Webb latest LPGA standout ousted in World Match Play

NARITA, Japan (AP) -- Australian star Karrie Webb joined Annika Sorenstam and Se Ri Pak on the sidelines today, losing her second-round match in the World Ladies Match Play Championship.
South Korea's Grace Park, a two-time winner on the LPGA Tour, beat Webb 1-up in wet conditions on the Narita Golf Club course. A day earlier, Sorenstam and Pak lost their first-round matches.
Park took a one-hole lead when Webb bogeyed the 14th hole, and extended the margin with a birdie on the 15th.
Webb made a 5-foot birdie putt on No. 17 to stay alive, but the match ended on No. 18 when Webb's putt from the edge of the green went past the hole. Park's second shot on the 18th landed 20 feet from the hole, and her birdie putt stopped inches from the hole.
Park advanced to a quarterfinal match Saturday against Yuri Fudoh, the top-ranked Japanese tour player who beat Australia's Rachel Teske 3 and 1.
In the other lower-bracket quarterfinal, Sweden's Carin Koch will face Michele Redman. Rosie Jones advanced in the upper bracket, beating Chieko Amanuma 5 and 4, and will face South Korea's Hee Won-han. Kelly Robins will play Japan's Midori Yoneyama in the other upper-bracket quarterfinal.