2012年4月27日星期五
Stacy Lewis took a one-stroke lead Friday
Lewis, a former University of Arkansas star, had three straight birdies and a two-stroke lead, but missed a 5-foot par putt on the final hole en route to her first bogey of the week.
"I'm one shot from the lead. No pressure, really," she said.
"It's really just been boring golf," said Lewis, who made a more exciting 20-footer on No. 17. "I haven't made a ton of putts. I've just hit a lot of shots close and taken advantage of the par 5s. It's been pretty relaxing."
Wright, playing in the one of the last groups, parred the last 11 holes after closing within a shot.
Karin Sjodin tied the tournament discount golf clubs course record with a 64 to finish a stroke back along with Lindsey Wright, So Yeon Ryu and rookie Sydnee Michaels. Ryu shot 67, Michaels 68, and Wright 69.
Her best tour finish is second at the 2009 LPGA Championship. Wright's downhill putt on her closing hole, No. 9, was "probably the fastest putt I had … and it nearly went in."
Sjodin's best finish is a fourth-place tie at the Kraft Nabisco — with Lewis and others — after she opened the final round with a share of the lead. Ryu won the U.S. Women's Open last year for her only LPGA Tour victory.
Sjodin rebounded from an opening 72 with the help of a little coaching counsel.
Or maybe putting in the dark made for good practice. The lights went out when Sjodin was on the putting green before her early morning round.
"Maybe not seeing the hole is a good thing," she joked.
"I had a talk with one of the Taylormade R11 irons Swedish coaches that's out here and we suggested attack every swing and every putt, have a positive approach to each shot instead of being scared or kind of chickening out," Sjodin said. "I think I went in with maybe a bit of an aggressive attitude, and it seems to have helped."
Kraft Nabisco winner Sun Young Yoo's bogey gave her a 69 to fall into a six-player group two strokes back that included Brittany Lincicome (67). Cindy LaCrosse also was a stroke behind Lewis before double bogeying her final hole.
"Playing in the second-to-last group, it was a little bit difficult to read putts and make putts," said the Taylormade R11 driver Australian who won the New Zealand Women's Open in February. "I think I hit it just as good on this (final) nine. It's disappointing not to birdie anything, but I'm in a great spot coming into the weekend.
2012年4月18日星期三
2012 Volvo China Open in Tianjin
The tournament is being played at this venue for the first time although it has often been played in the Beijing area.
Still for those twenty they get the opportunity to play for a first prize of €398,000 and the possibility of gaining access to the European Tour if they were to win the event.
Two players who contended late into the event at the Masters two weeks ago will also be amongst those expected to do well. Peter Hanson eventually finished in a share of third at Augusta National Titleist 712 AP1 Irons after leading into the final round while Ian Poulter finished 7th after finishing 3rd in his previous start at Bay Hill.
New Zealander Mike Hendry gets a start as a result of his status on the OneAsia Tour and his recent victory at the NZPGA Championship suggests he might have a good week. The former Indonesian Open winner is a late bloomer and it would seem is headed for bigger and better things.
The tournament’s co sanctioning with OneAsia hardly gets a mention in any of the pre tournament European Tour publicity and perhaps that is because there are only twenty from the OneAsia Tour included in the tournament’s 156 man line-up. For a supposed co-sanctioned event there appears to be an inequity.
The Australasians in the field are headed in terms of world ranking by Marcus Fraser although the Victorian’s most recent form is a concern given that he has missed the cut in his last two starts.
Hanson has not won in 18 months or more but he has put himself in the mix in so many events where the fields were stronger than that on display this week that he must be a chance. He is the leading world ranked player in this field.
Richard Green will play only his Titleist 712 AP2 Irons 7th event of the year this week and apart from one good week in Italy there has not been a lot to show from the times he has played.
Spain’s Rafael Cabrera Bello has not missed a cut in his last 14 starts worldwide, a run that has include a win at the Dubai Desert Classic against a field considerably stronger than discount golf clubs that he faces this week and a 3rd place finish last week.
Nicolas Colsaerts will start as one of the favourites given that he is the defending champion and has played well in 2012. In eight starts this season Colsaerts has made all cuts and been inside the top ten on four occasions. Although this is a different venue to that which he won on last year he is a possibility to successfully defend.
