2017 LPGA Q-School. Stage 1

Jeong Eun6 Lee will win the ANA next year.
Because I will be there to cheer her on.
I wont jinx her like I did Jin Young Ko.
Who may not make it back there next year.

Maybe someone can correct me, but I never heard of such a rule.  The PGA Tour had a 15 event minimum rule back in the '80s and '90s and hit Seve over the head with it many times...I don't know if that rule still exists.  The LPGA had a rule about requiring a player to play a particular tournament at least once every four years...was it ever observed or enforced?  I doubt it, since it was totally unrealistic.  Lots of the big names would skip Corning every year, but Bivens solved that problem by killing the tournament and giving the club a tombstone plaque.  I assume the money list is the determining factor...with 13 events in the bank, Inky could skip the rest of the 2017 and retain full membership for 2018.

Did Jang tear up her membership when leaving the LPGA?  Her profile is still on the website, but her T-49 result in the RWBO was not added.  With four recent LPGA wins, logically she shouldn't have any problems becoming an LPGA regular again.  But, would she scurry back to Korea again the next time Dumbo gives her the Evil Eye?

Cyborg won't need Q-school if she wins the Evian or Hana Bank...which is doable.  I wonder if she'll go after some sponsor exemptions for the LPGA's Asian swing?

...which she already did at Bedminster.

Choi has stated that one of her goals is an Olympic gold medal...getting on the Korean team is the hard part and tearing up the LPGA is the only way to do it.  If she picks up a BIG win in the next three months, Whan will have to let her in...assuming she wants in.

Too bad she is making her pro debut at the KLPGA's Hanwha.  Instead, she could have gotten an invite or Monday qualified at Portland that week and wipe out everyone (except maybe Brooke).

Has anyone else on this forum seen her play in person besides me?  Maybe portsea has been at one of her international stops...if so, I'd like to hear his opinion on her game.

I noticed that the Stage 2 had the same deadline as Stage 1 for its field.  Stage 2 has the usual suspects (Kim Welch, Shannon Fish, Jean Reynolds, Grace Na, Veronica Felibert, etc.) along with a healthy number of LET pros (gee, I wonder why).  There's also a small number of JLPGAers (Ah Reum Hwang, Ayaka Watanable, Ayaka Matsumori, Fumika Kawagishi), as well as Eun Jeong Seong.  Lastly, a couple of prominent college amateurs are in, Leona Maguire and Cheyenne Knight.  At least 50 players will advance from Stage 1 to Stage 2.

I shake my head how so many women and men continue to chase their pro golf tour dreams with never having a chance to make a living on the SHOW.

Kim is a nice young lady...watched her play and chatted with her in 2012.

They tee it up tomorrow.

www.desertsun.com/story/sports/golf/2017/08/22/pressure-packed-qualifying-lpga-hopefuls-start-week/591258001/

From the above article...this player thinks a regular gig on the Symetra tour would be "great" :

So as much as the numbers might be stacked against the record 362 players in the field in Rancho Mirage starting Thursday, there is hope for a career-changing moment this week.

“I don’t see it as the odds are against me, it's more like, I’m here, I’ve done this before, just get it done,” said Simone Strauss of Rancho Mirage. “That’s all I am thinking, just get it done.”

Strauss, a 2009 graduate of Palm Desert High School where she played for the school’s golf team, has played in the Stage I qualifier pretty much every year since high school. These days the 26-year-old plays most of her golf on the Arizona-based Cactus Tour while hoping to play well enough in the Stage I event each year to move forward. This year the top 90 players from Stage I after Sunday’s round will move on to Stage II in Florida.

“It would be a big deal for me if I can just get out of here. I want to get out of Stage I,” Strauss said. “It would be awesome if I could just get to a point where I can get good status on Symetra and play every week. That would be great. It’s hard to play bad when you are playing every week.”

The article also says the oldest competitor is Janelle Wilson at 54.