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Suzann Pettersen out of LPGA opener with shoulder injury

FROM GOLFCHANNELCOM
By RANDALL MELL

World No. 2 Suzann Pettersen, who was the highest-ranked player in the field for the  LPGA's season-opening Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic, has withdrawn with a slight shoulder injury.
Pettersen told GolfChannel.com in an email this  morning that she is bothered by a sore shoulder and wants to give it another two weeks of rest before she opens her season in Australia.
"Once I start, I play four weeks straight," Pettersen wrote.
Pettersen pushed world No. 1 Inbee Park for the top ranking late last year, and the Norwegian is within striking distance still. 
Like Pettersen, Park isn't playing the season-opener in the Bahamas. 
World No. 3 Stacy Lewis, No. 4 Lydia Ko, No. 7 Na Yeon Choi and No. 9 Lexi Thompson are the highest-ranked players in the Bahamas.