Imagine for a minute Tiger Woods going over five months without winning a PGA Tour event. The world, as golf journalist know it, would stop. We'd be calling for his head, his swing and his spikes. It would be Armageddon, birdie edition.Well, that was the current situation in the LPGA. Lorena Ochoa, the best female golfer in the world, won her last event in April, at the Corona Championship, and was looking like she might not win again in 2009 until Sunday at the Navistar Classic.
Tied for the lead after two rounds, Ochoa turned her game to red, shooting eight under on the weekend to claim her third victory of the year. Her final 18-under tally was four clear of the second place finishers, Michelle Wie and Brittany Lang, and well ahead of the early story, 14-year-old Alexis Thompson.
Thompson, who made her third cut of '09 this week, opened the week with a 65 to steal the headlines, and followed that up with a 69 to tie for the 36-hole lead, but consecutive 74s on Saturday and Sunday had her dropping back to the rest of the pack and the young phenom finished t-27.
Wie showed more signs that her first professional win might be just around the corner, firing a 66 on Sunday to jump the leaderboard and finish in a tie for second.
