2022 Honda

[ChronicSlicer]

4 minutes ago, Argonne69 said:

Too close to call on this one. Minjee went low last week, but she's a little too far back. Gaby and Celine can go high or low on Sundays. Brooke should be steady. 'Still sticking with Brooke.

 

Can't believe you have no faith in Kupcho making a red hot Sunday run..

[iBanesto]

I reckon Hataoka.

 

She got her high round for the week out of the way.

 

[HMHS]

7 hours ago, Cwebb said:

 

 

Well...I'll be damned.  Son of a gun.

 

Maybe next time.  I guess

Next time how many times? So this is how the game $ucks one to keep watching :P. 

 

im officially off the fanwagon 🙂

Edited March 12, 2022 by GwrxMod
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[Argonne69]

Just now, ChronicSlicer said:

Can't believe you have no faith in Kupcho making a red hot Sunday run..

 

Call it a hunch.

 

[HMHS]

5 hours ago, Stooch said:

I stay up and now get a weather delay, great lol

I slept by then. Apparently Su was still asleep when I woke up 😛

[8602081]

Glad to see Lucy Li doing well..

 

She's only 5'2" tall, is she the smallest player in LPGA?

 

[Seamus_McDuff]

13 minutes ago, 8602081 said:

Glad to see Lucy Li doing well..

 

She's only 5'2" tall, is she the smallest player in LPGA?

 

Megan Khang is listed at 5’ 1”. I have doubts that Li is 5’ 2”. 

[8602081]

3 minutes ago, Seamus_McDuff said:

Megan Khang is listed at 5’ 1”. I have doubts that Li is 5’ 2”. 

 

Wow.

 

Nasa is also 5'2" and she's one of the long hitters.  Not real long, but longer than average.

 

[Stooch]

1 hour ago, Argonne69 said:

 

She was playing a TaylorMade last week.

 

 

Yeah, she switch to TaylorMade this season, she says it's added distance, I suspect using TaylorMade, has added 0's to her bank account, although not many 0's lol

[Stooch]

1 hour ago, Argonne69 said:

Too close to call on this one. Minjee went low last week, but she's a little too far back. Gaby and Celine can go high or low on Sundays. Brooke should be steady. 'Still sticking with Brooke.

 

Good penultimate group (well for them) 3 proven winners who know what to do on Sunday.  The final group is a little inexperienced in the clutch, Celine is dangerous though but her problem is all her direct competition can get to all par 5's in 2 (plus #15).  The thing about these easy scoring tracks, it becomes much harder to get those scores under the Sunday pressure, should be a good shootout.

[Stooch]

1 hour ago, Supermilo said:

Next time how many times? So this is how the game $ucks one to keep watching :P. 

 

im officially off the fanwagon 🙂

I'll take Su to win the Kia or whoever sponsors it now lol

[Stooch]

I'm not sold on Nasa, this is a 4 round event 🙃😋

[HMHS]

8 minutes ago, Stooch said:

I'm not sold on Nasa, this is a 4 round event 🙃😋

I’ve already “made by bed” in predicting Nasa so I have to stick by it… a Hinako or Minjee charge should keep me awake later though😂

[HMHS]

27 minutes ago, Stooch said:

Good penultimate group (well for them) 3 proven winners who know what to do on Sunday.  The final group is a little inexperienced in the clutch, Celine is dangerous though but her problem is all her direct competition can get to all par 5's in 2 (plus #15).  The thing about these easy scoring tracks, it becomes much harder to get those scores under the Sunday pressure, should be a good shootout.

I actually feel the pressure of the

last group leads them to falter, just like last night/this morning… so I think the 2nd to last group produced the winner… the 3rd to last group is a bit too far behind and needs to rely on at least 5-6 players not to score so those are pretty tough odds to overcome… 

 

Who leads the “debacle” in the last group (last night it was Su, clearly, and missing a ton of par 5 chances for the last group pretty much doomed them in)? I’ll be keen to see it early on tonight… and this time weather delay be damned LOL 

[Golf Dino]

2 hours ago, 8602081 said:

Glad to see Lucy Li doing well..

 

She's only 5'2" tall, is she the smallest player in LPGA?

