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Show DAILY H Friday, March 10, 2006 ERALD GOLF Double eagle lifts Ogilvy intotie for lead Tim Reynolds Sorenstam, Ochoa lead LPGAfield set some high andreally lofty goals, but that’s whatkeeps me going. PALM BEACH GARDENS. Fla. — Gusty winds sent 8-iron shots flying 245 yards, while HUIXQUILUCAN,Mexico — Annika Sorenstam makes her season debut today at a place whereshe feels right at home. The gallery, however, some 4-irons struggled to go 185. The breezeshada fewballs fluttering ontheslick greens, mostof the players couldn't break par and golf's rarest feat roundof the HondaClassic had almost everything. struggled early atlast year’s MasterCardClassic but rallied to finish fifth. “I think last year in this tournamentI learned more David Toms madefive straight birdiesto highlighthis 5-under roundof 67, and he shared the first-round lead with Geoff Ogilvy, Ryuji Imada and he was officiallyin the field un“There are some good scores today, even with the conditions,” Tomssaid. “Somebody is always going to play well, no first-round markon tourthis playtheir final hole because of y's round was bizarre: 11 JIM RASSOL/South Florida Sun-Sentinel Fredrik Jacobsonlooks forhis ball onthe ninth hole after almosthitting his tee shot out of bounds in thefirst roundof the Honda Classicgolf tournament Thursday. “It's only Thursd Imada said. “Come Saturday afternoon or Sunday, it’s a whole different story.” Ofthe leaderboard’s top 18 players, 13 finished by lunch. pars,two eagles,twobirdies, a Brian Gay — who wasin the bogey, a double bogey — and a double eagle on the 6th hole. His first group and had the onlybogey-free round — Billy Mayfair tee shot, with the wind, went 373 yards; his 8-iron from 169hit the green, hopped three times and droppedin the cup’s center. “Whenthings are going your way,” said Ogilvy, who.won the Match Play Championship this and Jeff Gove were one shot back at.4-under, with Shaun Micheel, 2000 Honda winner Dudley Hart, Scott Hend and John Cookall at 69. Take the strong winds, add fuddled. Defending champion ’ Padraig Harringtonbattled to He sandwichedsix birdies and an eagle around three bogeys. windstarted. “Atleast we gotoneshot in,” he quipped. Eventheleaders shook their heads. Imadacalled it “British Openconditions with a PGA a 71, and the last three Honda winnersbefore him — Todd Hamilton, Justin Leonard and Matt Kuchar — all shot 78. “You're thinking, ‘What the heck’s going on?”said 2001 playing smart. So you haveto be able to bounce back.” The leading foursomeis an eriety group,for sure. ‘oms has three top-10 finishes Ps this season, has pocketed morethan $1.7 million and Tour setup.” Ogilvy compared it toa U.S. Open challenge, and Gronberg said most holes played twoclubs differently berg said. “andit’s unplayable.” Gronberg birdied the open- Sunrise courseleft most be- “It's not one of those days whereyou can go out and make 16 pars and two birdies,” Toms said,“It’s just the type of course whereyou're going to make gdod bogeys out there even Ashe played his approach, the it’s no surprise that Mirasol’s eagle ontourthis year. an errant shot backinto play. shot 71. Cook struckhis first tee ball at 6:45 a.m., in calm silence. thant usual. “Anotherclub or two,” Gron- toughin placid conditions, and feet in the run offive straight birdies. champJesper Parnevik, who humpbacked greensthat are season, “things are going your way.” It wasthe second double Imada’s round was also entertaining, replete with him donning rain gearon the 16th to wadeinto a hazard and knock purses being different.” The 35-year-old Swede is chasing a record many thoughtout of reach:88 ca- reer LPGA victories by Kathy Whitworth. Sorenstam has 66. “I've alwaysfelt like that was so difficult to achieve,” she Arizona star won the Wegmans Rochester LPGA in June said. “I mean 88 wins, if you npnety it’s and is oneof only two playjust amazing. ButI'ma lot fur-* erstofinish in the top five at ther thanI thought I would be.” both LPGA tournamentsthis Last year’s MasterCard season. The Guadalajara golfer Classic marked the LPGA’s wonthree times in herfirst first Mexican eventsince the three full seasons onthe tour. Sorenstam has wonthree of Bing CrosbyInternational, tour,” Ochoa said. The former University of til Wednesday morning. - year, and three players couldn't moneylist, especially with the than I did in three years on Mathias Gronberg — the sev- enth alternate who didn't know mph, with higher gusts, began blowingearly and strengthened steadily before dissipating some by day's