Aug 29
How To Pick a Solheim Team Perhaps I say this every year, but it is true every year. The Solheim tournament is one of my favorite golf events, and I get a rush of anticipation whenever the week arrives. We have just experienced two weeks of golfing mayhem, cliff-hanging, fingernail-biting drama in the BMW and …
Aug 04
Shibuno Just Hoped to Make British Open Cut This was the British Open the way it should be. It was possibly the most fun I have had in years watching. Somebody had to win, and somebody had to lose, but I didn’t. The level of golf among the top five contenders was so good that …
Aug 19
Sung Hyun Park Continues to Be Lethal in Playoff Situations From a fan’s perspective as well as that of a golfer’s, there are few situations to come around in the game of golf that are more daunting than a playoff. It depends, of course, on how one got there. If one rallies from three or …
Oct 22
Eun Hee-Ji Wins the Taiwan Swinging Skirts – Related Stories and Questions As the LPGA continues its ‘swing’ through Asia, I’m wondering where previously unknown greatness comes from, whether there’s more to come in some players, and what happened to yesterday’s stars. Eun-Hee-Ji won the Taiwan version of the LPGA Swinging Skirts Championship this week. I’ve …
May 28
Finishing At The Top Often Seems to Produce an Edge Do You Shoot Your 65 Early, or Are You a Finisher? I’ve said it many times – predicting the outcome of golf tournaments is just as frustrating and slippery as handicapping horse races. The slightest change in the universe, and the results are permanently altered. …
Feb 18
Women’s Australian Open Tight Race Tight Bunch from All Over in Contention I fell for it again this year. I always say I won’t, but I do. When the LPGA’s golf year begins, it spends its first months in tropical climes waiting for the snow to melt elsewhere. The women of the LPGA are either …
Jul 23
Familiar Faces and Newcomers on Top at the Meijer Classic With all the furor over one of the strangest British Opens in history, it’s a nice change to go back to the furor of the LPGA, which is bit more of an organized type than what we saw last week. There’s no telling who will …
Jan 28
Pure Silk Goes to Korda – On to Australia Last week, everything was perfect, and that isn’t speaking just for the LPGA golfers who played on Paradise Island on the shores of Nassau – it’s speaking for me. One week ago, I was sitting on a beach looking at the course for the Pure Silk …
Jan 24
Jessica Korda Birdies to the Lead at the Pure Silk LPGA Classic The first thing that emerged in the first round of the Pure Silk LPGA Classic was a dominating bloc of American players at the top, but that’s happened before, usually to evaporate before the weekend is over. I expect that …
Sep 02
The Safeway Classic 2013 I got to see the vast majority of great female golfers yesterday at Columbia Edgewater in Portland, Oregon, and although I’m not wise in the technical details of great golf, I did come away with some deep impressions, some humorous, some thought-provoking and almost all of an abstract nature – and, …
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