PITTSFORD, N.Y. – The Wegmans LPGA Championship has become the runaway major since its move to Locust Hill in 2010.
Yani Tseng won by 10 shots last year, Cristie Kerr by 12 two years ago.
For the week, they each posted scores of 19-under, the lowest totals in the 58-year history of the LPGA Championship.
Those scoring totals are also lower than any winner shot in the 12 years Wegmans was played as a regular tour event at Locust Hill. It’s an odd fact, because as a major Locust Hill has been set up with thicker rough and quicker greens than it ever featured as a regular tour event. You throw out Tseng’s and Kerr’s winning totals and nobody else was able to reach double digits under par.
So how do you explain the back-to-back runaways?
“It’s hard to say,” said Suzann Pettersen, winner of the 2007 LPGA Championship. “I guess in golf you have your weeks. Some weeks, everything goes in. Other weeks, nothing goes in.”
Pettersen did say she believes Kerr and Tseng separated themselves consistently hitting fairways that are tough to hit, which set up their stellar iron play.
“Both Cristie and Yani are very good irons players,” Pettersen said. “They can play aggressive and attack certain pins.”
