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By Mark Lamport-Stokes<\/p>\n

RANCHO MIRAGE, California, March 30 (Reuters) – Totally
\nunflappable as she claimed her first LPGA title on Sunday,
\nGermany\u2019s Sandra Gal plans to draw on the same ice-cool manner
\nat this week\u2019s Kraft Nabisco Championship.<\/p>\n

Gal had been expected to wilt under pressure in the final
\nround of the Kia Classic but she held her nerve to come from
\none shot behind and pip South Korean world number two Shin
\nJi-yai by a stroke.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou would think in that moment that maybe you would get
\noverwhelmed by the situation,\u201d Gal, 25, told reporters at
\nMission Hills Country Club on Wednesday. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t on
\nSunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully that is something that I can take with me, just
\nto keep that calmness.\u201d<\/p>\n

A stroke behind eight-times LPGA winner Shin going into the
\nfinal round at the Pacific Palms Resort in Industry Hills, Gal
\nsealed victory in champion fashion, hitting a wedge from 83
\nyards to just two feet for a tap-in birdie.<\/p>\n

Yet throughout that pressure-filled round, she felt exactly
\nas she usually does when competing on the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny,\u201d the six-foot (1.83 metres) Gal said. \u201cOn
\nSunday when I was on (hole) 17 or 16 and I was in the lead or
\nshared with the lead, I was like: \u2018Well, this is how it
\nfeels.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re still on the golf course, you\u2019re still playing the
\nshots, you have the ball there, your clubs and your caddie. At
\nthe end of the day, it\u2019s not different from anything else.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m just going to try and carry the same feeling on to
\nthis week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gal, who began playing golf at the age of six, was still on
\na psychological high following her breakthrough LPGA victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an awesome feeling to win for the first time,\u201d she
\nsaid. \u201cIt\u2019s been crazy the last couple of days but I\u2019m just
\nkind of soaking it all in and really enjoying the feeling.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll my friends have congratulated me, my mailbox has been
\nfull and my phone is constantly ringing. It\u2019s a good thing.
\nWherever I go, people want autographs and congratulate me. I\u2019m
\njust very thankful for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gal has competed only twice at the Kraft Nabisco
\nChampionship, the first women\u2019s major of the season\u2014missing
\nthe cut in 2009 and tying for 34th last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a major and everything is bigger here but I really
\nlove this course,\u201d the world number 44 said.
\n (Editing by Frank Pingue; To query or comment on this story
\nemail sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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