This LPGA list of banned substances is all over the map. Clomid, an anti-estrogen drug IS on the list, happily. The presence of clomid or other anti-estrogens is, according to Selena Roberts of the New York Times, a sure-fire guilty sign around an athletes neck. Sadly, there are wide gaps in the list as well. OK so nobody will be using heroin, so I can’t...
Barring a collapse of six shots in nine holes, Lorena Ochoa will win her first women’s golf major sending Mexico into a frenzy reminiscent of Italy’s World Cup win last year as they proudly and publicly celebreate her Women’s Open Championship. Playing the par 73 Old Course at St. Andrews, she was 2-under after the front nine for a score to par of 8...
OK Paula, we love your bubbly, effervescent, peppy cheerleader personality, but cripes, couldn’t you just flash that mega-watt smile and wave? This is reedonkyulous.
Have Wie reached the end of the story? I don’t think so. I think sometime down the road wie’ll have the redemption. I think someday Michelle will win on the LPGA tour, make lifelong friends and make a contribution to golf. But there is alot of ground to cover until then and it will take time and effort. They say in my world that it takes six months for...
Hey with all the talk of a bad back and serious bone issues, Annika fired a solid 2-under 70. Watch out for Stacy Prammanasudh and Morgan Pressel at 4-under as well. Morgan is streaky, if she gets hot, she might just steamroll everybody. She fears no one! Surprise…Birdie Kim who either only knows how to come out at majors or saves her best for big moments is...
The first nine holes are in the books. She’s +2 after the first nine, tied for 75th. She started on the back and happily for her, the front is significantly easier. According to my sources on site, she did not hit driver at all on the front nine. According to people on site, David Leadbetter has her swinging at 80% because she really is hurt and more than that...
Sal Johnson of Golf Observer points out there were a number of unsavory things happening from Team Wie…like her father BJ offering options while looking for her ball on 15. Sal will have my Black Mesa piece and a Tom Doak pieces up soon on Golf Observer. Next, Beth Ann Baldry of Golfweek has some stinging observations, among them: “Wie said she WD’d...
Thank goodness Geoff Shackelford is on top of this. And Golf Observer too, linking to this excellent Jeff Hartsell article from the Charlston paper. During her four question, two minute interview with Golf Channel, Wie said “you know” THIRTY times…at once three times in a row in the same sentence fragment. That got into Stanford. I’ll...
Phil Mickelson withdrew from the Memorial Tournament after 11 holes with a wrist injury. Sean O’Hair was -7 after twelve to lead by three as of 1:00 p.m. Michelle Wie also withdrew today. She split from the Ginn open in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. with just two holes left in the day. She was a ghastly 14-over after sixteen holes. From the article on Fox Sports:...
Golf Observer has coverage and there is this USA Today article as well. From the article: “Kelly Jo Dowd, a cancer-stricken mother whose dream of seeing her teen daughter Dakoda play in an LPGA event was realized last spring, has died. She was 42. She spent years battling breast cancer, which her family said spread to her bones and liver, and then to her brain...
***UPDATE*** Matt Biondi at Cybergolf got this great quote from one LPGA player about Wie getting a sponsor’s exemption to the Samsung World Championship. “We’re working our butts off while it’s just handed to her.” Matt, I think that player meant “handed to her without her earning it…” Besides her getting an exemption...
Sirak says that Wie may play in the John Deere. I’ll be interviewing a few people about that soon, but I’ll bet one of you dinner at Sushi Samba that the casino masters of Turning Stone Casino invite Wie to their post-FedEX Cup card-quest event for guys struggling for Tour exemptions next year to boost gate receipts. She’ll probably come..after...
Forget the Williams sisters, the best sister act is yet to come. Morgan Pressel’s little 15 year-old sister Madison is set to make as big an impact as her older sibling. Madison has advanced to the next stage of qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Open.
According to an article in The Australian, Michelle Wie’s swing coach David Leadbetter implies Michelle has not got any men’s events planned for the moment. This is a wise decision for Michelle. She was clearly overmatched. She can concentrate on learning how to close out tournaments and winning. She has plenty of talent, so I fully expect she...
Well, by now everyone knows Selena Roberts took tough shots at both Tm Finchem and Woods in her New York Times article yesterday. Then of course, the NYT goes and makes you pay $7.95 for it by placing it in their “NYT Select” section. Which means you pay to read one article, then get snowed under with useless emails. Well guess again. I’m not giving...