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Post by jumpcut on May 12, 2023 16:27:05 GMT
TOM: "Both players have withdrawn because of injury during the round and so Jennifer is playing on her own."
PRETZEL: "Both players are withdrawing, and then you start to think: Is it me?"
WTF?!
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Post by philknj on May 12, 2023 17:05:29 GMT
TOM: "Both players have withdrawn because of injury during the round and so Jennifer is playing on her own." PRETZEL: "Both players are withdrawing, and then you start to think: Is it me?" WTF?!
I had the same twisted thought as a joke, but I wouldn't verbalize it on the air.   I saw that group pass by me Thursday, I think it was the 11th fairway ... I did a double-take at my tee sheet ... they don't treat Korda One like an 'A'-lister anymore if she's getting Chang and LW-W. Chang must be doing a lot of standing around today ... this isn't public golf where you let the speedy people go ahead of you, right?! I guess it wasn't workable to put Chang into Chungchungkar's group after Yan Liu dropped out.
Speaking of Pretzel, around 7:10 PM yesterday they started a ceremony somewhere inside the clubhouse area to honor old-timers King and Nilsson. The loudspeakers carried the introducing voice out to the 9th green and beyond ... I think it was Morgan ... to her credit, Karen Chung was not distracted and made her birdie putt.
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Post by philknj on May 12, 2023 18:09:10 GMT
I had to learn from a Japanese article that the LPGA is doing its first general Player Priority reshuffle following this event. I assume this is correct, even though I couldn't find one word of it on the Golfweek or LPGA websites.
Yuna is YUGE with a 67 today, now tied with a ton of players at -1, which is the current cut line and will probably hold. She's #160 on the list, but with a significant number of CME points already, she should get a free pass for the rest of the year. MHL is current #102 on CME, which will decline marginally after this event ... but her priority should improve a little bit from #189.
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Karen Chung today ... using TM M4 driver that was introduced five years ago ... her staff bag is solid black with white letters for her name, that's it ... unfortunately, she's hitting the bricks tonight.
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Post by HappyFan on May 12, 2023 18:24:02 GMT
Hae Ran hit a beauty on her final hole for a short birdie and is currently one back. That was the only time they showed her I think. Hye Jin also got one appearance that I saw, but was a little less impressive today. She bogied the tricky 16th as well as the 17th but birdied on final hole to end three back for the moment. Jin Young looked very strong. Tee-to-green she was especially great, and though she didn't hit every putt, she rarely left herself with a dreadful par save. Did lip out a three footer on 10 or she would have been even better, but back-to-back 68s is nice. Narin had two late bogies or she would have been right near the top. Sisters hwaiting!! |
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Post by HappyFan on May 12, 2023 18:28:12 GMT
Yeesh, though, 76 for Sei Young, 10 shots worse than yesterday. She is consistently inconsistent.
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Post by SoYeonFan on May 12, 2023 19:09:40 GMT
Jin Young Ko looked like herself from a couple years ago.
Even par front side no bogeys no birdies but came back with clean back nine four birdies.
Her ball striking and timing looked like her former self including the slight knee bend before she swung.
One of these days Hae Rin Ryu will hold a Trophy.
She didn't let finishing her front nine with three straight bogeys get her down.
She came back with an eagle, two birdies no bogeys back nine.
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Post by philknj on May 12, 2023 19:17:09 GMT
Does Crazy Bob make scuba equipment? That probably what J. Song needed when she took a nine at the par-4 3rd. She's finished ... just out there for exercise now. She might get a small hit to her priority (currently 151), but not enough to keep her out the regular events. Her CME was #108 coming into this one.
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Fourth-straight trunk slam for Team Pano ... she has done almost nothing this year.
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Post by philknj on May 12, 2023 19:59:33 GMT
JTibs is lighting it up, going 5-uinder on her first 13 holes.  Eh, the GIC doesn't care.  I looked up the tee times for the May 15 USWO qualifier at Echo Lake ... she got grouped with two unknown ams, really, what a slap in the face.
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Ok, technically it is news that one of Goat #2's loopers showed up this week for Korda Two ... but, I sure don't care. Tell me about the lousy players holding on by their finger nails, or the past stars who are drowning. Btw, Mr. Lacava's employer is only one shot above the cut line with eight holes left.  
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Post by verdantgarden on May 12, 2023 23:30:16 GMT
J. Chang did play as a single and today's broadcast made a big deal out of it, oddly. They even interviewed her on the course.
Inky frustratingly finishes just outside the cut line.
The new Ko is back to being the old new Ko.
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Post by SoYeonFan on May 13, 2023 0:38:04 GMT
A Lim Kim doesn't surprise me when she does things like she did today
She was at plus four going into the back nine.
She had four birdies and one bogey, with birdies on last two holes to make the cut.
I keep wondering when So Yeon Ryu, Jeong Eun6 Lee and Sung Hyun Park will turn it around.
Now I am wondering if they will turn it around.
