ADT Championship
Trump International Golf Club
West Palm Beach, Fla.
November 21, 2008

Second-round interviews: Annika Sorenstam | Katherine Hull | Christina Kim | Lorena Ochoa | Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year, Yani Tseng | Jill Pilgrim, LPGA General Counsel

Second-round notes

Sixteen players advance to round three at ADT Championship. The first two rounds are complete and the 32-player field at the ADT Championship has been cut to the top-16 players for Saturday’s third round. Each player will begin with a clean slate, as all scores have been erased and will not carry over. Australian Katherine Hull (68-71) was the leader through the first two rounds of play, finishing the second round at 5-under-par 139. Eight-year LPGA Tour member Angela Stanford (73-67=140, -4) had the only round of the day in the 60s, with a 5-under-par 67, and was just one stroke behind Hull.

At the conclusion of Saturday’s third round, the top-eight players will advance to Sunday’s final round with their chance for the only $1 million first-place prize in women’s professional golf. After the third round, the eight players will gather by the leaderboard behind the 18th green to pick their tee times in a live draw for Sunday’s $1 million-to-the winner final round.

For the first time in LPGA Playoffs’ three-year history, no playoff was needed as the 32-player ADT Championship field was cut to 16 players for Saturday’s third round at 3-over-par 145.

Annika’s farewell. Annika Sorenstam completed the final official LPGA Tour event of her famed 15-year career. After two rounds at the ADT Championship, Sorenstam failed to advance to Saturday’s third round of 16 by carding a 5-over-par 149 (74-75). Sorenstam is a four-time winner of the ADT Championship (1997, 2002, 2004-05), however all wins were prior to the LPGA Playoffs format, where she tied for 17th all three years.

This week marked her 303rd event since joining the Tour in 1994, where she accumulated 207 top-10 finishes and more than $22 million in earnings, aided by 72 career LPGA Tour victories. Worldwide, Sorenstam owns 89 victories and will be defending her title at the Dubai Ladies Masters on the Ladies European Tour (LET) in December. Sorenstam’s final LPGA event will be the Lexus Cup (an unofficial LPGA Tour event) Nov. 27-30 at Singapore Island Country Club, where she will captain Team International against Se Ri Pak’s Team Asia.

Stanford cards only round in the 60s. Two-time season winner Angela Stanford moved from a first-round tie for 17th into the top-16 who advance to Saturday’s third round of the ADT Championship thanks to a 5-under-par 67 – the only round in the 60s among the field. Stanford ended Thursday and Friday at 4-under-par 140 (73-67) and runner-up in the clubhouse behind CN Canadian Women’s Open champion Katherine Hull (68-71=139, -5). However, the advantage they held will have to be in momentum-only as scorecards are cleared for the third round and only eight players advance to Sunday’s round for their chance at $1 million.

With her win last week at the inaugural Lorena Ochoa Invitational by Banamex and Corona Light, Stanford crossed the $1 million mark in season earnings for the first time in her eight-year LPGA Tour career.

Tseng clinches Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year. Throughout the 2008 season, Yani Tseng and Na Yeon Choi have been neck-and-neck in the race for the coveted Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year award. Entering this week’s ADT Championship, Tseng held a 267-point margin over Choi (1,491 to 1,224). Both players failed to make Friday’s second-round cut to 16 and, therefore, both earned 72 points, thus securing the title for Tseng, who earlier became the youngest winner of the McDonald’s LPGA Championship Presented by Coca-Cola.

Rolex Player of the Year Ochoa finishes second round tied for 17th. The Rolex Rankings’ number one player, Lorena Ochoa, may have fallen short in her quest to defend her ADT Championship title, but closes out the 2008 season as the Rolex Player of the Year and Vare Trophy award winner for the third-straight time. The Vare Trophy is presented to the player who finishes a season with the lowest scoring average.

Ochoa, a native of Mexico, earned seven wins this year, just one short of 2007, and came close to several more with 10 additional top-10 finishes. Entering this week’s season-ending event at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., Ochoa is the top-ranked player in several statistical categories, including rounds under par (61 of 81), rounds in the 60s (43 of 81), top-10 finishes (17 of 21), driving average (269.5) and scoring average (69.58).

