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Post by 18majors on Feb 2, 2019 14:56:17 GMT
Kay and Beth; two of the best
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Post by 18majors on Feb 2, 2019 15:00:06 GMT
Is Waste Management Phoenix Open good for golf; is Superbowl good for football?
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Post by 18majors on Feb 2, 2019 15:11:00 GMT
This is good USGA has a concerted effort to promote USWO; we just need Yealimi Noh or Alexa Pano to come along and wins it for three years in a row
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Post by 18majors on Feb 2, 2019 16:26:36 GMT
Is any publicity good publicity?
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Post by 18majors on Feb 2, 2019 16:37:40 GMT
He's the talk of town
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Post by 18majors on Feb 2, 2019 16:42:25 GMT
It's Sergio, anything is possible
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Post by 18majors on Feb 2, 2019 16:50:24 GMT
Bye Johnny. you're the best broadcast analyst we've ever had!
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Post by jumpcut on Feb 2, 2019 16:57:01 GMT
HappyFan Lily He is well known, that's a given; but it's IMG, who is so blatantly out of line to show its power and influence. I'm a fan of Lily, I don't mind seeing her at every tournament, but IMG is something else. I wonder if there's any resentment from the established players. I've noticed she doesn't seem to have comments on her posts from any LPGA players or any photos with them. As a matter of fact, her IG is virtually all solo shots of her. Many of the other newbies do seem to have comments and pics with big tour friends. She does get a lot of comment requests for bikini photos though.
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Post by 18majors on Feb 2, 2019 17:12:19 GMT
jumpcut Players are human too; some of them were probably jealous of Lily's 168,000 Instagram followers even before these IMG blatant maneuvers. Lily is followed by Xiang Sui, Nelly Korda and Karis Davidson, just to name a few; I don't know whether she's enemies, but she has her admirers. Speaking of Nelly, she's followed by almost every female golfers 21 and younger; sky is the limit for her.
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Post by 18majors on Feb 2, 2019 18:13:07 GMT
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Post by 18majors on Feb 2, 2019 18:54:30 GMT
No explanation needed!
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Post by jlpgafan on Feb 2, 2019 19:16:23 GMT
18 majors Ayaka Watanabe has full exempt status for the first half of 2019 then there is a restart... it turns out that the 55 ranking was the cutoff for the exempt status. she did not play that well in 2018 but i believe it was not due to injury. she still drives long but erratic, she almost won the long drive contest last year but hit both her drives out of bounds. i might drop by that so cal golf course where she is training in hopes of seeing her play... pbs.twimg.com/media/Dx6NjktUUAIXaBC.jpg
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Post by 18majors on Feb 2, 2019 19:24:08 GMT
jlpgafanGood news on Ayaka's exemption starus; hope she'll start 2019 season with a bang. I thought Ayaka was the star of the Japan team at 2016 UL International Crown; I'd admit that I didn't know too much about Ai Suzuki at the time.
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Post by jlpgafan on Feb 2, 2019 20:00:40 GMT
Ayaka Watanabe was ranked around #5-10 a few years back then her game gradually went south... I remember she was runner-up to Lexi Thompson, i think at the TOTO and she had a couple chances of making the Olympic team that year but barely lost out to Shiho Oyama who made the team that year. It seems losing the Olympic berth was was a turning point in her game (for the worse)... I remember seeing news clips of her in tears in not making that Olympic team.
she did try the US Q-School this past year in hopes of improving her ranking for he next Olympics but had a poor result in the first round she played. Hope she can get back on top of the JLPGA ranking.
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Post by 18majors on Feb 2, 2019 20:29:54 GMT
jlpgafan The challenge Ayaka is facing is shared by many other golfers. One example is Yani Tseng, who won 15 LPGA tournaments by 23 but hasn't won since (7 years). Players like In Gee Chun, whom I follow closely, has more downs than ups. Golf is tough; and it gets tougher every year. Not only players have their own issues, they've new competitors every year. New competitors are not only younger, often they have better fundamentals. That's why women's golf is exciting; because it isn't easy.
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