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Post by verdantgarden on Oct 5, 2014 22:00:27 GMT
I love being on the West Coast while the LPGA is playing in Asia because I get to watch the action in primetime. But, wow, that last round was brutally slow and unlike The Constructivist, I could stay up until only midnight after the lead group finished 13. Fortunately, I was able to watch a repeat of the broadcast this morning.
What a scrambler Mirim is! Her ball was literally lying on a rock by the water on 17 and she somehow got it up and down.
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Post by mr3putt on Oct 6, 2014 1:49:05 GMT
Seriously....who cares about Lewis....just stay home. She comes to Beijing to make up for her blunders last year and acts like her usual pouty self in the final round. I feel so sorry for you Mericans that Lewis is your #1 pro. |
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Post by HappyFan on Oct 6, 2014 7:40:02 GMT
Rock Star! Boy oh boy, was this a sweet win! In Mirim's first win she beat Inbee Park in a playoff. In the second, she went toe-to-toe with Lewis and came out on top. This is a gal who does not back away from anyone! She was far from perfect, but what I loved is that every time she needed to dig deep, she found a way to get the job done. The great eagle pitch on 16 to a foot put the hex on Hedwall big time. So she comes into the 17th hole, and all I can think is, keep that puppy dry! Well, she did that at least!  For all the times the golf gods whammied the Sisters earlier this year, they sure gave a little back on that shot! A rock kept it dry? Unbelievable! But what happened after that break was pure brilliance on the part of Mirim. Seriously, how often does a rookie, with a tournament on the line, manage an up and down like that one? That's Se Ri level stuff. Then she hits an iron into a bunker on 18. That WTF look she had on her face was priceless. Thank goodness she had the lead, because it allowed her to hit another smooth, effortless winner from that bunker and collect another win.  I wouldn't blame Lewis for being annoyed with another Chinese rock affecting the outcome, although this time she was pretty much out of it by then. It was great to see Inbee in her last fling as a bachelorette chalk up another third place finish and trump Lewis to boot. #1 is getting closer and closer. Maybe she should go to Malaysia next week? She can catch a red eye and still make her wedding ceremony the following Monday. Too bad MJ and Ryu had such terrible final rounds, but I think these will be just momentary blips in their progress. Great day for Haeji Kang, too. Awesome par save she had on that one hole. It would have been the par save of the day but, well, you know which one gets that prize! WAY TO GO MIRIM!!!!!!!! FIGHTING!!!!!!!  
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Post by HappyFan on Oct 6, 2014 16:42:55 GMT
I love that they posed her holding the trophy standing on some rocks. Zing!  |
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Post by mr3putt on Oct 6, 2014 19:44:31 GMT
I love that they posed her holding the trophy standing on some rocks. Zing! Well played sir....I see what you did there....I'm glad someone else likes to throw around some sarcasm at the expense of Lewis. Maybe Mirim and Shanshan should mail some Petrock's to Stacy's house on April 1. Hopefully you'll come to the CWO next year here in Van City and watch me have some fun. I'm going to ask Ms. Pouty face to autograph a rock instead of a ProV1, while wearing my People's Republic of China hat...but keep your phone on....you'll also be able to see Stacy call security and watch me being thrown off the premises....lol. |
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Post by So Yeon Fan on Oct 6, 2014 20:41:53 GMT
Funny that no one called the ball hitting the pin, at the British for Mo Martin lucky. If the ball misses the pin it would have rolled off the back of the green. I am ok with that because she hit the shot, it hit the pin, the same as Shinshan hit the shot, that hit the pin. But Shinshan shot was just called lucky and Martin a great shot.
Mj made a nine on eighteen. So Yeon does not play well in the wind, because she does not try to flight her ball down. She just takes more club. That's why she had a bad final round in the British, because of the high winds. She is talented she will adjust.
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Post by Lin Cann on Oct 6, 2014 22:51:47 GMT
Funny that no one called the ball hitting the pin, at the British for Mo Martin lucky. If the ball misses the pin it would have rolled off the back of the green. I am ok with that because she hit the shot, it hit the pin, the same as Shinshan hit the shot, that hit the pin. But Shinshan shot was just called lucky and Martin a great shot. Mj made a nine on eighteen. So Yeon does not play well in the wind, because she does not try to flight her ball down. She just takes more club. That's why she had a bad final round in the British, because of the high winds. She is talented she will adjust. ShanShan's shot was called lucky because it was headed for the water and only hit the pin because it LUCKILY hit a rock in the water to ricochet and hit the pin. When you watch the replay even ShanShan turns away in disgust/dismay after she hit the shot. Mo Martin's shot never left the pin. |
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Post by HappyFan on Oct 6, 2014 23:26:28 GMT
Funny that no one called the ball hitting the pin, at the British for Mo Martin lucky. If the ball misses the pin it would have rolled off the back of the green. I am ok with that because she hit the shot, it hit the pin, the same as Shinshan hit the shot, that hit the pin. But Shinshan shot was just called lucky and Martin a great shot. Mj made a nine on eighteen. So Yeon does not play well in the wind, because she does not try to flight her ball down. She just takes more club. That's why she had a bad final round in the British, because of the high winds. She is talented she will adjust. I'll say it. Martin got lucky with that shot. She also got lucky that the several great players who were ahead of her all managed to barf just enough that the 1 under she posted wound up winning her the trophy. Having said that, she still had to hit all those shots that allowed her to be in that position in the first place. She deserved the win. Any win involves at least some luck. Mirim also got lucky on 17, but she took that break and seized the day. That's the differnce between a champion and an alsoran. Didn't realize that MJ quadded the final hole. Ouch! I lost track of her because they never show more than two pages of the leaderboard and usually just one. Ah well, terrible end, but that also means she basically played top ten quality golf for 71 holes. |
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Post by So Yeon Fn on Oct 7, 2014 0:07:53 GMT
Lin Cann
I will give you ten putts from fifty feet. Because of the variations of the grass if you hit the pin once you will be lucky. You are telling me that a person hitting a pin from at least two hundred yards, didn't get lucky. Besides my statement was meant for the regular people on this site.
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Post by Lin Cann on Oct 7, 2014 1:31:14 GMT
Lin Cann I will give you ten putts from fifty feet. Because of the variations of the grass if you hit the pin once you will be lucky. You are telling me that a person hitting a pin from at least two hundred yards, didn't get lucky. Besides my statement was meant for the regular people on this site. Of course it was lucky for Mo Martin's shot to hit the pin, but my point was that it was a GOOD shot that got lucky, not a big mis hit that got lucky twice. And FYI I have been on this site for years - ran the Pak Picker for several years. The new site made me change my posting name. |
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Post by HappyFan on Oct 7, 2014 6:46:11 GMT
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Post by fanofseri on Oct 7, 2014 17:39:48 GMT
Let's not forget Birdie Kim's lucky sand shot. It was so poorly hit that it barely cleared the face of the bunker.
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Post by SayYouSeRi on Oct 9, 2014 21:20:11 GMT
Barely clearing the face makes it a GOOD shot. It didn't take a funny hop, or lucky bounce off the flagstick. It rolled right in.
Birdie Kim won by TWO strokes, Morgan Pressell did NOT get robbed.
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For all the times the golf gods whammied the Sisters earlier this year, they sure gave a little back on that shot! A rock kept it dry? Unbelievable! But what happened after that break was pure brilliance on the part of Mirim. Seriously, how often does a rookie, with a tournament on the line, manage an up and down like that one? That's Se Ri level stuff.
