Hull enters top 50 in Rolex Rankings

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08/18/2008 - Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Katherine Hull claimed her first LPGA Tour win on Sunday and that helped her enter the top 50 in this week's Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings.

Hull jumped 40 places to No. 49 this week.

Lorena Ochoa remained No. 1 and was again followed by Sorenstam. Yani Tseng finished third behind Hull and moved up two spots to No. 3 this week.

Tseng's move bumped Suzann Pettersen and Paula Creamer down to four and five respectively.

Ji-Yai Shin, Karrie Webb, Cristie Kerr, Seon-Hwa Lee and Jeong Jang remained in the sixth through 10 spots this week.

Inbee Park and Maria Hjorth exchanged places with Park inching up to 11th. Eun-Hee Ji, Helen Alfredsson, Angela Park and Momoko Ueda held steady in 13th to 16th.

Jee Young Lee and Yuri Fudoh flip-flopped positions again this week with Lee back up to 17. Morgan Pressel remained No. 19 and Juli Inkster held steady in the 20th position.

Se Ri Pak finished second behind Hull and moved up nine places to 21st.

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Big 12 Conference betting odds

Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.