LPGA Corning Classic

Course: Corning Country Club, Corning, New York
Yardage: 6062
Par: 72  (four par-fives)
USGA Rating: 70.8
Greens: Bentgrass & Poa Annua - 4,100 sq.ft  (Tour average: 6,000 sq.ft)

GCSAA Tournament Fact Sheet

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Best Players Last 10 Years

Past Winners:
2001 - Carin Koch
2000 - Betsy King
1999 - Kelli Kuehne
1998 - Tammie Green
1997 - Rosie Jones
1996 - Rosie Jones
1995 - Alison Nicholas
1994 - Beth Daniel
1993 - Kelly Robbins
1992 - Colleen Walker

Outright plays (1.5 units):

Carin Koch to win 25/1 e.w. @ Centrebet
It seems to have escaped everyone's attention that there have been a large number of withdrawals from this week's field. Noteworthy among the withdrawals are Mi Hyun Kim, Hee-Won Han and Wendy Doolan. All would have been considered this week and all remain quoted on every list I have seen! Even still, Jones and Diaz are single-figure odds and so cannot be supported, so instead the overly generous odds from Centrebet seem very enticing. I don't like siding with defending champions, particularly as it was her last win, but she has been in good form this year and finished 5th last week. Against a ravaged field, I'll take those odds for an in-form defending champion.

Janice Moodie to win 30/1 e.w. @ Centrebet
Another rule of golf betting broken here ... siding with the previous week's winner, especially one who has only won only before on the LPGA Tour. But the dominant manner in which she won last week, suggests that there may not be too much of a let-down this week. Decent course form, a very poor quality opposition and good odds. Hard to resist!

Kelli Kuehne to win 33/1 e.w. @ William Hill
Finally, a classical selection! Kuehne has a great record on this course: she won in 1999 and finished 2nd in 2000. Her form has been good at times - 4th in the Office Depot Championship last month and 6th in the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship three weeks ago - and she is capable of winning this event again. Again, hard to resist these odds with this field.

Final update: 0-3; -4.50 units

Koch 9th
Moodie 81st
Kuehne 40th

All three were off the pace from the 1st round and though Koch had the lowest weekend score of the field, she had left herself too much to do.