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Post by verdantgarden on Aug 27, 2019 0:23:32 GMT
At first I feared this would turn out to be an afterthought for many of the players due to the Solheim Cup but it's turned out to be the opposite. Most of the US team will be playing. Heck, even the captain Juli Inster is teeing it up.
And a lot of the Asian players are making the stop before heading home to the Far East including no. 1 Ko. A co-worker asked which player I was looking forward to watching when it was before I knew the final field and I replied I hope to see Jin Young Ko. Got my wish! It's been 10 years since a Seoul Sister won this tournament - 15 years since one won at Columbia Edgewater (Hee Won Han!) Let's change that!
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Post by tonyj5 on Aug 27, 2019 0:52:10 GMT
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Post by don on Aug 27, 2019 0:59:59 GMT
Yin vs. AVD in a long drive contest is a great idea.
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Post by philknj on Aug 27, 2019 8:29:45 GMT
Dr. Noh and amateur Ellie Slama (Oregon St., 2021) each shot 68 to pass the Monday qualifier.
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Post by 18majors on Aug 27, 2019 13:20:44 GMT
Dr. Noh and amateur Ellie Slama (Oregon St., 2021) each shot 68 to pass the Monday qualifier. Can Yealimi win Cambia to earn her LPGA card ALA Brooke Henderson 2015? I'd settle for a top 10!
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Post by don on Aug 27, 2019 16:18:51 GMT
What's the deal w/ this long drive contest already?
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Post by don on Aug 27, 2019 17:49:30 GMT
What's the deal w/ this long drive contest already? 5:30 PT
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Post by don on Aug 28, 2019 0:52:40 GMT
Yin and AVD are hitting bombs!
I think AVD hit one ball to win and it was with a 111.1 club head speed.
She topped out at 113. 283-284 carry.
Tell me again how women who swing 113 and go 106 holes without a bogey are “much more relatable” to the white belts 4 caps.
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Post by jumpcut on Aug 28, 2019 3:05:56 GMT
"I will try to keep the bogey-free round. I hope so but nobody knows how can I play."
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Post by ol68 on Aug 28, 2019 15:57:28 GMT
Hello from the once a year poster, ol'68. You coming down Vern? I'll look for the huge sun hat. Love the avatar of Guilin. I'm again off first on the first tee at 7:15am, so if you want to know what I look like, be there. I'm the old, skinny bald guy carrying the score sign in the blue t-shirt. I think I'll wear my BRIGHT orange Pumas, maybe not. Hey, has 3putt finally been banned? Sorry, last year I never did get around to posting my report of the tourney. Didn't think anybody would be interested after the fact. I'll actually try and do a daily this year, with some actual pictures although I think photoshop isn't allowing links now, is that correct? Where is a good place to post and link? Drove by the course last night on the way home from the airport (8:45ish). Lots of big flood lights up and lots of, I assume, TV guys running around getting last minute details done. Supposed to be 95F today and then cool to mid 80's all tourney. Yesterday at the airport (right next to the course) it was 95 but a good stiff breeze was blowing all evening making it tolerable even for me out in the direct sun all shift. (I work at UPS directing feeder aircraft in so I'm on the tarmac all the time) But CECC is so sheltered by it's big trees you don't get the breeze on the course proper, so should be nice. See my fav Austin Ernst is entered. Go girl. See you at the Cambia. -ol'68 PS- I'm a NEW MEMBER?!?! hahahaha
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Post by philknj on Aug 28, 2019 17:06:00 GMT
It's been 10 years since a Seoul Sister won this tournament -
That is unbelievable...but, you're right, I looked it up...and it was a three-round event when Hur, SY Kang, Han and Peanut won it.
Do they still have the wiener mobile there?
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In unrelated tour news, the R&A announced that the 2020 WAAPC will be at the Siam Country Club, Pattaya, Thailand (Feb. 12-15)...the winner gets a free pass to the AIG WBO, Evian, Augusta, and the Honda LPGA Thailand.
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Post by ol68 on Aug 28, 2019 17:19:40 GMT
Do they still have the wiener mobile there?
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In unrelated tour news, the R&A announced that the 2020 WAAPC will be at the Siam Country Club, Pattaya, Thailand (Feb. 12-15)...the winner gets a free pass to the AIG WBO, Evian, Augusta, and the Honda LPGA Thailand.
I haven't seen it since the tourney moved back from Punkin Ridge. If I do see it, I'll get a pic. And I do still have a couple weinermobile stickers they gave me. -ol'68 EDIT- I'm STILL a "new member"...... Yuck, yuck
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Post by ol68 on Aug 29, 2019 7:59:43 GMT
Hey everyone,
You know, after typing all that SeoulSisters stuff this morning and seeing I was a new member, I really got to thinking about when I was new to the LPGA stuff. Thought I’d just jot some things down before I forgot them. I’ve been doing this tourney in one form or the other for 17 years now from it being the “Safeway” , moving to Punkin Ridge then back to Columbia Edgewater , to really downsizing to the now Cambia Classic. I was really a first generation SeoulSisters fanatic and it lost an awful lot of glitz for me when the first generation bowed out from the LPGA. SeRi, Peanut, JJ, HeeWan, Grace, when they all dropped out, my enthusiasm went, too. I still enjoy the volunteering, but it’s much sublime for me now.
