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Post by HappyFan on Jun 13, 2024 19:23:59 GMT
On the downside, Hyo Joo is stinking it up, Lee6 is not doing well, In Gee has dropped out, none of the rookies have made a move. Man, I usually don't get this discouraged until Saturday!
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Post by philknj on Jun 13, 2024 19:39:21 GMT
Yay! Inky is on the leaderboard! Nice 4 under par round today. Hwaiting!
Yep, the poverty cases are out in force (she probably sleeps in her car during off-weeks) ... throw in Moresco, Darquea, The EMP and Jing Yan ... I'm even more depressed now. 
This dull broadcast is focused on Korda Two stumbling along ... playing with Leona and The ECP. I just switched over to the USO.
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Post by haneymademedoit on Jun 13, 2024 19:43:11 GMT
Yay! Inky is on the leaderboard! Nice 4 under par round today. Hwaiting! And "Anna Lynn" at minus-5 leading the sisters so far! 안 나 린 |
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Post by aptrojan on Jun 13, 2024 19:58:22 GMT
Classic Gina, starts +2, reels off 4 birdies, and doubles her last hole.
No surprise Alena Sharp up the leaderboard, she's playing with Yealimi after all.
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Post by jumpcut on Jun 13, 2024 20:02:02 GMT
Yay! Inky is on the leaderboard! Nice 4 under par round today. Hwaiting! And Inky's playing partner, the EMP, also shot a -4, and almost hit for the cycle: an eagle, six birdies, eight pars, two bogeys and a double. What, no hole in one?? Will she make her first cut this year?   GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - JUNE 13: Kelly Tan of Malaysia watches her shot from the sixth tee during the first round of the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give at Blythefield Country Club on June 13, 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Photo by Raj Mehta/Getty Images) GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - JUNE 13: Kelly Tan of Malaysia look on from the sixth tee during the first round of the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give at Blythefield Country Club on June 13, 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Photo by Raj Mehta/Getty Images)
That doesn't look like her husband on the bag, unless some sort of trauma caused his beard to go grey overnight. Trouble in paradise? |
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Post by haneymademedoit on Jun 13, 2024 20:25:48 GMT
Yay! Inky is on the leaderboard! Nice 4 under par round today. Hwaiting!
Yep, the poverty cases are out in force (she probably sleeps in her car during off-weeks) ... throw in Moresco, Darquea, The EMP and Jing Yan ... I'm even more depressed now.
This dull broadcast is focused on Korda Two stumbling along ... playing with Leona and The ECP. I just switched over to the USO.
Now we've spent the last 5 minutes watching Leona try to figure out how to move a tree branch... This group of past Meijer champions is not playing up to form so far. Leona'd better be careful not to end up DQd like Nasa last week. I can't believe the group hasn't been given a pace of play warning...
EDIT: Brooke played up to form quite well, minus-5 with two eagles. Leona treaded water and Nelly ended up at the bottom of the board. Nelly may catch MSU amateur Katie Lu if Katie stumbles on her last two holes...
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Post by philknj on Jun 13, 2024 23:29:04 GMT
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Caddie list is out ... MHL has The Invisible Man (blank space) ... she had Charles/Charlie Ryan at Lancaster, her third loop in three events following her split with Sir Nick. Ryan worked for Big Ryu at the 2023 USWO, as well as B. Altomare in 2020. It appears that Mickey Mouse dumped her longtime loop Casey Johnson following Mizuho ... had Jeremy Young last week and will work him again here (his past bags include Minjee, Heather Bowie, Stanford and Mickey Mouse). Johnson landed on his feet by getting Mo Jutanugarn this week.
We'll see a lot of Henderson, Korda, and Maguire on Thursday... unless weather disrupts the sequence of play. Small chance of scattered t-storms.
Dude, you need to be at these Michigan events or Dana in person ... I find planning the road trips almost as fun as finally getting there.
Among the TV threesome you mentioned, I'm a fanboy of Leona ... the other two, not so much ... although I must admit that The ECP was quite awesome hitting the par-5 14th in two with driver off the deck. 
