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• Sophie Goes Public

  What does Sophie Gustafson have in common with Judy Rankin, Tom Watson, Barbara Douglas, Ken Greer, Erik Compton, Denis Watson, Paul Azinger, Robert Allenby, Bruce Edwards, Jeff Julian, Scott Verplank, Jose Maria Olazabel, Casey Martin, Lee Trevino, Ken Venturi, Terri Jo Meyers and Steve Jones? They have all been awarded the GWAA Ben Hogan prize …

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• Founders of the LPGA: A Recent Loss

  The LPGA was founded in the year of 1950, and there was little financial incentive to do it. The tour that we know today was not the brainchild or Herculean project of a single individual, but a group of thirteen female golfers who share an unequal degree of fame today. They were all golfers, and …

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• Lorena Ochoa: It’s a Boy!

  The long-anticipated arrival of Pedro Conesa Ochoa became reality Thursday for former number one golfer Lorena Ochoa and businessman husband Andres Conesa. For her, far more important than her personal statistic of $14.8 million over 77 events in eight years, are Pedro’s statistics – 2.8 kilograms and 48 centimeters. The greatest golfer in Mexican history …

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• Great Asian Golfers: Just theTip of the Iceberg

  For anyone sitting around fretting over the Korean invasion of western golf tours, wake up. You’re taking the small view, and it’s going to bring you an ugly surprise. Good medicine for a case of xenophobic nerves or low level paranoia would be to celebrate global inclusion in this game, which can only make it …

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• Mickey Wright: A Room of Her Own

  If there’s a young golfer out there who doesn’t know who Mickey Wright is, or what she did with and for the game of golf, shame on you. In golfing legacy terms, she’s your grandmother, and she was a pretty great grandmother at that. In ignoring that fact, you’ve answered the whine of every high …

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• Catriona Matthew Wins the Ochoa Invitational

  I was absolutely certain in the weeks leading up to the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Guadalajara that the twenty seven year old native daughter would swoop in and win her own event. I figured that Lorena was unstoppable then, and that she’d be unstoppable now. It was such a surprise to see that she wasn’t …

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• Christina Kim: On Being Korean

  Christina Kim: On Being Korean As a colorful presence on the LPGA stage (and everywhere else), the persona and play of Christina Kim is interesting enough. Her flamboyance on the course undoubtedly rubs more sphinx-like players and staid veterans the wrong way, but a little tour spice is good, so long as it respects the …

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• Sexy Golf: Isn’t the Game Cool Enough?

  I ran across an article from 2004 this week that discussed a possible suspension (or fine) of LPGA tour member Laura Godfrey – for not being pretty or sexy enough to appear before the public. At first glance, I assumed that this must be a player who flaunted the dress code or some other personal …

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• Suzann Pettersen: Photo-Finish at Pumpkin Ridge

  Oregon’s pretty good with pumpkins. Sauvie Island has a great Halloween labyrinth that features plenty of the things. The state is famous for the beloved “Great Pumpkin,” former football coach Dee Andros of Oregon State. It also has two golf courses at Pumpkin Ridge, Witch Hollow and Ghost Creek. One is private, one is public. …

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• Dear Michelle Wie Fans – Chill!

  Dear Michelle Wie Fans: Chill! On one of those all too frequent off-days in a Portland, Oregon summer (almost warm and a little grey), Michelle Wie came to play the Safeway Classic at Columbia Edgewater a couple of years ago. Everyone was up on the buzz. Since the day Ms. Wie turned fourteen, golf publications …

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