Chip-Ins: Congratulations To Inbee Park, Lydia Ko and Shanshan Feng On 2016 Rio Olympics Medals

Inbee Park (click to enlarge)

I have to admit that I have yet to watch rounds 3 and 4 of the women’s golf competition at the 2016 Rio Olympics. I was at work following scores on day 3 when I found out that Ariya Jutanugarn, who was having a disastrous round, pulled out with a knee injury. That completely gutted me. Win or lose, that would have been okay. But to get this far and not even be able to finish…seems unfair. My heart broke for her. Sure, she’s young and one imagines she will get another chance in Japan. But you know something, you never know about the future in sports. Go back four years ago and many of the qualifiers would have been different. At any rate, I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch the second half of the tournament. So there is no analysis of what happened from me, only congratulations to Inbee Park, Lydia Ko and Shanshan Feng on their medals. Also, I would offer praise to all of the women who came to Rio and honored the game with their spirited efforts. Just give me a few days. After I get over my Ariya heartbreak, I’ll watch the concluding two rounds and enjoy all that these great athletes brought to Brazil this Olympiad. Don’t get me wrong, I truly love the ladies of women’s golf and open my heart up for what they accomplished in Rio. I’m just so all in with Ariya Jutanugarn that things like this suck the energy out of me for a few days and I have to play catch up watching a tournament a day or two after it ends.

 

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GOLD MEDALIST: INBEE PARK, South Korea (-16)

 

SILVER MEDALIST: LYDIA KO, New Zealand (-11)

 

BRONZE MEDALIST: SHANSHAN FENG, China (-10)

 

INBEE, LYDIA and SHANSHAN

 

LEADERBOARD

Place	Player	Country	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Total	To par
	Inbee Park	South Korea	66	66	70	66	268	−16
	Lydia Ko	New Zealand	69	70	65	69	273	−11
	Shanshan Feng	China	70	67	68	69	274	−10
T4	Stacy Lewis	United States	70	63	76	66	275	−9
	Haru Nomura	Japan	69	69	72	65
	Amy Yang	South Korea	73	65	70	67
T7	Brooke Henderson	Canada	70	64	75	67	276	−8
	Charley Hull	Great Britain	68	66	74	68
	Minjee Lee	Australia	69	67	73	67
10	Suzann Pettersen	Norway	71	69	69	68	277	−7
T11	Anna Nordqvist	Sweden	71	70	68	69	278	−6
	Gerina Piller	United States	69	67	68	74
T13	Chun In-gee	South Korea	70	66	72	71	279	−5
	Nanna Koerstz Madsen	Denmark	69	69	72	69
	Su-Hyun Oh	Australia	71	72	66	70
T16	Teresa Lu	Chinese Taipei	70	67	73	70	280	−4
	Paula Reto	South Africa	74	67	68	71
	Maria Verchenova	Russia	75	70	73	62
T19	Lexi Thompson	United States	68	71	76	66	281	−3
	Mariajo Uribe	Colombia	70	71	75	66
T21	Leona Maguire (a)	Ireland	74	65	74	69	282	−2
	Caroline Masson	Germany	69	69	75	69
	Azahara Muñoz	Spain	68	69	73	72
	Albane Valenzuela (a)	Switzerland	71	68	72	71
T25	Sandra Gal	Germany	71	74	69	69	283	−1
	Kim Sei-young	South Korea	66	73	73	71
	Pornanong Phatlum	Thailand	71	72	69	71
	Marianne Skarpnord	Norway	69	66	75	73
29	Catriona Matthew	Great Britain	71	66	77	70	284	E
30	Alena Sharp	Canada	72	69	75	69	285	+1
T31	Laetitia Beck	Israel	75	70	71	70	286	+2
	Candie Kung	Chinese Taipei	67	68	76	75
	Pernilla Lindberg	Sweden	74	73	69	70
	Gaby López	Mexico	71	67	76	72
	Stephanie Meadow	Ireland	77	66	71	72
36	Nicole Broch Larsen	Denmark	67	68	81	71	287	+3
37	Tiffany Chan (a)	Hong Kong	71	75	73	69	288	+4
38	Xi Yu Lin	China	72	74	74	69	289	+5
T39	Carlota Ciganda	Spain	67	72	78	73	290	+6
	Gwladys Nocera	France	73	71	74	72
41	Aditi Ashok	India	68	68	79	76	291	+7
42	Shiho Oyama	Japan	70	71	77	74	292	+8
43	Christine Wolf	Austria	71	69	77	76	293	+9
T44	Julieta Granada	Paraguay	71	69	76	78	294	+10
	Karine Icher	France	73	72	73	76
	Alejandra Llaneza	Mexico	73	68	73	80
	Ursula Wikström	Finland	69	71	81	73
T48	Klára Spilková	Czech Republic	77	73	71	74	295	+11
	Noora Tamminen	Finland	73	76	72	74
50	Ashleigh Simon	South Africa	75	69	77	75	296	+12
51	Kelly Tan	Malaysia	78	70	76	73	297	+13
52	Miriam Nagl	Brazil	79	77	72	70	298	+14
T53	Victoria Lovelady	Brazil	79	75	76	70	300	+16
	Giulia Molinaro	Italy	78	78	74	70
55	Giulia Sergas	Italy	77	74	77	74	302	+18
56	Chloe Leurquin	Belgium	79	78	71	75	303	+19
57	Fabienne In-Albon	Switzerland	74	78	75	79	306	+22
58	Michelle Koh	Malaysia	79	71	76	82	308	+24
59	Maha Haddioui	Morocco	82	76	80	77	315	+31
WD	Ariya Jutanugarn	Thailand	65	71	WD	WD	136	−6

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