Second-round interviews: Annika Sorenstam | Katherine Hull | Christina Kim | Lorena Ochoa | Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year, Yani Tseng | Jill Pilgrim, LPGA General Counsel

Annika Sorenstam, 74-75=149 (+5)

DANA GROSS-RHODE: Thank you all for joining us. Annika, first of all, 303 events, 207 top-10 finishes and 72 wins. It's been a great career. Can you just kind of talk about finishing this week?
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Yeah, I mean, it's been a wonderful career. I've enjoyed it immensely. I don't think just a few words would summarize how I feel or what I've achieved or what I've gone through in experiences. But I've seen many of you before, so I don't have to go into details.
But it's been an emotional week. I felt it coming down here Tuesday morning. You know, the feelings still haven't left. Very mixed.
Like I said, I'm going to miss a lot of these things. The good thing is I have a lot of fun things ahead of me. So I'm looking back at it as something I'm very proud of, and something that I'm just very fortunate to have experienced.
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: You might want to ask questions. I'm going to be drug tested in a little bit. So please fire away.

Q. Are you serious?
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: I'm serious and I was tested two weeks ago, so I don't really know what's going on.

Q. They didn't hear you were retiring?
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: I have no idea. But they're not going to let me go (laughing).

Q. On a non drug testing note.
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Yeah, I guess you get tested every other week now, so (laughing).

Q. I was just wondering if you can just kind of talk about your thoughts walking up to the last hole? Was it hard to concentrate? Did it feel like you thought it was going to feel? Did it play out in your mind the way you had it?
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Certain things you can play out in your mind, and certain things you just can't. I mean, it's just been, like I said, the feelings all week have just been, you go back and forth from happy to being sad, to just you always think, you know, have I made the right decision?
Even though I know I have, you just think that, you know, all of a sudden the time is here. You know, it was always, ‘At the end of the year,' and the end of the year, ‘Another month or so.' And then all of a sudden you're standing on the 18th fairway and it's the last approach shot in an LPGA event. And a lot of thoughts go through your head, and you're trying to win a golf tournament, and you're trying to enjoy it.
What's been the coolest thing this week is all these people that showed up that I just – that I don't know and that have been my fans, they're bloggers daily. There's a connection there, I just didn't know who they were. Now they're here and I see them. With my family here and friends here, and you guys, everybody just following every shot of the way. It's just been very, very special.

Q. Were there tears at all?
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Yeah, I mean, tears through the week. It's been, you know, it's almost that a tear wants to come out, but it's not really coming out. I think it's because I'm very happy with what I've done. You know, I'm content. I've said it along, I feel good.

Q. If you're going to drug testing, does that mean you're not closing the door on a return? I'm sorry, come on. Was the putt on 15, was that kind of the moment where you realized that there were too many strokes and too few holes?
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Well, I knew that – I don't know what the scores are right now. But I was hoping to shoot par better today. I had to make some rounds. When I was making the turn and I was 5-over I had to get 3- or 4-under on the back.
You know, got off to a good start on 10. Had a good chance on 14, I knew that had to go in. 15 had to go in. It's just I was just playing for birdies. I was just trying to make up ground. You know, I had really two good chances there, and when you don't make those, you know it's going to be very hard.
So, I had it right there and I knew I had to capitalize, I just didn't. I wish I would. Like I said earlier, I want to play two more rounds. I didn't want to end it this way.

Q. When did you find out about the drug test? When did they tell you?
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Just when I walked in the media center.

Q. Secondly, how do you think it's going to be to wake up tomorrow morning? How's your life going to change?
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Well, you know, I'm actually flying to Singapore on Sunday night. I'm playing two more events. So, as of now, nothing is really changing.
I come back from Dubai on December 15, and I'll have two sponsor days. Then actually give a commencement speech to the University of Arizona on December 20th, and that's pretty much it.
So, I think it's pretty ironic to finish the year giving a speech, something that I dreaded when I started playing. So, what can I say? It's coming around. I've changed. This game has changed me, and I'm glad.