I started in 2000 when I had just moved from Seattle down here to Vancouver and read an article in the local Portland paper that was all about the Koreans and it quoted Happy A LOT. Pricked my interest. So much so I decided to volunteer . The week before the tourney, I went over to CECC and talked to someone about volunteering. Sure, no problem, here’s your shirt and marshall credentials. That’ll be $65 bucks to “volunteer”. Gulp!!! WTHeck?!? Well, what I really want to do is carry the score sign, not stand around marshalling for $65. Oh, well you have to go see Oregon Junior Golf for that. OJG was more than happy to hear from me, because back then the tourney was in September and all the kids were in school on Thursday and Friday. You’re in!!!! My first group I ever did, first tee, first off was a threesome but I forgot the third, Diana D’Allissio, YuPing Lin, ….and whoever. I remember Diana’s caddy was “Sam”, super friendly, and in later years saw her on TV, as snotty 15years old Morgan Pressell’s caddie in the US Open when Birdie Kim hit that miraculous sand shot to win. She must have been on like on a first name basis with Johnny Miller because he was always just talking about her like they were buds. Don’t know what happened to her. I do remember the second time around that day the sky darkened and a huge thunder storm blew in and halted the tourney at like 3pm for the day. I also remember Michelle Wie was the talk of the LPGA back then, 13 years old I believe and a mouth full of braces. Super approachable and giggly, followed her on a practice round for a bit and she routinely hi it 50 yards past where everyone else hit. I remember she played by herself , heck she was like 12 and no one wanted to converse with her and her parents. Here’s some other memories that I fondly keep, player by player.
-SeRi Pak
The first time I saw her, holy moly, THOSE LEGS!!! Super powerful, my word.
Ya know, I think I’ve told this story before but it’s worth repeating. Way back one year, for months here in this forum, there was a rumor going round that she was engaged, because someone spotted a ring on her left hand at a practice round somewhere. Speculation was running wild like I said for months. But it seemed nobody had the guts to find out the truth and just go up to her and spit it out. It finally came time for the Safeway and I just decided that I was going to take the bull by the horns and once and for all end the rumors and just ask her about it. Point blank. Nobody else would. So I arrived on the Tuesday practice day and finally found her and started walking with her group and looking for a chance. I notice there was a guy with them with a cell glued to his ear all the time and after a few hole finally solved the riddle and figured out it was her agent. So as the holes were dwindling away, and my chance to ask any question of her, I finally got the courage up to go over to her agent and ask THE QUESTION. Went sort of like this: Excuse me, are you SeRi’s agent? Why yes. Cool, hey I’m on SeoulSisters and there is this rampant rumor that she is engaged because of the ring on the hand (yes, she still was wearing it). The guy’s eyes got big as saucers…….HUGE pause…..so, YOU’RE the guy!!!!!!!! (Now if you haven’t guessed, he thought I was Happy. It took a minute to hit me, too)No, no, no, no, NO!!!! I’m just a poster on the forums, and I told everyone I would ask because there is such a rumor going around. The guy calmed down and just said that there was nothing to any rumor and no, she was not engaged. Then promptly turned and left. –NOTE- Now I know up to this point, Happy had never personally met SeRi except maybe to say, hi. Yeah, maybe he hadn’t met her, but her and her agent sure knew about HIM and his site! Would be interestsing to see what she thinks about you and the site, now.
Jeong Jang- JJ is and always will be my favorite SeoulSister. She was always so approachable, so happy, so ready to actually converse with you and she did many times. And she was (is) smokin’. Even her caddie (can’t remember his name) was a regular here on the forums for a time because he knew me by name when I introduced myself one time. They were a great team and the best memory for me was watching her and her caddie walk up the 18th on TV when she won the British that one year wire to wire. Just reminded me so much of what a great person she was to be around with smiles, smiles and happiness all around her. Got two autographed pic’s of her and display them prominently on my LPGA wall. Wonder where she is and what her life is now. Hope she’s happy.
Mi Hyun Kim- That girl is small, but just a smoking hot woman, too. I still remember the first time I approached her and was shocked at how ruddy and rough her complexion was. But she still is the only SS I have ever approached and could hardly talk to, my heart was beating so fast and I was so awe-struck by her beauty. I think she sort of hung on the longest of all the first wavers, just sort of fading away at the last there. I do remember her out at Punkin Ridge a couple times but she just didn’t have it anymore. I think she got injured or something there at the last. I do have a wonderful autographed pic of her just wound up with a driver ready to totally crush it. Remember she was flabbergasted when she saw it and amazed she was like that at address. Can’t remember who took it but he was a real cool regular on the old forums.