 

Thing with Lucy is she's still 19 - which used to be considered a young age, but nonetheless, she is growing and developing at a different rate than some of the others.   She seems to have added a little strength and distance off the tee for this season -- which is a good thing.  Her average driving distance this week is 260 yards plus (as of Round 3) . . .so that will help her out.   

 

I'd like to see her do well too.  She seems like a very down to earth type of young adult. 

 

 

[Golf Dino]

1 hour ago, Stooch said:

Good penultimate group (well for them) 3 proven winners who know what to do on Sunday.  The final group is a little inexperienced in the clutch, Celine is dangerous though but her problem is all her direct competition can get to all par 5's in 2 (plus #15).  The thing about these easy scoring tracks, it becomes much harder to get those scores under the Sunday pressure, should be a good shootout.

 

I believe @iBanesto made the point about Celine too.  I agree.  I think she wins tomorrow.  She has a 2 stroke cushion over Brooke, etc.   And Celine is playing well . . . and now with a few wins under belt (LPGA & LET), she's learned a fair bit about playing under pressure.  Had Brooke made eagle on 18 instead of Birdie, then its only a 1-stroke difference between them. 

 

Of course, Nasa is quite capable of shooting a low round tomorrow as well and she could and probably will be in contention.

 

As for the Par 5's, I have been following Brooke's stats carefully over the past while and she has failed to play the Par 5's very well.  She has been a notch or two below Nelly in that respect.  Hopefully, she seems to be turning the corner on that, but we will see.  

[Lobby]

So often, in these low scoring events, it's someone from the pack who ends up winning.

I think this tournament is wide open.   The winner will shoot a low number

[Stooch]

6 minutes ago, Golf Dino said:

 

I believe @iBanesto made the point about Celine too.  I agree.  I think she wins tomorrow.  She has a 2 stroke cushion over Brooke, etc.   And Celine is playing well . . . and now with a few wins under belt (LPGA & LET), she's learned a fair bit about playing under pressure.  Had Brooke made eagle on 18 instead of Birdie, then its only a 1-stroke difference between them. 

 

Of course, Nasa is quite capable of shooting a low round tomorrow as well and she could and probably will be in contention.

 

As for the Par 5's, I have been following Brooke's stats carefully over the past while and she has failed to play the Par 5's very well.  She has been a notch or two below Nelly in that respect.  Hopefully, she seems to be turning the corner on that, but we will see.  

Been like that since the start of Covid, she just lost her par 5 scoring touch, this year she seems to have turned it around.  Last week she was -11 on the par 5's and she'll be close this week to doing the same.  I think she's 6th right now in par 5 scoring at 4.5

 

I'm leaning that there usually symmetry to these things, so I say Brooke wins the final event that the 48" driver is legal using a 48" driver.  Plus she hasn't really had her hot round yet, the 65, 67, 66 where just easy rounds with 4 bogies sprinkled in among them.

 

PS anyone watching the 17th at the players right now😂

[HMHS]

16 minutes ago, Stooch said:

Been like that since the start of Covid, she just lost her par 5 scoring touch, this year she seems to have turned it around.  Last week she was -11 on the par 5's and she'll be close this week to doing the same.  I think she's 6th right now in par 5 scoring at 4.5

 

I'm leaning that there usually symmetry to these things, so I say Brooke wins the final event that the 48" driver is legal using a 48" driver.  Plus she hasn't really had her hot round yet, the 65, 67, 66 where just easy rounds with 4 bogies sprinkled in among them.

 

PS anyone watching the 17th at the players right now😂

LOL at Billy Ho...

[Stooch]

4 minutes ago, Supermilo said:

LOL at Billy Ho...

and Zach just showed why he's the Ryder Cup Captain  lol

[Golf Dino]

2 hours ago, Stooch said:

I'm leaning that there usually symmetry to these things, so I say Brooke wins the final event that the 48" driver is legal using a 48" driver.  Plus she hasn't really had her hot round yet, the 65, 67, 66 where just easy rounds with 4 bogies sprinkled in among them

 

Well it would be apropos for her to win on that point alone!  

