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  1. no, the wies have said that if they're going to travel to the mainland to play tournaments, they're going to play in the pro tournaments. cost them the same amount of money, so they've decided to play against "the best"...so, with the roughly $50,000 it cost them to travel last year, they decided to play in some tournaments and not others...career choice you may disagree with, but that's their choice. it wasn't financially feasible for them to play in every amateur tournament and still do their pro thing. would i have wanted her to play in the women's amateur and women's public links? yes. but would i want to see her in some junior girls tournament? nah, i think i'll pass. but if this is how she thinks she's going to get better, more power to her. there's michelle and...stephanie kono (and a few others). great player...ranked top 20 in usga junior girls. certainly not as many as in california or florida, but hey, it's a "dinky" island, right? yep, michelle folded in the last round...but isn't she "learning how to win" by going through that experience? so she's learning to win on the lpga instead of in junior tournaments...she is "only 16", after all.
  2. yep, by finishing order, so phil and tiger! i don't care who wins, i just want them to both play well...
  3. few points...i don't see why she should have to say no to exemptions. if people want to earn their way on to a tournament, more power to them. i'll gladly take my free pass. does that make me less of a person? i don't know. yes, you're right that some people earn their exemptions by, for example, winning the us amateur to get into the masters and the u.s. and british opens...but by and large, exemptions are given to local talents, those who might help the tournament draw crowds, etc. the fact that michelle gets exemptions is not the issue...what people seem to be upset about is how many she gets. my thought on that is if she doesn't start winning, people will be less interested in her and there will be less incentive for tournaments to give her those exemptions. she should NOT have gotten that exemption to play in the ladies pga last year. that was the silliest use of an exemption i've seen, and that was one tournament where maybe michelle should have passed on. the "h.s. girls who shoot in the 100s" was referring to girls high school golf in hawaii. i don't doubt that girls junior golf at the national and international levels is competitive. i'm making a dig on morgan pressel and her high school golf team, where she shoots in the 60s and the rest of the girls on her team struggle to break 100. the same rationale that it's expensive to go to hawaii has been used by the wies (prior to her endorsement deals, naturally) on why michelle doesn't play in more national junior tournaments. i'm from hawaii and travel back and forth from the mainland quite often. it's not the easiest thing to fly out east all the time. and "regional" is tough to define with hawaii, as ohio is closer to california than hawaii is. and they're the most fabulous "dinky" islands in the world, imo. yeah, michelle shot a horrible round last year at the u.s. open. but i'll take duemig's line and say it's just one round...gonna use it for morgan? i'll use it for michelle. at least we still agree that duemig's crazy!
  4. well, toms fell short...and it looks like villegas can only get to -13 if he birdies 9...so, i think tiger and phil will be paired together. i believe they do pairings based on finishing order...so since phil and tiger were the first at -13, they should be paired together...what a great saturday.
  5. i'd say he was closer to an A- than a B+...even tiger said after the round that he played like the first 9 holes against stephen ames. he hit something like 78% of fairways? he's hitting his driver well, which means he's swinging well... and yes, danielle's boobies do look fake ;) i take everything phil says with a grain of salt, but i did like his comments and reactions after the tournament because he was actually pissed. he wasn't just smiling and saying "the right things"...he said he was angry...finally, phil. and then he proceeded to have a so-so rest of the year (with one, major, though)...go figure. looks like it'll be a great weekend again. i hope no one reaches 14-under so tiger and phil play with one another...will it be twosomes or threesomes on the weekend?
  6. i think i sort of agree with most of your comments, erik...i admittedly hate duemig so i read into his comments more than i probably should... except that i disagree with people saying that michelle needs to earn her exemptions. i'm in that camp that thinks exemptions are at the discretion of the tournament and they have the right to give it to whomever they want. if it increases coverage of their tournament to invite michelle, then they've used it wisely. no one "earns" exemptions, they're gifts. if the guideline for handing out exemptions was missed in some way, that's a different story...but exemptions are what they are. duemig and morgan and other lpga girls are just bitter that they don't get them as much as michelle does. if the usga told morgan when she was 12, 13, 14, etc. that she was being given an exemption to the u.s. open i'm willing to bet that she would have gladly accepted it. duemig's anger is misplaced...it should be directed toward the tournaments, not the wies. and so what if duemig disagrees with how the wies have decided to structure michelle's career? so michelle didn't take the same career path as morgan...so the wies don't heed duemig's advice on michelle's career path...that doesn't make him right. maybe he might not have taken that career path with his own daughter, but why does that make michelle's career path wrong? if the goal is to be the best golfer one can be, i might argue that playing against the men (even though i think michelle should stop this route) prepares michelle better than playing against high school girls who shoot in the 100's. what good would it do michelle to play high school golf in hawaii and play 5600 yard courses where she's shooting 10-under every round? remember, she won every prestigious amateur tournament in hawaii by the time she was 12, against women much older than she. that's certainly not the same as winning at the national level, but it's not like she hasn't won anything. "learning how to win" is, in my opinion, one of the silliest phrases in golf. you're right that morgan hasn't had anything to be critical of yet. she's a great player. i really do like her...duemig makes it hard for me to root for her, though. in the end, duemig is probably great for the show...people like me hate him so much that we keep watching. charles davis, on the other hand, needs to go.
