CME Group Tour Championship Preview

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CME Group Tour Championship…Nov 20-23

History: This is the fourth year for the event.
Race to the CME Globe: 3,500 points
Purse: $2,000,000
Format: 72 holes
At the 2013 event, China’s Shanshan Feng outdueled a star-studded leaderboard at the season-ending CME Group Titleholders in Naples, Fla. for her third-career victory. Feng shot one of the low rounds of the day on Sunday with a bogey-free 6-under 66 to finish at 15-under 273, one shot ahead of American and third-round co-leader Gerina Piller. Feng takes home the Tour’s largest winner’s check this season with $700,000 and crossed the $4 million mark in career earnings ($4,057,656.50).

Tiburón Golf Club...(2nd Year)
Naples, FL
72 Holes…Par: 72
Yardage 6540yds

Link to Official Site:
www.cmegrouptourchampionship.com/
Link to Hole Descriptions:
www.lpga.com/golf/tournaments/lpga/cme-group-tour-championship/course-info.aspx
Link to the Gold Course hole pictures and descriptions:
www.tiburongcnaples.com/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=317437&ssid=208715&vnf=1
Link to the Gold Course Scorecard:
www.tiburongcnaples.com/files/TIB_GoldCourse_Scorecard.pdf

Official Scorecard:
Front Nine:
Hole 1...Par 5...533yds
Hole 2...Par 4...380yds
Hole 3...Par 4...415yds
Hole 4...Par 4...393yds
Hole 5...Par 3...190yds
Hole 6...Par 5...492yds
Hole 7...Par 4...355yds
Hole 8...Par 3...140yds
Hole 9...Par 4...418yds
Out………....36...3316yds
Back Nine:
Hole 10...Par 4...320yds
Hole 11...Par 4...386yds
Hole 12...Par 3...156yds
Hole 13...Par 4...350yds
Hole 14...Par 5...544yds
Hole 15...Par 4...390yds
Hole 16...Par 3...168yds
Hole 17...Par 5...485yds
Hole 18...Par 4...426yds
In………….....36...3224yds
Totals………..72...6540yds

Michelle’s Past Performance:
2011...
CME Group TitleHolders……Nov 17-20...
Grand Cypress Resort, North and South Course, Orlando, Florida.
1.….Hee Young Park …71 - 69 - 69 - 70 279 -9
6T…Michelle Wie……....71 - 73 - 72 - 70 286 -2
2012
CME Group Titleholders…Nov 15-18
The TwinEagles Club, Naples, FL
1.…..Na Yeon Choi …67 - 68 - 69 - 70 274 -14
62T..Michelle Wie … 81 - 77 - 71 - 69 298 +10
2013
CME Group Titleholders…Nov 21-24
Tiburón Golf Club...(1st year)
Naples, FL
72 Holes…Par: 72
1 Shanshan Feng…..66 - 74 - 67 - 66 273 -15
2 Gerina Piller……....71 - 67 - 67 - 69 274 -14
11T Michelle Wie…..72 - 70 - 66 - 72 280 -8

Link to Michelle’s Lpga 2013 Scorecard:
www.lpgascoring.com/public/Scorecard.aspx?TournamentID=27927&PlayerID=88106

TV Times
Nov 20 - GC 1:30 PM-4:00 PM ET
Nov 21 - GC 1:30 PM-4:00 PM ET
Nov 22 - GC 1:30 PM-4:00 PM ET
Nov 23 - GC 1:30 PM-4:00 PM ET

Repeat TV Times
Nov 20 - GC 4:30 PM-7:00 PM ET
Nov 21 - GC 4:30 PM-7:00 PM ET
Nov 22 - GC 4:30 PM-7:00 PM ET
Nov 23 - GC 4:30 PM-7:00 PM ET

Naples, FL (34109) Weather Forecast:
Thu, Nov 20
High 76°…Low 59°
Partly Cloudy
Chance of rain: 10%
Wind: NE at 14 mph
Fri, Nov 21
High 76°…Low 63°
AM Showers
Chance of rain: 50%
Wind: NE at 14 mph
Sat, Nov 22
High 80°…Low 66°
Partly Cloudy
Chance of rain: 20%
Wind: ENE at 15 mph
Sun, Nov 23
High 82°…Low 68°
Sunny
Chance of rain: 10%
Wind: SSE at 18 mph

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The Race Ends Here
Take a look through the digital program for the CME Group Tour
Championship.

Link to CME Group Tour Championship Digital Program:
www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/Golfweek-Custom-Media/2014-cme-titleholders-lpga-championship/2014110601/#0

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In Case Your Miss The Live TV Broadcast…..

