Florida: Inbee Park took over the top spot in the women's golf ranking on Monday, ending Stacy Lewis' four-week run at No. 1. Park moved ahead of Lewis eight days after winning the Kraft Nabisco Championship for her second major title and second victory of the year. The 24-year-old South Korean player also won the LPGA Thailand in February.
"This is a very big day in my golf career," Park said Monday at the LPGA Lotte Championship in Hawaii. "I'm so happy to share it with my family, who are here in Hawaii with me. It's nice to reach this goal, but I know a lot of players are close to No. 1. It gives me something else to play for every week."
Lewis dropped to second, an average of 0.04 points per event behind Park in the two-year standings. Taiwan's Yani Tseng remained No. 3. She was No. 1 for 109 weeks before Lewis grabbed the top spot with consecutive victories in Singapore and Phoenix.
Park is the eighth player and the second South Korean - following Jiyai Shin - to hold the No. 1 spot. Annika Sorenstam, Lorena Ochoa, Ai Miyazato and Cristie Kerr also have topped the ranking. Last year, Park won twice on the LPGA Tour, had six runner-up finishes, topped the money list and took the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average. The putting star had a string of six straight top-three finishes. She won the Evian Masters in July in France,
10:01 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Only 21.76 per cent of Indian doctors trained abroad have qualified to practice in the country, parliament was informed on Tuesday. A total of 14,476 doctors who completed their medical degrees abroad appeared for the screening test during the year 2012 out of which 3,150 candidates or 21.76 per cent qualified the test, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply. ...
03:55 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Bangkok: German driver Adrian Sutil is confident of returning to Sahara Force India for the 2013 Formula One season. Sutil was part of the Silverstone outfit from 2007-2012, including the year when the team raced under the Spyker banner, and is seen as the strongest candidate for Nico Hulkenberg's replacement. Paul di Resta is likely to retain his place. "In five years I was in this team, they know how...
07:37 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Sao Paulo: Nico Hulkenberg ended his partnership with Sahara Force India on a high as he secured 10 points for the side at the season-closing Brazilian Grand Prix with a fifth place finish, here on Monday. History was beckoning the young German when he was locked in an intesne race-lead battle with Mercedes' bound Lewis Hamilton but an overtaking manoeuvre in lap 49 brought him a costly drive through penatly,...
12:24 AM, Nov 26, 2012
Sao Paulo: Sauber reserve driver Esteban Gutierrez of Mexico earned himself a race seat with the team for the 2013 Formula 1 season. The 21-year old Mexican will partner the recently-confirmed Nico Hulkenberg, who joins Sauber from Force India. Dutchman Robin Frijns will replace Gutirrez as the Swiss squad's new test and reserve driver, which leaves out current racer Kamui Kobayashi, who has been at Sauber since 2010, without a...
07:40 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Sao Paulo: Sahara Force India will get a boost of 50 million pounds for an improved showing in the next season, said team principal Vijay Mallya who does not rule out the possibility of Adrian Sutil returning to his team in place of outgoing Nico Hulkenberg. "We have shown that every year we get better, so we expect nothing less next season. But it is also time for us to...
10:06 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Abu Dhabi: Sahara Force India drivers missed out on Q3 for the second consecutive race as Nico Hulkenberg qualified 11th and Paul di Resta could secure only P13 for Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. McLaren's outgoing star Lewis Hamilton grabbed pole ahead of Red Bull's Mark Webber, who was just 0.348 seconds behind, and championship leader Sebastian Vettel. Hamilton's flying lap of 1:40.630 secured him his sixth pole position of...
10:08 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Abu Dhabi: Germany's Nico Hulkenberg has promised to do his best to help Force India beat Sauber in the Formula One constructors' championship even if it costs his future team millions of dollars. Swiss-based Sauber announced on Wednesday, ahead of Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, that Hulkenberg would be racing for them next season. Force India, whose other driver is Britain's Paul Di Resta, are seventh overall and 23 points...
11:56 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Abu Dhabi: Sahara Force India drivers say the Yas Marina cicruit suits them well and they are optimistic of carrying forward the good run into the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday. Force India had both of its cars in the points bracket in the 2011 season at the Yas Marina circuit with Adrian Sutil finishing eighth ahead of team-mate Paul di Resta. In the 2012 season, Force India are...
