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Nabisco Meltdown, Best Thing Ever for Pettersen?

by Bruno Chu

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Pettersen tops Ochoa in a playoff.

After Suzann Pettersen chased down and took out world number one Lorena Ochoa in a playoff last week at the Longs Drugs Challenge, one has to wonder whether Suzann Pettersen’s meltdown at the Kraft Nabisco Championship was the best thing ever to happen for her. Since that fateful day six months ago, Pettersen has won the Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill, then the McDonald’s LPGA Championship and now the Longs Drugs Challenge. Add two second-place finishes to her three wins this year and you can see why she is ranked second in the world behind Lorena Ochoa.

Sometimes, you have to go through adversity before you achieve greatness. You have to suffer agonizing defeat, get beat in the worst way possible, then fight your way back. The way that Suzann Pettersen lost the Kraft Nabisco to Morgan Pressel in May was as bad a way to lose as one could possibly imagine. With a three-shot lead and four holes to play, Pettersen closed with two bogeys and two double-bogeys. Yes, she cried after, who wouldn’t after blowing what seemed to be an almost sure win. But she stormed back, determined to climb the mountain and overcome her fears. At the McDonald’s, she had to hold off a hard charging Karrie Webb, hitting some key putts to maintain the lead. Here at the Longs, after a bad stretch of bogeys from holes 9 to 12 that saw her lose her 2-shot lead, she came back in the final few holes to force a playoff and beat Lorena Ochoa.

Not that it means anything really, but since Morgan Pressel won the Kraft Nabisco in May (her first LPGA Tour win) she has not won a single tournament since…

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