Flashback: 1988 Standard Register Turqoise Classic

Next Tuesday is the 30th anniversary of Ok-Hee Ku becoming the first Korean winner on the LPGA tour at Moon Valley CC (6404 yards, par-73, four rounds)


 1.  Ok-Hee Ku -11  $52,500
 2.  Dottie Mochrie -10
 2.  Ayako Okamoto -10
 4.  Amy Alcott -8
 4.  Colleen Walker -8
 6.  Chris Johnson -7
 6.  Heather Farr -7
 6.  Juli Inkster -7
 9.  Nancy Brown -5
 9.  Sherri Turner -5
 9.  Jane Geddes -5
 9.  Danielle Ammaccapane -5
 9.  Rosie Jones -5

Other notes:  Alcott broke the course record in Round One with a 65.


Excerpts from 3/28/1988 AP story in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Ku won the tournament yesterday by saving par with a 12-foot, uphill putt on the 18th hole.

"I felt very good about it," Ku said through an interpreter.  "I was just thinking of trying to make it, but if not, I knew I would go sudden death."

Ku might have known it was to be her day:  On number 13, she sliced her drive toward the out-of-bounds markers, but it hit a garbage can and bounced back into safe territory.

"I didn't see it happen, but somebody told me I should keep it (the can) for a souvenir," she said.


Ku obit with a lot of details about her:
www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/sports/golf/while-parks-quest-unfolds-a-trailblazer-dies.html