The return from the ashes?

Yesterday Lorena Ochoa showed she’s not ready to give away her spot at the Rolex World Rankings. The Mexican superstar has been the queen for 129 weeks and seems ready to play the tournament she hosts in November.

Lorena became the second player to win 3 events this year, along with Jiyai Shin.

Ochoa started the final round as the leader of the Navistar Classic, with a 3 stroke advantage over German Sandra Gal; she wanted to defend her title and change what happened last week when Sophie Gustafson defeated her in the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge.
Lorena’s first holes were a mess, she scored bogey on hole 1, birdie on the 4th and double bogey on the 5th; nevertheless, she managed to sink her birdie putts on 8, 11, 14 and 17, which led her to a 70 stroke round, 2 under, and a final score of –16, with this she also broke the tournament record, which she set last year with 15 under.
The rest of the players played for second place even teen sensation Michelle Wie, who scored the best round of the day (-6), wasn’t a threat.
14 year old Alexis Thompson, who shared the lead for the firs t36 holes, couldn’t keep the peace and shot 74 on Saturday and Sunday. Se finally tied the 27th position and was the best amateur of the tournament.

 Alexis is the top-ranked junior.

This result represents Lorena’s first victory in a 5 month drought:

Month	Tournament	Position
May	Michelob Ultra Open	10
	Sybase Classic	19
June	McDonald’s LPGA Championship	23
July	Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic	8
	Women’s U.S. Open	26
	Evian Masters	40
	Ricoh Women’s British Open	28
August	Safeway Classic	49
September	CN Canadian Open	10
	Samsung World Championship	4
	CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge	2

Another important thing to say is that Ochoa jumped fro 6th to 2nd in the Player of the Year point’s race, she’s 6 units behind South Korean Jiyai Shin who has 131 points.
Seems like the slump is in the past and that the summer wasn’t the best season for Ochoa; let’s see if the autumn helps her to renovate.