Grace Park- There was just a different air of maturity when you were around that woman. She was the first SS I ever actually met face to face. I remember it was the first time I was ever at any type of pro golf event of any kind, Tuesday practice round at the 2000 Safeway. There she was!! The actual Grace Park herself. She was signing for a couple people and I just sorta got in line behind them and then….I was next! Wow, what a beautiful woman. She smiled, sorta gave me a troubled look, signed, and while doing so asked me how I was doing. I could barely talk I was so star struck, but did get out a “fine” or something. She sincerely thanked me for coming and hoped I enjoyed myself. I melted, and followed her for a couple holes. Then it hit me why she gave me the “look” when we met. I looked like Natalie Gulbus’s dad. Unkept, lousey t-shirt and baggy shorts, flip flops, unshaven for a couple days, probably smelled. My goodness, what a pro to treat me like she did when I looked the way I did. I’ve never forgotten and am now very conscience of my hygiene when I sign carry now. I clean myself up and dress smart. My other Grace memory was that she was the first person I ever saw in person spin a golf ball back on a shot. Number 11 and I wasn’t paying attention, but a ball came in, bounce once and took a wicked spin back off the front of the green. Whoa, who was that? Up walks Grace. I was impressed and have never forgotten that.
HeeWan Han- I just remember how quiet and low key she was. I was walking on the course one year and saw her tee off to #2, a par 3. Plunk in the bunker right next to me. I waited and after she blasted out I asked her for a sig. Just signed and gave me a smile and a nod. Very Flowing sig. And she won that year, I totally remember.
A few others-
JeeLee Young- Jelly was strikingly cute up close. After the one time I approached for a autograph and she signed, I decided to say the one thing I knew in Korean, “thank you”. I did and she flat stopped in her tracks, eyes got wide and she turned to her playing partners and it sure looked like she informed them that I could speak Korean! AHHHHH, no I can’t, just thank you- Kam Saw HopNiDa. That’s it. I think I sorta let her down, but she was all smiles and animated for a long time. Her autographed pic is one of my favorites, her, between two Betty Boop driver covers. Fits her perfect.
Ahn (is it ShiHan??)- anyway she’s Cinderella. The absolute definition of Korean stoic. Everybody was telling me she wasn’t but I never, ever saw her otherwise. Anyway she hit the best shot I have ever seen at CECC. Hole 13, the par 3 over water. Hit a nice smooth iron right on line (she was playing one group ahead of mine but we were stacked back on this tee) Wow, it looked good right off the club face. Yep it was. Hit the flag stick actual flag, and dropped straight down like 4 inches from the cup. What a yell from the crowd. She just waved her hand a bit and walked back to her bag. No smile. But that continues to be the best shot I’ve ever seen at this tourney.
Was rummaging through my closet the other day and came upon my t-shirt I got from the Woman’s US Amateur a while back signed by none other than the winner, a 14(?) year old Kimberly Kim with her famous K (squared). Remember her? What happened to her? I remember she was out on tour for a while when she was like 18 but never really did anything or made a splash of any kind. But what a shot maker she was that day. Best 2 shots I ever, ever saw in my life, tee shot on the par 3 11th at Punkin Witch Hollow. 193 yards 3 iron to 3 feet to a wicked green. Missed the putt but my jaw drops to this day remembering. Followed closely by the second out of the sand on 17 to 3 feet to sew up the trophy. Holy Toledo she was good.
SooYun Kang- ahh, the chain smoking Miss Kang. Followed her a lot on early practice rounds around CECC. Was a bit shocked when she was always puffing away, didn’t fit her personality or style. Never smoked on the course at the tourney proper. Got her to autograph a ball she threw me after she bogeyed 16 one round. It’s simply signed “Kangly”. Oh, she was smokin’ hot, too. Wow, was her complexion clear and smooth.
Stacy Prammanahsudh- I’ll just throw her in here even though she never was a SeoulSister, because she was the absolute definition of slow play and drove me crazy the times I went out with her. I think she taught Brandell Chamblee a thing or two, but it didn’t sink in too much. When you look at a tap in from both sides, then go through your putting routine….. I’m surprised her playing partners didn’t rip her a new one. I just about did. AHHHH I grit my teeth just typing this out.
My goodness I have to go to bed. See you tomorrow.
-ol’68
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Post by ol68 on Aug 29, 2019 12:59:20 GMT
Hey.....Alert! Woke up a few minutes ago to a pretty good thunder/lightning/downpour storm. But my weather app shows it moving off north pretty fast. Another band down by Eugene and rolling up the valley could be a problem in a couple hours. Still flashes all teh time, but getting fainter.
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Post by jumpcut on Aug 29, 2019 19:05:00 GMT
Lee Ann Pace currently T1. Good to see her playing so well after WDing due to debilitating back pain at the CP a few days ago...immediately after shooting a 9 on the Aon Risk Reward hole, which some said was done to protect her lead for the $1 million.
Not me though! I'm sure her miraculous back cure will continue to hold up so she can get the required number of rounds in to qualify. Unless, of course, she shoots another big number on the Aon hole.
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