Sunday, June 29, 2008

19 year old Inbee Park becomes youngest US Women's Open winner

It was a crazy Sunday afternoon at the U.S. Women's Open. Annika Sorenstam holed out for eagle on the final hole -- the last time she will ever play this major -- that sent the gallery into a tremendous roar that only Tiger Woods could match. Too bad that only put Annika at +3 for the tourney. Still a spectacular shot.

Today was Inbee Park's day. She finished at -9, four shots ahead of the second place finisher. Poor Paula Creamer had a horrible day after being one shot off the lead after day 3. Paula is only 21 years old, so she has time to win her major(s). But if she plays so tight in these majors as she has recently, the comparisons to Sergio Garcia will be made, and justifiably so.

Stacy Lewis, in her first pro tourney, finished a very impressive tied for 3rd, although she did have the lead after day 3 and didn't play all that well today (still better than Creamer).

With Annika's retirement and Lorena Ochoa's lack of the same star power, the LPGA is -- unfortunately -- in a really bad bind right now with Paula Creamer not delivering as the marquee player. Michelle Wie didn't even make the cut and it looks like she will be a David Duval, only without ever winning a tournament! Natalie Gulbis won once, but hasn't made noise since then. Morgan Pressel has potential, but the LPGA really desperately needs Paula Creamer, aka the Pink Panther, to vie for the role that Annika Sorenstam filled so incredibly for the past few years -- as the star power for the tour.

2 Comments:

At 10:39 AM, Blogger Patricia said...

Paula WILL get her major. In the meantime she's building an amazingly huge and dedicated fan base and bringing all kinds of new fans to the game. She has far more charisma and star power than Annika Sorenstam, thus once she does break through... it'll be awesome.

 
At 2:02 PM, Blogger Tom Steele said...

I was at the Open Fri-Sun and the it was awesome. The fans were really into the tournament and it was fun to be there in person to see everything unfold. I wish Lewis would have played better...but she is young and this was great experience for her. And yes, the Annika roar was very loud!!

 

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