Arkansas Business

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The Walmart Northwest Arkansas LPGA Tournament presented by P&G saw its first swing yesterday in preliminary rounds. It's been a quiet start to one of the few professional national events that take place in Arkansas. Those lady golfers might not be the noisiest bunch (none of them have any recent embarrassing voicemail messages or have gotten their RV stuck inside a tunnel lately), but there is still plenty of action being had at Pinnacle Country Club.

Local golf observers will be keeping check on former Razorback golfer Stacy Lewis. As a pro, she's third on the LPGA money list and has finished in the Top 10 this year eight times. Strangely enough, the closest she's come to winning her hometown (well, home area-code, at least) tournament was in 2007 when she unofficially won a rain-shortened event as an amateur. Lewis, obviously, will be looking to change that piece of trivia.

Everyone else will probably be talking about something like how Michelle Wie now has red hair. That's fine with us. If there is any time to dye your hair red, you may as well do it right before coming to Razorback-rich Rogers.

The tournament will end with a bang however on Sunday, the 10th anniversary of 9/11, with a special military flyover by four A-10s from the 188th Fighter Wing with the Arkansas Air National Guard. That is, if weather permits.