Apr 23, 2008 12:51 pm US/Eastern
LPGA Tour Back In South Florida
Top Professionals, Celebrities To Tee Off In Inaugural Pro-Am
AVENTURA (CBS4/LPGA) ―
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The first professional-amateur tournament on the LPGA tour since 2001 gets underway on Thursday at the Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in Aventura. The last time the LPGA tour held a professional-amateur event was the 2001 Office Depot at Doral Golf Resort & Spa, which was won by Grace Park.
Forty-six of the top 50 LPGA players in the world are expected to take part in the inaugural $2 million purse Stanford International Pro-Am. Annika Soremstam, a 70-time Tour winner, along with Paula Creamer and Louise Friberg headline the event for the professionals.
Some of the celebrity amateurs scheduled to play are Dolphins kicker Jay Feely, hall of fame baseball player Mike Schmidt, TV personalities Stone Phillips and Carson Daly, former tennis great Ivan Lendl and current tennis star James Blake.
Within the 72-hole event is a 54-hole stroke-play pro-am tournament. The field will play the first two rounds on both the Soffer and Miller Courses. A 36-hole cut will reduce the field to the top-70 professionals and low 20 teams. The team competition will end on Saturday, while on Sunday the professionals will vie for the $300,000 winner's check.
For ticket information log on to www.stanfordinternationalproam.com.
(CBS/LPGA)
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