Bell Micro LPGA Classic Friday Morning: Pak Attack!
Se Ri Pak continued her bounce-back from her lone blemish yesterday in the Bell Micro LPGA Classic--a double bogey on the par-3 14th--by following up her 3 consecutive closing birdies from the 1st round with 5 more in her 1st 7 holes today. Her 2nd-st...
Bell Micro LPGA Classic Thursday Afternoon: Blasts from the (Recent) Past
It wasn't so long ago that Katherine Hull was one of the hottest golfers in the world, that Meena Lee, Shi Hyun Ahn, and Jee Young Lee were playing like next-generation South Korean stars, or that Se Ri Pak and Lorie Kane were threats to win any given ...
Bell Micro LPGA Classic Thursday Morning: On Erica, Irene, and Azahara
No time for more than a quick heads-up on the status of the morning groups in the 1st round of the Bell Micro LPGA Classic.Well, for one other thing. Do yourself a favor and read the tributes to Erica Blasberg by Lisa Mickey and to Irene Cho from Shan...
Kraft Nabisco Championship Friday Afternoon: Can Anyone Pass Ochoa and Stupples?
Amazing! I literally bored imoto to sleep during the last few updates to my rundown of the results from the morning pairings at the Kraft Nabisco Championship. So I have a little time before onechan comes home from day care to give a quick overview o...
Kraft Nabisco Championship Friday Morning: Stupples Makes a Move, Ochoa Keeps Pace
Imoto woke up in the middle of the night afraid of alligators coming down from the ceiling to eat us, so I took her temperature and lo and behold she had a high fever. After a couple of hours with me of scaring away the alligators with a magic light on...
What I Wish I Could Be Thankful For: American Himarts
For those who are wondering why there are so many great Korean women golfers, Yoon Chul from the Korea Times has one answer: corporate support of player development. Electronics retailer Himark's team--which was lead by Ji-Yai Shin and now includes S...
Something Else to Be Thankful For: Golf Channel’s Spotlight on Ai Miyazato
On the road to Syracuse for Thanksgiving this morning, but couldn't resist passing along this attempt by Golf Channel to educate its viewers about Ai Miyazato during the 1st round of the Lorena Ochoa Invitational:If GC had a different spotlight player ...
LPGA Tour Championship Monday: Lorena Ochoa Will Not Be Denied–or Will She?
Talk about clutch! Lorena Ochoa got off to a fast start in the final round of the LPGA Tour Championship, making birdies on her 1st 3 holes to climb to -9. But after becoming the 1st player in the field to break the -10 barrier with a birdie on the 7...
LPGA Tour Championship Monday: Gambatte, Ai-sama!
Even with a bogey on the 9th hole today that cost her 3 shots to Na Yeon Choi, Ai Miyazato has hauled down Hee Young Park and now trails Choi by only 2 shots in the LPGA Tour Championship. Imoto, onechan, the Full Metal Archivist, and I saw Daisuke Ta...
LPGA Tour Championship Monday: Na Yeon Choi Makes an Early Move
For all the complaining I've been hearing about "no-name winners" on the LPGA this season, there have been very few I'd consider truly surprising. Sure, I didn't expect M.J. Hur to win so soon and found Eunjung Yi's win even more surprising. But ever...
Navistar Classic Friday: How About That Ya Ni Tseng?
Although Ya Ni Tseng hasn't really been playing up to her standards since early July (her scoring average was 69.89 after the Farr but entering this week stood at 70.66), she's shown signs of breaking through lately (with more rounds in the 60s than du...
Navistar Classic Friday: Cruel, Cruel Cut Line
If anyone didn't believe me when I argued earlier this week that it's tough to stay at the top of the LPGA (and much tougher to be near the bottom), just take a quick look at who's in imminent danger of missing the cut at the Navistar Classic today. Y...
