2021 LPGA Season Odds and Ends

[KBong]

20 hours ago, fredogolfer said:

I thought Naomi Osaka had the game ......

 

She is the prime example of Generation Me. 
 

I used to like Osaka...but not any more.

 

One of the WRX members made some good posts.

He gave us some background on Osaka.

I hope I have this correct from his posts.....he said that Naomi and her parents were "illegally" in the US for years because of Naomi's training in the US.

I believe he said that Naomi was getting a lot of heat over this by the media and one of the reasons for her W/D from the French Open because she didn't want to address/answer the questions.

 

[Argonne69]

The Hendersons aren't the only sister/sister act in professional golf. Hee Young was back home this week looping for her sister Ju Young on the KLPGA.

 

 

[KBong]

2 hours ago, Argonne69 said:

The Hendersons aren't the only sister/sister act in professional golf. Hee Young was back home this week looping for her sister Ju Young on the KLPGA.

 

 

LUV The Rocket!

 

HYP has been in S. Korea for a while....she played the BMW with her hubby, JJ, on the bag.

I think HYP might stay in S. Korea for a while...she didn't register to play the Pelican and so far not qualified for the CME.

 

I doubt HYP would have looped if she had to carry the bag (she used a push cart)...unless Mini Rocket switched to a lightweight stand bag.

[HMHS]

Wow it's miraculously back here! (This thread, that is). It's like "hey, who woke me up?")

[KBong]

12 hours ago, Supermilo said:

Wow it's miraculously back here! (This thread, that is).

[18majors]

 

Yes, she'll keep the show going:

 

 

[18majors]

 

This is good news, will speed up LPGA's purse growth:

 

European Tour prize fund to double in latest cash infusion to pro game

[KBong]

1 hour ago, 18majors said:

 

This is good news, will speed up LPGA's purse growth:

 

European Tour prize fund to double in latest cash infusion to pro game

[fredogolfer]

8 hours ago, 18majors said:

 

This is good news, will speed up LPGA's purse growth:

 

European Tour prize fund to double in latest cash infusion to pro game

 

Men's Golf

PGA Tour announces $40,000,000 bonus pot for players who move the needle with rumors of creating a lucrative, limited field fall series

Aramco Announces $200,000,000 investment in the Asian Tour

DP is the Title Sponsor of the European Tour with record breaking purses

 

Rumors and confirmed stories could equal around a $750 million investment in men's professional golf over the next 10 years

 

Women's Golf

Rumors of US Women's Open having a presenting sponsor to get purse to around $10,000,000

Tradition is destroyed to get new major to have a $5,000,000 purse on what may be a questionable golf course

AIG bumps purse for Women's Open

Cognizant has largest purse outside season ending event and majors. 

 

Rumors and Confirmed stories equal around a $70,000,000 investment over the next 10 years and with inflation it might as well be around $50,000,000 maybe less if prices keep going up. Oh wait, I guess the AON Risk Reward Challenge means that things are equal. The AON Challenge is almost a joke for the men. A million dollars is second place money for some events on the PGA Tour. Not saying a million dollars is anything to scoff at but on the PGA Tour, that's not even a first place check. On the LPGA, it'd be pretty close to the largest payday out there, heck even some events have purses around a million dollars. It really is night and day and I'm not sure that in golf rising tides raise all ships. 

 

 

Edited November 10, 2021 by fredogolfer

[JungleJimbo]

https://www.golfaustralia.com.au/news/strong-field-assembles-for-womens-amateur-asia-pacific-572439

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https://www.si.com/tv/womens-golf/amateur-asia-pacific-championship-round-one-nov-9-live-stream-watch-online-free

'Live' coverage = via Sky Sports on Youtube (there's a short recap of the 2018 inaugural tournament around the ~15min mark... familiar names e.g. Thitikul, Yuka Saso, Patty Tavatanakit)

https://www.apgc.online/galleries/2018-womens-amateur-asia-pacific#1
 

 

Strong field assembles for Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific

golfaustralia.com.au/news/strong-field-assembles-for-womens-amateur-asia-pacific-572439

Media Release

The fourth and seventh ranked players in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) will feature in the third edition of the championship which is organised by The R&A and the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC). The championship returns after a year’s gap due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the first round takes place on Wednesday, 10 November.

