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Post by tonyj500 on Oct 19, 2020 3:09:29 GMT
My field rating for this tournament id 49.5%. Twelve of the top 25 players from the LPGA Priority List, and ten of the top 25 from the current Rolex Rankings will be teeing it up.
It was advertised as a full field event, but the field is just 108 players.
Jodi Ewart Shadoff has just dropped out and is replaced by first alternate Bianca Pagdanganan.
This is second tournament this year with the same exact name (thus the parenthesis in the title of this thread).
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Post by HappyFan on Oct 19, 2020 16:53:20 GMT
I've been referring to this one as 'Lake Oconee' to differentiate the two.
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Post by tonyj500 on Oct 20, 2020 4:52:35 GMT
I've been referring to this one as 'Lake Oconee' to differentiate the two. Yea, that certainly sounds better than "the second one"  I will change the title. |
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Post by jumpcut on Oct 20, 2020 18:02:31 GMT
BP presser. Exciting details on her clubhead speed (whatever that is) for all you gearheads. |
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Post by don on Oct 20, 2020 19:57:06 GMT
If Bianca wins she's going to be a star.
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Post by tonyj500 on Oct 20, 2020 22:37:40 GMT
Right now Bianca and Maria Fassi seem to be the same player. Both can't keep the ball on the fairway.
Bianca leads in Driving distance 286 yards
Fassi is 2nd 282 yards
There are 146 players ranked in driving accuracy:
Bianca is ranked 136th
Fassi 139th
Putts per Greens In Regulation
Fassi is ranked 12th...1.783
Bianca is ranked 45th 1.810
If they ever learn to straighten them out...watch out.
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Post by don on Oct 21, 2020 2:21:23 GMT
Right now Bianca and Maria Fassi seem to be the same player. Both can't keep the ball on the fairway. Bianca leads in Driving distance 286 yards Fassi is 2nd 282 yards There are 146 players ranked in driving accuracy: Bianca is ranked 136th Fassi 139th Putts per Greens In Regulation Fassi is ranked 12th...1.783 Bianca is ranked 45th 1.810 If they ever learn to straighten them out...watch out. 65-65 at Aronimink and T-9 in your first Major is one of those data points that makes me think she might have something special. I haven’t seen something like that from Fassi as a pro but I could be missing it. (I see Fassi had a T12 at Charleston.) |
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Post by philknj on Oct 21, 2020 3:25:33 GMT
A lousy field and lousy tournament because MHL isn't in it. Did she go back to Korea? She hasn't posted anything new on her IG in three weeks. This would have been a good time of the year to be at her U.S. base in Columbia, SC since this event is only about 145 miles of interstate driving to get there.
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Post by tonyj500 on Oct 21, 2020 5:30:37 GMT
Right now Bianca and Maria Fassi seem to be the same player. Both can't keep the ball on the fairway. Bianca leads in Driving distance 286 yards Fassi is 2nd 282 yards There are 146 players ranked in driving accuracy: Bianca is ranked 136th Fassi 139th Putts per Greens In Regulation Fassi is ranked 12th...1.783 Bianca is ranked 45th 1.810 If they ever learn to straighten them out...watch out. 65-65 at Aronimink and T-9 in your first Major is one of those data points that makes me think she might have something special. I haven’t seen something like that from Fassi as a pro but I could be missing it. (I see Fassi had a T12 at Charleston.) Don't want this to come off as being a Fassi fan, which I am not, but to set the record straight, Fassi first major as a pro she finished 12th at the U.S. Open (she didn't play well after that). This year she has fared much better with finishes of 13th, 15th, 9th, and 13th in her last 8 starts. Bianca's best finish before Aronomink was 28th (she had only 5 starts). As an avid golfer myself, who celebrates when he hits one 235 yards, watching these two hit it close to 300 yards is quite amazing. I had the pleasure of being at the Marathon Classic this year (Fassi finished 9th, I believe Bianca 58th). I saw them both killing it on the driving range and made a point of following them both. I followed them both for 18 holes (on seperate days). I knew who Fassi was...I was not familiar with Bianca at that time. I don't know who will have the better career, but like I said in my previous post. if they ever learn to keep it on the fairway watch out. |
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Post by HappyFan on Oct 21, 2020 10:02:39 GMT
The golf media is obsessed with length. They're the same way in the men's game. What they don't understand is that in the women's game, it's just not as important. You're nothing if you can't put the ball in the hole. It's WAY too early to start treating this woman as a superstar, but of course they will because she hits it far and she's not Korean.
Fassi's numbers are better this year, but do those sound like the finishes of someone who deserves to be constantly featured in all golf broadcasts? Of course not.
Didn't twenty years of overhype for Michelle Wie teach us anything?
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Post by 18majors on Oct 21, 2020 11:54:12 GMT
The golf media is obsessed with length. They're the same way in the men's game. What they don't understand is that in the women's game, it's just not as important. You're nothing if you can't put the ball in the hole. It's WAY too early to start treating this woman as a superstar, but of course they will because she hits it far and she's not Korean. Fassi's numbers are better this year, but do those sound like the finishes of someone who deserves to be constantly featured in all golf broadcasts? Of course not. Didn't twenty years of overhype for Michelle Wie teach us anything? You've been missing the point all your life! Michelle Wie was not a failure. She's been the biggest success LPGA has ever had, from the perspective of the attention from media and American fans. LPGA's purse would've been twice as much if they had two or three more Michelle Wie's in the last twenty years. Michelle Wie has been the only LPGA player that has moved the needle in a way similar to Tiger Woods. If one thing we learn from the last 22 years, after Se Ri Pak won 1998 USWO, is winning and Rolex ranking don't move the needle at all. |
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Post by don on Oct 21, 2020 12:24:18 GMT
Counterpoint- Wie mostly proved all that matters is media hype. If the golf industrial complex had some people that actually liked the ROK stars it would help a lot.
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Post by 18majors on Oct 21, 2020 16:00:48 GMT
Counterpoint- Wie mostly proved all that matters is media hype. If the golf industrial complex had some people that actually liked the ROK stars it would help a lot. Hyping is a necessary but not a sufficient condition. I order to move the needle, resonance from the fans is required. |
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Post by HappyFan on Oct 21, 2020 17:33:48 GMT
By the standards they set for her, Michelle Wie was an utter failure.
Wie was supposed to dominate since she was *13*. And as she dominated, she was going to lift the LPGA into rarefied air like the Williams sisters did for women's tennis. Take a look at LPGA golf ratings and tell me how she did? Yes, occasionally she marginally improved the ratings the few times she was playing well, but she most certainly did not become the Tiger Woods of this sport by any stretch.
Put another way: if Tiger had won five events in his entire career, would he have been as big a deal, no matter how much they hyped him or people liked him? Of course not.
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Post by don on Oct 22, 2020 17:01:36 GMT
It seems like you can bank on Lydia having a good opening round this year.
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