Q. You know how Tiger had Jack's list of 18 majors as always something to aim for. Did you have something similar your whole career?
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: I never did. I know a lot about the history and the successful players ahead of me. And I just never thought that I would ever have the chance to do that.
So certain things have motivated me. Certain things haven't. You know, I look back on my career and if I would have won 89 LPGA, which I have 89 worldwide, it's not going to change how I feel about my career or how I feel about what I've achieved.
Again, I'm very content and another win or so is not going to change that. Sometimes it's more about the experience and what you go through and how you learn about life and yourself than just numbers.

Q. We were talking to your parents outside about when they put you on the airplane to fly off to school years ago, and you were still hitting 3 wood off the tees. Your first coach tried to change your swing five minutes after you got there, and how there were absolutely no expectations for you to become a professional golfer. It was more about social development and learning English. It's been a pretty crazy journey since that step given what you've accomplished over here. That's a lot of water under the bridge.
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Yeah, you're right. A lot of things have happened the last 20 or so years. It's funny, you know, you start playing a game that your parents introduce you to and it's just a happy, kind of a thing you're doing in the afternoons.
Here I am all these years later, it's been my life, and it's been my job. And it's just taken me to all these incredible places. Like I said, it's defined me as a person. I have so much to be thankful for. That's one of the reasons I want to give back to the game. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's just a matter of taking the opportunity and doing something with it.
You know, I could easily have turned around and not gotten on that plane, who knows where I would have been today. But I'll never regret anything.
I've made mistakes, but I think that's how we all learn, so I will continue to make mistakes, but, again, I will learn and, again, life is too short not to maximize what's out there.

Q. Something else your mom said out there was one of the things that she's noticed about you through the years is an emerging confidence. Your reference to the speech at Arizona kind of speaks to that. Can you talk a little bit about that part of your life away from golf, not the travels, but just the confidence that you've become as a woman in a professional atmosphere?
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Well, that's a very good question. Like I said, I've learned from mistakes, but I've also learned, and I would say a lot of this is thanks to Colonial, that it's okay to be you, and okay to have your dreams.
You don't always have to follow everybody else, you can make your own path. Can you learn from others, but you can also do what your heart tells you. And the Colonial and some other things that really made me feel comfortable that what I want to achieve is okay, and if I work hard, I can achieve it. And that's given me more energy to achieve more.
So I know I'm going to go to U of A and give a speech in front of younger it's a young crowd. I was there 17 years ago. You know, they have a journey ahead of themselves. It's not going to be the best speech, but it's going to come from my heart, and it's true.
What I've done, it is true. That's really what I want to get out, so you can do what you want to do, and follow your instinct, which is what I've done. Part of that is the foundation work as well. It's follow your dreams. And I'm living my dreams, and that's the message I want to get out to anybody, young or old. If I can do it, anybody can.

Q. Remember that season opening event that you didn't go to when you felt, I think all the winners were invited, but you felt you weren't ready to win. You said if I'm not going to win, I'm not going to show up at a tournament. This is years back.
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Yeah, it must be, because it's not so clear in my mind.

Q. I was going to ask how much did that do – it was years ago. But you said publicly, I'm not ready to win, there's no point in showing up at a tournament if you can't win it. And I just wondered if that set the stage for you to really do things your own way?
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: I remember the comment, and I think I've actually said it a few times. I remember winning the Open in '95, and the week after that was the Big Apple, the JAL, and I decided not to go and play.
I got a call from the commissioner, it was Charlie Meacham at the time, and I said the same thing to him. I'm not there to just be seen; I'm there to play and I'm here for the long term.
First, he just didn't understand, but then I explained and he did understand. It's funny when you look back at things, he's one of my better friends and he's on my advisory board now.
It's just that that's the approach I've always had. I've always believed in performing when showing up. You know, like I said, I've made mistakes, but I think long term it's turned out pretty good. So you've got to go when you're ready.

Q. You said that you're getting on a plane for Singapore Sunday night, but honestly, have you got any idea what you will do tomorrow?
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Tomorrow? I actually think I'm going to go home after the test (smiling). I'm going to go and pack my bag and drive home to Orlando.
You know, I'm sure I'll have some dinner with my parents and just kind of talk about the years. Just reminisce, I'm sure. Same thing for tomorrow. Then pack and get ready.
There's a part of me that wants to stay here and enjoy it a little bit more. I wish I could say goodbye to the people that made plans to come tomorrow. But I hope to see them again another time.

