What do you call someone who’s played in relative obscurity for most of her professional career, only to surge to shoot a blisteringly-hot 11-under 60 in California?
Starting the day off tied for 40th place at 2-under, Anna Acker-Macosko came out of nowhere to equal her career-best finish (T5) at the Longs Drugs Challenge in Auburn, California. Today’s finish is also only her fifth top-ten of her career, but her second this year. She was joined in fifth place by Jeong Jang, who posted an equally impressive nine-under 62.
Of greater importance, however, was the collapse of Leta Lindley (67-67-65-76), who fell from the lead to end up tied for 13th after posting a final-round 76. That left the door open for Christina Kim to leapfrog Julie Inkster‘s 68 and hold off Karrie Webb‘s final-round 64 to win the Longs Drugs Challenge, her first career win since joining the tour last year.
Both Karrie Webb (Boynton Beach) and Leta Lindley (West Palm) live within 45 minutes of where I currently live. I’ll sure miss Florida – so many golfers. Bernhard Langer lives in Boca Raton, Tiger, O’Meara (and many others) in Windemere, etc.
And hey, between Karrie/Leta and Inkster/Kim, I’m happy to have the prior living closer to me than the latter. Heh.
Funny, the double standard we have in this world: John Daly is appealing to many while Christina Kim is not. Or, perhaps she appeals to women – I guess I don’t know.
Boy, does Anna’s photo look like a lameass high school senior picture or what?