05:46 PM, Oct 31, 2012
New Delhi: Adrian Sutil could be in the frame for a return to Force India and Formula One if fellow-German Nico Hulkenberg moves to Sauber next season, according to team co-owner Vijay Mallya. The liquor baron told Reuters in an Indian Grand Prix interview that the driver line-up, and how best to invest the latest tranche of funds paid to the team by the Sahara Group, will be discussed at...
03:03 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Greater Noida: Amidst strong speculations that Nico Hulkenberg will leave Sahara Force India to join Sauber for the next season, Team Prinicpal Vijay Mallya on Sunday said he will reveal the drivers' line-up next month. Hulkenberg, who test drove for the Indian side in 2011, was elevated to the driving seat at the start of the current season and the German did a fantastic job for the team with consistent...
09:03 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Greater Noida: It would have been an ideal result for Sahara Force India had both its cars earned points in their home Grand Prix here on Sunday, but the team is still a happy unit with Nico Hulkenberg's eighth-place finish, considering the poor qualifying. Paul di Resta ended outside the points bracket, finishing the race in 12th position after starting from 16th. However, Hulkenberg gained four positions from his P12...
07:33 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Greater Noida: None of the Sahara Force India drivers could make the top 10 on the grid for their home race during the qualifying session of the Indian Grand Prix 2012 at the Buddh International Circuit here on Saturday. Meanwhile, Red Bull driver and defending champion Sebastian Vettel claimed his fifth pole position of the season, whose three consecutive wins have propelled him to the top of the table in...
04:37 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Los Angeles: Arnold Schwarzenegger is reprising one of his most famous movie roles - Conan the Barbarian - for an upcoming sequel, Universal Pictures said on Friday. Schwarzenegger, 65, will play the sword-swinging hero in 'The Legend of Conan,' 30 years after the film that launched the Austrian body-builder as a Hollywood star. "I always loved the Conan character, and I'm honored to be asked to step into the role...
01:40 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Greater Noida: In his maiden sojourn at the Buddh International Circuit here, Sahara Force India driver Nico Hulkenberg is satisfied with the free practice on Friday and said he was shaping up well for the qualifying session at the Indian Grand Prix on Friday. Hulkenberg, who ended eighth at the second practice session, said that he had achieved what he had wanted to do on Friday. "It was my first...
08:49 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: Sahara Force India drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Paul di Resta on Monday said they will try to make their home Grand Prix "special" with a big result and won't "give up" on the sixth place in the championship for which they are fighting hard with Sauber. With four races to go, starting with Sunday's Indian Grand Prix, the Indian outfit is placed seventh currently, trailing the Swiss team...
06:19 PM, Oct 22, 2012
After the recent rumours linking Nico Hulkenberg to Sauber, Force India seem more determined to hold onto the other driver, Paul di Resta, for next season. "We don't expect any changes and we would like it to be business as usual, because we have two brilliant drivers," Robert Fernley, Force India's deputy team principal, was quoted as saying recently. The 26-year-old Scot had been linked with Ferrari to replace Felipe...
01:49 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Greater Noida: Nico Hulkenberg's immediate focus is to win the elusive podium for Sahara Force India's "proper" home race at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) here later this month even if he eventually decides to race for Sauber next year. Hulkenberg goes into the Oct 26-28 Indian Grand Prix on a high, having performed impressively in the second half of the season. The German came fourth in the first race...
04:35 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Yeongam (South Korea): Sahara Force India's Nico Hulkenberg will be driving for Sauber in the 2013 Formula One season, BBC reported Sunday. The report said Mexican Esteban Gutierrez will be Hulkenberg's teammate next year, leaving Kamui Kobayashi without a seat. Kobayashi's current teammate at Sauber, Sergio Perez, will be shifting to McLaren in 2013. "Sauber have not yet officially confirmed Hulkenberg but the deal is understood already to be done,"...
06:58 PM, Oct 14, 2012
Yeongam: Nico Hulkenberg earned eight points for Sahara Force India with a sixth place finish while Paul Di Resta finished 12th in the Korean Grand Prix, here on Sunday. The result helped Force India reduce the gap with close rival and sixth-placed Sauber to 27 points as the none of the Swiss team's driver finished inside top-10. Sergio Perez was 11th while Kamuyi Kobayasahi retired after an accident. With four...
05:13 PM, Oct 14, 2012
