Way to Go, Lydia Ko!
Lots going on here at the Constructivist household: not long after the Full Metal Archivist and I got back to work (the FMA for the 1st time in quite a while), she had to go to the ER to be treated for vertigo last Saturday! She's alre...
The Best in the Tseng Dynasty: January 2012 Edition
Since last April's ranking of the Best of the Young Guns generation on the LPGA, a lot has changed, most notably Ya Ni Tseng's achieving escape velocity relative to her peers in the rookie classes of 2006, 2007, and 2008, so much so that it's no e...
Ranking the LPGA’s Rookie Class of 2008
I used to group together the LPGA's rookie classes of 2006, 2007, and 2008 into a generation I called "Young Guns," in honor of the noise so many of them were making in the upper echelons of women's professional golf so soon after they joined the top t...
Ranking the LPGA’s Rookie Class of 2008
I used to group together the LPGA's rookie classes of 2006, 2007, and 2008 into a generation I called "Young Guns," in honor of the noise so many of them were making in the upper echelons of women's professional golf so soon after they joined the top t...
Ranking the LPGA’s Rookie Class of 2007
Having recently reviewed the careers of the LPGA's rookie class of 2006, it's time to update last February's ranking of the Class of 2007--or what I'm starting to think of as "The Incredible Shrinking Rookie Class."Simply the Best1. In-Kyung Kim: ...
Ranking the LPGA’s Rookie Class of 2006
The LPGA's rookie class of 2006 was the 1st that I started paying really close attention to as a group, at first because of the way in which Ai Miyazato dominated Q-School in late 2005 but over time because I became interested in the different kinds of...
Ranking the LPGA’s Rookie Class of 2006
The LPGA's rookie class of 2006 was the 1st that I started paying really close attention to as a group, at first because of the way in which Ai Miyazato dominated Q-School in late 2005 but over time because I became interested in the different kinds of...
Daisuke Takahashi, Mao Asada Win Japanese Nationals
His free skate certainly wasn't pretty, but Daisuke Takahashi retained just enough of his 10-point lead from the short program to hold onto the gold medal at Japanese nationals and hold off Takahiko Kozuka and Sendai native Yuzuru Hanyu.Instead of maki...
Daisuke Takahashi Breaks 95 in Short Program at Japanese Nationals
Unlike in golf, breaking 95 is a very rare achievement in figure skating when it comes to the score for your short program. Well, that's what Daisuke Takahashi just did at the Japanese nationals:He wasn't satisfied with his step sequence, he...
Recommended Reading: Dave Andrews on Hannah Yun
Dave Andrews not only knows Hannah Yun's golf career like the back of his hand, he also carried her bag at Q-School. Check out his reporting of both stories at Into the Grain. He gets in a lot more personal background in this follow-up post...
Initial Thoughts on the LPGA’s Class of 2012
LPGA.com has a (badly-transcribed) list of the 32 members of the LPGA Class of 2012, the 1st members of what I'm calling for now the tour's "Prodigy" generation. Here are some quick thoughts on how I'd categorize their short- and medium-term pote...
Initial Thoughts on the LPGA’s Class of 2012
LPGA.com has a (sometimes-badly-transcribed) list of the 33 members of the LPGA Class of 2012, the 1st members of what I'm calling for now the tour's "Prodigy" generation. Here are some quick thoughts on how I'd categorize their short- and medium...