Katherine Hull, 68-71=139 (-5)
Hole 15, 494-yards par 5: birdie – sand wedge from 50 yards to 26 feet

JASON TAYLOR: Katherine, thank you for joining us once again. You are 5 under-par through the first two rounds of the ADT Championship, and now you will start even with everyone else tomorrow. If you would, just talk about your day.
KATHERINE HULL: Okay. I'm really happy with today. Obviously, no bogies, so, yeah, very happy with the way I kind of made the up and down on 18 and finished off.
But it's kind of an interesting format thinking that we're all equal going into tomorrow. But I'm just happy with the way I'm playing, and hoping to make some more birdies tomorrow.

Q. You've been playing really well recently. Is there anything in particular that's just kind of taken off? Is there any part of your game that you're particularly impressed with the last couple of weeks?
KATHERINE HULL: It's been a combination of things over the last probably year or so. It's a combination of hitting it better, putting it better, practicing smart, and my, I guess my brain's kind of working better out on the golf course.
My spiritual life's great. My caddie and I just have a great team of people around me. My caddie, he's been a huge part of this success this year. My coach, my trainer, everyone is great. So, yeah, I'm very blessed to be in the position I'm at. But it's been a lot of work behind the scenes that's gone into it.

Q. Is it annoying that you're giving up eight shots in some cases to people at the tail-end of the qualification process? Or are you just not worrying about it because you're satisfied with how well you're playing?
KATHERINE HULL: That's a good question (laughing). Well, you know the format going into it so you can't be too disappointed whether you build such a big lead come Friday afternoon.
I was just trying to focus on my game, shoot the best scores I could these last two days and I'll do the same thing Saturday and Sunday.

Q. Being that you were in the lead going into the day and you kind of had more of a cushion than the players that were around number 16. Did that change the way that you played at all? You didn't have to go out and win anything, it was a matter of just avoiding doubles and triples and that type of thing?
KATHERINE HULL: Yeah, my game plan didn't change today. I just tried to go down there and hit fairways and greens. I probably I didn't force anything out there. I didn't get frustrated. The putts were dropping. I had great speed all day on the greens.
I just said to my caddie on one of the holes on the back nine, Let's just keep rolling it as well as we are and see what happens.

Q. You are sleeping on the lead, but so are 15 other players. Does it feel like you're sleeping on the lead and how do you generally do when you're sleeping on the lead?
KATHERINE HULL: Yeah, I guess, well, yeah. I guess 16 are sleeping on the lead. Well, we know that anything can happen tomorrow. So you can't effect how anyone else is going to play. You don't know what's going to happen. You've just got to do your regular routine and give it a hundred percent.

Q. What is your reaction to Annika Sorenstam and Lorena Ochoa and, you know, two of the biggest stars out here not making the cut? Christina Kim said it kind of stinks for them, but it makes her life easier. What is your reaction to it?
KATHERINE HULL: (Laughing). Yeah, I guess they're the two big contenders out here, and we won't have to worry about them over the weekend.
But everyone that's playing this weekend has worked their butts off for numerous years. They've earned their right to be here through good play.
So they've got just as much chance as anyone out here winning the event. You know, it's great to be here on the LPGA with as many awesome players as there are now, and anyone can win.

Q. I know you told me before that you don't play for the money, but have you allowed your mind to wander to what you would do with a million dollars?
KATHERINE HULL: Well, yeah. Yesterday I got asked the same question. I said I was going to have to pay my caddie first. Then I'd donate a big chunk of it to World Vision and probably some other charities as well.
So tithing is a part of my life, and it's important to me. I would probably put the rest in the bank. I made the mistake of saying investing yesterday, but with the market the way it is, yeah, I've got to be careful with what I say, right?
Yeah, I wouldn't spend it on anything extravagant. I'm not that type of person. So I'll stick to paying my caddie, and then tithing.