 

WAAP is one of the most important events on the calendar for players from the Asia-Pacific region, with the champion golfer securing places in major championships, the AIG Women’s Open and The Amundi Evian Championship, the Hana Bank Championship and an invitation to play in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

 

The championship was won in its inaugural year by Thailand’s Atthaya Thitikul, who won the LET’s 2021 Race to Costa Del Sol ranking. The 2018 field also featured Japan’s Yuka Saso and Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit who both became major champions this year winning the U.S. Women’s Open and ANA Inspiration, respectively. The 2019 edition of the WAAP was won by Japan’s Yuka Yasuda.

Edited November 11, 2021 by JungleJimbo

[MagicClassic407]

WOW!! Big change in MY golf world!!!  Check it out.............

 

Dana Incorporated to Become New Title Sponsor of LPGA Tournament

Be sure to receive all emails regarding this event by adding [email protected] to your approved or safe senders list   Dana Incorporated to Become New Title Sponsor of LPGA Tournament   Embargoed Media Release For Publishing on 11/11/2021 after 6:00am Contact: Paige Ottaviano (419) 531-3277   TOLEDO, OH – Toledo Classic, Inc., parent organization of northwest Ohio’s annual LPGA golf tournament, announced today that Dana Incorporated (NYSE: DAN) will become the event’s new title sponsor and Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC) will become the presenting sponsor in 2022.   The Dana Open presented by Marathon will be contested August 29 through September 4 at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio, for a purse of $1.75 million. The tournament will receive over 11 hours of live television coverage on The Golf Channel in the U.S. and around the globe.

 

 

 

[KBong]

4 hours ago, MagicClassic407 said:

WOW!! Big change in MY golf world!!!  Check it out.............

 

Dana Incorporated to Become New Title Sponsor of LPGA Tournament

Be sure to receive all emails regarding this event by adding [email protected] to your approved or safe senders list   Dana Incorporated to Become New Title Sponsor of LPGA Tournament   Embargoed Media Release For Publishing on 11/11/2021 after 6:00am Contact: Paige Ottaviano (419) 531-3277   TOLEDO, OH – Toledo Classic, Inc., parent organization of northwest Ohio’s annual LPGA golf tournament, announced today that Dana Incorporated (NYSE: DAN) will become the event’s new title sponsor and Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC) will become the presenting sponsor in 2022.   The Dana Open presented by Marathon will be contested August 29 through September 4 at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio, for a purse of $1.75 million. The tournament will receive over 11 hours of live television coverage on The Golf Channel in the U.S. and around the globe.

 

 

 

So you gonna be the new tournament chair?

 

Or better yet....you should be the new LPGA commish and replace the invisible woman ASAP....Mollie the Fish-Head has done nothing since taking office.

 

I'm confident you are not SHY at SELF-PROMOTING....you will be the IDEAL replacement to Smiley Mike.

[fredogolfer]

Steve Eubanks is a terrible writer!!!! Try to read some of these gems from recent articles. The obscure references, the run-on sentences, the never ending quotes. He needs to be fired. 

 

Moments after O’Shea finished his remarks and the crowd quietly disbursed, one of the volunteers walked over and introduced himself to me. The moist glimmer in his eyes had yet to disappear. “That was something, wasn’t it?” he said. After a moment of chitchat, he said, “I was there in the last days of Saigon. I was part of the final flights out. When I got back, I couldn’t talk about it. My father, who was in Papua New Guinea during World War II, told me that it was okay not to talk about it but not to dwell on it too much, either. It took about five years before I could finally tell anybody about it.”

Then the volunteer turned back to the flag, still slow dancing with the cloudless Florida sky. “That was really something,” he said.

