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)

[Protagoras]

Watching her on the 1st holde right now. Looks like she just had to lay up. This is where her being a chick hurts her.

The announcer just said that more than half the field has laid up there so far.

[Mr. Mojo]

Oh yeah, this woman is not a lesbian...that I know for a fact.

Dude, I want details.

[Teacher317]

Now, now, a putting game can be improved much ore eaisly than drive distance, accuracy, or middle game.

[ewing]

[Richard Kimball]

. Someone please explain to me why women don't excel in auto racing. I seriously would like to know.

Depends on the type of racing. Click here.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Not an amazon? A very normal, feminine build? Um...Normal for whom? :)"

She's 5'5 and looks about 120 -130 pounds - hardly anyone's definition of an amazon. And she's reasonably pretty. She doesn't have huge knockers - is that the complaint?

[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): 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, 15 ft birdie putt misses left, 12” par putt is good.
2nd (par 4, 400 yds): Drive is on the fairway.

[dwilli]

Too much sure money on the LPGA tour for her to pass up. Didn't she pocket about 2 million in purses alone last year?

[Steve_Seattle]

She's married, and that's good enough for me to establish her heterosexual credentials.

[Conservative til I die]

Yeah, I don't get some of the guys here. I understand that they aren't amused by the circus atmosphere, and don't feel women are in the same league as men. And I agree for the most part. However, *this* woman is holding her own, and I don't care what anyone says about "Oh well 2 strokes off the lead is an eternity in the pro's." The fact is, this woman, on this day, is definitely holding her own in the upper part of the pack. She may finish in the middle of the pack. But the point is, that she is holding her own, because she is most likely going to be ahead of quite a few men, all of them elite pros.

And she's yet to go over par on any hole.

[MineralMan]

"Oh yeah, this woman is not a lesbian...that I know for a fact.

Dude, I want details."

Uh, I'm talking about that 300 yd. hitter who lives in my community, not the woman playing in this tournament. I should be so lucky.

[ewing]

She is a machine off the tee, I'm not betting on her missing many fairways this week..

[HamiltonJay]

No one said women and men are completely EQUAL! The only thing put forth here is that it is possible that the VERY BEST WOMEN MAY BE AS GOOD AS THE VERY BEST MEN, that there may be women who can compete right alongside men... that doesn't say squat about the average being equivalent or that all men or women are equal... your complete inability to grasp that concept definately shows that handle of yours is a case of false advertising.

[N. Theknow]

Someone please explain to me why women don't excel in auto racing. I seriously would like to know.

They keep stopping to ask for directions.

[kevkrom]

Are you going to argue that Annaka or any other woman would win equally as often as Tiger or the other "best men" on the PGA tour?

How many times are you going to keep changing the question? The original question asked for any sport where a top woman could beat a top man more often then 1 time out of 100. Every time you get an answer you don't like, you change the question.

No, Soerenstram would not win "equally as often", but I do think she's capable of winning if she played the tour every week.

[KellyAdmirer]

The best female player in the history of golf finishes in the middle of the pack in a dull PGA tour event that is minus the best male players and on a course tailor-made for her talents under ideal weather conditions. Wow, I'm like so impressed.

[Protagoras]

The only test left, as far as I can tell, is how she handles a situation when something goes really bad.

That holds true for everyone. The really good players can stay in the moment better than the others. We shall see.

[Teacher317]

Andrade at -4
9 at -3
6 at -2
14 tied with Annika at -1
14 at par
15 below par

Half the field has yet to tee off

16 above her, 13 tied with her, 29 behind her. She's either dead in the middle (29 ahead and 29 behind), or she's as high as the 27th percentile.

[Conservative til I die]

See my post 458. Wasn't aware it was a par-5. However, this is what might separate her from the elite, since, as I say, getting on in 2 could mean a one-stroke difference. If there winds up being 3 par-5's on a given course, it could mean three strokes.

[HamiltonJay]

Her percentages on the fairway off the tee, would place her number 2 in the PGA, she's over 80% on the fairway last year. Only 1 current PGA player beat it..

Now fairways may be wider in LPGA, but still she is among the tops in this area.