Annika Meets the Boys at Colonial [Finishes Day +1]

CBS Sports/USA Network and PGA.com ^ | May 22, 2003 | Jim Nantz

[ewing]

LPGA player Annika Sorenstam will be teeing off shortly in a men's PGA event at the Colonial Country Club [the first time in 60 years this has happened]

Live shot for shot coverage as long as she is in contention to make the cut on USA Networks, PGA Radio is free today for those cubicle bound and wanting live update (link included)

[Teacher317]

Drive hit the front of the green

[vwrcmember]

Dave Pelz (Short game teacher and guru) has taken PGA data that is summarized in his "Short Game Bible" that shows that the pros make 50% of their 6-8 foot putts. The chart is shown in an Amazon.com extract here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385500246/ref=lib_rd_ss_TT07/002-3000629-0430445?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=14#reader-link

(If the link doesn't work, go to Amazon.com, search for Pelz and look at the "see all pages" in the look inside this book section)

25 footers are made approximately 8-10% of the time on the PGA tour.

[BOOTSTICK]

Baloney!, she is the best woman player in the world, so she have proven the best women players acheive mediocre status in mens sports.

[Teacher317]

At the fringe at front of the green

[1Old Pro]

Make's the E prediction for the cut look fairly accurate if half of the first half is about 30 players sub par.

[GallopingGhost]

Amazing how people will argue a point endlessly without bothering to do any research. Here is an article that provides some actual data, just to get the ball rolling. 3 Feet - 83% 6 Feet - 55% 10 Feet - 33% 15 Feet - 17% 25 Feet - 10%

If these stats are correct, I stand corrected, and amazed.

[discostu]

According to the tour site she parred, no details there just score data. That leaves her with one hole left in the round and even.

[cschroe]

I'm glad Annika's playing. She met the requirements that the PGA issues for sponsor's exemptions, and the PGA does not discriminate on the basis of sex (neither do the NBA, NHL, NFL, or MLB. But the LPGA and WNBA do). I've always enjoyed watching that "Wendy's 3 Tour Challenge" thing where teams from the PGA, LPGA, and Seniors tour play against each other. I hope she does well. She's playing by the same rules as her male competitors (unlike King v Riggs, what a farce).

What would be really great would be for Annika to try to qualify for the Men's US Open, since if she made it then she could put her game to the ultimate test.

[1Old Pro]

Yep, one hole to go.

[dwilli]

It's a long way when a half a million is the difference between 1st place and second place.

[numberonepal]

Geez look at her arms - she must spend 4 hours a day in the weight room.

I am an avid watcher of The Tour and sometimes like to watch the ladies (ok, Grace Park), and the ladies have a lot more exposés about the ladies. Anika works out like a maniac. She's probably over 150 now and solid as a rock. Let's just say that ain't jelly 'cause rock don't shake like that.

She's in the fair grass at 9 and gonna shoot E on an off putting day. Go girl.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

She's a babe, I'd let her su... nevermind!

[discostu]

Projected cut just moved to 2. She's still even.

[Teacher317]

10th (par 4, 404 yds): On the fairway twice, birdie putt is 18" short, makes par.
11th (par 5, 609 yds): On the fairway all three shots, birdie putt is 10" short, makes par.
12th (par 4, 443 yds): On the fairway, second shot on the rim of the green, makes par.
13th (par 3, 178 yds): Drive is 3 inches off of the carpet, birdie putt is GOOD.
14th (par 4, 457 yds): On the green in two, long birdie putt is 6" short, makes par.
15th (par 4, 430 yds): Drive barely on the fairway, 2nd shot on the green, long birdie putt misses left. 5" par putt is good.
16th (par 3, 188 yds): Tee shot is within 6ft of the pin, birdie putt is barely right, 2" par putt is good.
17th (par 4, 383 yds): On the fairway, approach shot hits the green, long birdie putt missed, 3" par putt is good.
18th (par 4, 427 yds): On the fairway, lucky bounce onto the green, long birdie putt is 15" left, makes par.
1st (par 5, 565 yds): On the fairway twice, third shot is on the green, medium birdie putt misses left, 12” par putt is good.
2nd (par 4, 400 yds): On the fairway, approach shot is on the green, looong birdie putt misses left, makes par.
3rd (par 4, 476 yds): On the fairway, 15 ft birdie putt is just short, makes par
4th (par 3, 246 yds): Drive is on the green, long birdie putt misses just short, makes par.
5th (par 4, 470 yds): Drive misses the fairway, approach rims the green, 60 ft putt, 8ft putt misses, bogeys.
6th (par 4, 393 yds): On the fairway, approach is with 20ft, birdie putt goes long, 5 ft putt makes par.
7th (par 4, 427 yds): On the fairway, approach shot just hits the green, 25ft birdie putt is short, makes par.

8th (par 3, 192 yds): Drive is on the fringe at the front of the green, birdie putt misses, makes par.

Last hole for today...

9th (par 4, 402 yds):

[Beck_isright]

Based on the current trend, Vegas could be in trouble.....

[1Old Pro]

She has a very good chance I'd say now to play Sunday. At even after today I didn't think she'd make the cu if the cut was E.

[proud_2_B_texasgal]

agreed, completely.

[dwilli]

Naw, they laid off enough to cover, they will still make 10%
on the book.

[TomB]

Only if she makes the cut. And the facts were that you would not have expected her to make the cut going in. She has an average short game in comparision to the ladies, and she is extremenly short in comparison to the men. If she makes the cut, I'm all for having her play in this year's US Open.

So if she doesn't make the cut, B of A is somehow going to have to give back all the press from Thursday and Friday?

Give it a rest. If she wasn't in the tournament, nobody here would be posting to a live thread, it wouldn't be on the front pages of the sports sections, and nobody on TV would be talking about it. The coverage that this tourney has received in the past week is worth it's weight in gold for the sponsor.

[cschroe]

A lot of short pin positions on the front of the greens. But this is fairly typical for Tursday in this (or any tournament). They tend to put the flag in the most difficult spot on Sunday Yeah, typical. I love it on Sat and Sun when they start hiding pins, placing them in some wonderfully obnoxious spots just DARING players to shoot at them. The folks at the USGA who setup for the US Open have a remarkable talent at finding the four most agonizing locations on each green at the OPEN and are more than willing to use them.