Posted on 11/16/2009 9:17:31 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
That must be photoshopped?
And the Paula Creamer pics were good to look at too..
But a few Cristie Kerr phots would work too....
Interesting. I’ll check that site out. I have a 20 year old daughter myself and I’m bemused by the hostility toward Wie. In my opinion, at the age of 20 you’re still a child. I know I was and I knew it even then.
That may be true, however they’ve been hyping this girl since she was what? 16 or 17... Lord knows I knew her name years ago and I don’t even follow golf. Press falling all over themselves hyping her.
Now she’s finally won one, good for her, but at 1 win there is no reason to start the rediculous hyping all over again. Let the woman play, if she winds up being fantastic so be it, but I hate seeing all this stupid hype machine going full tilt again after 1 win.
Its just flat out silly
Yeah, I know about being busy, my FRiend!!! I could have thrown something up yesterday but didn’t think of it.
I put threads up for the majors and the FedEx Cup events but no one really was posting anything. Not even the Payne Stewart tribute got 30 posts either.....
Glad all is well......
Probably would have came a while back if she had been allowed to build a winning amateur record,but hey, she’s a millionaire.
I agree. I haven’t watched golf in months because the announcing has been so dreadful. I’m glad to hear Pepper’s leaving. I’d like to see Zinger and Faldo together again. Maybe with Strange.
Yeah, for tthe most part the announcing in golf is not very good. The best announcers(maybe we can turn this into a thread)by far are Renton Laidlaw/Julian Tutt/Warren Humphries and Ken Brown, they guys who call the European Tour on GC.
Next, although you only see them exactly once a year at the Brirish Open, Mike Trico/Paul Azinger. I like Curtis but he sometimes comes through as being a little dry and stale, which leads to the exact opposite of Curtis, that would be Johnny Miller with Dan Hicks. Of course I know most golfers can’t stand the critisism, but if it came from Dan’s mouth I could understand it. At least JM has the street cred and tourney wins to back it up...
Now the worst, and this isn’t really close is CBS. Look, Jim Nantz is the unofficial voice of golf and he seems like a great ambassador for the game, but I think he’s been around long enough and to make matters worse is the constant cheering for Tiger. They do it blatenly and at times it’s really irritating. And the problem is the good guys, like Faldo, McCord, Feherty and Finchie have to join in it.....
The perfect scenario is that Mike Tirico goes to CBS with Zinger and the 3 man booth with Faldo is reunited. Any time Nick and Paul are together is very entertaining indeed......
LMAO!!!
A couple were. Some earned in a park tennis league, some earned during collegiate chess competition. None in professional sports.
(Sound of grey_whiskers purring.)
Cheers!
Eleven of the thirty-five players listed are Korean, not bad for a country that didn’t have a building standing less than sixty years ago.
Ping ping.
Hey, you exceeded bandwidth and knocked the blue balls off my profile page! Another trophy for you! LOL.
I’m so sorry ... I was not seeking a ‘trophy’. I regret that my posting that gif exceeded the bandwidth/your bandwidth(?).
Oh, wait. Here's another source that will suffice until I find the greater resolution:
November 20 -- Michelle Wie’s withdrawal from the LPGA Tour Championship due to injury was surely a disappointment for the rookie who finally won her first tour title last week.
“This tournament, and the [fan support] in Houston, meant a lot to me and I wanted to do everything I could to fight through the injury,” Wie said in a statement. “It bothered me last week in Mexico, but I was able to play through the pain. I realized today that I wouldn’t be able to continue to play through it.
Wie made the wise move and decided to go home to see her doctors and “follow their advice for treatment.”
Wie’s sprained ankle has to be even more of a downer for the LPGA and Golf Channel, both of which are counting on the 20-year-old power hitter to attract viewers and fans to the women’s professional golf tour.
Ratings winner. For sure, the LPGA and Golf Channel are at the top of the list of Wie’s many worldwide fans who are rooting for a quick recovery. Make no mistake: Michelle Wie is ratings gold for a golf organization that desperately needs to boost spectator interest and that has a new long-term contract with the golf network starting next year.
The Golf Channel has solid numbers to prove the value of having Wie in the field on any given Sunday. It may not look like a huge deal, but Wie’s first win at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational earned Golf Channel a 0.72 final-round rating, according to the network.
That figure represents one of the most-watched LPGA rounds this season, second only to the third day of the 2009 Solheim Cup. And, of course, Wie dominated Solheim Cup highlight reels when she went undefeated in her debut as a U.S. team member.
The recent rating also represented a 60-percent increase over last year’s Ochoa Invitational and was double the “typical” ratings for an LPGA final round on Golf Channel this year.
Huge draw. Just how big a draw is Wie? She pulled in an eye-popping $22,000 from one Texan who bid for the right to play with the first-time LPGA winner during the LPGA Tour Championship Pro-Am event, according to GolfChannel.com’s Randall Mell.
Michael Maggi, the winner of the bid to play with Wie -- technically the right to be the first to choose a pairing partner -- believed he would have to write a hefty check. But the winning proffer was big, even for Texas.
“I was thinking maybe $50,” Wie jokingly told Mell after she watched the bidding mania.
Good cause. Maggi’s dough paid for his entire foursome and benefited the Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital’s orthopedic services division. LPGA pro Stacy Lewis underwent spine surgery for scoliosis at the Hermann Hospital, Mell noted.
Wie may be out of the running this week, but there’s still plenty of drama at the LPGA Tour Championship as Lorena Ochoa and Jiyai Shin duke it out for player-of-the-year honors. Read about it at Wie withdraws, Ochoa leads at LPGA Tour Championship.
Another note: When Michelle was interviewed by Korean Television, she gave the interview in fluent Korean. When interviewing Japanese TV, she partially spoke in Japanese (the subject she is studying at Stanford).
She celebrated by twerking? I guess I was right after all.
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