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BELLEAIR, Fla. | It’s not exactly home. The Kordas grew up in Bradenton, Florida, the town tagged onto Sarasota as if it’s one word, Sarasota-Bradenton, about an hour from Belleair depending on Tampa traffic. Still, the Pelican Women’s Championship presented by Konica Minolta and Raymond James is as near to a home game as the sisters get on the LPGA Tour, an hour nearer than both Orlando and Naples. Granted, Jessica has lived in the Jupiter area, on the other side of the state, for years now. But it’s still nice to be close to family

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BELLEAIR, FLORIDA | Even in the fickle world of modern art, with its underbelly rumors of money laundering and tax shelters, this piece caught the eye. And not just of the high-brow critic wearing creased trousers and those new, hip, red-soled shoes, but the gaze of average folk, the fellow in a striped Peter Millar shirt who couldn’t pick a Monet out of a lineup and who might mistake Georgia O’Keefe for a player in the field this week at the Pelican Women’s Championship. That guy also did a doubletake, staring at the original piece, acrylic on canvas with red and blue swirls and white starburst splatters; unmistakably Old Glory in windblown flight with the touch of an artist who spent some time in his younger days staring at Jackson Pollocks, just as those who pass this work now stand and linger themselves. But the guy in the golf shirt asked a question that the more cultured critic almost certainly would have missed. Why is this hanging outside of the men’s room?

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The Belleview Biltmore had long since seen its best days. The neighborhood was no longer a remarkable winter retreat for wealthy industrialists who rode their own train cars south at first snowfall. The golf course had become like a beautiful woman living on the street, tattered and worn with dirt penetrating her pores.

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She rolled her eyes right away. Then came a mutter, something that could have been “oh my God,” or a less-printable variation. And that was two minutes in.  

 

The setting was East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, host venue of the Tour Championship on the PGA TOUR, where the FedExCup is awarded every year, as well as the place where the lesser-known East Lake Cup, a match-play collegiate event featuring the men’s and women’s Final Four teams from the previous season’s NCAA Championships, is contested every fall. For the umpteenth year in a row, I was invited to play in the am-am the day before the East Lake Cup. This time my partner was Julia Johnson, star of the defending national champion Ole Miss women’s golf team. And while a lot of my playing partners ultimately roll their eyes and mutter, it normally takes a while. Julia’s reaction came as we were introducing ourselves on the first tee.  

 

But it had nothing to do with me. It was the story I relayed to the other members of our group. “Julia is responsible for the best act of sportsmanship this year,” I said, relishing my role as first-tee storyteller. “Right after Ole Miss won the NCAAs, the Marathon Classic gave a sponsor’s exemption to Julia, who turned around and gave it to her teammate Kennedy Swann, because Kennedy was turning pro and could use it.” 

   

By the time I finished, Julia was looking at the sky. She’d no doubt been asked about her actions a thousand times. And, like many others, I got some of the details wrong. “Marathon actually gave the exemption to a member of the winning team,” she said. “The coaches decided who would get it.” When Julia’s coaches told her that she was the choice, she immediately said she wanted to give it to Swann, who would be attending Stage I of the LPGA Tour Qualifying Tournament later in the year.  

Edited November 12, 2021 by fredogolfer

[MagicClassic407]

6 hours ago, KBong said:

So you gonna be the new tournament chair?

What new chair? I kinda like Judd Silverman....he should stay! Plus, I already have a job. I work for the NBA's Orlando Magic. But a smartie like you already caught that, right? 🤣🏀💃 PS:  Go Matilda!! PPS: What's going on with Gerina?

 

[KBong]

45 minutes ago, MagicClassic407 said:

What new chair? I kinda like Judd Silverman....he should stay! Plus, I already have a job. I work for the NBA's Orlando Magic. But a smartie like you already caught that, right? 🤣🏀💃 PS:  Go Matilda!! PPS: What's going on with Gerina?

 

LMAO

 

Ya...what's up with CHEESE....DFL...pretty sad.

 

Can anyone here confirm if Gerina has dumped/divorced CHEESEBALL Martin Piller?...he seems like a goofball.

 

Edited November 12, 2021 by KBong

[KBong]

55 minutes ago, fredogolfer said:

Steve Eubanks is a terrible writer!!!! Try to read some of these gems from recent articles. The obscure references, the run-on sentences, the never ending quotes. He needs to be fired. 

