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A Major Feat For Lincicome

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: April 6, 2009

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - Seminole's Brittany Lincicome was brilliant when it mattered most.

Lincicome sank a 6-foot eagle putt on No. 18 to upstage good friend Kristy McPherson and win the Kraft Nabisco Championship on Sunday for her first major championship.

Trailing by one, Lincicome broke through with an amazing sequence of shots on the par-5 18th. After hitting a booming drive down the middle of the fairway, she launched her approach shot across the water and onto the upper part of the green, with the ball curling down just above the hole.

She then calmly sank the putt, pumped her fist and hugged McPherson, who finished tied for second with Kerr one shot back.

It was the third career victory for Lincicome, whose previous best finish in a major was a tie for second in 2007.

Playing in the all-American final threesome, she became the first U.S. winner in the past six women's majors. Kerr was the last to do so in the 2007 U.S. Open.

Tribune wires

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