Christina Kim, 71-71=142 (-2)

JASON TAYLOR: Christina, thank you for joining us. After your second round of the ADT Championship, you are 2-under-par. If you would, please talk about your day.
CHRISTINA KIM: Well, I just, I don't know. It was an interesting day. You know, I birdied two of my first three holes yesterday, and three of my first five or three of my first seven or something like that.
So this morning it was kind of interesting seeing that I was tied for seventh before anyone teed off, and then by the fourth hole I was like T 11. So I anticipated really low numbers coming in.
So it was a little nerve racking considering I was just plugging along. And I was just like you know what, if you just stay around 1 under for the tournament, it should be no problem. And turned around and it was like, you know, T-11. So I was like, all right, we've got to start bringing some things in.
Made a couple of birdies, and yeah, it was interesting, because Karen Stupples, I was playing with her. And she was doing really well, then she had to take a five on number five because her ball got lost in a palm tree. It was like that kind of changed the momentum of the entire round, because she started grinding.
And for a while I kind of forgot about my own round, because I wanted her to get in, you know, because this tournament's different from any other. You know, when you're playing with certain people you're like, miss it, miss it. But you know, Karen's such a great girl that it was one of those things where you were trying to help will her ball in.
So it was an interesting day, bottom line, you know. It was crazy.

Q. Does it feel like you won a shot at the lottery? Is that what today's about?
CHRISTINA KIM: No, I made my way here. So I wouldn't really say luck had anything to do with it.

Q. I mean, you won a shot at the lottery, because Sunday's kind of like a lottery, isn't it?
CHRISTINA KIM: No, I don't think Sunday's a lottery. Bottom line, you're going to have eight of the best players out here. Maybe number one, number five, number three on the money list may not be here. But these are the top 32 of the entire LPGA Tour. This is the top echelon of women's golf. We've got the best players regardless of where they may be ranked.
I don't necessarily feel it may be anything along the lines of a lottery. I'm just going to grind it out until I get there tomorrow or until I get there Sunday.
I'm just happy I made it through the first two days relatively unscathed. Still have all my limbs. So we'll see what happens tomorrow.

Q. Does it seem odd that Annika Sorenstam and Lorena Ochoa won't be here tomorrow? Annika's never been here on Saturday, but given the special circumstances.
CHRISTINA KIM: Well, you know, it does stink that Annika's final LPGA Tour event ended early. It would have been great to see her go all way through to Sunday and have it come down to the 72nd hole.
But it's a little easier on the rest of us (laughing), between her and Lorena not being able to make it. But, yeah, I was shocked when I stood up on the 18th green and looked at the names and saw Annika and Lorena were not in the top 16. It was a little discouraging, because I know how much of a draw they are, especially coming around the weekends.
So, you know, their seasons were long enough. That's the way I see it, you know. So they may enjoy those extra two days of rest. But, all the best for both of them.

Q. Do you like now that both of the next two days are just gun it, get the best score, and start over if you can get to the next day. They're kind of individualized tournaments?
CHRISTINA KIM: Kind of sort of. I like knowing that I have five shots on the last person getting in at the moment. But the fact that it goes back to everyone's at level par tomorrow, it just makes it exciting.
Especially, this golf course is very ‘Trumpy'. You know, this is Donald Trump to the tees. With the beautiful waterfall in the back of 17, the water that snakes in between especially from hole 15 through 18. It's demanding. It requires you to have guts and yet be smart. Those two don't always come hand in hand together.
So who knows. I might shoot I remember I had shot like 71 on Saturday here last year, and shot 81 the next day. It's just as long as you make it into that final day, it doesn't matter, bottom line. As long as you get there, that's all that matters.

Q. Did you just call Donald Trump a snake?
CHRISTINA KIM: No, I said it snakes through. It cuts through. Yeah, it cuts through. Snakes through doesn't necessarily that's not the right term, I guess.
Look I'm in enough trouble as it is, all right. I don't need any additional help from you guys, come on (smiling).

Q. What about the strategy tomorrow? How do you approach it?
CHRISTINA KIM: Put the ball on the tee and hit it. Find it and do it again.