  7. alert: rant about steve duemig to follow... i hate this show so much that i can't help but watch...i really like kelly tilghman (even though she can be quite a butt-kisser) but the other two? can they get two worse people on this show? you know the hosts are bad when the guests are ALWAYS better than the usuals...i love it when valvano is there...and brian hewitt is also much better. charles davis, first of all, is so uninteresting. yeah, he has insight into the game as a former tournament director, but he has nothing interesting to say. boring. duemig, on the other hand, has too much to say. while i don't always agree with him, that's not the problem. what bothers me is his tone and attitude. i don't know if he's trying to be a journalist or if he's doing shock-radio (tv, in this case). if someone sends in an email disagreeing with him, he looks at the camera, shakes his head, and starts yelling about how stupid they are. geez. but what gets me most about duemig is how two-faced he is. we all know how much he hates michelle wie...much of this is because he's a close family friend of morgan pressel. he openly criticizes michelle wie for almost everything she does wrong but openly praises morgan for everything and anything without criticizing her at all. i have no problems with him praising morgan, but he loses credibility when he says she's a close family friend and then proceeds to harshly criticize michelle. this week's episode is particularly striking. when asked about morgan's two weeks in hawaii, duemig praises her for 5th and 11th place finishes...he always criticizes michelle for "not winning," despite her history of very high finishes in lpga tournaments. when asked about morgan's crying, he defends her by saying how young she is and that's her way of dealing with her emotions and just shows "how much she wants to win". when asked whether he's going to give michelle a break now that she soundly beat morgan in the final round (which, i admit, was a silly question), he does his customary stare at the camera with a shake of the head and starts yelling about how this is only one tournament, everyone has a bad day, etc. i'm willing to bet that if morgan had soundly beat michelle, duemig would have gone on and on about how morgan's playing junior tournaments had toughened her and prepared her for the pressure and that michelle didn't have the experience...but no, duemig just brushes it off as nothing. now, i agree that you can't say much with one round, but that's not my point...i'm obviously a michelle wie fan but i understand that many people don't agree with the career path she's chosen. and i, too, think that she needs to win soon. but duemig is such an awful "personality." maybe he's not supposed to be a journalist...maybe he's supposed to be the loud-mouthed guy you're unlucky to be stuck with on a saturday afternoon round. he's simply awful, though...i wonder how many times kelly tilghman has had to bite her tongue on that show. lastly, let me contrast duemig with two other commentators/journalists - mark rolfing and brian hewitt. both are obvious michelle wie supporters, rolfing being from hawaii and a close friend of the wies and brian hewitt unabashedly praising michelle. but both have been critical of michelle, recently saying that michelle's choice to not play in the turtle bay tournament was a mistake. rolfing also says that michelle has to win this year. but despite their ardent and effusive praise of michelle, they still praise morgan. maybe it's because they're real journalists...maybe i'm just too sensitive...maybe i just need to stop watching the show...i don't know. [/end rant!]
  8. vince is okay. i remember him from CNN headline sports, when they used to have dan patrick (now at espn), van earl right (he was THE reason to watch at every :20), jim huber (still with cnn/tnt/tbs), fred hickman (espn)...and inga hammond (i think she's with fox somewhere)...pretty good bunch to come out of that corporation. not to hijack the thread or anything, but what will ABC's golf analysts do next year? will some of them be hired by TGC or NBC? since dottie pepper's doing a pretty good job as the female analyst for both NBC and TGC, where will rankin go?
  9. wow, that first quote put up by erik is hilarious. i guess course designers are just as pissy with one another as supermodels, eh?
  10. i'm watching "golf central" on TGC and they report that the april masters issue of "golf digest" has an interview with both nicklaus and palmer, both of whom were critical of the latest (and some earlier) changes to the course. they were also critical of augusta national for not consulting them about those changes. hootie johnson, as expected, only commented that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. so, are these the ramblings of two old fogeys reminiscing about the glory days? or are they justified in thinking that they should at least have been consulted about the changes? they are, after all, members there.
  11. yeah, i thought it was the best tournament of 2005...it was nice to see Lefty actually have some fight in him, even though he did eventually lose. so, the oft-asked question will once again be raised: tiger or the field? i'm going to put a vote in for ernie. he's swinging better and might just surprise us this week...
  12. the waiting around is probably the toughest part...just think about being behind that slow group and having to wait before every shot, not getting into a nice rhythm...some people are better at handling the stop-go aspect of it than others. put sabbatini in this situation and i bet he doesn't hit good shots, too! :)
  13. wow, such anger, my friend... this lot of girls, though, seems to have the best golfers yet. given some coaching and some practice, we might see one or two make it from the futures tour...what do you guys think?
  14. off-topic, but i'm looking forward to seeing what he has to say about michelle wie on tomorrow's "19th hole"...hope he shuts his stupid yap for once, but that's hoping for a lot. anyway, katie's out of BBV. too bad. boy, the girls sure looked nervous over those shots...
  15. i think that's fantastic. since i didn't grow up playing the game, i wish someone would have showed me one of these or talked me through one of these when i started playing...
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