2016 Ricoh Women’s British Open (Major)

Grace Park is the Queen, can do no wrong and not only is a real Seoul Sister but should be on the Mt. Rushmore of Seoul Sisters, along with Inbee, Jiyai and, if course, Se Ri! 😂

Okay, now that the Grace fanboy in me has spoken, I can't agree that the Sisters let this one get away. Maybe if that were Inbee chasing Ariya, then yes. In that scenario, Inbee playing as Mirim did would be out of character. But Inbee is Inbee for a reason just as Mirim is Mirim for a reason.

Ariya didn't completely implode like Honda (when Inbee was the beneficiary) or ANA. We can play the what if game with Mirim, but we could do the same with Jutanugarn. What if she didn't get greedy and miss the green short in the bunker on 9? That's when she started to get tight, long before the double bogey on 13.

I will agree, as I've already posted, that it's not appropriate to call Thailand a threat to the Seoul Sisters at this point any more than Taiwan was a threat when Yani was winning...and that would have been closer considering there were other Taiwanese tournament wins like Candie Kung. Ariya has no company in official wins. Maybe some want somebody other than Seoul Sisters to dominate. Keep waiting.

Now, as I posted, there are some talented up and coming players like Muangkumsakul. They might sneak up on Americans because some of them, like her, turned pro very young. She turned pro at 14, unlike Ariya and Seoul Sister Grace Park whom you saw coming from miles away because of their amateur dominance.

I like to comment about Grace Park being called a fake Korean.
She spent a lot of time in the U.S, however she always played under the Korean flag.

Lydia parents decided to sell her talent to New Zealand.
Even though she was born in Korea she considers herself (probably for payback)a New Zealander.
Lydia probably had little say in the matter, she is just not going against her parents wishes.

With that said I really like Lydia.

Whoa! I didn't see tonyj suggest the possibility of Ariya winning 8 times next year! Even I don't think that!

I'm so sure that won't happen that if it does happen in 2017 I will post a video on my blog of me getting a Cristie Kerr tattoo!

And you can also say Ariya has won 3 consecutive events and is the only... ONLY...player in LPGA history to have made their first 3 wins consecutive. And despite her history of faltering in tight moments, Ariya has held 54-hole leads in 4 events this year. Whether she made it more interesting than necessary, she has won all 4 times. Her history has been repeated so often that kind of under the radar she is building a new history if closing out leads.

Sure, you can pick out tournaments where Mirim played well. We can pick out tournaments where (fill in the blank) played well. If we see everything through the prism of how the Seoul Sisters perform, it can lead to confirmation bias in assessing scenarios. Put it this way, if the roles were reversed I doubt you would say Ariya let this one get away when at no time did she ever catch Mirim. It would be all about how Mirim came through in a high pressure situation.

Mirim is a good, very good, LPGA player. We'll see if she can be great. But she ain't Inbee. Sure, with enough data points, Ramsey Theory, you can find a pattern or occurance of her beating Inbee on this day or Lydia on that day. Heck, she beat Lydia on Sunday. Lots of people did. You can find times where all time greats were started down and lost in playoffs. I can find instances when Michelle Wie finished better than Annika and Yani and Inbee and...well, you know.