So Michelle Wie missed the cut by a couple of strokes today at the John Deere Classic. She did show some amazing shot making abilities in the process though.
She shot 70-71 to finish -1 for the two rounds. With all the talk about her missing the cut perhaps some perspective of how close she is to competing on the PGA Tour is really the question. Sure she needs to make a cut, but she finished 12 strokes behind the leader after two rounds. Given that pace, she’s a good 5-6 strokes per round short. Can she improve that amount? Heck SHE is an AMATEUR and 15 YEARS OLD. Time will tell.
Another perspective is who missed the cut along with her this week. Nick Price comes to mind. He has been extremely vocal about not allowing women to play on the PGA Tour. And now he shoots a two day total of 141, as does Wie.
Wie finished 3 shots in front of Aaron Baddeley. So far Baddeley has been a pretty boy with not much to back it up on tour.
And why not talk about Wie beating David Duval by 7 strokes. As far as Wie is from contending on tour, Duval is that far from staying on tour.
Browsing Golf Blogger I found this new golf blog: Even Par Round with a female at the helm. Though Miranda may have a fairly new golf blog, she’s a veteran blogger. Best of luck!
Her blogger template looks eerily familiar doesn’t it? Check out my OLD LOCATION of Hooked On Golf Blog.
If you don’t know who Harvey Penick is you are missing out. Harvey Penick is probably the most famous golf instructor of all time. For decades he was the instructor at Austin Country Club. Many of the most famous pros ever to play golf have studied with him (Tom Kite, Ben Crenshaw etc). If you recall Crenshaw’s latest (and tearful) Masters victory, that was right after Penick passed away.
Harvey’s most famous book is HARVEY PENICK’S LITTLE RED BOOK. For years Harvey jotted down short thoughts about golf and life in a little red note book… Golf, life (in that order). Hey wow. That wasn’t intentional. There was no real order to his thoughts, they were just random thoughts put to paper in a journal form. If what he did in his book was on the net, it would be a blog.
Harvey’s writing style is so great, you feel like he is there with you telling the stories.
While browsing Golf Blogger one day, I ordered The Plane Truth and for the hell of it picked up Harvey’s Little Blue Book : Game for a Lifetime : More Lessons and Teachings.
I started reading last night when I was quite tired. But I woke right up and got about 100 pages into it before I forced myself to go to sleep. This book has more great stories and thoughts but they are a little longer and more detailed. There are many stories about specific players he taught worked with, along with some excellent golf course architecture thoughts and rants. (Jay).
I strongly recommend getting your hands on ANYTHING from Harvey Penick.
Jay Flemma has announced his new location as a staff writer at Golf Observer. Though I haven’t frequented Golf Observer very often, that will apparently change now. 🙂 Best of luck Jay. I’ll be linking to your posts regularly as I always have!
My first impressions of GO is that it seems to be a decent golf site with one exception: Their forums are TERRIBLE! You’d think with all the sponsorships they apparently have from Titleist they’d put in a better forum system…
So dear Golf Observer. Please check out these golf forums as a better example of what a golf forum should look like.
1. Web Country Club. My forum (OK I’m a little biased here but go join the fun!).
2. removed.
3. Shot Talk.
4. Bogey Lounge Forum.
5. My Golf Domain.
There are a bunch of others out there…
The latest HOGB poll asks what handicap would you consider to be a “hacker.” Take a vote and let’s see who the hackers really are!
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