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A Walk for the Park

That would be Inbee Park, the tournament would be the U.S. Women's Open, and the walk would be the one she gets to take into the Winner's Circle. Inbee Park's first victory on the LPGA Tour, obviously her first major championship. At age 19, she is the youngest-ever U.S. Women's Open champion. She turns 20 in two weeks, so she's not the youngest-ever major champion, but still just the third teenager ever to win an LPGA major (but the second this year!).

This was no fluke. But with so many great young players coming into women's golf - and more on the way - it's getting hard to decide which ones will wind up being the best. It could be we are entering an era of Lorena Ochoa winning five to eight times a year, and all these hotshot youngsters fighting it out without any of them being able to get firmly ahead of the rest of the pack. Or maybe not. My predictions haven't been so great lately. But whatever, it's a great time to be a fan of women's golf.

Final Leaderboard
Inbee Park, 72-69-71-71--283
Helen Alfredsson, 70-71-71-75--287
Angela Park, 73-67-75-73--288
In-Kyung Kim, 71-73-69-75--288
Stacy Lewis, 73-70-67-78--288
Giulia Sergas, 73-74-72-70--289
Nicole Castrale, 74-70-74-71--289
Mi Hyun Kim, 72-72-70-75--289
Paula Creamer, 70-72-69-78--289
Teresa Lu, 71-72-73-74--290
a-Maria Jose Uribe, 69-74-72-75--290
Stacy Prammanasudh, 75-72-71-73--291
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as solid as it gets

Inbee didn’t look like she was aware of anything out there. I liked her caddy’s answer when they asked him when she knew she had a four shot lead. He said “when she got back from going to the bathroom on 16.”

a major winner after just 9 years playing the game. amazing.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Jun 29, 2008 7:12 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

78 years later...

...Inbee beat Bobby Jones total by four shots – 283 to 287 for Jones…but Bobby would still have tied for second.

How about Angela Park’s semi-recreation of Bobby Jones “Lilypad” shot across the lake at 18 ?

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Jun 29, 2008 7:21 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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