When you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
Sorry I'm late to posting this but after reading a Tweet from F.X. Flynn (below) I realized that I'm missing an NBC telecast involving Johnny Miller and Oakmont! A 63 drinking game is in order, if it's not already underway at households around the land. And as for this thread, any other rants you'd like to post about the rapid pace of play are always welcome.
Bradley Klein notes what should make for even more interesting viewing at this week's Women's U.S. Open.
That will make the hole doubly interesting, because the lay-up – dealing with that mid-fairway bunker short of the green – would be no simple matter. As for trying to drive the green, players would face a formidable challenge thanks to six greenside bunkers. Depending on the hole location, being short-sided would leave a near-impossible recovery and place par very much in doubt.
Reader Tim enjoyed Karen Crouse's pre-U.S. Women's Open look at the role motherhood plays in LPGA career decisions, focusing on Cristie Kerr's choice to put off child rearing to purse her career. But as Tim notes, there is one major oversight in the piece: 2009 Women's Open Championship winner Catriona Matthew, who won just eleven weeks after giving birth.
What an astonishing 12-shot win by Cristie Kerr in Sunday's LPGA Championship.
“That’s almost too good,” Miyazato said, figuring 8 under would be good enough to win the tournament. “She’s just amazing. I played really good, too, but she is just better than me.”
Kerr’s rise comes with women’s golf going through a changing of the guard. In April, Lorena Ochoa followed Annika Sorenstam into retirement, leaving a vacuum at the top.
Kerr will become the third player at No. 1 in the past three weeks. Miyazato supplanted Shin last week by winning the ShopRite LPGA Classic, her fourth victory of the year.
Americans have won only four of the past 14 majors, with Kerr winning two of them. Americans also have won only six of the past 34 LPGA events, with Kerr winning three times.
Randall Mell wonders if we're seeing an transformative moment for the new world No. 1.
Kerr was a chubby, prickly teen who didn’t make friends easily when she first hit the tour, but she’s evolved. There’s evidence of that in the foundation she established to help fight breast cancer after her mother was diagnosed with the disease. There’s her well documented physical transformation that’s landed her on the cover of women’s magazines, and there’s the social transformation. She counts Natalie Gulbis and Morgan Pressel as close friends. She credits her husband, Erik Stevens, for helping her evolve since they married in ‘06.
“I’ve won one tournament without my husband,” Kerr said. “I’ve won all the others with him. He’s been one of the biggest influences on me becoming a better person, changing and evolving and giving back.”
Unfortunately, for Kerr’s fellow competitors, the evolution hasn’t softened the little warrior within who wants to kick their butts.
Shane Bacon remembers his friend Erica Blasberg.
Wow.
Alan Shipnuck explains in a series of tweets what he's seen with Ochoa in the last year that makes this only a minor surprise to him.
**Beth Ann Baldry talks to a friend of Lorena who says she hasn't been having much fun.
Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning
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