Post by jumpcut on Nov 23, 2018 15:23:55 GMT
www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/sports/golf/tiger-woods-phil-mickelson-.html
Minjee Lee, the No. 2 money winner in the L.P.G.A. this season, follows men’s golf pretty closely because her younger brother, Min Woo, is a top amateur making his way into the pros. So, of course, Lee said recently, she would be interested in watching Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in their $9 million, winner-take-all exhibition on Friday.
“I think it’s going to be a great match,” she said.
Then someone mentioned $19.99, the cost for golf’s first foray into pay-per-view.
“I didn’t know that,” Lee said with a thin laugh. “Maybe I’ll just follow it on Twitter or something.”
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If Woods and Mickelson were serious about using Turner Sports’s multiple platforms to extend golf’s reach, they could have joined with L.P.G.A. players in a team event. The women’s and men’s tours have come together before in a prime-time exhibition. In 2001, under the lights outside Palm Springs, Woods and Annika Sorenstam defeated David Duval and Karrie Webb in 19 holes in an alternate-shot match.
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Neither Mickelson nor Woods will be the most entertaining major winner in Las Vegas this week. That distinction belongs, hands down, to Danielle Kang, who lives in the city. In an interview this year with Golf World, Kang mentioned wanting to buy a tarantula. She grudgingly decided against it after none of her friends would agree to care for the pet while she was on the road.
Kang, 26, is a self-described drama queen and the L.P.G.A. player most likely to break out into a rap or call out an amateur partner for chunking a shot in a pro-am — and then spend the rest of the round offering instruction. Before her opening shot in her first Solheim Cup, Kang implored the fans to get louder, a crowd-pleasing gesture that won’t be an option for Mickelson or Woods — no spectators will be allowed on the course during their match.