 

Moments after O’Shea finished his remarks and the crowd quietly disbursed, one of the volunteers walked over and introduced himself to me. The moist glimmer in his eyes had yet to disappear. “That was something, wasn’t it?” he said. After a moment of chitchat, he said, “I was there in the last days of Saigon. I was part of the final flights out. When I got back, I couldn’t talk about it. My father, who was in Papua New Guinea during World War II, told me that it was okay not to talk about it but not to dwell on it too much, either. It took about five years before I could finally tell anybody about it.”

Then the volunteer turned back to the flag, still slow dancing with the cloudless Florida sky. “That was really something,” he said.

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BELLEAIR, Fla. | It’s not exactly home. The Kordas grew up in Bradenton, Florida, the town tagged onto Sarasota as if it’s one word, Sarasota-Bradenton, about an hour from Belleair depending on Tampa traffic. Still, the Pelican Women’s Championship presented by Konica Minolta and Raymond James is as near to a home game as the sisters get on the LPGA Tour, an hour nearer than both Orlando and Naples. Granted, Jessica has lived in the Jupiter area, on the other side of the state, for years now. But it’s still nice to be close to family

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BELLEAIR, FLORIDA | Even in the fickle world of modern art, with its underbelly rumors of money laundering and tax shelters, this piece caught the eye. And not just of the high-brow critic wearing creased trousers and those new, hip, red-soled shoes, but the gaze of average folk, the fellow in a striped Peter Millar shirt who couldn’t pick a Monet out of a lineup and who might mistake Georgia O’Keefe for a player in the field this week at the Pelican Women’s Championship. That guy also did a doubletake, staring at the original piece, acrylic on canvas with red and blue swirls and white starburst splatters; unmistakably Old Glory in windblown flight with the touch of an artist who spent some time in his younger days staring at Jackson Pollocks, just as those who pass this work now stand and linger themselves. But the guy in the golf shirt asked a question that the more cultured critic almost certainly would have missed. Why is this hanging outside of the men’s room?

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Belleview Biltmore had long since seen its best days. The neighborhood was no longer a remarkable winter retreat for wealthy industrialists who rode their own train cars south at first snowfall. The golf course had become like a beautiful woman living on the street, tattered and worn with dirt penetrating her pores.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

She rolled her eyes right away. Then came a mutter, something that could have been “oh my God,” or a less-printable variation. And that was two minutes in.  

 

The setting was East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, host venue of the Tour Championship on the PGA TOUR, where the FedExCup is awarded every year, as well as the place where the lesser-known East Lake Cup, a match-play collegiate event featuring the men’s and women’s Final Four teams from the previous season’s NCAA Championships, is contested every fall. For the umpteenth year in a row, I was invited to play in the am-am the day before the East Lake Cup. This time my partner was Julia Johnson, star of the defending national champion Ole Miss women’s golf team. And while a lot of my playing partners ultimately roll their eyes and mutter, it normally takes a while. Julia’s reaction came as we were introducing ourselves on the first tee.  

 

But it had nothing to do with me. It was the story I relayed to the other members of our group. “Julia is responsible for the best act of sportsmanship this year,” I said, relishing my role as first-tee storyteller. “Right after Ole Miss won the NCAAs, the Marathon Classic gave a sponsor’s exemption to Julia, who turned around and gave it to her teammate Kennedy Swann, because Kennedy was turning pro and could use it.” 

   

By the time I finished, Julia was looking at the sky. She’d no doubt been asked about her actions a thousand times. And, like many others, I got some of the details wrong. “Marathon actually gave the exemption to a member of the winning team,” she said. “The coaches decided who would get it.” When Julia’s coaches told her that she was the choice, she immediately said she wanted to give it to Swann, who would be attending Stage I of the LPGA Tour Qualifying Tournament later in the year.  

Hmmmm...have you been smoking 18major's crack pipe too?

 

See the below link,

Yesterday you praised Eubanks that he wrote a "PRETTY GOOD ARTICLE" 

I replied to you that it was a "FLUFFY" article.

 

Then a day later...today...you are SLAMMING Eubanks that he's a "TERRIBLE WRITER" and should be "FIRED".

 

What gives???....is that crack really that potent?🤣

Just askin for a friend.

