QBE is Fun Event at End of Golf Year, Overlapping the Tours The beginning of winter, even with the holidays on the way, can be a time of mourning for avid golfers and equally enthused golf spectators. Outside of the possibility of golf gifts under the tree, northerners in harsh climates won’t be able to …
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Nov 19
Rankin, Thompson, Jutanugarn – CME and History
Lexi Thompson Wins CME, Jutanugarn 1 million, Rankin Presides The CME, and the “Race” to it, all ended yesterday, and it signaled the end of the LPGA year. While that is, in a sense, sad, as I miss a full slate of golf over the winter, the tour is now strong enough to tide me …
Feb 25
Lexi Thompson? Again?
Lexi Thompson Suffers Another Penalty Flap If I were of a more superstitious nature and from a more superstitious time, I would recommend sending Lexi Thompson to the local Shaman, Voodoo Priestess, or whatever sort of spiritual healer she feels the closest to. If this were the old, very old days, I might suspect that …
Feb 04
Distance, Stature, and Winning
How Does it Work When Diminutive Golfers Win Without Distance? It has haunted my own game since I took it up as a child, and to detach the idea of driving distance from an external image of my persona as a golfer was extremely difficult. In fact, I’m not really sure that I ever got …
Nov 26
Looking for an LPGA Superstar?
Does Women’s Golf Have a True Superstar, or are We Still Waiting? I just finished reading an article by Randell Mell, in which he discusses the availability of superstars among the field of the LPGA. When he claims that the tour is very much deeper than it once was, he is absolutely correct. In no …
Nov 21
Lexi and Her Miserable, Horrible Great Year
Two-foot Putts are Everywhere in Life. It was a Real One for Lexi Thompson Every one of us, at some time in our lives, has been faced with a two-footer, even those who have never set foot on a golf course (poor things). Sometimes the stakes aren’t nearly as titanic as we think they are, …
Apr 25
And Now, the “Lexi Rule”
Changes Have Been Made, but the Fossils are Far from Up to Date on the Lexi Rule For a fan continuing to look at the Lexi Thompson situation, the whole incident hurts more this week than it did last week. Thompson herself has maintained poise and civility through the week, and it appears as though …
Aug 14
Jennifer Kirby Off to Quick Start – Again
Canadian Keeping Pace with Lexi and Meena Jennifer Kirby has completed the first round of the Wegmans LPGA Classic, and although she is not leading the field, she’s sharing that honor with just a few others. Her colleague, Lexi Thompson, a slightly more veteran prodigy, skipped the idea of playing from behind, and got right …