end. The average score was 74.28 — the highest f at No. 1. “I think for the future it’s goingto give us good meawill also haveits eyes on some- surements on the performance of everybody around the one else. Lorena Ochoa,the first Mex- world,” Sorenstam said. “It’s ican to win on the LPGA Tour, really tough to compare the spiced up the afternoon. Indeed, Thursday's opening matter whois in thefield.” Southeast winds from 15 to 25 In February, the first wom- en's rankings put Sorenstam at No.8, is the top-ranked player entered here. Ogilvy has more than $1.5 million in 2006 earn- ings andhas finished outside the top 25 once in his five events. ing hole, quickly building momentum thatled to a six-birdie, Meanwhile, Imada labored one-bogeyeffort. Toms had a three-birdie, three-bogey open- for five years on the Nation- ing side, the last miscue coming wide Tour before getting his card, and Gronberg owns three after he sent a’birdie try off the top-10 finishesin his entire tour green on18,his ninth hole. career — with 39 missed cutsin 70 starts. He madefour putts of 11 to 13 herlast four season openers, andshe will be making her second straight season debut at this tournament. “This is a greatstart to the season.I've got good memoTies,” said Sorenstam, who enjoyed a three-strokevictory over Karrie Webblast year. “I'm happyto be back here and I don’t feel any extra pressure.” The title in Mexico is one of 10 the Swedewill defendthis whichwas played in 1974 and 1975 in Guadalajara. There was another tour stop in Mexico a year ago, with Carin Koch winning the « Corona Morelia Championship’ in April, an event Sorenstam * skipped. The LPGA will head back to Morelia in October. Becauseofthe hilly terrain Bosque Real Country Club and long distances betweenholes, players and caddieswill be al- year. She has 21 victories worldwide and three major championships the twoyears. lowed to usecarts for the first opening SBS Open at Oahu, feet. That will afford sweep- Joo Mi Kim wonthe season- Hawaii, and Meena Lee won a weeklater at Kapolei, Hawaii. Lee will be looking to make it twostraight at the MasterCardClassic. Sorenstam doesn't dwell on timein tour history. The tournamentwill be played at an altitude of 7,400 ing, though smog-shrouded, views of western MexicoCity. Butit also promises to send balls soaring. Sorenstam said shots will carry 15 percentfar- ther, making consistency with her intimidating presence. irons more important. thinking, "What are the other hillier than weplay throughoutthe year. It’s also a course “I really don't walk around players thinking?”she said. “I try to mind my ownbusi- ness, do whatI've got to do.I “It’s a course that’s a lot wherethe elevation makes a big difference,” she said. NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Trade deadline: Some dear Up, some give up scoring forward Mark Recchi to waivehis notrade clause and Ira Podell THE ASSOCIATED PRESS If the NHL wanted to cut downdeadline dealing,it didn’t work. With goaltenders and defensemen drawing the most at| tention, 25 tradesinvolving 40 players were completed Thursday before the leaguecutoff. It didn't matter that clubs faced their first deadlinein the salary capera orthat the endof trading was moved up two weeks leave the Pittsburgh Penguins. Carolina parted with forwards Niklas Nordgren and Krystofer Kolanos, and a second-roundselection in next year’s draft. “I didn’t feel pressure to doit, . it wasn’t an absolute necessity,” Carolina general managerJim Rutherford said. “It’s not like we DAVID DUPREY /Associated Press wereout looking at several playBuffalo's Toni Lydman(5) defends ona shot as Tampa Bay's Ryan ers. Whilethe loss of Erik hurts Craig(34) is checked to theice in front of Sabres goalie Ryan our team, if we weren'table to Miller during the secondperiod. to keep teams from giving up get Mark Recchi, we weren't hope ontheplayoffs. going to get anyoneelse.” Somelike the New YorkIsThe 25 trades topped the landers did, but with 23 of the markof 24 that were completRYAN REMIORZAssociated Press 30 teams within seven points of ed at the 2003 deadline, when a postseasonspotat the start of a record 46 players changed Former Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jose Theodore,left, says ROUNDUP the day, the. dealinghit a frenteams.Six deals were also goodbye to veteran hockeywriter RedFisherafter speaking BOSTON — Montreal's Criszied pace before the afternoon consummated Wednesday as a about his trade to the Colorado Avalancheafter a news tobal Huet made28saves for his goals for Columbus, which had whistle blew. preludeto the last-day rush. conference in Montrealon Thursday. second consecutive shutout over scored onlyfive goals in four The Vancouver Canucks “There's a lot more moves Boston andhis fourth ofthe sea- gamessince the Olympicbreak. madethe biggest splash on the than I thought and that people son, beating the undermanned busiest deadline day in NHLhis- thought there was going to roundselection to New Jersey dealt off more veterans. Bruins 3-0 on Thursday. » Sabres8, Lightning 5: At Buftory, acquiring backup goalie be,” Detroit Red Wings general for Brown, and a third-round The Islanders traded defenMika Noronenand defensemen managerKenHollandsaid.