 

 

[fredogolfer]

2 hours ago, KBong said:

Hmmmm...have you been smoking 18major's crack pipe too?

 

See the below link,

Yesterday you praised Eubanks that he wrote a "PRETTY GOOD ARTICLE" 

I replied to you that it was a "FLUFFY" article.

 

Then a day later...today...you are SLAMMING Eubanks that he's a "TERRIBLE WRITER" and should be "FIRED".

 

What gives???....is that crack really that potent?🤣

Just askin for a friend.

 

 

I've always said he sucks. I probably should have said good as in reference to informative as to the direction organizers want to take the Pelican event. I will say the article about how he adopted his daughter from China gives a little bit more insight into his viewpoints but beside that, I don't see how he is such an acclaimed writer. 

[KBong]

It's been a good year in 2021 for Japan with wins in the:

Asia Pacific Women's Am

Asia Pacific Men's Am

An Olympic silver medal

The Masters

Augusta Women's Am Championship

[Argonne69]

20 hours ago, KBong said:

It's been a good year in 2021 for Japan with wins in the:

Asia Pacific Women's Am

Asia Pacific Men's Am

An Olympic silver medal

The Masters

Augusta Women's Am Championship

 

It's not over yet. Can Nasa grab a win at the CME? Will one of the JLPGA stars win Q-Series? 

 

[18majors]

The chosen:

 

[KBong]

IMO...AON should take their $2M Risk/Reward (PGA & LPGA)...find another $600000-$700000 (infrastructure build expense, etc) and offer up a $1.8M purse for a LPGA event.

IMO...a better exposure/use of their money.

 

If this occurs....ya know The Invisible Woman reads WRX and picked up the phone to suggest this to AON.

 

OR BETTER YET.

Use the money to sponsor the Int'l Crown

[Argonne69]

15 hours ago, KBong said:

IMO...AON should take their $2M Risk/Reward (PGA & LPGA)...find another $600000-$700000 (infrastructure build expense, etc) and offer up a $1.8M purse for a LPGA event.

IMO...a better exposure/use of their money.

 

If this occurs....ya know The Invisible Woman reads WRX and picked up the phone to suggest this to AON.

 

OR BETTER YET.

Use the money to sponsor the Int'l Crown

 

Disagree. With a tournament sponsorship it's a one and done deal. How many times do we get to hear "Aon" during the course of the season? 

 

[18majors]

Congratulations Jeeno!

 

THITIKUL BECOMES YOUNGEST WINNER OF RACE TO COSTA DEL SOL

 

[18majors]

One more event to go, it appears Olivia Cowan will secure an exemption into 2021 LPGA Q-Series by finishing #5 on LET's Race to Costa Del Sol:

 

Race to Costa Del Sol

 

 

 

[18majors]

2021 Women's Amateur Latin America Golf Championship

 

Isabella Fierro is in the field, hope she play well!

 

Edited November 16, 2021 by 18majors

[Medson]

22 hours ago, 18majors said:

Congratulations Jeeno!

 

THITIKUL BECOMES YOUNGEST WINNER OF RACE TO COSTA DEL SOL

 

Is she going to be in Q Series? 

[Lobby]

In recent interviews Thitikul has said she’s going to lpga qschool 

[18majors]

37 minutes ago, Medson said:

Is she going to be in Q Series? 

 

Yes, pretty certain  Jeeno and #4 Stephanie Kyriacou will give it a go!

[18majors]

 

Boy, Mollie did in less than six months more than Mike did in ten years!  We now have two events with larger purse than CP Women's Open, which has had the highest purse outside of the Majors forever.

 

 

Edited November 17, 2021 by 18majors

[KBong]

57 minutes ago, 18majors said:

 

Boy, Mollie did in less than six months more than Mike did in ten years!  We now have two events with larger purse than CP Women's Open, which has had the highest purse outside of the Majors forever.

 

 

LMAO

You have no idea what Mollie is or isn't doing and what she has been involved with.

 

I can't believe you are still sore at Whan because he put you on a LPGA event restraining order and into the LPGA security BINDER.🤣

I assume Mollie has terminated that order.

 

For a guy who fawns over the LPGA....you never have never answered why you haven't attended a LPGA event.