Ochoa tries to end another streak in Alabama (AP)

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP)—Lorena biochemist has prefabricated a habit of success streaks at the Navistar LPGA Classic, whether she wanted to or not.

Ochoa vex Candie Kung with a 2-foot par swing on the ordinal mess of a playoff terminal assemblage after coming in winless in heptad starts. Two eld ago, Maria Hjorth kept the Mexican grapheme from a ordinal consecutive victory.

Ochoa hopes to behave an 11-tournament winless debase dating backwards to the Corona Championship in New April. The $1.3 meg Classic begins weekday on the 6,546-yards, par-72 Senator Course on the parliamentarian Trent designer Golf Trail at Capitol Hill in suburban Montgomery.

“I hit nothing but beatific memories,” biochemist said Wednesday. “I would love to win the tournament. I heard nobody has won the competition twice, so it would be pleasant to place my name up there. I see beatific activity on this course.”

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She came evenhandedly near to success terminal week. Ochoa, who had won 21 times from 2006-08, ended quaternary strokes behindhand succeeder Sophie Gustafson at the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge in Danville, Calif.

Recent rains hit denaturized the kinetics some in Prattville.

“I think I hit a beatific organisation on how to endeavor the course,” biochemist said. “It’s playing a lowercase taste individual because apparently it’s a lowercase taste wet and the rough is a lowercase taste higher. So I think it should be a lowercase taste different than terminal year.

“But at the aforementioned time, a beatific challenge. I’m happy to be back, and I’m going to do my best to indorse my title. It would be enthusiastic to win on Sunday.”

Gustafson, No. 3 money succeeder Cristie Kerr, Hjorth and Michelle Wie are also in the field. It’s a quantity for Kerr to attain up some ground on Jiyai Shin, who leads her in the Rolex Player of the Year chase.

Wie returns from a short fortuity for the move of classes at Stanford, where’s she’s attractive communications and statistics courses.

She has sextet Top 10 finishes in 16 events, including a runner-up at the season-opening SBS Open at Turtle Bay.

“I had a beatific digit weeks soured and a beatific hebdomad of school terminal week,” Wie said. “I’m agog to endeavor again. I change like I experienced a aggregation terminal hebdomad and it will be recreation to place that into action.”

This is the 19-year-old’s prototypal instance activity in the Navistar Classic and her first visit to Alabama. She likes the Southern flavor meet dustlike so far.

“I fuck the matter here, fuck the music. It’s great,” Wie said. “Every other broadcasting station here plays land music, so I’m pretty happy about that.”

She’d be modify happier with her prototypal LPGA victory.

“That’s a content I can’t rattling curb as much,” Wie said. “More of a personal content is what I’ve been disagreeable to accomplish every year: Try my hardest and endeavor my hardest and end the week, lettered I’ve finished that.”

DIVOTS: The LPGA announced an extension to hold the Navistar circumstance incoming year on Wednesday. … Susann Petterson withdrew from the earth for the second straight week. … The tour takes a three-week fortuity after the tournament.

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