Chick-fil-A Charity Championship breakdown
By Greg Robertson
ESPN Golf Online
Saturday, April 29

Details
When Friday-Sunday
Course Eagles Landing Country Club, Stockbridge, Ga.
Par/Yardage Par 72; 6,187 yards
Purse $900,000 (Winner: $135,000)
1999 champion Rachel Hetherington
Tournament record 15-under 201 (Laura Davies, 1995)
Television Friday: 1-3 p.m. ET (ESPN2)
Saturday-Sunday: 3:30-5:30 p.m. ET (ESPN2)

The tournament
  Hole by hole
  Hole Par Yards
  1 4 380
  2 4 382
  3 5 440
  4 3 146
  5 4 355
  6 5 476
  7 4 306
  8 3 163
  9 4 388
  Out 36 3036
  10 4 380
  11 3 171
  12 4 340
  13 5 515
  14 4 346
  15 4 404
  16 3 152
  17 4 378
  18 5 465
  In 36 3151
  Total 72 6187
Spring break is over on the LPGA Tour.

After playing just once in April, the tour starts up again this week in Georgia with the first of the longest stretch of golf of the season. Starting with the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship, the LPGA Tour will be in action every week until mid-September.

The break is also over for Karrie Webb, who skipped the Longs Drugs Challenge and returns to the course for the first time since winning the Nabisco Championship, the year's first major in late March.

That victory was the fourth in five events this season for Webb, who is running away with the money title and leads in most statistical categories. Her only failure came at the Standard Register Ping, where she finished second to Charlotta Sorenstam.

There will be plenty of contenders chasing Webb at this event, as 49 of the top 50 players on the season money list are in the field. The lone exception is Juli Inkster, who won the Longs Drugs Challenge earlier this month.

Among the contenders is defending champion Rachel Hetherington, who rallied to win last year's event in sudden death over Lorie Kane. Hetherington let a lead slip away on the back nine on Sunday, but a birdie on the 18th hole forced sudden death with Kane, then a two-putt birdie on the first playoff hole gave her the victory.

Hetherington would win the following week as well, taking the City of Hope Myrtle Beach Classic.

Hetherington has a pair of top-10 finishes this season, including a fourth-place finish at the Longs Drugs Challenge.

Kane continues to look for her first LPGA Tour victory. Last year's Chick-fil-A finish is one of nine runner-ups in her career.

This year's event is hosted by LPGA Tour legend Nancy Lopez, who is in the field as well. Lopez has 48 career victories, the last coming in this event in 1997.

Other top players in the field include Annika Sorenstam, Dottie Pepper, Laura Davies, Meg Mallon, Brandie Burton, Sherri Steinhauer and Se Ri Pak.

The LPGA Tour will remain in the South for the next two weeks, heading next to Texas for the Philips Invitational, then on to Tennessee for the Electrolux USA Championship.
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