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Tuesday, March 25th, 2014

MEDIA CONFERENCE CALL ADVISORY: Hall-of-Famer Judy Rankin and Major Champion Karen Stupples to Preview Kraft Nabisco Championship

Wednesday, March 26, 3 p.m. ET / Noon PT

Hall-of-Famer Judy Rankin, a 26-time LPGA Tour winner and 1976 Kraft Nabisco Champion (then known as the Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner’s Circle), will serve as lead analyst for Golf Channel’s live tournament coverage of the Kraft Nabisco Championship, April 3-6.  Karen Stupples, 2004 Women’s British Open champion, is the newest member of Golf Channel’s on-air live tournament team, and will serve as an on-course reporter for the Kraft Nabisco Championship, a tournament in which she compiled five top-20 finishes over her career, highlighted by a fifth place finish in 2010.

Golf Channel has exclusive, live coverage of golf’s first major championship of 2014, airing more than 20 live hours from Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif.  Additional tournament programming will include live news conferences on Tuesday and Wednesday, a one-hour Pro-Am show airing in primetime on Wednesday, as well as wrap-around news coverage provided by Golf Central for each tournament day

The Kraft Nabisco Championship will feature an elite field, headlined by new Rolex Rankings No. 1 and defending champion Inbee Park, past champions Sun Young Yoo (2012), Stacy Lewis (2011), Yani Tseng (2010), Brittany Lincicome (2009), Morgan Pressel (2000, 2006) Pat Hurst (1984, 1989), and recently named 2015 U.S. Solheim Cup Captain Juli Inkster (1984, 1989)

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