Ai Miyazato and Seon Hwa Lee in the final
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A quick update before I get inundated with ticket requests for this afternoon.
OK, so that’s complete sarcasm. Look, there are two ways to view this afternoon’s final, and one is to lament the fact that it features two players 98 percent of the American population has never heard of.
I’ll admit it’s probably easier to write about the likes of Annika Sorenstam or even Meaghan Francella since people are inherently interested in them, and of course, they’re fluent in English. But what you also forget is these players have significant followings in their native countries, and if not for the obvious language barrier, they could be just as engaging—if not more.
Yes, to answer your question, I’m basically trying to psyche myself up for this afternoon, and my guess is outside of my wife, my mother and my sports editor, I’m not going to have many people poring over my story tomorrow morning. But that’s not to say this final won’t be compelling, and that it won’t be important to a number of people—beginning with the two players who are set to tee off in a little more than an hour (one of whom, Miyazato, has never won an LPGA event before).
Is it ideal? Hardly. But it’s a chance to watch good golf on an absolutely gorgeous day.
With that in mind, I doubt the people who really work for a living are going to have much sympathy for me.
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on Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 at 12:39 pm by Sam Weinman.
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Sam,
Peter Kesseler over on XM has been going on and on the last couple of days about how Butch Harmon was following Tiger Woods’ group with a notepad at the Open and Hank Haney was notably absent. Kesseler is essentially suggesting that Tiger might return to Harmon.
Is there any truth to his suggestions?