Grace Park

With all the attention focused on the youngsters, some veterans proved they still have game. Grace Park shot a bogey-free six-under 66 on Thursday to take the clubhouse lead in the suspended first round of the LPGA Tour's season-opening SBS Open. Becky Iverson was six under through 15 holes when play was halted because of darkness. Sherri Turner, the oldest player in the event at 49, matched Allison Hanna and Meena Lee at 68, and Keyong Bae was four under through 15.

RANCHO MIRAGE -- Inbee Park, a 24-year-old from South Korea who won the U.S. Open in 2008, earned her second major golf title Sunday with an emphatic four-stroke victory in the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills Country Club. Park shot a final-round 69 to finish with a four-day total of 15-under-par 273. Park earned a winner's check of $300,000. It was her ninth career win. Four of them came on the LPGA circuit in Japan. A ninth-place finish was Park's best previous finish here, and she becomes the fourth-youngest player to win the Kraft Nabisco event as well as the third Korean, along with Grace Park in 2004 and Sun Young Yoo last year.

Grace Park's defense of her first major championship might turn out to be shorter than expected ... like not at all. Park hasn't swung a club since back pain prompted her to withdraw Sunday from the LPGA tournament at Phoenix. She said Tuesday that the injury that caused her to sit out the first day of the pro-am at the Kraft Nabisco Championship also might prevent her from playing Thursday, when the $1.8-million event begins at Mission Hills Country Club at Rancho Mirage.

Grace PARK appears in "The Cleaner," starring Benjamin Bratt, a new series that airs on A&E on Tuesdays. She is fresh off "Battlestar Galactica," in which she played Sharon Valerii/Sharon Agathon/Cylon No. 8. She lives in Vancouver, Canada. -- -- One second you're on a squeaky-clean Canadian soap, the next moment you're in high heels and panties in a Maxim shoot. I wasn't like 18, where it was sending off sparks and it was taboo, you know how the American public likes to do that.

RANCHO MIRAGE -- Inbee Park, a 24-year-old from South Korea who won the U.S. Open in 2008, earned her second major golf title Sunday with an emphatic four-stroke victory in the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills Country Club. Park shot a final-round 69 to finish with a four-day total of 15-under-par 273. Park earned a winner's check of $300,000. It was her ninth career win. Four of them came on the LPGA circuit in Japan. A ninth-place finish was Park's best previous finish here, and she becomes the fourth-youngest player to win the Kraft Nabisco event as well as the third Korean, along with Grace Park in 2004 and Sun Young Yoo last year.

Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie attracted most of the attention Thursday in the first round of the Samsung World Championship at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert, but Grace Park played one group behind them, shot a tournament-record, 10-under-par 62 and took the lead. Park birdied the last three holes, including a 25-foot putt at the 18th when she was hoping just to get it close enough to putt for par. "It was a big bonus at the end," said Park, who was second last week at the Asahi Ryokuken.

For Grace Park, the moment of truth has arrived. A five-under-par 67 Saturday in the third round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship took care of that. Park, 25, has a three-day total of eight-under 208 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage and is tied with 17-year-old tour rookie Aree Song for the lead in the first LPGA major championship of the year.

Had Grace Park felt calm, she might have been worried, but she didn't have that problem Sunday when she faced a six-foot putt to win the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Her hands were shaking so much that she nearly froze over the putt on the final hole at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage. But with a racing heart and shaking knees, she pulled the trigger and made a birdie putt.

Soon now, somebody is going to have to tell Grace Park where she is, that she's not playing in the Bob Hope, even though her scores might remind everybody of what happens in those birdie playpens down the road. Park followed up her first-round 62 with a five-under-par 67 Friday and opened a four-shot lead at 15-under 129 after 36 holes of the $825,000 Samsung World Championship at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert.

Grace Park is happy again, and not only because she just won her first major golf championship. Her victory last week at the Kraft Nabisco Championship helped, of course, but that was more a byproduct of an overall attitude change that began taking shape during a soul-searching session two years ago.

With all the attention focused on the youngsters, some veterans proved they still have game. Grace Park shot a bogey-free six-under 66 on Thursday to take the clubhouse lead in the suspended first round of the LPGA Tour's season-opening SBS Open. Becky Iverson was six under through 15 holes when play was halted because of darkness. Sherri Turner, the oldest player in the event at 49, matched Allison Hanna and Meena Lee at 68, and Keyong Bae was four under through 15.

Grace Park's defense of her first major championship might turn out to be shorter than expected ... like not at all. Park hasn't swung a club since back pain prompted her to withdraw Sunday from the LPGA tournament at Phoenix. She said Tuesday that the injury that caused her to sit out the first day of the pro-am at the Kraft Nabisco Championship also might prevent her from playing Thursday, when the $1.8-million event begins at Mission Hills Country Club at Rancho Mirage.

If it really is lonely at the top, it also might be uncomfortable, which is what Grace Park could be feeling today, if Annika Sorenstam and Cristie Kerr are right. Park shot a third-round 71 Saturday and holds a three-shot lead at the $825,000 Samsung World Championship, pursued by Sorenstam and Kerr, who promptly suggested that Park probably should feel a little unsettled right about now.

Soon now, somebody is going to have to tell Grace Park where she is, that she's not playing in the Bob Hope, even though her scores might remind everybody of what happens in those birdie playpens down the road. Park followed up her first-round 62 with a five-under-par 67 Friday and opened a four-shot lead at 15-under 129 after 36 holes of the $825,000 Samsung World Championship at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert.

Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie attracted most of the attention Thursday in the first round of the Samsung World Championship at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert, but Grace Park played one group behind them, shot a tournament-record, 10-under-par 62 and took the lead. Park birdied the last three holes, including a 25-foot putt at the 18th when she was hoping just to get it close enough to putt for par. "It was a big bonus at the end," said Park, who was second last week at the Asahi Ryokuken.

Grace Park is happy again, and not only because she just won her first major golf championship. Her victory last week at the Kraft Nabisco Championship helped, of course, but that was more a byproduct of an overall attitude change that began taking shape during a soul-searching session two years ago.

If it really is lonely at the top, it also might be uncomfortable, which is what Grace Park could be feeling today, if Annika Sorenstam and Cristie Kerr are right. Park shot a third-round 71 Saturday and holds a three-shot lead at the $825,000 Samsung World Championship, pursued by Sorenstam and Kerr, who promptly suggested that Park probably should feel a little unsettled right about now.

Grace PARK appears in "The Cleaner," starring Benjamin Bratt, a new series that airs on A&E on Tuesdays. She is fresh off "Battlestar Galactica," in which she played Sharon Valerii/Sharon Agathon/Cylon No. 8. She lives in Vancouver, Canada. -- -- One second you're on a squeaky-clean Canadian soap, the next moment you're in high heels and panties in a Maxim shoot. I wasn't like 18, where it was sending off sparks and it was taboo, you know how the American public likes to do that.

Had Grace Park felt calm, she might have been worried, but she didn't have that problem Sunday when she faced a six-foot putt to win the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Her hands were shaking so much that she nearly froze over the putt on the final hole at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage. But with a racing heart and shaking knees, she pulled the trigger and made a birdie putt.

For Grace Park, the moment of truth has arrived. A five-under-par 67 Saturday in the third round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship took care of that. Park, 25, has a three-day total of eight-under 208 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage and is tied with 17-year-old tour rookie Aree Song for the lead in the first LPGA major championship of the year.