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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Thursday, October 16, 2008

GOLF REPORT
LPGA will be dressed Passionately Pink at Kapalua

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In tomorrow's second round of the inaugural Kapalua LPGA Classic, the tour will be celebrating Passionately Pink for the Cure Day all over the Kapalua Bay Course.

Players will wear pink attire and pink ribbon pins in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The day is designed to demonstrate the LPGA's commitment to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, its official national charity.

Sunday is the annual Komen Hawai'i Race for the Cure at Kapi'olani Park.

Passionately Pink for the Cure is an awareness and fundraising program that is the largest one-day fundraiser for Komen for the Cure. Companies, organizations, social groups or individuals wear pink for a day and donate $5 or more to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Last year, more than 8,000 businesses and organizations went Passionately Pink, raising nearly $4 million for breast cancer research and community programs.

Komen for the Cure raises funds for breast cancer research and supports education, screening and treatment projects.

The LPGA has several members and staff who have lost battles with breast cancer: Heather Farr, who joined the LPGA in 1985, was diagnosed at age 24 and died in 1993; Kathy Ahern, an LPGA player and LPGA Teaching and Club Professional member, died in 1996; and LPGA Director of Tournament Operations Suzanne Jackson lost her 7 1/2-year battle in 1998, at age 46.

Morgan Pressel, Kapalua's touring pro, donated $103,613 to Boca Raton (Fla.) Community Hospital's Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute earlier this month. The donation represented proceeds from the sale of a special edition "Morgan" Pink Pony golf shirt from Ralph Lauren Golf.

Pressel chose the Lynn Cancer Institute as beneficiary in memory of her mother, Kathy Krickstein Pressel, who died of breast cancer in 2003.

MATCH PLAY AT OCC

There will be 28 teams competing in the Nike Golf/Golf Concepts Aloha Section PGA 4-Ball Match Play Championship, Monday to Wednesday at Oahu Country Club.

Qualifying round and Pro-Am are Monday, with the top 16 teams advancing to match play. OCC head pro Andrew Feldmann and OCC member Larry Stubblefield are defending champions and seeded No. 1.

The first and second rounds are Tuesday, beginning at 7 a.m. Wednesday's semifinals also start at 7 a.m., with the final scheduled to begin at noon. Total purse is $8,500.

Teams include Lance Suzuki and Norman Ganin-Asao, Ron Castillo and Ron Castillo Jr., Michael Castillo and Kevin Carll, Kevin Hayashi and Lance Taketa, John Hearn and Shane Abe, Regan Lee and Beau Yokomoto, Jerry Mullen and Damien Jamila, and Joe Phengsavath and Reynold Lee.