A quick look at this week’s Canadian Pacific Women’s Open:
- This week marks the fourth consecutive LPGA event where a new course is being played. That includes Caves Valley Golf Club (International Crown), Blythefield Country Club (Meijer LPGA Classic), Monroe Golf Club (Wegmans LPGA Championship) and London Hunt and Country Club (Canadian Pacific).
- There are 12 events remaining in the 2014 LPGA season – three in the United States, two in China, one in Canada, one in France, one in Malaysia, one in South Korea, one in Taiwan, one in Japan and one in Mexico. The CME Group Tour Championship is the final event Nov. 20-23 in Naples, Fla.
- Lydia Ko will be aiming for a third consecutive victory in the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open. The LPGA record is five, set by Annika Sorenstam at the 2001-5 Mizuno Classics.
- This week’s event will receive plentiful coverage in North America. Golf Channel will air nine hours of live golf from Thursday-Sunday, while TSN (The Sports Network) will show 13 hours live in Canada.
- London Hunt and Country Club is located halfway between Toronto and Detroit and is just a 3 ½-hour drive from Rochester, NY, last week’s site of the Wegmans LPGA Championship. The club is one of 10 original clubs that formed the Royal Canadian Golf Association. The current course is a 1960 Robert Trent Jones Sr., design that was updated by his son Rees.
- With her victory last week, Inbee Park became the seventh multiple winner of the season. Stacy Lewis leads the way with three wins and is joined by two-time winners Park, Karrie Webb, Anna Nordqvist, Jessica Korda, Michelle Wie and Lydia Ko.
- Inbee Park has pointed toward putting as a weakness this season in comparison to last year’s six-win season. She even changed to a blade putter a few weeks ago to correct the flaw. However, her Putting Average (29.07, second on the LPGA) is virtually the same as last season (29.05, ranked fifth).
- The last time the LPGA played at London Hunt in 2006, Cristie Kerr shot a final-round 65 to rally from eight behind and beat Angela Stanford (final-round 74) by one stroke. The LPGA record for a final-round comeback is 10 strokes, shared by Mickey Wright, Annika Sorenstam and Louise Friberg.
- Inbee Park and Karine Icher were happy that Lydia Ko was still an amateur in 2012 and 2013. When Ko won the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open those years, Park (2012) and Icher (2013) placed second and each won the $300,000 first-place prize.
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