RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Juli Inkster couldn’t have made her Nabisco Dinah Shore debut any more spectacular.
As a rookie back in 1984, she birdied the final hole of regulation to force a playoff with Pat Bradley, who was already a dominant star, and then she beat Bradley in a playoff.
Inkster was 23, and it was the first of her seven major championship victories.
Friday at the ANA Inspiration, formerly the Dinah Shore, Inkster closed her round with another birdie, finishing up a 75 at the end of the morning wave. She missed the cut.