Archive for the LPGA Tour Category


Ochoa Beats Them All in 2007

While many news outlets, golfing or otherwise, examined the recently ended 2007 season, various names were put out for Player of the Year. While Tiger Woods would inevitable emerge in any list, I think the Sports Network got it bang on target when it named the LPGA’s outstanding golfer, Lorena Ochoa, Player of the Year. […]

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Hoppy New Year for O’Grady

The Times Online gave European Tour chief George O’Grady an end of year accolade when he won the publication’s Hoppy Award for Administrator of the Year. The quirky awards, presented by and named after The Times’ golf correspondent John Hopkins, hails O’Grady for his initiative in helping to launch the $10million Dubai World Championship, which […]

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Tour Triumphs for Snedeker and Ilonen

Rookie Brandt Snedeker took advantage of a quiet week on the PGA Tour before the PGA Play-offs to add to the list of first-time winners this season. The 26-year-old from Tennessee shot a nine-under-par 63 to win the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina and take home his highest-ever pay-cheque of $900,000. Snedeker finished on […]

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Tiger Tunes Up for PGA Assault

It is hard enough winning one tournament on the PGA Tour, let alone two in a row. So, is winning a week before a Major a blessing or a curse? How many times have we held up a pre-Major winner as one of the favourites only to see him fail to make the cut. Then […]

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The Circus Is In Town – Hip Hip Hip Hooray!

There is something magical about the circus coming to town! No I’m not talking about the Big Top and CoCo The Clown, but instead the LPGA, Ladies European Tour and The Ladies Golf Union. Whilst 27 Open Championships have be held at St Andrews, this will be the very first time a Women’s British Open […]

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Playing Golf With Your Hero

A couple weeks ago, Jin Young Pak, one of my students, had the good fortune of living a life-long dream — she played golf with her hero. After two solid rounds at the Jamie Farr Classic on the LPGA Tour, she was paired in Saturday’s last group with Se Ri Pak. Now, I don’t think […]

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St Andrews Opens Its Doors To Ladies

History will be made next week when professional female golfers are allowed into the clubhouse of the Home of Golf, St Andrews, for the first time as competitors. It has been a long time in coming, but as golf gradually sheds its image as a stuffy pastime for elite gentlemen, yet another male bastion is […]

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Preparing For The Ricoh Women’s British Open At The Old Course St Andrews

This afternoon I shot into St Andrews to shoot a short video of the preparations for the Ricoh Women’s British Open At The Old Course, St Andrews. As you can see, whilst grandstands and the tented village are being erected plays continue as normal in the glorious Scottish sunshine! The Championship starts on Thursday 2nd […]

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Is the LPGA Tour Becoming Too Young?

There is a tremendous youth movement right now on the LPGA Tour, which depending on point of view, could be a good or bad thing for the game. On one hand, this influx of young talent is bringing the LPGA Tour to unprecedented heights. Never before, in the history of the women’s game, has it […]

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Dope Testing Soon To Become Reality

PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said at the Travelers Championship that golf tours around the world should work harder to implement anti-doping programmes. It appears that every other governing body has made moves to establish drug testing. The LPGA Tour is to start testing in 2008 and the European Tour is aiming to have its […]

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For Your Next Tournament, Practice Smarter — Not Harder

I’m in Cincinnati this week working with a couple girls I coach on the Futures Tour. One of the girls (Jimin Jeong) is preparing to play the Women’s U.S. Open next week at Pine Needles. This will be Jimin’s first U.S. Open and she is understandably very excited. She’s worked extremely hard this year and […]

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Withdrawal Symptoms for Sad Wie

It is easy not to feel sorry for Michelle Wie. She is only 17, a multi-millionaire, has good looks and she is a golfing prodigy. Not bad considering she has yet to win a professional tournament of note so far. Then again, she is only 17. All she wants to do is play golf. But […]

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Sorenstam Happy to be Back

Annika Sorenstam said it was good to be back. And golf, in general, is glad to have her back as she teed up for the first time in almost two month, at $2.6 million Ginn Tribute in Mount Pleasant on the LPGA Tour. Sorenstam suffered a ruptured disc and bulging disc in her back and […]

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Should Michelle Wie Play With the Guys?

Teenager Michelle Wie, who has been out of the spotlight with a wrist injury, created a stir this week by once again accepting a sponsor invitation to the PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic. The announcement comes on the heels of negative feedback from LPGA players, who disagreed with her inclusion into the lucrative Samsung World […]

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Take Your Best Swing to The Course With a Great Pre-Shot Routine

A couple weeks ago, I watched one of the players I coach (Jin Young Pak), compete in The Ginn Open. And while watching her compete, I noticed a problem that is common to golfers of all skill levels. A problem that usually happens to someone as they get outside their comfort zone. What happened to […]

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