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Evian Masters Thursday: Hjorth, Stupples, Shin-Ae Ahn Lead with Soggy 67s

A day of couldabeens and comebacks in the 1st round of the Evian Masters was epitomized by 2 European veterans with the talent to have won much more often than they have in their stellar careers. Maria Hjorth and Karen Stupples joined KLPGA star Shin-...

NBC’s idiotic golf coverage or where in the world is YE Yang?

Rory McIlroy has a 10-shot lead at the moment in the 2011 U.S. Open. South Korean YE Yang is tied for second. NBC, who is televising this year's U.S. Open, acts like Yang isn't even playing in the tournament.On the 3rd hole we see Yang's tee shot but n...

NBC’s idiotic golf coverage or where in the world is YE Yang?

Rory McIlroy has a 10-shot lead at the moment in the 2011 U.S. Open. South Korean YE Yang is tied for second. NBC, who is televising this year's U.S. Open, acts like Yang isn't even playing in the tournament.On the 3rd hole we see Yang's tee shot but n...

Paging Anderson Cooper

The Full Metal Archivist and I have been watching Anderson Cooper 360 religiously since he arrived in Japan and we've appreciated all the hard work he and the team of CNN reporters have done to bring stories and footage of the earthquake, tsunami, and ...

As the World Turns

If you follow golf writing in American and other media, you know that Mostly Harmless picks up on only a small percentage of what's going on, even in the relatively small world of women's professional golf. Sometimes it's because I don't have anything...

Monday Morning Fog or Let’s Roll the Tape–Why the Honda Classic Was on Tape Delay

Yesterday's PGA Tour stop in Palm Beach Gardens was over a little over 90 minutes before the NBC telecast ended. A blogger or two had made note of it.Here's why it's like that. It is called Eastern Standard Time. Sunset came last night at 6:25 p.m. If ...

HSBC Women’s Champions Preview and Predictions: Setting Up the Showdown in Singapore

The HSBC Women's Champions, with its stellar field and superb course, is the perfect venue for Ya Ni Tseng to attempt to match winning streaks established by Nancy Lopez, Annika Sorenstam, and Tiger Woods. If she can make it 5-for-5 in 2011 at the Sho...

Crouching Ya Ni, Spitting Tiger: Or WTF Is Wrong with the Golfoblogosphere?!

People, people, people! We have a new #1 in the world of women's golf! It's Valentine's Day--let's show Ya Ni Tseng a little bloggy love![Update 1 (1:18 pm): bangkokbobby got V-Day started off right and Stephanie Wei and Adam Fonseca recently chimed...

Rassin’ Frassin’ Forecaddie (grumble grumble)

Man, here I've been working with Dean Herden on an extended e-interview for the last several weeks, starting from the fact that he's cutting back his caddying for Ji-Yai Shi to her events in the Asia-Pacific this season due to his mother's health, and ...

OK, Now I’m Back. So What Did I Miss?

Just got back online at home and am trying to catch up on a week of women's golf news. Here's what I found:Doug Ferguson on efforts to bring the LPGA back to HawaiiRandall Mell on Kristy McPherson's WD from the ANZ Ladies Masters to give herself more ...

Paging the Asahi Shimbun

I've never had to call out an entire newspaper before, but after reading "S. Korean golfers dominate Japan, world," by Atsuo Negishi and Issei Sakakibara (courtesy of a thread at Seoul Sisters.com), I have to question the Asahi Shimbun's editorial judg...

Reflections on the 2011 LPGA Schedule

I was primed to join in the tail end of the feeding frenzy over the (partially botched) timing of the release of the 2011 LPGA schedule, but now that I've seen it and had a little while to think about what's in it and when, I have to admit that there's...