[Jeff Shelman]

I'm certainly not going to watch the tour event of the moment of the LPGA Tour, but I enjoyed the Solheim Cup (even though an Asian team would completely crush a combined team of the top Euros and top Americans). Why? I think because it's an event where winning matters. There seems to be too many weeks on all the tours where cashing a nice check is all that really matters. I'm not saying guys aren't trying to win, but think there are a lot of guys who are content to finish 39th on the money list for the year and leave it at that.

I also enjoyed watching match play. There's such different strategy. I guess that's the same reason why I watched a good chunk of the senior's championship match last week.

I didn't watch more than 10 minutes of the John Deere all week (even though a guy I've known almost forever finished in the top 15) and I can't say I missed it.

[Doug Wright]

Why didn't I watch the Solheim Cup?
Simple--no Golf Channel at home.
If I had The Golf Channel, I'd have no life.
If I had The Golf Channel, I'd have no wife.

[Dan Herrmann]

Doug,
Golf happiness is achieved thru DirecTV with TiVo.  

[THuckaby2]

Dan - that would lead to football happiness too, would it not?  Damn I'd love to have NFL Sunday ticket... and tivo... good lord you'd never miss a game.

Sadly I have neither...

Because I DO have the golf channel... any more TV devotion would lead to a level of marital discord that I am in no position to suffer.    Doug is a wise man.

TH

[David Wigler]

WHERE DOES IT END!!!

Last night the Detroit Shock won the WNBA Championship.  The game had an announced attendance of 22,000 and a paid attendance of 54.  After winning an irrelevant title for a team that will lose $8M in a league that will lose over $50M, the Palace of Auburn Hills changed their address from 2 Championship Drive (Props to the Pistons who won two championships there) to 3 Championship Drive.  This politically correct BS makes me sick.  If it was strictly about championships, then the Detroit Vipers minor league hockey team also won a championship there (And the Vipers averaged twice as many fans as the Shock and made money).  Women should be allowed to play sports obviously but to elevate it to the level of sports someone cares about is simply PC at its worst and insulting to those who fought the real battles.

[Rick Shefchik]

Out of 19 events, Hilary Lunke has only one top-10 this year--her U.S. Open win. She has missed 12 of 19 cuts, including 5 or her last 6.

Yes, she can hit it straight and putt, which might make her a good alternate shot partner, but she probably isn't playing well enough right now to help the team.

Chris -- I agree that there were an abundance of statistical reasons to keep Lunke off the team. But international team play is not the same as playing the tour. Janice Moodie is 48th on the money list (Lunke is 12th); yet Moodie was a killer for the European team because of her sensational putting. I just think the U.S. team needs to get away from stats and find some gamers, ala Corey Pavin and Paul Azinger. In a team competition, Lunke could be that kind of player.

[JSlonis]

David,

Wonderful post in regard to the WNBA!!

[Paul_Turner]

I've been to a couple of Solheim Cups.  Really enjoyed it.  (Dalmahoy in '92,  St Pierre in '96)

[Darren_Kilfara]

My favorite televised golf days of 2003 so far:

1) Final day, Open Championship, Royal St. Georges.
2) Final day, Masters, Augusta National.
T3) Final day/playoff, US Women's Open, Pumpkin Ridge; final day, US Amateur, Oakmont.

Women's golf can, under certain circumstances, be VERY watchable - if you're not willing to give the US Women's Open a chance, it's your loss...

Cheers,
Darren

[MainelyJack]

I find the Ryder Cup and the Solheim Cup to be a bit overdone.The foremat is not something that most of us ever play except the final matches. The jingoisim of which ever side is the home side gets tiresome. The second guessing of Captain's picks and endless analysis of various players against other players gets old. As a competition, the Solheim Cup has as much going for it as the Walker or Ryder Cup. Depends on what interests you. The Walker Cup has narrow fan interest. The Solheim Cup would normally have greater interest for the Yanks when played over here so you could see it live and not know the results ahead of time. The Ryder Cup is what it is because of who is in it. Simply, the best golfers in the world.
So long as Tiger is one of them, it's ratings will always be good, no matter where it is played. There was a time that the Ryder Cup was a yawn. No one cared. No one televised it. No it is an industry of it's own. I enjoy watching the LPGA players. Laura Diaz does have a nice one and she also has a lovely swing and a good heart.It's competition. You either like it for it's own sake or you need to have someone who has already won 5,400,000 trying to close out someone from Ireland that you never heard of in order to get your motor running. So, sure. I'd love tickets to the Solheim Cup the next time it is played.

[Steve Lang]

 

Forget Karsten's-Cup..

See what the Top 20 Ladies do at the Woodlands TPC course in a couple of weeks at the Samsung, where the PGA Tour played for 17 years till last..  It used to be rated in top 5 hardest courses on Tour,.. due to shot making needs but probably most to semi-weak field, though I've seen some great winners there in last 12 years..  P.Stewart, Duval, and VJ last to name a few!  

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