Annika Sorenstam victory secures spot in ADT Championship

AVENTURA, Fla. -- Sweden’s Annika Sorenstam became the second player to secure a spot in the season-ending ADT Championship by winning the Stanford International Pro-Am at The Fairmont Turnberry Resort & Club. Sorenstam won her second title of the year by prevailing over Paula Creamer during a one-hole, sudden death playoff.

“It’s obviously a bonus (to secure a spot in the ADT Championship field), I would say,” said Sorenstam who quailed last year off the second-half ADT Points list. “It wasn’t anything I was thinking about, but I’m in. I’ll be there, of course.”

Sorenstam joins Rolex Rankings’ number one Lorena Ochoa, who secured a spot by winning the HSBC Women’s Champions earlier this season. Ochoa, who is the reigning ADT Champion, also won the Kraft Nabisco Championship and the Ginn OPEN, the second and third Winner Events of the LPGA season. With her victories at the Kraft and Ginn, Ochoa moved two qualifying spots to the ADT Points list.

The LPGA Playoffs 2008, a yearlong competitive structure that splits the official LPGA season into two halves, 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.

Out of the 32 spots in the ADT Championship, 13 will be awarded to winners 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 the Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill, May 8-11, at Kingsmill Resort & Spa in Williamsburg, Va.

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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