posted Jul 31, 2008

ah shakira...jeez ur killing me.i thought this was a golf forum lol.shakira is so hot

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posted Jul 31, 2008

We better shut up before ladyputt comes along and slams 460cc of driver through our heads.

Here's a really good interview after today's play. Rebecca Hudson talks quite in-depth about the unfairness of the LET contribution to the world rankings, and she's bang-on. How can you win back to back LET tournaments and drop down the rankings? Anyway, here it is
http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com/content/let_content_interview.php?Id=15953

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posted Jul 31, 2008

On the subject of far east women golfers.
Peter Alliss and Maureen touched on this during the commentary. If you get enough young people into the sport and they spend hours upon hours practicing you've got to produce a quantity of good players.

Who were the only players Maureen said were still on the practice ground at 6.00pm the day before the tournament began? The Koreans.

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posted Jul 31, 2008

what do people think of momoko ueda (think thats her name lol) shes got a nice swing and shes quite nice as well

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posted Aug 1, 2008

I actually watched the womens golf yesterday and was amazed how they have improved.

Not the golf but how tidy most of them are!! I remember a couple of years ago they were all mingers and fat! Now they are all very fit.

I will def be watching this afternoon admirring there swings and not little skirts!!

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posted Aug 2, 2008

What happened to our two much-hyped new ‘superstars’ – Kiran Matharu and Melissa Reid? Why couldn't they make the cut in front of a home crowd in benign conditions?
I hope they haven’t had their heads turned like most of our so-called challengers by being on the front pages before the back pages. Golf is full of them - Poulter (I think his Open performance was just a blip), Dougherty, Rose ……

But what these two girls can do is use their looks to attract more girls to the game. The unsmiling robots from Asia won’t, that’s for sure. Those Asian girls seem to me to be products of wealthy parents who have pushed them into the game and driven them to the top at the expense of any sort of life.

The EWGA should use our girls’ attractiveness to promote the game more, just like Netball has done.

Talking of the EWGA, just why are they preparing to ditch four of its non-execs only 7 months after the new dawn? There is a lot of money being wasted on admin which could surely be better spent on bringing new girls into the game.

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posted Aug 2, 2008

Thoroughly enjoyable third day's play. But the way the asians are playing must be worrying for British Golf interests.

Natalie Gulbis finally starting to prove she's more than just a pretty face.

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posted Aug 2, 2008

where was the coverage of Paula Creamer today?

I think it must have been because she chose to wear trousers instead of a skirt today as the camera showed her in the background as her playing partner played a shot but failed to show any of hers! A bit confusing really as she didnt have a bad round, and it wasnt uneventful from her scorecard. any ideas why?

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posted Aug 2, 2008

I think you've answered your own question.

They even let Gulbis get a plug in for her Addidas clothing in the post round interview.
(I find these interviews a waste of time, so I think do the players).

She didn't even put on "wets" when it was chucking it down, maybe it's "in the contract?"

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posted Aug 2, 2008

The Koreans are renowned for having a tremendous work ethic, but as you say, why this makes them so dominant in the women's game but not the men's is a mystery.

I'll speculate wildly: far-eastern countries tend to have peoples who are reserved (hence the stereotype of east Asians as intelligent, but unsociable). Golf requires a lot of solitary practice. Western women are less likely than Asian women to take the necessary steps towards being a top golfer because they are less likely to want to spend so much time by themselves. Western men however have less of a problem with significant self-imposed isolation.

For this argument to be a total explanation we'd still expect more successful Asian men though. Perhaps it's also because power is more important to the men's game than it is to the women's, and Westerners are taller and more powerful than east Asians.

Perhaps there are other cultural reasons behind this as well (why Korea and Japan and not China?).

So to sum up, I haven't got a clue but it's very likely we'll have an east Asian winner come Sunday.

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