GOLF: Make your Annika score total prediction here. The big event starts tomorrow morning.

[1Old Pro]

The big event starts tomorrow at about 9:45 AM, we have less than a day to go on record...

Make your predictions here for Annika's Thursday and Friday rounds:

I predict an opening round of 74 on Thursday and a Friday score of 76 for a total of 150 which will not be good enough to make the cut. I predict she finishes ahead of 10 golfers.

[staytrue]

I say she might birdie a par 3 or 5. She will bogey about half the fours. This adds up to about 155 for 2 rounds.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

'Sorenstorm' hits PGA Tour*** FORT WORTH, Texas -- Annika Sorenstam will stick her tee in the ground at 9:58 a.m. EDT today. For a moment at least, there will be blessed silence.

It will be one small step for women -- and one giant leap for Bank of America.

The bank, which is sponsoring the Professional Golfers' Association Tour's Colonial tournament this weekend, already is an undisputed winner in Annika-palooza. As for the debate about Sorenstam getting involved athletically with 113 men, the talking is about to stop and the swinging finally is going to start.

Sorenstam, a Lake Nona resident, is set to become the first woman since 1945 to play in a PGA Tourtournament. Based on the level of chatter, the significance ranks somewhere between man landing on the moon and Eve handing Adam an apple.***

[groanup]

A 250 yard uphill par three? Who designed it, Godzilla?

[Cincinatus]

72-71 for today and Friday. She (barely) makes the cut at +3 and on the weekend, has a bad Saturday with 79 but bounces back Sunday and shoots 69. Tournament total 291, + 11, in the bottom third. Winner comes in at -10, 270.

[1Old Pro]

Lucky I work from home... I'll watch tomorrow as much as I can... may move the TV to the cable connection in my home office... Maybe I'll do a LIVE thread... unless someone is planning to do one.

Here's the live thread: Annika Meets the Boys at Colonial [Live Thread]

[numberonepal]

280

68 70 72 70

[small_l_libertarian]

Boy, was I wrong! 71 (I chose 80) - she's doing great.

(Sitting down to a heaping plate of crow...)

[Major_Risktaker]

TOTAL CHOKE!!! 160 or more...

Let's see if Tiger plays the LPGA next week.

[Onelifetogive]

75-75 Miss cut! (Or is it Mrs. cut?)

She is better than I thought!!! 71 Today!

[Onelifetogive]

71 today!!! Not a bad guess!

[Onelifetogive]

72?? 71 Today! Not a bad guess!!

[Bikers4Bush]

Well I was wrong about day one. Let's see if I can go two for two and she makes the cut.

[muir_redwoods]

Like I said, I don't know a damned thing about golf but have you tried a sports record site or the PGA site? I think she began her sports career in the Olympics (Track and field) maybe there's a link from there.

[b4its2late]

Darn. Two strokes off. I thought she'd blister the first round and collapse in the 2nd. Well, she did ok the first round and not bad the 2nd.