midland, Texas) 72-75-78 - 225 $651
73 Lene Krog (Lier, Norway) 70-76-83 - 229 $650
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