Still for those twenty they get the opportunity to play for a first prize of €398,000 and the possibility of gaining access to the European Tour if they were to win the event.
Two players who contended late into the event at the Masters two weeks ago will also be amongst those expected to do well. Peter Hanson eventually finished in a share of third at Augusta National Titleist 712 AP1 Irons after leading into the final round while Ian Poulter finished 7th after finishing 3rd in his previous start at Bay Hill.
New Zealander Mike Hendry gets a start as a result of his status on the OneAsia Tour and his recent victory at the NZPGA Championship suggests he might have a good week. The former Indonesian Open winner is a late bloomer and it would seem is headed for bigger and better things.
The tournament’s co sanctioning with OneAsia hardly gets a mention in any of the pre tournament European Tour publicity and perhaps that is because there are only twenty from the OneAsia Tour included in the tournament’s 156 man line-up. For a supposed co-sanctioned event there appears to be an inequity.
The Australasians in the field are headed in terms of world ranking by Marcus Fraser although the Victorian’s most recent form is a concern given that he has missed the cut in his last two starts.
Hanson has not won in 18 months or more but he has put himself in the mix in so many events where the fields were stronger than that on display this week that he must be a chance. He is the leading world ranked player in this field.
Richard Green will play only his Titleist 712 AP2 Irons 7th event of the year this week and apart from one good week in Italy there has not been a lot to show from the times he has played.
Spain’s Rafael Cabrera Bello has not missed a cut in his last 14 starts worldwide, a run that has include a win at the Dubai Desert Classic against a field considerably stronger than discount golf clubs that he faces this week and a 3rd place finish last week.
Nicolas Colsaerts will start as one of the favourites given that he is the defending champion and has played well in 2012. In eight starts this season Colsaerts has made all cuts and been inside the top ten on four occasions. Although this is a different venue to that which he won on last year he is a possibility to successfully defend.
more fans for BMW Championship this year
"Obviously, we're excited about our prospects at Crooked Stick this year," Votaw said. "When we made the decision to take it to Crooked Stick, we were all hopeful that Indiana and Indianapolis would support the event in a significant way and these results certainly confirm that hope and optimism. Indy is a great golf town whether it's the PGA Championship, whether it's the U.S. Women's Open, whether it's the Solheim Cup or the BMW, history has shown they love golf their golf at Crooked Stick."
Daily tickets went on sale April 1, and fans are rushing to buy them despite not knowing who will actually play Sept. 6-9 at Crooked Stick Golf Course in suburban Indy.
The top 70 qualifiers receive invites to the third tourney in the FedEx Cup playoff. After the BMW Ping G20 irons tourney, the field is cut to 30 finalists who vie for a $10 million winner's check two weeks later in Atlanta.
The course and atmosphere drew rave reviews each time, and PGA officials think it could happen again in September.
And with almost five months to go before the tourney begins, the possibility of other big-name golfers earning invites and Indiana natives Bo Van Pelt and Jeff Overton potentially in the mix, organizers may have to revise their projections again.
Masters champion Bubba Watson and three-time Masters winner Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, the world's No. 1 player, and defending BMW champ Justin Rose are each ranked in the top 10 in FedEx Cup points and are likely to qualify for the Indy tourney. Tiger Woods, at No. 11 in points, also is likely to get an invite.
"I think what it does is it shows how supportive Indianapolis can be when you have special events coming to town for our event or maybe another major somewhere down the road," said Vince Pellegrino, the Western Golf Association's vice president of tournaments. "It's certainly been impressive."
Organizers have already announced the tourney will return to Chicago in 2013 and 2015, with Denver hosting it in 2014. But Indy's response could push the city into the BMW rotation or perhaps Ping G20 driver prompt tour officials to give Indianapolis a chance to fill a hole on a future schedule.
"At the present time, we don't have any openings," PGA Tour spokesman Ty Votaw said Tuesday. "But certainly, Indy's record makes it a market that we would always be interested in at looking at if there was an open spot. A significant number of our events are signed through post-2014."
