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Karrie Webb can be a winner once more on the LPGA, for the first time since 2009 and for just the second time since the end of the 2006 season.
Webb carded a final-round 69 to win the LPGA's HSBC Women's Champions in Singapore by one stroke over third-round leader Chie Arimura. Yani Tseng, trying to claim her fifth victory in her fifth launch of 2011, got inside 1 stroke of the lead within the final round, but finally settled for third location, 3 strokes behind Webb.
From 1996 through 2006, Webb won 35 times on the LPGA Tour, such as seven majors. Her victory in Singapore can be the 37th of her LPGA career, moving her within one of Carol Mann on the LPGA's all-time wins list. Webb is usually now in 12th place on that list.
An fascinating bit of trivia about Webb: She's the only player within the game's history to win five various expert major championships with discount golf clubs. Put another way, she's the LPGA Tour's only "Super Career Grand Slam" winner.
The identity of LPGA majors has changed a few times over the tour's history. Both the Kraft Nabisco Championship and Women's British Open, for instance, had been played for years prior to either was recognized as majors. The du Maurier Classic was as soon as a main on the LPGA Tour, nevertheless was last played in 2000.
Thus in the course of Webb's career, five various events have been recognized as LPGA majors, and Webb won them all with golf clubs. The Super Career Grand Slam. Webb won the du Maurier in 1999, Kraft Nabisco Championship and U.S. Women's Open in 2000; and, to complete the Super Career Grand Slam, the LPGA Championship and Women's British Open in 2001. (Webb actually won the Women's British Open twice previous to 2001, however both those victories had been prior to the WBO being elevated to major status. That happened in 2001, after the du Maurier folded.)
Webb might most likely always have this distinction to herself. The only golfer still playing full-time with ping g15 irons who won the du Maurier and requirements only one other main to earn the Super Career Grand Slam can be Juli Inkster, who requirements to win the WBO. Laura Davies in addition won the du Maurier and has won every of the existing majors except for the Kraft Nabisco, but Davies' win within the Women's British Open happened before the WBO was recognized as a main.
