Archive for March, 2006
Lorena Ochoa -10, Michelle Wie -6, Annika E
Yazan: mulligan | 30 March 2006 | Comments Off
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Is this the changing of the guard? Lorena Ochoa opened up a 4-stroke lead, shooting an amazing 10-under 62. (Lefty Mickelson shot a 9-under 63 at the BellSouth Classic.) 16-year-old Michelle Wie is in second place, after shooting an impressive 6-under 66. Annika apparently couldn’t get untracked, finishing at even par. There’s a lot of [...]
Paula’s pink balls
Yazan: mulligan | 30 March 2006 | Comments Off
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I always wondered what happened to colored golf balls after they became so popular when Jerry Pate started playing an orange Wilson ball. Well, USA Today reports that Paula Creamer plans on playing a pink golf ball by Precept on Sunday of this week. Of course, only a woman can pull off playing with a [...]
2006 Major No. 1: Kraft Nabisco
Yazan: mulligan | 29 March 2006 | Comments Off
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This week, the women take center stage with the first Major of 2006 — the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Annika is defending champion. Next week, the Masters, where Tiger is defending champion… but we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Let the fun begin! Tweet This Post
Golf for Women
Yazan: mulligan | 29 March 2006 | Comments Off
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Ron Sirak has, as usual, an excellent article analyzing the status of the LPGA here. The article is accompanied by what may the dorkiest photo ever taken in golf, see here. “Michelle Wie creates more buzz than anyone in golf right now, Tiger included. People are paying attention to the LPGA in a way not [...]
The Tiger report: 60 Minutes interview
Yazan: mulligan | 28 March 2006 | Comments Off
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If you missed it on Sunday, the transcript is here. Yahoo has the video clips from the interview here. Asked why a golf swing is so difficult when Tiger makes it look so easy, he replied, “So many moving parts. Your whole body’s moving, and this ball is not moving. It’s standing still, laughing at [...]
Where were the Players at the Players Championship??
Yazan: mulligan | 28 March 2006 | Comments Off
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There are so many good talking points from this weekend’s Players Championship that I do not know where to begin or how to write this post. So, I’ve decided that I am going to list some of the things that I found interesting about this past week’s tournament. 1. Love III goes 65 – 83 [...]
Take a mulligan: TPC should NOT become a major
Yazan: mulligan | 23 March 2006 | Comments Off
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There’s been a lot of the recurring banter about the TPC, and whether it should become a “fifth major”? USA Today’s Jerry Potter has an excellent article about it here. Frankly, I could really care less about the issue, if it were not for one thing: recognizing 5 majors will screw up the uniformity of [...]
