Hurricane Earl appears to have spared the Albany area and the 1st round of the last event on the 2010 Futures Tour schedule was completed today with no delays. 17-year-old former U.S. Girls Junior champion Jenny Shin took advantage of a soft, short, h...
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Check out the LPGA's set-up of the Futures Tour's grand finale in Albany this week. Their run-downs of the race for the top 5 on the money list and full LPGA status for 2011 and for 2010 Rookie of the Year should get everyone up to speed. And their r...
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With Michelle Wie's wire-to-wire win in Winnipeg last week, it's high time to see where she stands in terms of her likelihood to move on to my 3-to-6-time winners' list this season. Will she join the players who have graduated from my February list of...
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By now, fans of the Canadian Women's Open have probably read LPGA.com's final-round notes and interviews, Hound Dog's final-round play-by-play, Bill Jempty's final-round overview and reactions, and Brent Kelley's final-round contextualization, so you k...
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Nobuko Kizawa got her 1st JLPGA victory in her 20th season on tour just weeks before her 41st birthday in a playoff over LPGA transplant Na-Ri Kim at the Nitori Ladies. And she did it the hard way, dropping 3 shots in her last 11 holes after getting t...
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Even though Michelle Wie missed more greens yesterday than in the previous 2 days combined and gave back every 1 of her 3 birdies with a corresponding bogey in rainy conditions, she kept her hopes for a wire-to-wire win at the Canadian Women's Open ali...
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1st-round leader Michelle Wie started on the 10th tee yesterday and promptly bogeyed the par-3 she had gotten a hole in 1 on the day before, but bounced back with 3 birdies in her next 6 holes and consecutive birdies late in her round to post her 2nd-s...
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How is this actually shocking news? But it is!
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Just heard the news of Satoshi Kon's passing. After Hayao Miyazaki, he was probably my favorite anime director. From his contribution to the animated sf anthology Memories (1995) to his first feature film Perfect Blue (1997), to his 2 best movies, Mi...
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The Canadian Women's Open title is at stake this week at St. Charles Country Club in Winnipeg. Suzann Pettersen is the defending champion and Sherri Steinhauer is the last LPGAer to win at St. Charles (in the 1992 du Maurier Classic).Hound Dog's previ...
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