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The top players in the women's world golf rankings - Lorena Ochoa and Jiyai Shin - are facing life challenges and goals while trying to dominate the women's golf game. Things happening off of the course may well determine which player is the number one ranked at the end of the LPGA Tour season.

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DUDE !

Tell me you didn’t just say “life challenges” ! Careful with that stuff – don’t want to lose your man card. (lol)

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Apr 6, 2009 11:31 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I couldn’t think of a good phrase that would both (a) not offend anyone and (b) actually describe what I mean

by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 6, 2009 11:42 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

lol – just giving you a hard time

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Apr 7, 2009 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I find it laughable

That the media decides something wrong with a player because they have changed the way they dress themselves. Also has someone been tracking Ochoa’s golf attire for 6 years to make sure she never once wore a skirt before. That would be a form of golf trivia obsession that should get someone committed or at least evaluated for mental illness.

A little while my friend Craig Dolch was touting the work of a golf writer who said no golf program ever had 4 future PGA Tour winners on the squad at the same time. I told Craig don’t put too much faith in the study, the guy who was claiming this couldn’t remember it was Juli Inkster not Cristie Kerr who won the Phoneix LPGA Tour stop only a year or two earlier.

by Bill Jempty on Apr 7, 2009 10:17 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I don’t put much credence in the skirt theory. But, I do think that a lot of her life is changing. That’s tough for anyone to deal with.

by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 7, 2009 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ryan

Players get engaged, get married, have kids, stay up too late watching Jay Leno all the time. I don’t think its particularly game altering. The media only brings this up as ‘an excuse’ if a big player has it happen to them or to explain some blip in their playing.

Frankly Ochoa peaked last May, 6 or 7 months before her engagement.

by Bill Jempty on Apr 7, 2009 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I think it is for any player, regardless of how successful they are. Life changes impact how athletes perform. In some cases, they are positive. But it is impossible to deny. I don’t think it is an “excuse” for Ochoa or Shin’s performance – they’ve done quite well. They just haven’t done as well as they did last season. I am postulating that the changes going on in their life may have had some kind of impact.

by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 7, 2009 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ridiculous!

Nobody would ever keep a chart of a player’s clothing or hats or style and length of ponytail. That obsessive compulsive behavior would border on madness!

;)

by hound dog on Apr 7, 2009 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hahaha, you know someone has that out there somewhere on the Internet…

by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 7, 2009 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I may be mistaken on the chronology, but I think I’m the one who started the “skirt issue.”

My points are these: 1) Lorena is doing several things that seem out of character and 2) her game as a whole is suffering. Whether one is the cause of the other or if they are manifestations of a third, unknown, situation, I can’t say.

Other players experience life altering events. Most don’t change as radically in as short a period of time as Lorena has. All I’m saying is that I’ve noticed.

Truth has a well-known liberal bias.

by dianemarie on Apr 7, 2009 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

??

“golf trivia obsession” Bill – does that fall under “takes one to know one” ? :-D

Considering that college golf only fields 5 players at a time with a few extra guys fighting for a spot – finding a team with 80% future winners would be quite a stretch. ‘74/’75 Wake Forest team had Curtis Strange, Jay Haas, David Thore, and Bob Byman – three winners and the fourth with a pretty good career.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Apr 7, 2009 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

The difference

CG is I concentrate on results, not what the player is wearing. What color shirt was Jerry McGee wearing when he won the 1979 Kemper Open? Did he pump his fist after a birdie? DId he use the port a potty anytime on a Sunday in 1977?

No I don’t have the answers. If anyone did, they should get immediate medical treatment.

by Bill Jempty on Apr 7, 2009 4:02 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

LOL – Bill – I know a lot of women who say the same thing when we talk sports. They would trounce us if we played chick trivia around shopping, outfits, and celebrity gossip.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Apr 7, 2009 6:17 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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