Q. Do you play aggressively?
CHRISTINA KIM: I'll tell you after the round tomorrow. I don't know what I'm doing until I'm standing until I'm halfway through my down swing. I don't know what kind of shot I'm going to play.
You know what, certain holes you have the aggressive play in mind, but then you rethink it, and you have to be a little bit more conservative. You know, other times vice versa. I haven't quite made up my mind yet. Depends on the wind.

Q. Is there more pressure in this event?
CHRISTINA KIM: I don't talk about words like pressure, sorry, no, no, no, no, no, yeah (smiling). Sorry, sorry.

Q. I have a random one. So drug testing is going on today, and Annika Sorenstam, of all people, her number was pulled. Do you find that kind of odd?
CHRISTINA KIM: No. You know, I mean it definitely does prove to everyone out here on tour that it is strictly random. You know, it's unfortunate because if you had just gone to use the ladies room on the 17th hole, you're stuck for another hour, hour and a half to have to, you know do your thing. But it is random.
So, you know, it probably stinks that her tournament was cut a little short, and then extended due to that. But, no, it's random. It's not funny. It's kind of like maybe ironic or something. But it's a little unfortunate, but, you know for the sake of in defense of the program that we're going through, it's strictly random.

Q. Been lucky?
CHRISTINA KIM: Yeah, I've been pretty fortunate, I think.

Q. A little one about Annika Sorenstam. Since she did not make the cut, this is her last LPGA Tour event so far. What do you think the impact that she's had on the LPGA Tour?
CHRISTINA KIM: Well, I'm talking not even just the LPGA Tour, not even women's golf, not even golf, but she's an icon in history. You can't describe all of the things that she's done. But everything from her foundation to heightening awareness of the LPGA Tour, women's golf, golf in general. Breaking boundaries, breaking records, everything that her entire career is, it's something to behold.
It's very special that I was not able to just view it, but actually sort of be a part of it and experience it while it was happening toward the later part of her career.
She's just an incredible human being. Everything that she's done for the game of golf and sports in general is truly commendable. We all wish her the best in whatever endeavors she goes on to do next.

Lorena Ochoa, 75-74=149 (+5)

Q. What did it mean to be out here to see that (Annika Sorenstam's last putt)?
LORENA OCHOA: Well, I can't imagine how she's doing right now. But I guess it will come for all of us at one point. So we can only say that we enjoyed having her and thank you for everything.

Q. Did you say anything to her?
LORENA OCHOA: Congratulations and thank you for everything.

Q. Can you talk about your coming back here to defend your title in 2008?
LORENA OCHOA: Yes, I wanted to sink that ball on 17. You know, we've been doing that (double bogey) every year. It was just a tough week; hard to concentrate. And I didn't have my best week on the greens. It was just not easy for me.
But I'm just going to take it easy, and enjoy the long break with my family. I'm very happy because it's been a great year.

Q. Can you talk about your season? You've had some great things happening, and some other things off the course, too. Just talk about the year?
LORENA OCHOA: Okay. I think a great year. We improved a lot on the foundation, helping more kids, and winning the tournaments, winning a major. Playing the tournament in Guadalajara, I think was the best of the year. There were a lot of good things.
I think I have a better idea of what I want to do next year, and even have more time for me and have more time for practice because it's hard to do everything. I think I'm going to be a better player next year. I'm going to make sure I have a good season, and come back strong.

Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year, Yani Tseng

DANA GROSS RHODE: Thank you for joining us. We have a special award. Yani Tseng has finally officially clinched the Louise Suggs Rookie of the Year. To do the presentation we have joining us Commissioner Carolyn Bivens, Rolex Watch USA Vice President, Director of Communications, Peter Nicholson, LPGA Founder, Louise Suggs, and Rolex Rookie of the Year, Yani Tseng.

CAROLYN BIVENS: Yani, we reprised you last night. This race has been a remarkable one. You have stretched this out to the very, very last moment.
It's been hard fought, but now your name goes along with a lot of other remarkable Hall of Famers from the earliest days of the LPGA. Congratulations.
YANI TSENG: Thank you.

