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27 June 2001

Karrie Webb's grandfather died Wednesday at a Gold Coast hospital just hours before the star golfer returned from the United States to see him.

Webb arrived at the hospital after her maternal grandfather, Mick Collinson, 71, died. He suffered a stroke last Thursday and had been in intensive care at John Flynn Hospital.

"It is with much sadness that my grandfather passed away in the early hours of this morning, while I was on my way from the United States to Australia,'' Webb said in a statement issued Wednesday.

"As I said at the LPGA Championship, my grandfather was very special to me. Unfortunately, he died shortly before I arrived back in Queensland this morning.''

Karrie, who asked for privacy for herself and her family, still intends to play in next week's Jamie Farr Kroger Classic in Ohio.

2001 McDonalds LPGA Championship

24 June

"I am at a little loss for words. This is, obviously, something -- this tournament is obviously a tournament I've wanted to win, and obviously, this year I've thought about trying to win this tournament to complete the career Grand Slam. Just right now, it doesn't really mean a whole lot to me."

The tears Karrie Webb shed Sunday were not about the career Grand Slam, an amazing feat never accomplished more quickly or easily.

Instead, they were about her grandfather who is gravely ill in Australia after suffering a stroke on Thursday, who helped introduce Webb to the game she now dominates by letting her follow along as a 4-year-old with plastic clubs on Sunday morning, toting her on his pull cart when she tired.

"The only thing I wanted to do was win for my granddad, and that's all I kept thinking about," Webb said, her voice choking with emotion an hour after the final putt fell for a two-stroke victory in the LPGA Championship and awarding her with a career grand slam.

23 June

"She doesn't get agitated. She doesn't get excited,'' Laura Davies said of Karrie's on course demeanour. "People criticize her for not having an idiot grin on her face all day. That's her. She's just doing what she does best in her own way. I admire her for not walking around, smiling like a clown all day. That's why she's good. You never really know what she's shooting.''

Karrie is at 11-under 131 which breaks the 36-hole scoring record at the LPGA Championship by two strokes. Se Ri Pak had a 133 at the halfway point when she went on to win in 1998.

Webb had a 29 on the front for the lowest 9-hole score in the 47-year history of the championship.

"If she keeps playing like she's playing, I tell you, she's going to win. It's as simple as that,'' said Davies, who played with Webb the first two rounds. "There's nothing I can do about it or anyone else, unless you go very, very low. It's great for us to all be chasing such high standards.''

"We've still got a long way to go, and anything can happen,'' Webb said. Still, Webb has won six of the last seven times when leading after 36 holes.

Should Karrie hang on, she would be the second player in three years to win the U.S. Open and LPGA Championship just 21 days apart to complete the Grand Slam.

22 June

History is on the line for both Karrie Webb and Laura Davies in the McDonalds LPGA Championship -- for Karrie, a chance to become the youngest woman to complete the career Grand Slam; for Laura, the two points she needs to get into the Hall of Fame.

Karrie's so called "slump": Some had said Webb, who won an LPGA Tour-high seven titles last season, was in a slump after going nine tournaments without a win to start the year.

"I think anyone that makes that comment doesn't have any idea about golf," Karrie said.

Karrie and Annika: Annika Sorenstam and Karrie Webb have won the first two major championships on the LPGA Tour this year. The similarities don't end there.

The past six seasons, each has won the money title three times and each has won the Vare Trophy three times for having the lowest scoring average.

Respect is handed out in equal doses, too.

When Sorenstam became the first woman to shoot 59 earlier this year in Phoenix, she found a note in her locker the next day from her chief rival.

"She had an afternoon tee time that day, so I didn't run into her," Sorenstam said of Webb. "But the note was very classy. Then at Nabisco, she was one of the first to congratulate me there, and I thought that was very classy, too.

"That shows what kind of person she is,'' the Swede added. "She's competitive, but she also recognizes when other people do well.''

Webb Working Out: The fitness craze has finally caught up with Karrie Webb, and the two-time U.S. Open champion doesn't like it.

''When I was younger, I could get away with not working out,'' the 26-year-old Australian said. ''Now I'm older, and I can't do that anymore.''

Webb said she has been exercising the past couple of years, but only started getting serious about it six months ago. She runs three times a week, and works on the treadmill.

''I have to admit, I don't enjoy it all,'' Webb said. ''But I know I need to feel good on the golf course and I don't want to be totally exhausted by December.''

Her only weakness?

''I like a beer or two,'' she said.

Upcoming Tournaments:

Karrie has announced she will be playing in the Jamie Farr Kroger Classic - 5-8 July

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Current Tournament McDonalds LPGA Championship 21 June - 24 June Defending Champ: Juli Inkster This event began in 1955 and is one of the four major championships on the LPGA Tour. Photos	Last Tournament Evian Masters ''You can't play well every week ...'' Webb said. ''I can't start making excuses.'' Photos
Karrie Stats coming soon	Trivia Foreign-born players now have won 17 of the 19 tournaments this year on the LPGA Tour.

Webb is a major player: Webb has now won five of the last eight majors she has competed in: the 2001 McDonalds LPGA Championship, the 2001 U.S. Women's Open, the 2000 U.S. Women's Open, the 2000 Nabisco Championship and the 1999 du Maurier Classic.

In addition, in her last 10 major championships, she has finished out of the top 10 only once, missing the cut at the 1999 McDonald's LPGA Championship.

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