2021 Player of the Year

[miamistomp]

27 minutes ago, Argonne69 said:

 

Here's the rub, though. As cool as it is to win a gold medal, the field strength is fairly low. 'Not to mention that it's a limited field event. I'd say the field strength is less than your typical non-major event.

 

 Except the pressure is ramped up quite a bit from your average LPGA Bozo Insurance and Financial Disservice Cup tourney

[StackMan1]

 

1 hour ago, Argonne69 said:

 

Here's the rub, though. As cool as it is to win a gold medal, the field strength is fairly low. 'Not to mention that it's a limited field event. I'd say the field strength is less than your typical non-major event.

 

Exactly 

[Golf Dino]

 

More food for thought . . . 

 

Jin Young Ko won her fourth event of the year today. capturing the BMW Ladies Championship in Busan.  She is the only player to capture 4-wins on Tour this season and has gone back to back with this win.  

 

With the win, Jin Young is projected to regain the World No.1 Ranking, and she has vaulted to the top of the CME Race to the Globe competiton that wraps up the season in a few weeks.  

[HMHS]

7 minutes ago, Golf Dino said:

 

More food for thought . . . 

 

Jin Young Ko won her fourth event of the year today. capturing the BMW Ladies Championship in Busan.  She is the only player to capture 4-wins on Tour this season and has gone back to back with this win.  

 

With the win, Jin Young is projected to regain the World No.1 Ranking, and she has vaulted to the top of the CME Race to the Globe competiton that wraps up the season in a few weeks.  

I've forward thought and forecasted this already - hehe - hence one of the 6 to vote JYK🤣

[18majors]

1 hour ago, Golf Dino said:

Jin Young is projected to regain the World No.1 Ranking,

 

 

Indeed, she did and it makes the last two tournaments very interesting.

 

Nelly only needs to earn 20 more Rolex points than Jin Young at Pelican to retake her #1 position.  She can do that with either a win or a solo second if Jin Young is outside Top-15.

 

Whoever wins the CME Group Tour Championship should take the full glory of 2021 season!

 

 

 

 

[KBong]

Jin Young Ko

https://www.lpga.com/news/2021/ko-reflects-on-historic-win-overcoming-season-struggles

 

“During the week of ANA, I think I slept maybe three to four hours a day because I was crying so much,"

 

I know JYK was struggling and worrying about her grandmother at the time.....but the Korean pros have a lot of pressure from the people and trolls back in Korea...that we in the western hemisphere just don't understand.

 

NYC is a very popular pro...but does everyone remember when NYC won the Ocala event after a long winless drought...she revealed in her interview that she was called a LOSER back in S. Korea....WTF???

 

I think the pressure coming from Taiwan also had an influence on Yani's downward spiral.

[fredogolfer]

You know, to me winning a major in golf is not the same as winning one in tennis. They set the course up so easy for the women that any prestigie from winning on a certain course is almost gone and that is just like any other week, still 4 rounds. With the KPMG earlier this year, we were approaching numbers similar to the Thornberry Creek event where SYK set the all time low scoring record.   Sometimes the cutline is higher but it’s still like any other event. In tennis you have to win 7 matches, for the men playing best of 5 when most events play best of 3 sets and you win 4-5 matches for a regular tour event It’s hard to see someone win a major in golf when it’s essentially like every other week and often the courses are set up the same way. 
 

The US Open used to have some of that allure but again the course set up gets out of hand sometimes on the easy side. The AIG could have that allure but it lost it for me when people are shooting close to -20 at Royal Lytham or Carnoustie.

 

All to say I could care less if Nelly won a major. To me it’s who’s come out on top more often and that has been JYK year.

Edited October 25, 2021 by fredogolfer

[BadgerLin]

Nelly definitely “won” POY for January through June:  3 wins plus 5 more top 10s vs no wins and 5 top 10s for JYK.  

 

JYK definitely “won” POY for July through October:  3 wins plus 3 more top 10s vs Olympic win and no other top 10s for Nelly.

 

So it comes down to November.  It appears to me that JYK is more comfortable holding the #1 spot than Nelly.  It seems like she’s happy playing great golf and sliding along out of the brightest lights.

[KBong]

38 minutes ago, BadgerLin said:

Nelly definitely “won” POY for January through June:  3 wins plus 5 more top 10s vs no wins and 5 top 10s for JYK.  

 

JYK definitely “won” POY for July through October:  3 wins plus 3 more top 10s vs Olympic win and no other top 10s for Nelly.

 

So it comes down to November.  It appears to me that JYK is more comfortable holding the #1 spot than Nelly.  It seems like she’s happy playing great golf and sliding along out of the brightest lights.

What???....we already have FIVE  majors.

 

Now you want TWO  POY awards???

 

Why stop there.....we might as well have THREE  ROY awards so that 18majors will be happy that his gal pal Yealimi WINS one....just sayin.

[Titleist_PT23]

To me, it's not so clear and like many things I think the recency bias is kicking in.

 

Nelly's three wins produced Rolex points of 100, 53, and 50.  JYK's four wins produced Rolex points of 62, 40, 26, and 24.  Of course an LPGA tournament is still an LPGA tournament and I'm not suggesting Rolex points are the be all and end all, but two of JYK's wins are at least questions in the context of "better season" (if I understand correctly, the LPGA POY award will be decided based on set criteria so there isn't much room for "debate").  And to be clear, I'm not even considering Nelly's "major" (just assume it was a middle of the pack tournament that gave the winner 50 +/- points) or her gold medal.  With regards to the later, I'm not really sure where this stands in the "best season" race but JYK was also there and finished T9.

 

I guess we'll see what happens the next two tournaments.  I don't really like either of these players, so I don't really care either way.  But for someone that doesn't have a favorite here I'd say it's pretty close.

[Golf Dino]

Congratulations to Jin Young Ko . . . the LPGA Rolex Player of the Year.  A truly well deserved honour and another battle to the finish with Nelly Korda.  Another memorable season in the books -- this time for some really positive memorable moments from Olympic Gold medal to coming down to the very last tournament of the season.   Well done to both Nelly and Jin Young!

[HMHS]

On 10/24/2021 at 10:42 AM, Supermilo said:

I've forward thought and forecasted this already - hehe - hence one of the 6 to vote JYK🤣

I am self promoting... 🤣  Congrats JYK!  You never let me down!   

[Golf Dino]

1 minute ago, Supermilo said:

I am self promoting... 🤣  Congrats JYK!  You never let me down!   

 

 

Unlike another player? 😉 🤣      Here's to wishing that she has a very good Q-Series!

[HMHS]

3 minutes ago, Golf Dino said:

 

 

Unlike another player? 😉 🤣      Here's to wishing that she has a very good Q-Series!

I'll be behind her all the way... Whether she makes it or not!