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Post by philknj on Jan 16, 2021 23:50:19 GMT
The prelim rounds will be March 31 - April 1. The final round will be played on Sat., April 3 with limited attendance ... the invitations started going out this week.
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Post by fanofseri on Mar 27, 2021 4:14:45 GMT
Grace Kim is in the US now. She gets more Vitamin D than the other players.
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Post by don on Mar 29, 2021 11:10:44 GMT
When the GIC covers the ANWA over the ANA are they really covering women’s golf, or are they covering Augusta National and thus basically the men’s game?
I don’t know. I do know the GIC won’t rock a boat bigger than a rubber ducky.
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Post by HappyFan on Mar 29, 2021 17:35:04 GMT
When the GIC covers the ANWA over the ANA are they really covering women’s golf, or are they covering Augusta National and thus basically the men’s game? Yes, the latter. The degree to which they pucker up to Augusta National cannot be overstated.
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Post by IceCat on Mar 29, 2021 18:17:41 GMT
Augusta National, long seen as elitist and slow to change, now finds itself in the midst of two storms not of its making.
With Georgia turning blue not just in November's presidential election but in the January runoffs for the Senate, the Republicans who actually still dominate at the state level (who to their credit didn't give in to Mr. Orange's blackmail and certified the election results as free and fair) were determined to not have a repeat. With Governor Kemp's signature on what they claim is a voting security enhancement law came calls for The Masters to be moved out of the state, which is pretty ludicrous because you can't separate the event from the club staging it...you just can't. The more likely scenario if the sports world wants to punish the Georgia GOP is to move the MLB All-Star Game away from Atlanta, assuming of course that the still-raging pandemic doesn't cancel it anyway...
Oh, and speaking of COVID-19, we come back to Augusta National's more immediate concern. Three players have already had to withdraw from the ANWA because of positive tests. The fact that all three were from the University of TEXAS is not lost on anyone:golfweek.usatoday.com/2021/03/28/hailee-cooper-third-texas-player-withdraw-anwa-positive-covid-19-result/Kevin
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Post by philknj on Mar 31, 2021 23:50:36 GMT
Round One of qualifying suspended by bad weather. Katherine Smith (U. of Nebraska) is -4 thru 11 holes and leads by three shots. A pro who retired a couple of years ago went to Nebraska, her name escapes me at the moment.
Erica Shepherd opened with 73 (+1)
More Blonde FIGJAM, more!
NJ's Megha Ganne (77, +5) going down the tubes
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Post by papagayo on Apr 1, 2021 16:01:01 GMT
Looking at the leaderboard.. I see many different nationalities, except for Koreans..
There are no top Amateur Women players that are Koreans?
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Post by philknj on Apr 1, 2021 16:13:33 GMT
Looking at the leaderboard.. I see many different nationalities, except for Koreans.. There are no top Amateur Women players that are Koreans?
As of now, there are two Korean Koreans in the top-50 of WAGR, Shin Sil Bang and Ina Yoon. Since last year's event was cancelled, priority for this year's field went to the players that got jobbed last year. Or maybe these two were contacted in January and the KGA didn't want to send them (which seems unlikely to me).
Auston Kim (Vanderbilt U.) is one shot out of the lead at -2.
*******
The Hou sisters are bombing out.
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Post by HappyFan on Apr 1, 2021 16:28:56 GMT
I think the WAGR ratings are heavily tilted towards Western competitions, and the Koreans don't tend to come to many of those. Whenever they show up at an international event they tend to do pretty well, so take the rankings with a grain of salt. I'm betting a few of the Korean National Team members from 2021 will be tearing up the KLPGA a few years from now, which is what usually happens.
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Post by philknj on Apr 1, 2021 19:16:50 GMT
Ugh, 77 for Sheppard, but this field is not as good as two years ago, so she appears to be a cinch to get into the playoff, which the ANWA website will broadcast at approx. 6 PM EST. Upon further thought, she might get in without a playoff ... the scoring for players still out there has been brutal.
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Post by philknj on Apr 1, 2021 23:10:32 GMT
Scoring was so bad that one of the Hou sisters got into the playoff ... five going after one spot ... they just teed off at #10 (par-4 390). Hou (U. of Arizona) has the best pedigree, hit a good approach. Amari Avery (future USC Trojan) pummeled her drive 30 yards past the others (according to Mushmouth Paige) ... she has added some polish since I saw her at Echo Lake CC in 2018, but hit a mediocre iron, giving her no easy putt. Uh oh, Maja Stark just dropped her birdie putt, Hou just missed her putt, it's all over.
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Post by philknj on Apr 2, 2021 23:18:44 GMT
Even if you missed the cut, you were allowed to play ANGC today.
Grace Kim from Down Under, whose accent could be cut with a chainsaw.
Amari Avery will make the cut eventually ... has too much firepower not to.
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Post by fanofseri on Apr 3, 2021 20:15:57 GMT
Heartbreaking to watch it slip away from young Zhang. It's finally time to watch the final day coverage of the 2007 Kraft Nabisco.
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Post by jumpcut on Apr 3, 2021 21:01:55 GMT
ANWA certainly got the awkwardness of the Masters Butler Cabin ceremony down pat today. Chairman Ridley and the framed portrait of General Eisenhower smiling down from the wall over Mike Tirico's left shoulder...seemed not quite ready for Kajitani Fever.
No matter what year it is on the outside, it's always 1952 inside Butler Cabin.
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Post by sharrow on Apr 4, 2021 7:17:26 GMT
No matter what year it is on the outside, it's always 1952 inside Butler Cabin. Omg, that is spot on. I've loved the Masters for as long as I can remember and will dive happily into the hype next week, but I gotta say that this event rubs me the wrong way. It's like they throw the women some scraps after decades of discrimination and expect everyone to applaud. Makes me a little ill. On top of that, the pure arrogance of scheduling it opposite the ANA!
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