 

I suspect that if Brooke shoots a 64 tomorrow, she wins.  The same with Nasa . . . Celine could also go low too . . . but if Brooke or Nasa come out hot, then I think Celine posts a score around 67.   It will be interesting to see how Nanna Koerstz Madsen responds . . . she's won on the LET and Symetra/Epson, she came close at last year's AIG Women's Open, where she let it slip away on the 72nd hole.  

It's a fool's errand to try and predict . . . but where is the fun in not?  The only thing is I miss being around the table with some of the friends enjoying a beer or two plus the friendly "loser buys the round" kind of banter.

[HMHS]

2 hours ago, Golf Dino said:

 

Well it would be apropos for her to win on that point alone!  

 

I suspect that if Brooke shoots a 64 tomorrow, she wins.  The same with Nasa . . . Celine could also go low too . . . but if Brooke or Nasa come out hot, then I think Celine posts a score around 67.   It will be interesting to see how Nanna Koerstz Madsen responds . . . she's won on the LET and Symetra/Epson, she came close at last year's AIG Women's Open, where she let it slip away on the 72nd hole.  

It's a fool's errand to try and predict . . . but where is the fun in not?  The only thing is I miss being around the table with some of the friends enjoying a beer or two plus the friendly "loser buys the round" kind of banter.

this is a more interesting tournament, competition wise, to the farcity that is happening at the Players -- yes, not anybody's fault there but the ones who went out afternoon and morning in rounds 1 and 2 (based on sked) are getting hosed... for me, useless/anticlimactic... the only thing going for it is that it finishes on monday and I’m on vaca since my kid is on spring break too LOL

[Stooch]

18 minutes ago, Supermilo said:

this is a more interesting tournament, competition wise, to the farcity that is happening at the Players -- yes, not anybody's fault there but the ones who went out afternoon and morning in rounds 1 and 2 (based on sked) are getting hosed... for me, useless/anticlimactic... the only thing going for it is that it finishes on monday and I’m on vaca since my kid is on spring break too LOL

The white caps on the water are big enough you wouldn't wanna be in them in a canoe LOL

[Raving Shanker]

My tip for today is Madsen. She has a bit of the Kupcho about her, in the way she gets down on herself, and gets in her own way - but with a difference. I think she is learning to manage herself, and is ready to W. And she has game!

 

Su Oh's meltdown was intriguing to watch, and we usually don't get to see an entire round by someone in meltdown mode, because they drop out of contention. Credit to her for salvaging a 73. You can see the difference between Oh Su's bad day and Hatty's (I am speaking of the Japanese girl Hatty Oka, of course).

 

Slightly disappointing tournament for the tremendous Thai girls.

 

Also, not having been on this thread for the entire tournament, I was surprised to have missed only 108 posts and 2,000 odd words of prose. There seemed to be something missing! Have I missed some recent developments?

[Stooch]

Yuka Saso going on a run, she can use a good round to end on, she's been a bit off most of the season.

[HMHS]

Game over... I can head to sleep now for tomorrow's carnage at the Players... Congratulations to the Dane! 

[Rapidcat]

There will end up 30 players at -15 or better.

 

Is the course playing that easy, there's only 1 hole that has an over-par event score so far?

 

If so, they need a tougher venue for future events or at least set-up the course to play longer (if possible).

[Rapidcat]

3 minutes ago, Rapidcat said:

There will end up 30 players at -15 or better.

 

Is the course playing that easy, there's only 1 hole that has an over-par event score so far?

 

If so, they need a tougher venue for future events or at least set-up the course to play longer (if possible).

Edit: it's likely that no player still in the field will finish the tournament over par.

[JungleJimbo]

3 hours ago, Raving Shanker said:

Also, not having been on this thread for the entire tournament, I was surprised to have missed only 108 posts and 2,000 odd words of prose. There seemed to be something missing! Have I missed some recent developments?

Yes … some frequent / regular contributors eg OP @kbong (?) have been MIA/ missing (hope he/they are ok!) 🤞 

Edited March 13, 2022 by JungleJimbo

[HMHS]

Well well… do we see an implosion from the Dane to keep me awake? Jeen and Janet hopefully make it interesting