Ochoa's win at Kraft Nabisco Championship adds LPGA Playoffs 2008 qualifying spot off first-half ADT Points list
 RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif., April 6, 2008 – By claiming her second consecutive major championship at the $2 million Kraft Nabisco Championship—a Winner Event—Mexico's Lorena Ochoa moved an LPGA Playoffs 2008 first-half qualifying spot to the ADT Points list, as Ochoa already qualified for the season-ending tournament when she won the HSBC Women's Champions earlier this season.
Sweden's Annika Sorenstam currently leads the first-half ADT Points list with 604,172 ADT Points. She holds a 233,617-point lead over five-time Tour winner Paula Creamer (370,555). Eight LPGA players will qualify for the ADT Championship through the first half of LPGA Playoffs 2008, which will culminate after the second major of the LPGA season—the McDonald's LPGA Championship Presented by Coca-Cola.
The following is an up-to-date ADT Points list as of April 6, 2008:
| Rank |
Player Name |
ADT Points |
| 1 |
Annika Sorenstam |
604,172 |
| 2 |
Paula Creamer |
370,555 |
| 3 |
Louise Friberg |
234,960 |
| 4 |
Suzann Pettersen |
218,232 |
| 5 |
Jeong Jang |
202,954 |
| 6 |
Laura Diaz |
200,991 |
| 7 |
Yani Tseng |
194,990 |
| 8 |
Jee Young Lee |
181,404 |
| 9 |
Maria Hjorth |
179,691 |
| 10 |
Angela Stanford |
175,277 |
LPGA Playoffs 2008 is a yearlong competitive structure that splits the official LPGA season into two halves and culminates at the ADT Championship, Nov. 20-23, at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. Fifteen players from each half qualify for the ADT Championship, and two additional wildcards will be determined following the Lorena Ochoa Invitational Presented by Banamex and Corona, Nov. 16.
Out of the 32 spots in the ADT Championship, 13 will be awarded to champions of Winner Events, which are defined as official LPGA Tour events with a purse of at least $2 million. The remaining spots in each half will be awarded using a performance-based points system–ADT Points—to determine ADT Championship qualifiers who are not otherwise qualified.
The next winner event is in two weeks when the LGPA visits Reunion, Fla., April 17-20, to play in the $2.6 million Ginn OPEN.
The 2008 ADT Championship features a $1,550,000 purse with the winner taking home a $1 million paycheck, the largest first-place prize in the history of women's golf. The ADT Championship will also feature three days of playoffs with a cut after 36 holes. Players start with a fresh scorecard for the third round, which ends with another cut to the top eight players. A live draw will take place with the final eight players immediately following the third round, where players will draft their own tee time based on their third-round finish. A final-day shoot-out with the remaining players will have them, again, starting with a fresh scorecard for their chance at the $1 million winner's check.
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