Last Sunday morning at the LPGA Championship, I followed, in turn, Mi Hyun Kim (and Juli Inkster), Mina Harigae (and Stacy Prammanasudh), and Ai Miyazato (and Brittany Lang), for the 1st 4 or 5 holes of their final rounds before I had to leave Locust H...
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Over the last few years, I've been keeping my eye on Mina Harigae and Mika Miyazato, both of whom were top junior and amateur golfers in their respective countries (the U.S. and Japan) and are now relatively new professionals at age 20 on the LPGA Tour...
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When reading about Yuko Mitsuka (三塚 優子)'s 2-stroke slow-play penalty during the 1st round of the Salonpas Cup last week, her tearful protest by walking off the course, the huge fine (2 million yen or around $20K), and her multiple apologies a...
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I attended yesterday's (2 May 2010) anti-nuke demonstration in Manhattan, at which the Japanese contingent out-numbered all others by three or four to one. Some of the Japanese were handing out small packets of facial tissue, like this:I can't read Jap...
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Hey kids! I've set up a new blog, just around the corner. It's called New Savanna. And it's got photos and writing AND, a longish piece about a dolphin ride that I couldn't post at That Other Place. It's got about 10 seconds or so in Azumanga Daioh, on...
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Nina Paley is the creator of Mimi & Eunice and is releasing them using a copyleft license.
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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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At the risk of incurring the wrath of Ryan (Mr. Ballengee if you're nasty!), I wanted to share something I've noticed lately about the LPGA. Consider the roles that illness, injury, and family crisis have played in the lives and the games of the top f...
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It makes a weird kind of sense that the California sectional qualifier for LPGA Q-School is taking place this week opposite the Samsung World Championship. The former's at Mission Hills, site of the Kraft Nabisco Championship, while the latter's at To...
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An early start to the semester and a ticket price over $300 meant I wasn't going to hang out with my parents and go see Tiger Woods, Notah Begay, Mike Weir, and Camilo Villegas play a charity skins game at Atunyote Golf Club, but that didn't deter or d...
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