{"id":352082,"date":"2011-03-31T00:27:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T00:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/31\/no-1-tseng-back-to-defend-kraft-nabisco-title-ap\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T00:27:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T00:27:21","slug":"no-1-tseng-back-to-defend-kraft-nabisco-title-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/no-1-tseng-back-to-defend-kraft-nabisco-title-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 Tseng back to defend Kraft Nabisco title (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP)\u2014Yani Tseng got a good laugh when she walked
\npast the pond where she celebrated her Kraft Nabisco Championship victory last
\nyear by leaping into the water\u2014and then remembering she doesn\u2019t know how to
\nswim.<\/p>\n

Tseng survived that traditional plunge and swam all the way to the world No.
\n1 ranking after winning the LPGA Tour\u2019s first major of the year at Mission Hills
\nin 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel really excited to come back, especially walking on the 18th hole,\u201d
\nTseng said. \u201cI see my name was on the walk of champions. It was so exciting,
\nbrings me a lot of good memories, and then I just came over, and that\u2019s the
\nwater I jumped in. My caddie threw a coin to wish I could win the tournament
\nthis week, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019ll try to defend her title against a field featuring seven past
\nchampions, including two-time champ Karrie Webb and 2009 winner Brittany
\nLincicome, but there\u2019s little doubt the good-natured 22-year-old from Taiwan is
\nconsidered the player to beat. Tseng has won four tournaments worldwide already
\nthis year, including the tour\u2019s season opener in Thailand.<\/p>\n

Michelle Wie also is back in search of her first major title at a tournament
\nwhere she made four top-15 finishes before she turned 17. Wie is thoroughly
\nimpressed by Tseng, who\u2019s less than nine months older than the former teen
\nprodigy from Hawaii.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she\u2019s really improved over the last couple of years, and she\u2019s a
\ngood player,\u201d Wie said. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty amazing that she won the first couple of
\ntournaments in a row, which is pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n

With her remarkable start to the season, Tseng has displayed a bit of the
\ndomination that\u2019s long been expected from Wie. But when Wie eventually makes her
\nbreakthrough atop a major, nobody will be surprised if it\u2019s on Mission Hills\u2019
\nfamiliar layout.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s as exciting this year as it was when I was 13,\u201d Wie said. \u201cIt\u2019s
\njust an awesome golf course. It has so many famous winners, so many traditions,
\nand it\u2019s just one of those tournaments where you want to win. It would mean the
\nworld to me if I could do that this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wie already has two top-10 finishes this year, including last week\u2019s Kia
\nClassic in her return to the tour after finishing her finals at Stanford. She\u2019s
\nalso grateful to be in Palm Springs\u2019 85-degree weather after sniffling through
\nthe quarter in the cold, rainy Bay Area.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinals were miserable,\u201d Wie said. \u201cThey went horribly. They seem to go
\nmore horribly ever year, as well as my grades. I\u2019m glad that was over. Spring
\nbreak was last week. I\u2019m actually missing the first week of school right now. I
\nshould be done by next March if I pass all my classes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The field also includes Germany\u2019s Sandra Gal, who won the Kia Classic, and
\nCristie Kerr, who already has racked up three top-10 finishes this year,
\nincluding a third-place tie last week.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the beginnings of a remarkable comeback by Webb, who already
\nhas won this year in Singapore and Phoenix after winning just once in the
\nprevious four years. The Australian refers to her two prior victories at Mission
\nHills as \u201cprobably the highlight of my career,\u201d and she\u2019s hoping the
\nconfidence gained from her fast start translates into more success.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know how good I can be,\u201d Webb said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of\u2014like in
\nthe two times I\u2019ve won this year\u2014getting out of my own way and letting it
\nhappen. \u2026 I\u2019d just like to win another tournament here, and this year I\u2019ve got
\nas good a chance as any. This is probably the best I\u2019ve felt about things coming
\ninto this tournament for quite a few years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

See more here:
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