Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, March 29, 1993 TAG: 9303290116
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Alfredsson, who last year blew a lead and lost in a playoff to Betsy King in another tournament, this time held steady down the stretch. She shot a par 72 to beat King by two strokes in one of the LPGA's four major championships.
King faded to a 74, dropping into a second-place tie with Amy Penz, who had a 70, and Tina Barrett, who closed with a 71.
Alfredsson finished at 4-under 284 over the Mission Hills Country Club course in Rancho Mirage, Calif., playing more difficult this year because of long, lush grass in the rough.
Last year, Alfredsson held a three-shot lead in the final round of the Japan Classic. King caught her at the final hole of regulation, then beat her on the fourth playoff hole.
Alfredsson, unlike King, shows her emotion while she's playing.
"It's incredible," she said. "I've been dying to get my first win over here, and to have it be in the Dinah Shore is unbelievable. I had been told that the best walk in women's golf is down No. 18 here; it's certainly the best tournament I've been in."
King, 37, said Alfredsson is a good player, but is "too emotional, to her detriment."
"If she misses a shot, you see it," King said. "If I'm an opponent, that gives me hope. "I'm a perfectionist, and that's all I can really pick out that she might use to improve her game."
Hollis Stacy, Missie Berteotti and Dawn Coe-Jones tied for fifth at 287. A group at 288 included Nancy Lopez, who had to overcome a second-round 78 that included a two-stroke penalty for slow play. Lopez shot a 70 Sunday, and the penalty wound up costing approximately $34,000, the difference between finishing tied for eighth and finishing tied for second.
Donna Andrews of Lynchburg, Va., shot her second consecutive 72 and finished at 291.
(Results in Scoreboard. B4)
by CNB