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Aussies miss out on LPGA Tour cards

Australian golfers Su Oh and Stacey Keating have failed in their bids to earn their full LPGA Tour cards for next season.

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The five-round LPGA qualifying tournament ended in Florida on Sunday, with the top-20 finishers getting exemption to start all 2016 events.

Oh - a 19-year-old former world No.1 amateur - carded a final-round 71 to lift her to a tie for 32nd, her one-under total three shots short of the top-20 cut-off.

However, Oh will get partial tour status with limited starts by virtue of finishing between 21st and 45th.

Victorian Keating wasn't so lucky, a 76 dropping her to a tie for 57th at five-over, three strokes out of the conditional-status cut-off.

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Fellow Australians Rebecca Artis, Emma de Groot and Breanna Elliott were earlier eliminated from the qualifying tournament.

China's Feng Simin won the event with an 18-under total of 342 for 90 holes.

Cheyenne Woods, the niece of Tiger Woods, was among the other 19 players to qualify for the 2016 LPGA Tour.

Woods, 25, shared 11th last year at the event to qualify for the LPGA, but made only eight of 17 cuts this year in her rookie LPGA campaign to finish 125th on the money list, her best finish a share of 24th at Phoenix.

By sharing 13th this year on six-under par 354 after a closing 69, she will have another chance to keep her card based on prize money next year.

"Congrats to @Cheyenne_Woods for getting her LPGA tour card today," tweeted Tiger Woods.

Woods is in good form, sharing second at the Indian Open in a recent Ladies European Tour event.

There was a playoff for the final two spots available between three players who finished 90 holes on 356.

China's Yan Jing and Thailand's Benyapa Niphatsophon qualified while American Christine Song missed out.


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