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vanyogan
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 Posted: 03/16/12 7:45 am ::: LPGA Founders Cup |
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Tseng shot 36-29, missing about 6 feet on #18 for a 28. |
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vanyogan
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| Posted: 03/16/12 3:05 pm ::: Re: LPGA Founders Cup |
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Tseng shot 36-29, missing about 6 feet on #18 for a 28. |
Right now the cut line is -1, about as low as it ever gets on the LPGA. |
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vanyogan
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| Posted: 03/16/12 7:12 pm ::: |
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The founders cup is meant to show appreciation and respect to the 13 LPGA founders who made the whole thing happen. What's interesting is I look at these old photos and realise these were full blown female athletes. Babe Zacharias was a founder. She was one of greatest female athletes of all time.
The point of this event is to raise money to grow golf through a program called Girls Golf and to honor the history.
Women's golf does not get the coverage, cameras, that the PGA does today. So it can get boring at times. So GC came up with this idea to pick a kid in the Girls Golf program to highlight her game, and they brought her into the booth to interview and add color to the coverage. The girl was adorable, entertaining, everything is perfect.
And then it turns out she lives next door to George Clooney.
AAAAAAAUUUUGGGGHHH! Yea, that will encourage the avg kid to play golf  |
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| Posted: 03/16/12 7:36 pm ::: |
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I came across this last night and watched it til I fell asleep.
Many years ago, I worked for the sponsoring company. I'm REALLY suprised that they are doing this. NEVER would have expected this from them.
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vanyogan
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| Posted: 03/16/12 7:57 pm ::: |
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I came across this last night and watched it til I fell asleep.
Many years ago, I worked for the sponsoring company. I'm REALLY suprised that they are doing this. NEVER would have expected this from them. |
Well, I know nothing about the sponsor, but the event is a minor miracle and a complement to the LPGA commissioner. Last year was the inaugural year.
Get this, a 1.3M event on paper only. The sponsor put up 500K for the charity, the top five pros got to split about 200K to their own personal charity, the pros got nothing and the best players in the world all showed up.
This year they are doing both, not a big money event but the best players in the world are all there. Wie took her finals this week, she's done with Stanford. Other than that, the best players are there.
Amazing! But that is how pro golf started and it continues today. When I was a kid it was all Celebrity night club acts, titled events. The point of these events is raising money for charity, I'm confident that the PGA tour splits the take with the local event. That is some big time charity folks.
Even on the LPGA, the volunteers most often pay to participate. let me repeat, the folks who sell the beer and hot dogs, run the tourney pay to do it. |
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vanyogan
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| Posted: 03/19/12 9:26 am ::: |
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It was a wild and wacky day in Phoenix. Players teed off for the final round with temperatures in the 40s, unseasonably cool weather for Phoenix this time of year. But the cold temperatures were the least of the worries for the players.
It had been 105 days since the Phoenix area had any measurable rain, but there was plenty of inclement weather to slow down play on this day. Hail fell early on in the round, covering a few greens, and three times lightning in the area forced delays. The delays totaled three hours and one minute with play resuming for a final time at 5:39 p.m. PT.
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Tseng, Choi and Miyazato , all lead at one time in the final round, the play was strong considering conditions, unfortunately lightening delays killed coverage of the finish, Yani strung together 5 birdies the first six holes of the back nine to a lead from three back following to lete bogies on the front. Choi and Miyazato made late birdies to pull within one shot but Yani was able to finish the last with par a one shot win.
Notes: As a group, the Americans continued to stink it up Sunday, exceptions were Kerr, Song, Lewis and Mindy Kim who all bagged top tens. None were ever close to the leaders however. O'Toole continued her erratic play. Ryan can't finish one round let alone 4 right now. I hope she gets her act together soon before this becomes an albatross.
Jennifer Song, a second year player and graduate of the Futures Tour had a T6, her first career top ten, and may be on a slow ascent towards the top. Definitely a young American player to watch. |
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