By Erik S. Lesser, AP Dottie Pepper has been in position to win several times this LPGA season, but has yet to break through. This weekend she's digging in the mud at the Country Club of the North, where the LPGA is trying to finish the rain-shortened Champions Classic. It was scheduled to be a 54-hole event, but when Friday's first round was washed out by rain, the event was shortened to 36 holes and will conclude Sunday.
Pepper has a share of third place.
Hubbard is a rookie, who is so inexperienced that she couldn't remember her shots in a post-round interview. Maybe I should bring my caddie in here. Had Pepper saved a stroke or two at the right time this season then Annika Sorenstam might not be playing for her sixth victory. She shot 69 Saturday. In Sorenstam's five victories, Pepper was third in Phoenix and Atlanta and second at Tucson and Palm Springs.