PETER NICHOLSON: Yani, I'd like to congratulate you on behalf of Rolex for winning the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year Award. It was quite a year, including a major championship. You're very deserving, and you've got a great future. Congratulations.
YANI TSENG: Thank you.

LOUISE SUGGS: Yani, took you a while (laughing). But I'm glad you did it. Hope you play well the rest of the week, and it's so nice to have you win my award and Peter's.
Believe me, it's not easy to come by, and I know you've worked hard. So play well.
YANI TSENG: Thank you.

PETER NICHOLSON: We present you with this Rolex timepiece, green for your shirt, and it's a beautiful watch.
YANI TSENG: Thanks.
I want to thank my parents and my coach. My caddie has been working hard this year, and thanks to Carolyn and (inaudible) and Louise. They've helped me along with the tournament. And it is such a nice watch, and I will be on time in catching flights. So I'm very thankful for helping me.
It's my honor to win the rookie of the year award. It can happen only one time in my life, and I got my goal this year.
I want to thank my friend, Choi, she pushed me a lot to get as high as I can today and for the tournament and over the year, and finally I got it, rookie of the year. Thank you very much. Thanks.

Jill Pilgrim, LPGA General Counsel

Q. (Regarding Annika Sorenstam being drug-tested).
JILL PILGRIM: What I can explain is that we, as you all know, have a drug testing protocol and a set of procedures. And all of our players were educated throughout the year, and most of last year that in any LPGA official competition in 2008, that they are subject to being selected for drug testing. So we followed our protocol, and we're testing a number of players here today.

Q. So you could conceivably be tested every time you play?
JILL PILGRIM: We've had a number of players this year get back to back tests. Especially on days when we were doing multiple days of competition, they've been selected day one and day two. So, you know.

Q. Can you say how many you tested this week?
JILL PILGRIM: No, we never give out the numbers of players that we're testing.

Q. I know. It's just a little hard to get your head around for us when we know that she's (Annika Sorenstam) probably not playing anymore going forward. Can you see where we're coming from on that?
JILL PILGRIM: You know what, I've been doing drug testing for a long time. The numbers come up, and you test the players whose numbers come up. I think if I were a player, you know, the notion that someone would be exempt for some special reason – everyone in the field was subject to drug testing. So they all had an equal opportunity to be selected for drug testing. We followed our protocol.

Q. So there was absolutely no consideration given to consider the fact that these circumstances were different and special?
JILL PILGRIM: We follow our protocol. We'd never take into consideration anything that is not within the four corners of our protocol. That's what the drug testing program is. That is what the integrity of the drug testing program is.
Nobody is treated differently or special. We followed the four corners of our protocol.

Q. Was the commissioner consulted on any of this?
JILL PILGRIM: No, the commissioner is aware of our drug testing program to the extent that she knows what any employee of the LPGA is doing. I guess you could say she's consulted, but not consulted on the specifics of what we do, who we select, anything like that.

Q. Is she aware that Annika had been selected and would be tested?
JILL PILGRIM: I can't imagine how she would know that.

Q. She didn't know?
JILL PILGRIM: I don't know how she would know that.

Q. When was the last time Annika was tested?
JILL PILGRIM: We don't talk about who is tested, when they're tested, how many times they're tested. If a player chooses to give you that information, that's her prerogative.
But we have many players that have been tested multiple times, including back to back tournaments, including back to back days.

Q. She would have been informed coming off 18 or do you know previous?
JILL PILGRIM: The protocol indicates that a player can be notified after she finishes competition. It doesn't say when or where that should take place. It can take place any time after she's completed competition.

Q. You have to follow this clinically to the letter, and variables are not part of it. Your number comes up, that's it, and there's no emotion, there's no outside extraneous things. No, I understand why, you're the policeman?
JILL PILGRIM: I might be emotional at times about different things, but that's not my job. My job is to follow the protocol, because at the end of the day, if the LPGA does not follow the protocol, and we are brought into litigation or arbitration, we will be liable for not following the protocol.
So, you know, we follow the protocol because we want to keep everything fair for every player. That's the way you keep it fair. You follow the protocol, the procedures don't care vary because of any particular set of circumstances. You know, so that's just the way it is.