John Daly won his first major championship here in 1991, coming out of nowhere as an alternate to do it. Lauri Merten shocked everyone by finishing the 1993 U.S. Women's Open with three straight threes to win her only major title here. In 2005, the U.S. reclaimed the Solheim Cup at Crooked Stick when a then-record crowd of 103,500 showed up. And Fred Funk won the 2009 U.S. Senior Open in front of nearly 147,000 fans.
Local officials contend Indy makes sense for economic, geographic and travel reasons, and hosting the most discount golf clubs recent Super Bowl has also increased the city's national stature. They also believe the area golf community would support a tournament on an annual or semi-annual basis.
Comparing attendance figures can be tricky, though, because many tournaments do not release that information, and even Pellegrino declined to say what the BMW Championship drew last year in suburban Chicago.
Daily tickets went on sale April 1, and fans are rushing to buy them despite not knowing who will actually play Sept. 6-9 at Crooked Stick Golf Course in suburban Indy.
The top 70 qualifiers receive invites to the third tourney in the FedEx Cup playoff. After the BMW Ping G20 irons tourney, the field is cut to 30 finalists who vie for a $10 million winner's check two weeks later in Atlanta.
The course and atmosphere drew rave reviews each time, and PGA officials think it could happen again in September.
And with almost five months to go before the tourney begins, the possibility of other big-name golfers earning invites and Indiana natives Bo Van Pelt and Jeff Overton potentially in the mix, organizers may have to revise their projections again.
Masters champion Bubba Watson and three-time Masters winner Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, the world's No. 1 player, and defending BMW champ Justin Rose are each ranked in the top 10 in FedEx Cup points and are likely to qualify for the Indy tourney. Tiger Woods, at No. 11 in points, also is likely to get an invite.
"I think what it does is it shows how supportive Indianapolis can be when you have special events coming to town for our event or maybe another major somewhere down the road," said Vince Pellegrino, the Western Golf Association's vice president of tournaments. "It's certainly been impressive."
Organizers have already announced the tourney will return to Chicago in 2013 and 2015, with Denver hosting it in 2014. But Indy's response could push the city into the BMW rotation or perhaps Ping G20 driver prompt tour officials to give Indianapolis a chance to fill a hole on a future schedule.
"At the present time, we don't have any openings," PGA Tour spokesman Ty Votaw said Tuesday. "But certainly, Indy's record makes it a market that we would always be interested in at looking at if there was an open spot. A significant number of our events are signed through post-2014."
John Daly won his first major championship here in 1991, coming out of nowhere as an alternate to do it. Lauri Merten shocked everyone by finishing the 1993 U.S. Women's Open with three straight threes to win her only major title here. In 2005, the U.S. reclaimed the Solheim Cup at Crooked Stick when a then-record crowd of 103,500 showed up. And Fred Funk won the 2009 U.S. Senior Open in front of nearly 147,000 fans.
Local officials contend Indy makes sense for economic, geographic and travel reasons, and hosting the most discount golf clubs recent Super Bowl has also increased the city's national stature. They also believe the area golf community would support a tournament on an annual or semi-annual basis.
Comparing attendance figures can be tricky, though, because many tournaments do not release that information, and even Pellegrino declined to say what the BMW Championship drew last year in suburban Chicago.
2012年4月1日星期日
golf season’s first major championship begins this week
To stop early flowering, officials of the Augusta, Georgia, club sometimes deposit dump trucks full of ice around the roots of azalea bushes to prevent the bloom, as outlined by Matthew Chappell, an assistant professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia's College of Agriculture and Environmental Science.
I don't know if they're likely to be able to retain the plants back enough, Chappell said in a telephone interview yesterday. We're so far before schedule, we may miss the bloom. The possibility exists they would have bloomed by the time the Masters is played.
Outside of normal care, Augusta National hasn't done everything to try to delay the blooming period, according to your TaylorMade R11S Driver firm stand out in the club. Masters Tournament spokesman Steve Ethun declined to reply to whether that care included icing the roots. The Masters is scheduled for April 5-8.
The flowering bushes, in shades of red, pink and white, are the maximum amount of a part of the Masters and Augusta National because green jackets of club members. They're planted through the property, including before the 158-year-old clubhouse, along with the par-5 13th hole is termed Azalea, section of another tradition to label holes after plants at the course built over a former nursery. You'll find 1,600 azaleas on No. 13 alone, as outlined by club figures.
