Sports is the theater of the unexpected at times. Who would have predicted that Monica Puig would take the women’s singles tennis Gold Medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics? Add in that I am awful at golf prognostication, I will share what I expect to see from the best women’s golfers in the world when … Continue reading
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Ariya Jutanugarn Wins 2016 Kingsmill Championship For Back To Back LPGA Victories
Well, that was quick. It took a long time for the first official LPGA winner representing Thailand to be crowned. It only took until the following tournament for the next coronation. Second verse, same as the first. Ariya Jutanugarn made it back to back titles with a 14-under 1 shot victory at the 2016 Kingsmill … Continue reading
Hyo-Joo Kim Wins 2016 Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic
The 2016 LPGA season crowned its first champion of the season as South Korea’s Hyo-Joo Kim fired a final round 7-under 66 (par is 73 on this course) to win the 2016 Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic by 2 shots at 18-under overall. It was definitely the way to win an event, with a strong finish. … Continue reading
Pornanong Phatlum Wins 2015 Hitachi Ladies Classic For Third Straight Hitachi Victory, Fourth Overall
Sometimes a player just owns a tournament. I think about Se Ri Pak at Jamie Farr’s event. Then there was Annika Sorenstam at Mizuno. Pornanong Phatlum is writing her name in as a perennial winner of the Hitachi Ladies Classic on the LAGT/TLPGA. Fending off contenders such as 2012 winner Teresa Lu and Charley Hull, … Continue reading
Fairways and Forehands 2014 Top 25 WTA and LPGA Year In Review: #20 Pornanong Phatlum and Carla Suarez Navarro
Like 2013, this year I will do a countdown of the top money list leaders from both the WTA and LPGA. Last year I did the top 30, but this year I will do the top 25. Note that as of this post, the retired Li Na has been removed from the WTA website money … Continue reading
Top Seeded Americans Eliminated On Day Three Of 2014 International Crown; Thailand, Spain, Japan, Sweden and South Korea Advance To Final Day
Team USA came into the 2014 International Crown as the top seed among the eight teams. They left with an increasingly familiar storyline of defeat in team competition. The Americans have lost the past two Solheim Cups, including last year’s lopsided 18-10 drubbing. However, that loss has been cited by players as the springboard to … Continue reading
LPGA Portraits 2014: Pornanong Phatlum, Rebecca Lee-Bentham, Gerina Piller and Nicole Smith
Each year during the Founders Cup week the LPGA takes some really nice high quality portraits of players. There are so many that I am breaking them into groups. I can’t feature everybody or every picture, but each post will have some of my favorites. In this post, I include Pornanong Phatlum, Rebecca Lee-Bentham, Gerina … Continue reading
Pornanong Phatlum Wins 2014 Hitachi Ladies Classic (TLPGA)
Pornanong Phatlum has been keeping herself busy since the end of the 2013 LPGA season. In December, she won the Ladies European Tour’s Omega Dubai Ladies Masters, besting Stacy Lewis by 1 shot. The diminutive Thai rising star then hopped over to the Taiwan LPGA to try to defend her title at the 2014 Hitachi … Continue reading
Pornanong Phatlum Wins 2013 Omega Dubai Ladies Masters
Pornanong Phatlum is a winner. She’d won 7 Ladies Asian Golf Tour events, with 1 co-sanctioned Ladies European Tour event (2012 Women’s Indian Open) going into the 2013 Omega Dubai Ladies Open. Playing well, she trailed world #3 Stacy Lewis, a player who has proven herself to be a winner on the grandest of scales, … Continue reading
Fairways and Forehands 2013 Top 30 WTA and LPGA Year In Review: #23 Pornanong Phatlum and Flavia Pennetta
Instead of a year in review focusing on overall achievements, I thought this time I’d do a countdown of the top 30 money list leaders from the WTA and LPGA. For the WTA, singles, doubles and mixed are combined for this top 30. Number 23 on the money list from each tour are Pornanong Phatlum … Continue reading
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