So Yeon has missed five straight cuts to start the year.
She has been unable to start with a good round and not have to sweat the second round.
In Kyung Kim had a triple bogey on eighteen yesterday and a double on sixteen today to miss cut by one.
Nelly Korda also had a double bogey on the eight hole her seventeenth hole to miss by one.
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Post by haneymademedoit on May 13, 2023 4:48:48 GMT
First of all, as others have posted, great to see Jin Young hopefully back to her successful self. Too bad Sei Young fell back in the 2nd round. I'm also hoping for a charge by Narin An "Anna Lynn" on Saturday and Sunday. Google Translate renders "안나 린" as "Anna Lynn," give it a try and you'll see! Go Sisters!
Also, still hopeful that Six will get her game back, but it didn't happen this week. She is the one who got me engaged or interested with LPGA, four years ago. Six and Haney!
Hanwha must have taken a lot out of Patty T and Moriya. Six days ago they were on top of the world; this week they missed the cut. This is why I don't play golf! Same with Lilia Vu "Lilia Vu, I love you!" Last week she was the only golfer to defeat a Thai as they dominated in the Hanwha. She missed the cut this week too. But the bigger miss is the sponsors who can't figure out that they should support a young, promising, successful Asian-American golfer.
Nothing seems to stop Thitikul though!
One Korda withdrew and the other missed the cut with a disastrous double bogey as SoYeonFan pointed out. But relax Golf Channel and LPGA, Lexi did easily make the cut, you'll have a "Golden Girl" to focus your coverage on Saturday and Sunday.
Hey, does anyone else follow other international golfers from non-traditional golf playing countries such as South Americans? There are very few. I have been watching Valery Plata because she's a Spartan from my alma mater Michigan State. Unfortunately, she missed the cut disastrously, never even close. She's from Colombia, una colombiana, how many Colombian golfers can you name, other than Maríajo Uribe who made the cut this week. It seems that there is only one place in Colombia where golf is popular, at least all the golfers successful enough to qualify for LPGA are from the metro area of Bucaramanga. Plata is from Floridablanca which is a suburb of Bucaramanga. I think Uribe is from Bucaramanga. Daniela Darquea is Venezuelan, una venezolana, Sofia Garcia from Paraguay also made the cut. She went to Texas Tech, I believe.
I gotta travel on Saturday, promised my wife a trip for Mother's Day weekend, but maybe I can catch some of the evening coverage on GC. Keep the faith and support the Sisters!
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Post by philknj on May 13, 2023 9:52:53 GMT
Same with Lilia Vu "Lilia Vu, I love you!" Last week she was the only golfer to defeat a Thai as they dominated in the Hanwha. She missed the cut this week too. But the bigger miss is the sponsors who can't figure out that they should support a young, promising, successful Asian-American golfer. Hey, does anyone else follow other international golfers from non-traditional golf playing countries such as South Americans? There are very few. I have been watching Valery Plata because she's a Spartan from my alma mater Michigan State.
Hey all, Haney is looking for homework assignments. First, I've got some Vu-doo in my Wed. pro-am report.
As for South America, you forgot to mention J. Granada who got killed this week ... she was playing against Winbee in the junior ranks 20 years ago. Back in the old days, I watched Marissa Baena, Nicole Perrot and Candy Hannemann at Hamilton Farm GC.
I didn't expect another reference to Michigan State ... I mentioned a current Spartan, Katie Lu, in my Thursday report who got clobbered. The only other pro I know of from MSU is Sara (no "H") Brown.
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Post by HappyFan on May 13, 2023 12:14:25 GMT
You can't talk South American golfers and not mention Angela 'Perfect swing' Park! She was raised in Brazil. And is a Sister!
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Post by HappyFan on May 13, 2023 17:32:59 GMT
Jin Young round 2 interview:
Yay Hae Ran!
And from Thursday:
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Post by haneymademedoit on May 13, 2023 22:18:58 GMT
Another MSU Spartan who's been seen on the tour in recent years is Liz Nagel. Maybe she'll be at the Meijer LPGA again next month?
Thanks for the heads up on Katie Lu. I will have to start following her too. I see that she's from the Princeton area. Is that considered North Jersey or South Jersey? When I lived in Philly, they considered Trenton almost a suburb and thus part of South Jersey. New Brunswick was definitely North Jersey, and Princeton is right in the middle between them.
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I saw that group pass by me Thursday, I think it was the 11th fairway ... I did a double-take at my tee sheet ... they don't treat Korda One like an 'A'-lister anymore if she's getting Chang and LW-W. Chang must be doing a lot of standing around today ... this isn't public golf where you let the speedy people go ahead of you, right?! I guess it wasn't workable to put Chang into Chungchungkar's group after Yan Liu dropped out.
Eh, the GIC doesn't care. 
I looked up the tee times for the May 15 USWO qualifier at Echo Lake ... she got grouped with two unknown ams, really, what a slap in the face.
