What Happens in Thailand Stays in Thailand?
If the most dominant golfer in the world, bar none, barely pulls out a victory in Thailand over 2 former world #1s, but nobody makes a big deal of it, has it really happened? Well, of course. But what does it say about the U.S. golfy media&...
HSBC Women’s Champions Preview
It didn't take Yani Tseng long to remind us that she is still going to be the player to beat in 2012. Yani's remarkable approach shot on the 72nd hole sealed her 13th LPGA victory. Ai Miyazato and Jiyai Shin, who finished second and third respectively,...
HSBC Women’s Champions Preview
It didn't take Yani Tseng long to remind us that she is still going to be the player to beat in 2012. Yani's remarkable approach shot on the 72nd hole sealed her 13th LPGA victory. Ai Miyazato and Jiyai Shin, who finished second and third respectively,...
Honda LPGA Thailand Saturday and Sunday: Ya Ni Tseng Prevails in Clash of World #1s
Ya Ni Tseng successfully defended her title at the Honda LPGA Thailand this past weekend in one of the most dramatic battles between current and former world #1s that I can remember seeing. Tseng roared back into contention on moving day with her...
Honda LPGA Thailand Saturday and Sunday: Ya Ni Tseng Prevails in Clash of World #1s
Ya Ni Tseng successfully defended her title at the Honda LPGA Thailand this past weekend in one of the most dramatic battles between current and former world #1s that I can remember seeing. Tseng roared back into contention on moving day with her...
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...
2011 LPGA Highlights
As I wait here very impatiently for the LPGA to announce the 2012 schedule, I would like to look back at my biggest highlights of 2011. I have narrowed my list to ten, although I know there were many more. Of course this list is very subjective, d...
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...
