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Fri 07 Jul 2008Hudson and LET players have point to prove
IRISH WOMEN'S OPEN:AN INVASION of sorts has taken place for the AIB Ladies Irish Open at Portmarnock Links, even if two of the infiltrators - Norway's Suzann Pettersen, the world number three, and Maria Hjorth, of Sweden - are familiar faces in that they cut their teeth as touring professionals on this side of the Atlantic before being lured to the greater financial rewards on the LPGA Tour.
Still, along with the American Morgan Pressel, the two Scandinavians are part of a them-and-us challenge for the European Tour's leading lights.
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