Annika Ready?; Casey Wins European Event
LPGA
The Women’s U.S. Open starts this week and for the first time in a very long time, Annika Sorenstam is not the prohibitive favorite. Yes, she’s still number one in the world, but her dominance is fading quickly this year as the competition has stepped it up. Not only do you have the LPGA’s “young guns” making noise, but the Asian players are ready to completely dominate, and even veterans Se Ri Pak and Karrie Webb have won again.To keep it in perspective however, Sorenstam might be having just an off year, as many players before her have had, which is not surprising consindering she’s played at such a high level for about 9 years now. I personally don’t think she’ll be a factor this year, because the talent pool is so deep on the LPGA tour now.
PGA
Ben Curtis has to wait yet another day to see if he can hold on to win the Booz Allen Classic. Rain and thunderstorms caused the final 3 holes to be played Tuesday, barring more rain. Curtis still has a 7-shot lead and can almost sleepwalk into the clubhouse. Note that this is the first Tuesday finish on the PGA tour since 1980!
European Tour
Paul Casey won the Johnnie Walker Championship in Perthshire, Scotland defeating Andrew Marshall and Soren Hansen by one shot. Colin Montgomerie had a chance to win but faltered and shot a final round 73 and finished two shots back.Casey has struggled since his ill-timed comments about American fans a few years ago. The comments he made were derogatory enough to cause him to lose some of his sponsors and make playing over in the U.S. extremely difficult. Oddly, I was watching his interview after he won yesterday and he seemed to be back to his old cocky self.
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Bald Man
Jun 26, 2006 at 9:50 pm
I’m sorry to come here and complain, but this - a runaway Booz Allen Classic - is what ABC chose to air instead of World Cup knock-out matches! I’ll admit to being a fly-by-night golf fan (I read the headlines during the majors, but that’s about it.) but still. A tournament I’d never heard of where a minor-name (Not Tiger, not Phil, not Vejay.) carries a near insurmountable lead over two people I’d never heard of into the weekend. This instead of Mexico - Argentina or Portugal - Netherlands!
Ye gods!
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