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Post by HappyFan on Sept 17, 2020 16:42:44 GMT
Meanwhile, I watched the final hole on Tivo again. Maybe I'm nuts, but it looks to me like Mirim's approach did not touch the wall; it stopped about a foot or two short. Yes, Henderson did smash her approach into the wall, but Mirim did not. Now, possibly she wouldn't have even tried to go for it in two without the wall there, but she certainly didn't get an assist from it. This clip cuts away just before the ball stops rolling, but in the full broadcast, the ball comes to a dead stop right at that spot a half second later. In this clip, the ball clearly does hit the wall. After the second bounce it hits the wall and ricochets back off to the right and rolls to a stop. Watch it a few more times. But nevertheless - that was a smart play. Do you have it in HD? In the Youtube video it does look like it bounces, but in the HD one it looks like it doesn't. I watched it several more times last night. I still can't tell. Ah well, I don't really care. One thing I do know: she didn't hit it 'miles left' like several on line are saying.
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Post by tonyj500 on Sept 17, 2020 16:51:39 GMT
In this clip, the ball clearly does hit the wall. After the second bounce it hits the wall and ricochets back off to the right and rolls to a stop. Watch it a few more times. But nevertheless - that was a smart play. Do you have it in HD? In the Youtube video it does look like it bounces, but in the HD one it looks like it doesn't. I watched it several more times last night. I still can't tell. Ah well, I don't really care. One thing I do know: she didn't hit it 'miles left' like several on line are saying. Don't know what the big deal is. We all said the wall shouldn't be there before the tournament started. Whether it hit the wall or not doesn't matter. Mirim played by the same rules as everyone else. She won fair and square. Case closed!
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Post by HappyFan on Sept 17, 2020 17:13:02 GMT
Do you have it in HD? In the Youtube video it does look like it bounces, but in the HD one it looks like it doesn't. I watched it several more times last night. I still can't tell. Ah well, I don't really care. One thing I do know: she didn't hit it 'miles left' like several on line are saying. Don't know what the big deal is. We all said the wall shouldn't be there before the tournament started. Whether it hit the wall or not doesn't matter. Mirim played by the same rules as everyone else. She won fair and square. Case closed! It only matters because some in the golf media have glommed onto that as a way to implicitly besmirch what Mirim did. For instance, Alan Shipnuck of SI: NO WAY was Mirim's shot going long and left by the way. The notion that the wall cost Korda the tournament is ludicrous. Korda played several weak shots in her final two holes. She should be excused for that? Don't we want the player who hits the best shots at the end to win?
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Post by SoYeonFan on Sept 17, 2020 19:49:04 GMT
Mirim Lee now know how So Yeon felt after her win. When people that probably doesn't care about LPGA Golf come out to complain. Why is Mike Whan "it's a Global Tour" so silent and not defending his Golfer. He probably signed off on the changes to help the bombers.
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Post by jumpcut on Sept 18, 2020 13:23:51 GMT
The first time I heard anything about the Lexi Wall TM was when Beth Ann wrote positively about it before the event: While there won’t be any seats around the first tee or the 17th or 18th greens, there will be scaffolding and signage. That’s of particular interest for those who like to go for the green in two on the closing hole: There will still be something there to stop the ball.
golfweek.usatoday.com/2020/09/07/ana-inspiration-covid-no-fans/So she had no problem putting her thumb on the scale when it favors her favorite players. But when the plan backfires, it's time to blame the winner for playing the course as it's set up.
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Post by HappyFan on Sept 18, 2020 16:53:58 GMT
The first time I heard anything about the Lexi Wall TM was when Beth Ann wrote positively about it before the event: While there won’t be any seats around the first tee or the 17th or 18th greens, there will be scaffolding and signage. That’s of particular interest for those who like to go for the green in two on the closing hole: There will still be something there to stop the ball.
golfweek.usatoday.com/2020/09/07/ana-inspiration-covid-no-fans/So she had no problem putting her thumb on the scale when it favors her favorite players. But when the plan backfires, it's time to blame the winner for playing the course as it's set up. Wow, good catch! I like how she included Thompson in her list of dream finalists. Thompson was well out of it long before she reached the Lexi Wall TM, so why even mention her? Clearly she wasn't affected negatively by it.
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Post by don on Sept 20, 2020 13:40:34 GMT
BAN turned against the wall when all of golf twitter came out against it hard. Then she threw them red meat all week like she always does.
The fact is if you want to survive covering the LPGA in the states you have to get clicks from the 4 handicap (but could beat an LPGA player) men’s rights types who love to hate women’s golf. Shack skims this fat exclusively.
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