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Post by aptrojan on Apr 20, 2024 0:30:28 GMT
I'm fooled by Toms charming accent, but he is a goof overall.
I didn't see Yealimi at all but they showed her playing partner Lindy Duncan birdie on 18 oh well! Looks like she started well and played par golf the final 10. Auston Kim got a lot of TV time but stumbled down the stretch. Eagled a par 4. Hopefully Capt Stacy sticks around to watch them both! Future Trojan great Jasmine Koo showing some swagger knocking in a close putt back handed which got a chuckle out of Pretzel.
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Post by HappyFan on Apr 20, 2024 0:34:11 GMT
Yealimi is right there, too. Yeah, did they show her at all today? WTF is wrong with them? She is such a star, and they usually understand that, but they ignored her so we could watch Lexi. I'm never not going to be salty about that waste of airtime.
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Post by verdantgarden on Apr 20, 2024 0:46:44 GMT
It's interesting now. A collective 18 under par for Jin Hee Im, Hae Ran Ryu and Shinsil Bang to all sit in the top 5. Bang's eagle on 8 timed the end of the broadcast perfectly.
Alas, Jin Young Ko and In Gee Chun missed the cut by one stroke.
Here are the top 20 US players in Solheim points and their status in this tournament:
1. Nelly Korda 3
2. Lilia Vu DNS
3. Allisen Corpuz T30
4. Megan Khang MC
5. Angel Yin WD
6. Ally Ewing T30
7. Alison Lee MC
8. Andrea Lee T10
9. Sarah Schmelzel MC
10. Rose Zhang MC
11. Cheyenne Knight T60
12. Jennifer Kupcho T49
13. Lauren Coughlin T5
14. Bailey Tardy MC
15. Alexa Pano T60
16. Ryann O'Toole T49
17. Lexi Thompson MC
18. Danielle Kang MC
19. Lucy Li MC
20. Marina Alex T17
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Post by SoYeonFan on Apr 20, 2024 0:47:32 GMT
I don't understand why Lexi Thompson deserved to be shown so much over other golfers at plus eight.
So I decided to compare her Career stats to another Golfer,
Starts
Lexi Thompson 243
Sei Young Kim 200
Wins
Lexi Thompson 15 Total/ 11 LPGA Last win 2019
Sei Young Kim 17 Total/ 12 LPGA Last win 2020
Majors: Both has one
Career Top Ten:
Lexi Tompson 88
Sei Young Kim 65
Times World Ranking in top ten.
Lexi Thompson 8 Lowest 4
Sei Young Kim 5 Lowest 2
Footnote: Lexi Thompson has forty-three more starts and both have unorthodox swings
Ok she draws fans, but why the hype by the LPGA
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Post by SoYeonFan on Apr 20, 2024 1:01:35 GMT
Great rounds by Shin Sil Bang, Jin Hee Im and Hae Ran Ryu.
Thats how to make them show you on the Broadcast.
However don't drop down early because their coverage will drop.
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Post by SoYeonFan on Apr 20, 2024 1:08:47 GMT
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Post by aptrojan on Apr 20, 2024 1:09:09 GMT
Yealimi is right there, too. Yeah, did they show her at all today? WTF is wrong with them? She is such a star, and they usually understand that, but they ignored her so we could watch Lexi. I'm never not going to be salty about that waste of airtime. NO excuse tomorrow .. as she is playing with Lotte World (and her buddy Andrea Lee!) Morgan and co. spent 20 minutes on todays broadcast waxing poetic about the importance of amateurs at this major. |
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Post by SoYeonFan on Apr 20, 2024 1:12:03 GMT
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Post by HappyFan on Apr 20, 2024 1:20:54 GMT
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Post by HappyFan on Apr 20, 2024 1:27:54 GMT
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Post by HappyFan on Apr 20, 2024 1:29:57 GMT
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Post by haneymademedoit on Apr 20, 2024 4:34:05 GMT
Hae Ran, the big new Ryu! It would be great to see her get her 2nd career win and her 1st major...
It would be amazing to see one Ryu retire and another one step in to take her mantle up! Hey, I can dream, right?  This would also keep up the crucial tradition of the Korean winner at this event being dissed because she messes up something the GIC wants to have happen. See also: So Yeon won when Thompson had penalty, Sun Young Yoo won when more popular Korean missed one foot putt, and Mirim Lee won because of the "wall" behind the green, which only became an issue when their favorite didn't win. I can't recall what the objections were when Inbee and Jin Young won, but I'm sure there was something.  In a strange way, and a completely different sport, this reminds me of how University of Michigan fans deflected the failures of their football teams over nearly two decades by making some excuse why the loss "didn't really happen" or how "Michigan really won that game!" I can point out multiple losses that the "blue wall" (the state of Michigan college sports equivalent of the GIC) pretended did not really happen. (Michigan's colors are blue and yellow, they call the yellow color 'maize,' we MSU Spartans call it CORN!)
My favorite was the Oct. 17, 2015 game in Ann Arbor where Michigan led 23-21 with 10 seconds left. They were punting on 4th down from the MSU 47. Almost zero chance that MSU could return the punt to field goal range let alone a touchdown. But just watch the video, forever described as, 'there's trouble with the snap..." MSU 27 Michigan 23 was the final.
My only regret is that I can no longer locate the video of the Grand Rapids, MI tv station 6:00 news, either they took it down or I can't find the link anymore, where the onsite reporter in Ann Arbor reporting from outside the stadium proclaimed that Michigan had won the game 23-21. After he finished his remote, the anchor back at the station told him, well, actually there was a blocked punt on the last play of the game, actually MSU won!
U-M fans have insisted ever since that 'we really won that game!' Just like the ROK sister 'really didn't win that tournament.'
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Post by aptrojan on Apr 20, 2024 14:23:46 GMT
Good analogy.
I remember that game! Wild finish
My favorite game is the 2006 Rose Bowl (even though we lost) and it was the end of an era. Did Reggie ever get his Heisman back? Historians in the future will be laughing at the times college players weren't getting paid and being suspended for marijuana use.
It's such a cop out to highlight "ONE" moment of the game where it was lost. Any high level athlete will tell you there are 100s of moments and split second decisions leading up that could have prevented it from happening in the first place! Poor Cubs fan Steve Bartman suffered the most, scapegoating 101.
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Post by philknj on Apr 20, 2024 16:21:34 GMT
The Olympic quest of The Shinster will not be deterred (at least not yet) ... 5-under on her first nine holes Saturday ... they moderately dumbed down the course ... two of the par-fives reduced to 470 & 487 and the 7th is only 127 ... but it's still a longish course at 6639 ... Shin's manager should be working OT to get her into Wilshire which will be shorter and tighter.
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MHL lagging behind Yamashita and Sagstrom in her group. 
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Marina took the glasses off yesterday and put 'em back on today ... don't know why.
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Post by philknj on Apr 20, 2024 16:53:35 GMT
Jeeno (no CME points) was in killer mode on Friday ... opened with a birdie at #1 on Saturday ... but did she bring enough gas in the tank this week?
Atthaya Thitikul, of Thailand, hits from the fairway on the first hole during the third round of the Chevron Championship LPGA golf tournament Saturday, April 20, 2024, at The Club at Carlton Woods, in The Woodlands, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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Dryburra chipped in for eagle at the par-5 4th ... still with Callaway, but its logos are less conspicuous with her these days.
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