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Post by philknj on Oct 19, 2016 14:35:18 GMT
news.joins.com/article/20748601The above article doesn't mention the KLPGA or JLPGA, so she may be done with golf...her play in 2016 was a disaster. I watched her play at the Shop-Rite ten years ago, one of my early favorite Sisters. Her coach Carl Rabito was following along...said she was hitting it solid, but missed putts because she was raising up on them, didn't know why she was doing that. He was impressed by "that blonde" in Meena's group (JRo). Earlier in the week, he gave Meena a hands-on short game lesson...I was surprised by that, but he said the women pros weren't good chippers. In 12 years on the LPGA, she had 294 starts, 2 wins, and 33 top-tens.  With Se Ri and Meena off the LPGA, who is the oldest Sister that all the other have to bow to? My guess is Sun Young Yoo, but I'm not certain of that.
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Post by HappyFan on Oct 19, 2016 16:50:32 GMT
I was just thinking the other day that Meena Lee was the longest on tour of the Koreans, and now she's retired. That means that all of the original Sisters and all the second wave gals are gone.  If Jimin Kang is not coming back, then I think it might be Sun Young Yoo who is the new senior Sister, as she joined the tour in 2006. There are still a couple of gals from the class of 2007, In Kyung Kim and Inbee Park. |
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Post by 18majors on Oct 19, 2016 17:09:58 GMT
An interesting article on older LPGA players Thirty-Something: An Age Group Taking Over the LPGA stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/09/08/thirty-something-an-age-group-taking-over-the-lpga/Centraila’s Nancy Scranton at first seemed surprised by the statistic because she, like most, had looked more at the nationalities who were winning than the generations who were collecting the trophies. She first pointed to the Asian success stories and observed that while the Koreans win early and often, unlike Pak, they return to their native countries early as well. If 30-year-old winners are an annual exception on the LPGA Tour, 30-plus Asian winners on the LPGA Tour are as rare as panda cubs. |
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Post by HappyFan on Oct 22, 2016 7:16:35 GMT
An interesting article on older LPGA players Thirty-Something: An Age Group Taking Over the LPGA stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/09/08/thirty-something-an-age-group-taking-over-the-lpga/Centraila’s Nancy Scranton at first seemed surprised by the statistic because she, like most, had looked more at the nationalities who were winning than the generations who were collecting the trophies. She first pointed to the Asian success stories and observed that while the Koreans win early and often, unlike Pak, they return to their native countries early as well. If 30-year-old winners are an annual exception on the LPGA Tour, 30-plus Asian winners on the LPGA Tour are as rare as panda cubs. "Se Ri Pak, and the Korean who made her professional debut here in St. Louis at Forest Hills, was a marquis name then because she had sustained her success" Se Ri is a Queen, but not, as far as I know, a Marquis! (the spelling is marquee!) |
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Post by verdantgarden on Oct 22, 2016 16:37:00 GMT
It's astonishing to me that the senior Korean player is now Sun Young Yoo who debuted only 10 years ago! It makes me really appreciate the turnover this sport endures.
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Post by SoYeonFan on Oct 22, 2016 17:39:19 GMT
It's astonishing to me that the senior Korean player is now Sun Young Yoo who debuted only 10 years ago! It makes me really appreciate the turnover this sport endures. Remember their were not that many Korean players before Sun Yeon as their are now. We need to wait and see how long this group last. Two of the original He Won started a family, Mi Hyun got injured and also started a family. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2017 6:41:23 GMT
I just realized she retired and it made me so sad.
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