Repeat TV Times
Nov 20 - GC 4:30 PM-7:00 PM ET
Nov 21 - GC 4:30 PM-7:00 PM ET
Nov 22 - GC 4:30 PM-7:00 PM ET
Nov 23 - GC 4:30 PM-7:00 PM ET

A Double Dose of Wie Golf

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First Round Tee Pairing and Tee Time:

Michelle’s group will be 2 hours and 45 minutes into their golf game when TV comes on at 1:30 PM EST

Thursday, 20 Nov…

10:45 AM EST
Tee #1...Grp #21
WIE, Michelle
RYU, So Yeon
FENG, Shanshan

TV Times
Nov 20 - GC 1:30 PM-4:00 PM ET

Go michelle go

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CME Group Tour Championship Tuesday Pre-Tournament Notes

CME Group Tour Championship
Tiburon Golf Club
Naples, Florida
Pre-Tournament Notes November 18, 2014

Excerpts:

A 31-event, 14 country world Tour all paved the road to Naples, Florida, to the CME Group Tour Championship, the finale, where a season-ending $1 million jackpot awaits one of nine players remaining in the hunt for the Race to the CME Globe.
With a $500,000 winner’s check on the line as well, the nerves are here to stay through Sunday.
“It feels like final exams, it’s just like everything matters this week,” Michelle Wie said. “I can’t think about that. Obviously the stakes are very high. I’m nervous and whatnot. But good golf will take care of everything. You’ve just got to go out and hit the shots. I let it take care of the rest.”
The scoreboards have had the Race to the CME Globe integrated all season and players have been following. Even when they’re out of the hunt, they know the impact a good finish can have on their chances at the million.
But this is the last hurrah, and no one wants to live with regrets for two months until they tee it up again in Ocala to start the 2015 season.
“All year you track it and it all comes down to this one,” Wie said. “I think the LPGA has done a really good job of creating that bang. I think the CME Group has done a wonderful job. Big kudos for really believing in us. And also with the Wounded Warrior Project all year with our eagles going to that fund as well. I think they’ve done a really great job of incorporating the entire season and kind of bringing it all together.”
And if Wie can bring it all together for a win on Sunday to itch her way into the top spot of the Race to the CME Globe, well, that money’s already got her daydreaming.
“My first initial thought is that’s a lot of shoes,” she said with a laugh. “I’m not really thinking about the money. It would be really nice. It is a lot of shoes, lots of things. But for me Sunday is a long ways away.”
So is Ocala at the end of January. That’s two months to sit and stew, wondering what could have been for players or pondering how to maintain the momentum from a banner year. Either way, the season’s conclusion can come with regrets or pride with the holidays looming.
“I feel like how you play this week kind of determines how you feel over the holidays. So I would like to feel good over the holidays,” Wie said. “You want to kind of put everything that you learned over the year and kind of go out with a bang and hopefully play the best golf you played all year.”

REAPING THE REWARDS

At the season-ending event in Naples, many LPGA players are asked to reflect on their seasons up until this point and when asked to give one word to describe her 2014 performance overall, Michelle Wie responded without hesitation: rewarding.
“I think the first word that comes to mind for me is rewarding,” said Wie. “I think that just the season has been so phenomenal for me, it boosted my confidence, it kind of showed me what I can do. And obviously it’s been a tough year for me with injuries, with my knee and my hand and everything. But it’s still rewarding. I can’t complain.”
Wie had two victories including her first major win at the U.S. Women’s Open, 10 additional top-10 finishes and earned the inaugural Rolex ANNIKA Major Award for outstanding performance at this year’s majors. Wie said her win at Pinehurst this summer was a product of her patience and that she considers this year her own victory.
“I mean obviously with Pinehurst and low day, having haven’t won in four years, was it - you know, it’s just one of those things where I worked so hard in the off season,” said Wie. “I worked really hard all last year. And I just felt like - I felt like I was patient. I was really proud of myself for being patient. When you win tournaments it definitely feels very rewarding. And even with all the injuries and whatnot I still would consider this season a win.”
When asked what the one thing that made the difference for her this season versus a year ago, Wie said her commitment to consistency led her to her breakthrough. She said she didn’t care if she was consistently mediocre or consistently great and turns out she was the latter. In her 22 starts, Wie only missed two cuts and finished outside the top-20 only one time, a T23 at the ShopRite Classic.
“I felt like a lot of times I play really well, and kind of backtrack and kind of do that ping pong back is forth,” said Wie. “I want to be a little more consistent and keep building on it. That was my main goal this year. I think it took a little pressure off of me, and I think I did that. Especially in the beginning part of the year I was very consistent. And that’s my goal for next year, as well.”

BEST STORY OF THE YEAR?

Michelle Wie’s big breakthrough isn’t the biggest story on the LPGA Tour this season…at least, according to Michelle Wie. No, that honor goes to her longtime friend Christina Kim, who snapped a nine-year winless drought last week at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational after an open battle with depression in recent years.
“I was so excited about her, just knowing what she went through, knowing how much she wanted it. And just kind of – I think with both of us, as well, I think we’re in very comfortable situations where we hit our lows,” Wie said. “I was so happy to see it. I think a lot of people were very excited to see that happen, as well. She stayed for four hours afterwards kissing babies, kissing foreheads, kissing everyone. It was like a kissing booth line. But it was just amazing.”
Waking up on Sunday knowing Kim had a five-shot lead, Wie said she couldn’t figure out why she was so nervous entering the final round considering she was in 20th place. When Kim did break through on Sunday and Wie rushed to hug her on the 18th green, Wie said everyone got to see why this win is the best story in the game this year.
“She signed every single autograph. And that’s exactly thee reason why she’s the best person to represent our Tour. She is everything that the LPGA is,” Wie said. “And I was so excited to see her win. I promised myself I wouldn’t cry, but it was just instant tears. It was really amazing to see.”

Link to Article:
www.lpga.com/golf/news/2014/11/cme-tuesday-notes.aspx