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Rankin: Ochoa one of a kind
ST ANDREWS, Scotland--Count Judy Rankin as one of the hundreds rooting for a Lorena Ochoa victory today in the RICOH Women's British Open.
"Is there anyone who doesn't want Lorena to win?" the ABC commentator and LPGA legend asked while we were grabbing lunch in the media center dining lounge. "I don't think there's another player at the top of their sport like her. Annika is certainly gracious and a great champion, but she doesn't have the magnetism that Lorena has. She's very special."
Ochoa is inching ever closer to her first major championship. She's 2-under par on the day through nine holes on the Old Course at St Andrews, having just birdied from long range on the par-4 9th hole. Ochoa, who had a six-shot lead at the start of the day, hasn't lost a stroke off her lead. Korea's Jee Young Lee (-2 through nine holes) is in second place, six shots back, while Sweden's Linda Wessberg and Maria Hjorth and American Reilley Rankin are all at 1 under par, seven strokes back.
Scotland's Mhairi McKay and Japan's Miki Saiki share the low round of the day at 5-under-par 67.
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