Michelle Wie is well-known in the LPGA, although she has never taken an official status on any professional circuit. That is, until she finished tied for fourth at 2008 Q-school yesterday.
The New York Times reported that viewers flocked to L.P.G.A. International to watch the return of “golf’s prodigal daughter.”
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The upcoming January issue of Golf Digest lists that President-Elect Obama comes in at No. 8 on the list of presidents that golf.
1. John F. Kennedy
2. Dwight D. Eisenhower
3. Gerald R. Ford
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt
5. George H. W. Bush
6. George W. Bush
7. Bill Clinton
8. BARACK OBAMA
9. Ronald Reagan
10. Warren G. Harding
11. William Howard Taft
12. Woodrow Wilson
13. Richard M. Nixon
14. Lyndon B. Johnson
15. Calvin Coolidge
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The Associated Press reported that Annika Sorenstam lost. Jeong Jang and Candie Kung beat Annika Sorenstam and Angela Stanford, 3 and 2, to help Asia split the six opening alternate-shot matches in the Lexus Cup in Singapore. The Lexus Cup is Sorenstam’s final L.P.G.A.-sanctioned event before she retires. The International teams of Cristie Kerr and Karen Stupples; Paula Creamer and Nicole Castrale; and Katherine Hull and Nikki Campbell won their matches. Tim Clark of South Africa shot a two-under-par 70 to take a one-stroke lead after two rounds of the Australian Masters in Melbourne. Clark had a two-round total of seven-under 137, a stroke ahead of the Australian Anthony Summers, who shot a 68. John Daly missed the cut at five over.
Renowed golf course architect Pete Dye was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame this week in St. Augustine, Florida.
Dye, who has designed more than 120 courses, was among six inductees selected through the Lifetime Achievement category. They included: Craig Wood, the first to win the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year, was the only player elected through the PGA Tour ballot. Three-time major champion Denny Shute and Bob Charles, the first left-hander to win a major, got in through the Veterans category. Carole Semple Thompson, an amateur who won seven USGA championships, and Herbert Warren Wind, the writer who famously described a three-hole stretch at Augusta National as “Amen Corner.”
Phil Mickelson gets pushed to No. 3 in the World Rankings after Sergio Garcia beat Oliver Wilson in a playoff at the rain-delayed HSBC Champions tournament Monday in Shanghai, China. Garcia forced the playoff by holing a 5-foot birdie on the 18th green to finish with a four-under 68 and match Wilson at 14-under 274. The Spanish golf star won by making a 7-foot birdie on the 2nd hole of the playoff.
“I think my next goal is trying to win a major,” Garcia said.
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John Daly is up to his old tricks after he got smashed at a Hooters restaurant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Daly is said to be a regular there. But after the staff became concerned about his intoxication, and Daly refused medical care, police were called.
In their report police said Daly “appeared extremely intoxicated and uncooperative” and they had taken him into custody “out of concern for his level of intoxication.”
Daly was held by police to spend 24 hours in the drunk tank.
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