Thanks to Happy Fan at Seoul Sisters.com, who posted the 2010 KLPGA schedule in a language I can understand, I'm able to provide this update of the worldwide women's professional golf schedule for all the major tours. The LET has firmed up its schedul...
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I hope everyone reads Happy Fan's fantastic essay on Olympic gold medalist figure skater Yu Na Kim. It provides a great window into the difficulties and pressures of not only training to become a world-class athlete, but to have the hopes and dreams o...
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Many of us have been following the LPGA's elite on their early-season Asian swing and their exodus onto the LET/ALPG and JLPGA, but Hound Dog wonders about the LPGA's rank-and-file and the consequences of being shut out of money-making opportunities at...
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Consider for a moment the following thought experiment: what if Michelle Wie had been the player to kick off the LPGA season with back-to-back wins for the 1st time in 44 years, instead of Ai Miyazato? Wouldn't we have been treated to breathless spec...
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Last week on the LET/ALPG, it was Laura Davies who got her 73rd worldwide win in New Zealand; this week, it was Karrie Webb who got her 46th overall and 7th at the ANZ Ladies Masters on the strength of a 64-61 weekend performance that brought her to -2...
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Sun Ju Ahn and Ji-Yai Shin are locked in an asynchronous duel in the final round of the JLPGA's kickoff event in 2010, the Daikin Orchid Ladies, just like they used to be 2 and more years ago on the KLPGA. Shin, going off 5 groups ahead of Ahn, is sho...
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JLPGA veterans Yui Kawahara, Yuko Saitoh, and Junko Omote are showing the tour's young guns a thing or 2 about taking advantage of moving day in the 2nd round of the Daikin Orchid Ladies. Saitoh and Kawahara posted the 1st 69s of the day to move up to...
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The leaderboard at the Daikin Orchid Ladies is packed after round 1. Last year's Rookie of the Year Rikako Morita made 3 birdies on each side on her way to a tournament-leading 67, and fellow Young Gun Ritsuko Ryu matched her birdie-for-birdie but end...
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I wouldn't be surprised if Ai Miyazato's 2-event winning streak comes to an end this week in her 2010 JLPGA debut at the Daikin Orchid Ladies. Not because of fatigue, let-down, the added pressure of playing at home in Okinawa, or the vagaries of 54-ho...
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Asia Inches Closer to Its First MajorTim MaitlandNew LPGA commissioner Mike Whan chose the HSBC Women's Champions in Singapore to declare that the staging of a Major in Asia is "inevitable." As Tim Maitland reports, his statement, coming within six mon...
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