This hole bears the particular plant for which Augusta National is most noted, according to some in the 13th around the club's website.
From Feb. 27 to March 28, the high temperature in the Augusta area reached over 75 degrees Fahrenheit (24 Celsius) 17 times, according to data published by the Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network. Within the same interval to the previous seven years, there have been typically 1 week above 75.
The warm air, plus soil temperatures that reached above 60 degrees as early as March 1 colliding with an increased Mizuno Mp-63 irons of 69 on March 24, have led a lot of the area's flowers to begin blooming already, Chappell said. Sid Mullis, a school of Georgia extension horticulture agent for 2 decades in Richmond County where Augusta can be found, said soil temperature there typically doesn't top 60 until May 1.
Under conditions this way year, Chappell said, even the most drastic measures will still only delay flowering for 3-7 days.
It's difficult to hold off the inevitable with dump trucks brimming with ice, as outlined by Chappell.
Closed Gate
The Masters isn't the only real springtime sports event inside U.S. that's feeling heat in its flower beds.
Officials in the Kentucky Derby, part one of thoroughbred horse racing's Triple Crown, said around the event's website on March 20 that a huge number of tulips typically blooming around Churchill Downs (CHDN) in Louisville, Kentucky, for the first Saturday in May won't allow it to be in 2010 as a result of the sunshine. A couple of,100 roses will replace the discount golf clubs tulips, which will probably bloom about a fortnight before the May 5 race.
Augusta National features a lot more than 30 models of azaleas about the course that bloom at different times, therefore the club increases its probability of creating a colorful appearance during tournament week, Mullis said.
I don't know if they're likely to be able to retain the plants back enough, Chappell said in a telephone interview yesterday. We're so far before schedule, we may miss the bloom. The possibility exists they would have bloomed by the time the Masters is played.
Outside of normal care, Augusta National hasn't done everything to try to delay the blooming period, according to your TaylorMade R11S Driver firm stand out in the club. Masters Tournament spokesman Steve Ethun declined to reply to whether that care included icing the roots. The Masters is scheduled for April 5-8.
The flowering bushes, in shades of red, pink and white, are the maximum amount of a part of the Masters and Augusta National because green jackets of club members. They're planted through the property, including before the 158-year-old clubhouse, along with the par-5 13th hole is termed Azalea, section of another tradition to label holes after plants at the course built over a former nursery. You'll find 1,600 azaleas on No. 13 alone, as outlined by club figures.
This hole bears the particular plant for which Augusta National is most noted, according to some in the 13th around the club's website.
From Feb. 27 to March 28, the high temperature in the Augusta area reached over 75 degrees Fahrenheit (24 Celsius) 17 times, according to data published by the Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network. Within the same interval to the previous seven years, there have been typically 1 week above 75.
The warm air, plus soil temperatures that reached above 60 degrees as early as March 1 colliding with an increased Mizuno Mp-63 irons of 69 on March 24, have led a lot of the area's flowers to begin blooming already, Chappell said. Sid Mullis, a school of Georgia extension horticulture agent for 2 decades in Richmond County where Augusta can be found, said soil temperature there typically doesn't top 60 until May 1.
Under conditions this way year, Chappell said, even the most drastic measures will still only delay flowering for 3-7 days.
It's difficult to hold off the inevitable with dump trucks brimming with ice, as outlined by Chappell.
Closed Gate
The Masters isn't the only real springtime sports event inside U.S. that's feeling heat in its flower beds.
Officials in the Kentucky Derby, part one of thoroughbred horse racing's Triple Crown, said around the event's website on March 20 that a huge number of tulips typically blooming around Churchill Downs (CHDN) in Louisville, Kentucky, for the first Saturday in May won't allow it to be in 2010 as a result of the sunshine. A couple of,100 roses will replace the discount golf clubs tulips, which will probably bloom about a fortnight before the May 5 race.
Augusta National features a lot more than 30 models of azaleas about the course that bloom at different times, therefore the club increases its probability of creating a colorful appearance during tournament week, Mullis said.
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