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Ending a two-year drought on the LPGA Tour wasn't on Karrie Webb's mind in the ShopRite LPGA Classic. Winning one for her seriously ill grandmother was.
Webb, who nearly returned home to Australia on Thursday when her parents informed her that her grandmother, Marion Webb, was near death, delivered some welcome medicine Sunday, rallying from five shots down for a two-stroke victory and her 39th career tour win -- most among active players.
"She talked to me on the phone and said she didn't want me to come home, and that I had to win one for her," the teary-eyed Webb said after digging deep to overcome the blustery conditions that derailed almost everyone in the field on wind-whipped Bay Course at the Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club.
Webb knew winning wasn't going to be easy. While she has had occasional good rounds on this course across the bay from the Atlantic City casino resort, the Hall of Famer has never really seriously contended on the final day.
"I was like, this isn't the one that you tell me that I have to win for you because I was like, 'I've never really even had a shot to win here,'" Webb said. "So when I got off to that start, I was like, 'Oh, my God.' Well, when she started to make a turn for the better, my dad said, 'Look, she's going to make it, so the pressure is off, you know.' He felt for me after she told me I had to win it for her. But you know, I was in contention and in the lead today. I was like, 'Wow, I might actually be able to do this for her.'"
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