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Post by HappyFan on Jun 3, 2018 19:24:38 GMT
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Post by SoYeonFan on Jun 3, 2018 20:33:45 GMT
Jin Young finished at minus two today even after starting with a double bogey. Nice comeback during the round.
So Yeon made birdie to get to minus one then made a double bogey the next hole. She did that three times yesterday made birdie followed by a bogey. So is she celebrating making birdie while playing the next hole..... kidding!
I thought that she would play her way into the top ten.
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Post by kjt123 on Jun 3, 2018 22:42:08 GMT
This is madness.
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Post by don on Jun 3, 2018 23:08:17 GMT
Good TV.
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Post by don on Jun 4, 2018 1:13:41 GMT
Who wins the Grand Slam (4) first? Rory Phil Jordan Aryia
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Post by SoYeonFan on Jun 4, 2018 1:31:19 GMT
Not a good day for the Korean golfers. Only three were under par today, Hyo Joo -5, Jin Young Ko -2 and Hye Jin Choi -2. The rest just mailed it in.
Hyo Joo had a chance to save them, with her approach shot on the second playoff hole. If she had hit it to the right side of the green instead of left. Even the right bunker would have been an easier up and down than the left. Not trying to take anything away from a great final round. She fought to the end.
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Post by verdantgarden on Jun 4, 2018 1:59:17 GMT
What a rollercoaster round that was! Hyo Joo Kim looked like one of the walking dead when I saw her in Los Angeles and she somehow put on a show for the biggest tournament of the year. She was practically the only player to tame the 2nd nine today. At one point quite a group of players were at -4 and in the top five. In the end, only Danielle Kang managed to finish at -3. Ciganda was four shots better but only good for third.
Ariya had it cruising after her first nine, but went on cruise out-of-control with a triple bogey on 10. She eventually lost a seven--stroke lead. Who can keep their composure after that? Yet she managed to pull this out somehow.
Bangkokbobby wrote on Twitter he was swearing off the LPGA after Ariya blew that lead. Even he lost hope! But as he wrote later on, his faith was restored.
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Post by SoYeonFan on Jun 4, 2018 3:12:09 GMT
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Post by HappyFan on Jun 4, 2018 7:56:20 GMT
Man, do the golf gods like to screw with me... Yeesh.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I've never seen a top player who makes more dumb mistakes and horrible shots than Ariya. I literally couldn't believe it when I watched her at Sahalee. Yet somehow it rarely hurts her that badly, because she manages to make so many birdies most of the time.
I was about one or two holes from turning off the TV today entirely once Ariya got her 7 shot lead, the other Thai chick sewed up amateur, and Inbee was just struggling. But I figured I would keep watching as long as Hyo Joo kept playing well, since I like her and I thought she had a pretty good chance at second.
Let's give Hyo Joo a lot of credit. This was fast becoming the most boring US Women's Open in a generation, and boy did Hyo Joo make it exciting! First she makes that insane birdie on 12, the hardest hole on the course. Then she follows that up with an even longer bomb on 15. I was almost starting to believe, but I watched Inbee lose a tournament at ANA she simply should not have lost, and felt like Ariya was going to pull it out, no matter how many terrible shots she hit along the way.
When Hyo Joo missed the easy birdie on 17, and Ariya made one on 16, I thought it was all over. Then Ariya managed to bogey the next two holes, and we had a playoff.
I still wouldn't accept that it could happen. Even after Hyo Joo made the nice birdie on the first playoff hole to take a one shot lead. But when Hyo Joo hit her drive in the middle on 18, and Ariya hit another terrible iron into the rough, for the first time, I let myself think it might happen.
And that's when the golf gods got me! Hyo Joo should have played for par. She had no business hitting it straight at the flag on the left. Then Ariya got lucky when her terrible shot hit a spectator. It was enough to allow her to get up and down, and at that point I knew it was only a matter of time before Ariya won.
In general it was a rotten Open for the Sisters, following a really weak ANA. Inbee played horribly but still managed a top ten, and Ji Hyun Kim was even worse, but she's a newbie to LPGA Majors so I'll give her a pass. Jin Young Ko recovered nicely for a top twenty, and so did Lucky Six; her t17th is virtually identical to the finishes she had at the other events she played on the LPGA this year.
Credit also to Inky and Hye Jin for a decent round today. In Gee still is searching for her form, but if Hyo Joo could recover from where she had ended up, so can she.
Anyway, congrats to Ariya, and keep fighting, Sisters!!!!
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Post by HappyFan on Jun 4, 2018 16:38:29 GMT
It's funny how there were ten plus pages about all the qualfying for this event, and almost no comments about the results!
As a fan of the Sisters, it was frustrating to lose a second straight long playoff in a Major. I hope things will pivot in the next couple. But though Hyo Joo got close enough to taste it only to fall short, she has nothing to feel bad about. That she was even in a playoff was amazing. She was the only Korean to mount a serious charge Sunday.
I hadn't realized just how far off the map she had fallen. She gained 34 ranking spots and still isn't in the top 25! Well, hopefully this will kick start her back towards the top again.
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Post by jumpcut on Jun 4, 2018 17:05:18 GMT
It's funny how there were ten plus pages about all the qualfying for this event, and almost no comments about the results! We're all going through the seven stages of grief. When I reach "Acceptance" I'll start posting again.
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Post by legitimategolf on Jun 4, 2018 17:52:21 GMT
This "Hyo Joo" girl seems very talented with a bright future ahead of her.
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Post by longballbogey on Jun 5, 2018 0:42:15 GMT
Need to tell them tv guys her name is Ariya and not Area.
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Post by longballbogey on Jun 5, 2018 0:46:31 GMT
Need to tell them tv guys her name is Ariya and not Area.
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Post by bangkokbobby on Jun 11, 2018 1:25:31 GMT
Bangkokbobby wrote on Twitter he was swearing off the LPGA after Ariya blew that lead. Even he lost hope! But as he wrote later on, his faith was restored. Yes, that's true! I was going to post congratulations to Ariya last week but since I don't post very often and I knew that Roland Garros would finish up this week I decided to delay posting for a week out of respect for Seoul Sisters fans who might be in not the best of moods after Hyo-Joo Kim didn't win. However, to be fair nobody has mastered the collapse more than little sister Jutanugarn. Another epic implosion would have been more than I could have handled. Seoul Sisters will win again on the Major level. If Ariya had blown another Major, I don't know. She has bounced back before but everybody has to have a limit. Also, while Hyo-Joo Kim came up short in the playoffs, if we're being honest, as well as she played there was only a playoff because Ariya had it in reverse on the back nine. HappyFan even said the previous day that it was over. By the time Ariya finished the front nine on Sunday, everybody thought it was over. So from the Seoul Sisters fan perspective it ended up being like not expecting something to happen, to then saying wait a minute it might really happen, and then being let down when it doesn't happen. You forget that in the beginning you weren't expecting it to happen anyway. So credit to Hyo-Joo Kim for playing well but had she won I think it would be inescapable not to think of it also as another Ariya meltdown. Happily for me, that collapse did not prove to be a loss snatched from the jaws of victory. With both of the Jutanugarn sisters flying high this year, Thai people and people of Thai heritage like myself are beyond ecstatic. Oh, and lest I forget the low amateur, Patty Tavatanakit, is Thai. Be on the lookout for Atthaya Thitikul, nicknamed Jeeno, in the coming years. 15 years old now, but barring injury she is going to make some noise. Did well at HSBC and ANA, especially considering her youth.
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