“I Boston was without Sergei falo, N.Y., Derek Roy recorded pick and defenseman Tomas ‘seman Brad Lukowich to the Samsonov, whowassent to his second-careerhattrick,J.P. Sean Brown,Keith think lot of teams in the West Mojzis to St. Louis for Weinrich. NewJersey Devils and forward the EdmontonOilers before the Dumont had twogoals, and Juha AlenandEric Weinrich in made themselves better over Chicago,just aboveSt. Louis Oleg Kvasha to the Phoenix gameat the NHLtrading dead- Thomas Vanek snapped thirdfour separate deals. the last 48 hours.” f at the bottom of the Western Coyotes fora pair of thirdline for Marty Reasoner, Yan period tie to help Buffalo beat Andthey needed the help on Oneofthose clubs was the Conference, went the other round picks in this year’s draft. Stastny and a second-round TampaBay. Paul Gaustad and the backline to makeup for EdmontonOilers, who acquired way and unloaded several vetKvasha was acquired with draft pick. Thatleft the Bruins, Ales Kotalik also scored for the the loss of injured defensemen. left winger Sergei Samsonov erans in exchangefora host of Parrish from Florida on June 24, Sabres, who wontheir fourth Ed Jovanovski(abdominal already struggling for offense, from the Boston Bruins for cen- draft choices. 2000, in the deal that sent goalie without muchof an attack. straight. surgery), Mattias Ohlund(ribs) ters Marty Reasoner and Yan _ The Blackhawks sent cenRoberto Luongo and forward ‘ Alex Kovalev and Sheldon . and Sami Salo (shoulder). Stastny, and a second-round ter Tyler Arnason to Ottawa Olli Jokinen to the Panthers. » Red Wings7, Kings 3: At DeSouray scored and Tomas “The goal was to shore up draft pick this year. Another for young forward Brandon ‘That trade more than any other, Plekanec added an empty-netter troit, Henrik Zetterberg scored our D andsee if we could imwas Colorado, which picked Bochenski and a second-round ie general manager Mike his 30th and 3ist goals less than with 25 seconds left for Monprovein net,” Canucks general up goalie Jose Theodore from selection; traded center Jim tenure treal, which wonfor the fourth a minute apart in the second pemanager Dave Nonis said. “On Montreal on Wednesdayfor Dowdto Colorado for a fourth- that that feetopreeucs Sayolt riod for the host Red Wings. timein six games. The Canathe back end, we're going to goalie David Aebischer. roundchoice; and dealt defenseries victory in his 10-plus diens have beaten Boston four get some bodies back but the But it was the Canucks who seman Todd Simpson to Monyears in charge. D Avalanche 2, Blackhawks 1: At times in fivetries this season. timing is uncertain. Wefelt we made the most noise. treal for a sixth-round pick. fheleg has emerged as a Chicago,Peter Budaj made 26 needed:some character and Vancouversent a secondof the league’s top ‘op gigoalies, anc saves, and Pierre Turgeon and D BlueJackets 5, Coyotes 4: At strengthonthe back end.” round pick and defenseman Columbus,Ohio, Rick Nash had Antti Laaksonen scored to lead Car wasn't content to Brett Skinner to Anaheim for a goal and an assist, and CoColorado to victory over Chicago. sit back even though the HurCarney and Alen, and another lumbus brokeout of its scoring Budaj, te temporarily Colorado's second-roundchoice to Buffalo top goalie following the trade of slump against Phoenix. for Noronen, who will help dealing forward MarkParrish David Aebischer to Montreal, was | terlosing Erik Cole for at least Nikolai Zherdev and former spell workhorse goaltender and defenseman Brent Sopel Coyotes Jan Hrdina, Mike Rupp especially sharp late in the second | the rest of the regular season, Alex Auld. ele ne ee unrestricted free agent this and Jason Chimeraalso had and early in the third periods. | the Hurricanes convinced highround picks, New York summer. ‘The Canucks dealt a fourth- Canadiens blank Bruins Memories fade, your pictures shouldn't. 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