Running 2022 Golf Thread

Paywalled, but not doing work one is paid to do is the base play in the Trump playbook.

 

TV golf commentary in general is spectacularly banal, and seldom goes beyond "Great golf shot!"

 

No doubt she'll go Wie, Wie, Wie, Wie all the way home ... I'll see my way out.
Michelle Wie West to step away from LPGA Tour after U.S. Women's Open, won't rule out 2023 return - CBSSports.com

 

Didn’t even realize she was still playing.

 

Right? I mean, I’m no women’s golf aficionado, but the most recent time I saw her on TV was on an episode of Beat Bobby Flay. She was actually pretty good on that.

 

Only 32 but it feels like she’s been around forever

 

Almost 20 years can seem like forever with some folks.

Still baffles me how the LPGA has the top golfers in the world and every few years, it seems, a pre-teen or teen qualifies for their events. Or, like flameout Yani Tseng, gets to the top as a teen and wins five majors.

 

Didn't Morgan Pressel qualify for the U.S. Women's Open when she was 12?

 

None of the major winners during the pandemic -- Morikawa, DJ, DeChambeau -- should have an asterisk on it. The best players still showed up. All of them.