Guys, please be nice…but boy, talk about softball questions! I like the part about “resurging” and “back on track,” which translates to “Boy are we glad we got rid of that nut job Bivens and her lickspittle Libba Galloway! Dork alert!” Seriously though, the LPGA COULD be the flagship of all women’s sports, and at least...
Click here for the story From Golf Observer: From the article: “Today could be one of the most important days in the history of the LPGA. It’s been a long four years of hardship for this once proud organization as Carolyn Bivens has driven it to despair. So with the announcement today that Michael Whan has been named the 8th commissioner of the LPGA Tour...
It’s the cross-branding concept du jour: celebrities releasing fragrances. Look at this list of Celebutards with celebuscents: Kate Moss, The Black Eyed Peas, Sarah Jessica Parker, Pam Anderson [joke removed by editors], Kim Kardashian P.Dippy…errr..P.Diddy, Mariah Carey, (which the ads say smells like roasted marshmallows and Moroccan incense, you...
Two good articles: First, Hank Gola ia a great friend to golf and our staff. Here’s his new blog. Second, Golf Digest has this story about how Bivens is out, and the only open question is resignation or firing. I’m warning you right now, they might repeat the same mistakes if they don’t reject all of Bivens’s inner circle for a successor. They...
What’s Her Name, with the overbearing parents, phalanx of P.R.apologists, and vocal army of I-know-nothing-about-golf-I’m-just-on-a-golf-gender-bender supporters came in 10th in a rural LPGA tournament and, of course, got more press than the winner, (Jiyai Shin, if you hadn’t heard, which you likely didn’t). Yet still we get What’s Her...
ESPN got an excellent interview with her...primarily because they decided to show us what was really happening in her mind. WHen they stay in the background and let the athletes talk instead of themselves, they get excellent work.
Here Wie go again. Catfight in 3…2…1…This time it’s the voice of the Great American Sportsman (Hominus Sporticus Americanum), Steve Czaban, versus the venerable double first place GWAA award-winning Alan Shipnuck of SI.com… When it comes to the LPGA, I like what Dan Jenkins wrote about it… The LPGA will soon have: (a) A...
Ginn Resorts has announced it will end all golf sponsorships immediately, spelling doom to two tournaments this year – one on the LPGA Tour and one on the Champions Tour. From the article: “Ginn still had three years remaining on its title sponsorship contract with the Champions Tour. PGA Tour spokesman Ty Votaw, who learned of the decision from a press...
Ouch. Things look bleak. Steve Elling of CBS Sports has this outlook on the state of both the PGA and LPGA Tours. I would be especially worried about the LPGA tour. I also think it’s time for something other than more medal play events. Nicklaus once wrote that team golf was the salvation of the tour. He may have been right. Wouldn’t you pay to see...
The members of the Golf Writers Association of America recently voted Padraig Harrington, Lorena Ochoa, and Jay Haas players of the year for their respective tours. Harrington got my vote. Two majors will do that.
Cybergolf’s Dave Andrews is reporting live from the LPGA Q School, so tune in to all his in-depth coverage. With a final round 74, Michelle Wie finished in a tie for seventh place in the LPGA Q School, earning her tour card for 2009. Stacy Lewis shot a 69 (aggregate 342), and won the event by three shots over Amy Yang. The top twenty finishers earned their...
As a lawyer, I’ll be doing my own research over the weekend. Until then here’s what Steve Czaban, Ron Sirak, Alan Shipnuck, and David Whitley had to say. Before anyone rushes off to condemn Bivens and the LPGA in a fit of knee-jerk political correctness, there are solid business reasons behind the decision and they are giving time and opportunity to the...
So Tony Korologos nails Michelle Wie (the player formerly known as the female Tiger Woods).
Nicely done Tony. See you when I get back from Michigan.
Her 73 yesterday was enough to “energize” her supporters into all their old self-delusions. People were claiming she was “competitive” on the PGA Tour, and that she was ready to “make history.” But after she finished today with a trunk-slammer round of 80, the key stats were these. She averaged 24.5 putts per round and she...
Calling Michelle Wie’s behavior at her Reno/Tahoe presser petulant, deluded, and ungrateful – something that many people notice at a lot of her pressers – Czaban fired off this epic rant. From the article: “Her performance at the pre-pre-tournament presser for the Reno-Tahoe Open was at best laughable. She claims to not recall saying earlier...