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Today's broadcast had a brief clip of Jiwon Jeon ... pronounced "Jiwon John" by Grant Boone ... nitpicking perhaps, but he's been around the LPGA too long to sound like a Grand Rapids sportscaster. Jiwon Jeon of Korea tees off on the fourth hole during the first round of the Meijer LPGA Classic golf tournament, Thursday, June 13, 2024, in Belmont, Mich. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)
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The PM wave is still out there and MHL has just fallen two shots off the cut line  ... but she keeps making do this year - no trunk slams.  GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - JUNE 13: Mi Hyang Lee acknowledges the crowd after a putt on the 18th green during the first round of the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give at Blythefield Country Club on June 13, 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
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Post by jumpcut on Jun 13, 2024 23:33:52 GMT
Here's every shot of the first 10 holes of MHL's round today.
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Post by SoYeonFan on Jun 14, 2024 2:06:09 GMT
Another good first round by Na Rin An at minus five.
Jeong Eun Lee6 turned her round around after three bogeys front nine, three birdies back nine.
Now when she has a good front nine and a really good back nine, she is back.
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Post by HappyFan on Jun 14, 2024 2:50:02 GMT
Besides Inky's 68, there were a few other positives. Six managed to make a nice comeback after her crappy start. Hye Jin shot a round in the 60s and is four back. If she can manage another round like that tomorrow, I might start to get interested. Verrrry interesting that Korda struggled so much.
Question: I didn't watch the coverage. Did any of the Sisters get any air time?
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Post by philknj on Jun 14, 2024 3:02:03 GMT
Here's every shot of the first 10 holes of MHL's round today.
Thanks for posting that video ... you can see her daddy in the orange jacket at 4:27 and she still has Charles Ryan looping for her ... I should look at this YT site a lot more ... they have MHL's 3rd round at Cognizant last month and I'm in it.  They also have Peanut winning the 1999 State Farm Rail Classic ... if that was Larry the Looper on her bag, I think she canned him soon afterward. |
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Post by haneymademedoit on Jun 14, 2024 4:01:03 GMT
Besides Inky's 68, there were a few other positives. Six managed to make a nice comeback after her crappy start. Hye Jin shot a round in the 60s and is four back. If she can manage another round like that tomorrow, I might start to get interested. Verrrry interesting that Korda struggled so much. Question: I didn't watch the coverage. Did any of the Sisters get any air time?Very little air time for the sisters. Five and Jiwon "John" (both minus-3) got shown once or twice but they didn't follow them hole to hole the way they did with Nelly (plus+4) and her group. I think that they showed Hyo Joo once. |
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Post by haneymademedoit on Jun 14, 2024 6:23:42 GMT
Dude, you need to be at these Michigan events or Dana in person ... I find planning the road trips almost as fun as finally getting there.
Among the TV threesome you mentioned, I'm a fanboy of Leona ... the other two, not so much ... although I must admit that The ECP was quite awesome hitting the par-5 14th in two with driver off the deck.
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Today's broadcast had a brief clip of Jiwon Jeon ... pronounced "Jiwon John" by Grant Boone ... nitpicking perhaps, but he's been around the LPGA too long to sound like a Grand Rapids sportscaster.Yeah, I keep wanting to see some rounds in person... gotta shake off the wife... also like to hear SoYeonFan tell me about the parking... gotta be better than riding the bus from Rockford HS...
I'm pretty neutral on Leona... actually I like Brooke because she's a 'local.' Sometimes I think Michigan should secede and join Canada... but let's not talk politics here, this is a golf forum where we all support the sisters... Nelly does almost nothing for me, oh, I appreciate how she promotes the game, she high fives and signs autographs for every girl across the ropes... but I'm from Chicago, a lifelong Cubs fan following in the steps of my late father, Nelly is the NY Yankees of women's golf... the only difference being that Nelly's much more successful than the Yankees recently...
I think tonight's Grand Rapids sports news covered Nelly, Leona, Brooke, and Alison. Wish Ayaka had chopped off a few more strokes to be near the top of the leaderboard, just to see whether they could pronounce her name better than last year!
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Post by haneymademedoit on Jun 14, 2024 16:24:49 GMT
SIX! In good position to make the cut after minus-3 this morning! Jiwon! "John" Jin! Hee! Im! And don't forget Five, lately she's the lucky one!
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Post by aptrojan on Jun 14, 2024 16:52:33 GMT
4 birdies and an eagle, go Yealimi!
And AP is not DFL no more!
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... I think that's a message. Fassi and Mack Attack in the same group ... inform NORAD as a precaution. Now for a big drum roll ... Dumbo gets ... Robyn Choi and Lindy Duncan. 
... but she keeps making do this year - no trunk slams.
They also have Peanut winning the 1999 State Farm Rail Classic ... if that was Larry the Looper on her bag, I think she canned him soon afterward.