Best of the decade: The 10 best LPGA shots

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November 6, 2009

We’re at the end of the decade of the 2000s, and it’s time to look back on some of golf’s most amazing achievements over that span. Today, we focus on the most amazing LPGA shots of the last 10 years.

1. Karrie Webb’s eagle, 18th hole, 2006 Kraft Nabisco. Webb capped one of the best rounds of the decade with a hole-out approach from 116 yards out. Amazingly, Lorena Ochoa also eagled the hole, but Webb won in a playoff. It marked Webb’s first win in four years and helped reinvigorate her career.

2. Birdie Kim’s bunker birdie, 2005 U.S. Women’s Open. This is how you win a tournament: Kim (above) birdied the 18th and final hole of the Open from the bunker, and pursuer Morgan Pressel - then still an amateur - was unable to match her shot.

3. Brittany Lincicome’s approach, 18th hole, 2009 Kraft Nabisco. Locked in a match with Kristy McPherson and Cristie Kerr, Lincicome dropped a perfect approach shot on the par-5 final hole to within four feet of the cup. She putted for eagle and won the tournament by a single stroke, capturing her first major.

4. Annika Sorenstam’s birdie, 18th hole, 2008 Dubai Ladies Masters. It wasn’t an amazing shot on its own; an eight-foot birdie is nice but generally not a particularly memorable shot. But this birdie happened to be the final shot ever made by Annika Sorenstam in her storied career, and so it’s only fitting that one of the greatest golfers in history went out with a hole under par.

5. Se Ri Pak’s approach, first playoff hole, 2006 McDonald’s LPGA. On the first playoff hole, Se Ri Pak placed her approach within four inches of the cup, going on to birdie the hole and knock off Karrie Webb en route to capturing her fifth career major.

6. Momoko Ueda’s albatross, final round, 2007 Mizuno Classic. After holding a share of the overnight lead, Ueda put distance between her and her pursuers with a double-eagle at the par-5 7th en route to winning her first LPGA Tour event. She was the first Japanese-born golfer to win on the LPGA Tour in the 2000s.

7. Lorena Ochoa’s approach, 18th hole, 2007 ADT. From 161 yards out in an ugly lie, Ochoa dropped a perfect approach onto the green. It rolled to within three feet of the hole, past where Natalie Gulbis, one shot back, waited to take a birdie shot of her own. One long birdie later and the ADT was hers.

8. Annika Sorenstam’s tee shot, first hole, 2003 Colonial. It wasn’t an exceptional shot - 243 yards down the fairway - but it was her first at a men’s event, and it signaled that some women could play every bit as well as the men.

9. Maria Hjorth’s ricochet, 2008 McDonald’s LPGA. Some shots don’t need to be described, they need to be seen, like this gift in the final round of last year’s McDonald’s LPGA:

10. Annika Sorenstam’s eagle, 2003 Skins Game. It wasn’t an LPGA event, but in a made-for-TV match against Phil Mickelson, Mark O’Meara and Fred Couples, Sorenstam shone, notching an eagle on the par-5 9th and winning $175,000, the most ever by a player on the first day of the Skins Game.

All right, your turn. Post your thoughts on the greatest LPGA shots of the decade right here. Next up: the men.

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