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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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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With the LPGA off this week, now's as good a time as any to reexamine how the tour's last 6 generations stack up. Check out the career money list and wins/majors totals for the top players in the generations that span the Sorenstam Era (1994-2008) and...
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No time like the present to update my July ranking of the Best of the LPGA--seriously, this is my last chance to make this a post-Women's British Open ranking, rather than a pre-Safeway Classic ranking! As usual, I'll be mashing up the LPGA money list...
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Ai Miyazato and Momoko Ueda have committed to next week's NEC Karuizawa 72 Ladies event in the 1st JLPGA tournament after a 3-week summer break. A great finish for Miyazato in it would not only help her move back up the Rolex Rankings but also improve...
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The theme of today's group of recommended posts from around golfblogaramaville is how much winning matters on the LPGA--whether the topic is career victory totals, as in Thomas Atkins's historical study over at Hound Dog LPGA and Hound Dog's response, ...
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With Ji-Yai Shin graduating from the July versions of this list and Ya Ni Tseng winning the Women's British Open, it's about time to recalibrate my take on which players are most likely to add to their win totals. I wonder whether we'll be seeing more...
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Whatever the Rolex Rankings say later today, the debate over who's the best female golfer in the world just got a lot more intense yesterday when Ya Ni Tseng held on for an emotional win over a game Katherine Hull at the Women's British Open. It was T...
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Sometimes I do rankings, as in my Best of the LPGA and Top Young Guns lists, that evaluate performance over a single season or over a career, respectively. But when I break down the LPGA according to numbers of wins, as I do in posts you can get to vi...
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This post is a follow-up to yesterday's rundown of where the LPGA's various races--for money-list title, for Player of the Year, and for the Vare Trophy (for lowest scoring average)--stand. And an update of my speculations from 3 months ago on who has...
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