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Amanda Blumenherst led the way at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament on Monday, winning medalist honors by two strokes and earning her place on the LPGA Tour in 2010.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Amanda Blumenherst easily passed her first big test as a pro on Monday when she closed with a 4-under 68 to be medalist at LPGA Q-School, one of 20 players to earn cards for next year.

This is a story about cups that are half empty and those that are half full. The LPGA schedule for the 2010 season, released Wednesday on the eve of the LPGA Tour Championship, the final event of an embattled year for the tour, is the sparsest since 1971.

In Ron Sirak's Golf World piece highlighting his five critical points for the LPGA Tour to resolve, he brings up the possibility that the LPGA Tour could face stiff competition if the likes of Donald Trump or Rupert Murdoch made a big money investment in their own golf tour, put together a network TV deal, and created a string of no-cut worldwide ...

RICHMOND, Texas The LPGA Playoffs won't be on the tour's schedule for a second straight season next year, but tour officials are aggressively seeking to bring them back in 2011.

Site: Richmond, Texas. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: The Houstonian Golf and Country Club .

Jiyai Shin wrapped up the LPGA Tour's rookie of the year award last week. The 21-year-old South Korean star has her eye on player of the year honors this week in her Mizuno Classic title defense "I won here last year, so to come here I feel very comfortable about this course," Shin said Thursday, a day before the start of play at Kintetsu ...

In Ron Sirak's Golf World piece highlighting his five critical points for the LPGA Tour to resolve, he brings up the possibility that the LPGA Tour could face stiff competition if the likes of Donald Trump or Rupert Murdoch made a big money investment in their own golf tour , put together a network TV deal, and created a string of no-cut worldwide ...

EUROPEAN TOUR - DUBAI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, Jumeirah Golf Estates , Dubai, United Arab Emirates - After almost a full year of battling, the Race to Dubai ends this week and there will be a winner.Mathematically, four players have a chance at the money title.

CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK CLASSIC, Walt Disney World Resort , Lake Buena Vista, Florida - Last year, Davis Love III fired a final-round 64 to win by a shot and capture his 20th career victory and first in two years.

SHIMA : LPGA Rookie of the Year Shin Ji-yai launches her bid this week to win back-to-back titles at the US$1.4mil Mizuno Classic women's golf tournament in Japan.

After the firing of eight staffers last week, we here at Waggle Room posed the question to wonder if the releases were due to how things have been for the Tour in the last 18 months or how they will continue to be.

There's no home-field advantage in golf. In fact, you can make the argument that it's one of the few sports where playing at home is a disadvantage.

Cristie Kerr holds up the winner's trophy after claiming the Michelob Ultra Open in May.

Following one of her frequent English lessons in the media center at last week's P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship, Jiyai Shin saw the tournament trophy and said she'd see it again on Sunday.

It's a girl for Annika Sorenstam. The Hall of Fame golfer wrote in her blog that Ava Madelyn McGee was born Tuesday morning.

The structure sounds an awful lot like the FedEx Cup or its poorer cousin, The Race to Dubai.

CBSSports.com senior writer Steve Elling and Augusta Chronicle columnist and golf writer Scott Michaux hit the ground running with a scattershot weekly debate on the pertinent issues in golf.

It's that time of year again! No, not the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Rather, the kvetching about the format of the FedEx Cup playoffs ! We have arrived at the third iteration of the Playoffs and seemingly no one is still happy about the format - not even the two guys that have won an easy $10 million because of it.

Michelle Wie is only 19 years old, but she has been one of the more intriguing story lines in professional golf for years.