US Women's Open

[Danville_Wrestling 0]

For the first time in a long time I actually sat down and watched an LPGA golf tournament, that being the US Women's Open mostly because of all the hype with Annika. Now, though, Annika is five shots back with just one more round to go and Michelle Wie is tied for the lead.

 

I've never actually seen Wie play before but this girl definitely has the game to dominate the women's tour for some time (although I know she wants to play against the men which I'm skeptical about but whatever). She's simply got more shots in her arsenal than anyone else on tour and if she manages to win tomorrow @ the age of 15 it could do more for women's golf than anything in the last several decades IF EVER. What does everyone think?

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Nope.

 

Annika can't win, and to be honest, I don't know whos filling the gap between them, but Wie's too young, and presumably too inexperienced.

 

I can't see her mentally holding her composure.

[Vern Gagne 0]

Nobody cares.

 

Anytime most people can't name the four majors or one of the majors folded because the sponsor pulled out it's not a real major.

[iggymcfly 0]

I'd disagree. The US Women's Open is still the golf championship for all women as recognized by the USGA. If Wie wins the tournament, she's legitimately claiming the title as the best female golfer in America at the age of 15. I'd say that's something significant that's worth paying attention to.

 

Furthermore, I think she is good enough to compete on the mens tour. When you think that she's 15-20 years away from her golfing peak, I'd say she's got plenty of room to grow into a legitimate threat. It's true that most female professionals just aren't capable of playing the way the men do, as they don't have the distance, and they can't attack the pins. Wie, however, is different. Her shotmaking skills are ahead of many elite male amateurs, and she has the potential to become a real PGA Tour-caliber talent.

 

Oh, and just so I don't have to hand over my balls, I'll relay an excerpt from Bill Simmons, which sums up my feelings on how well women would compete with men in other sports:

 

Q: Will you settle a disagreement for me? My buddy (who couldn't even start for a D-II college team) thinks he would be a starter in the WNBA. He's about 6-foot-2, and is a 27-year-old lefty with decent speed, quickness and ability (for a white boy). I say he plays some minutes for a decent D-I women's team, but doesn't even make the WNBA. My buddies and I are currently split 3-3 on whether he even makes the league. What do you think? Please shoot him down b/c I'm tired of listening to him talk about how he "smoked" the handful of D-I and D-II women's college players that he's played against.

– Jeff Nelson

 

SG: I think he would immediately become the 2005 WNBA MVP.

 

If the McDonalds All-American team ever played the WNBA champs, and I could get a spread of 20 points or less, I'd go down to one of those cash loans for car titles places, build up as much cash as I could, and put it on the high school kids. That game would be so lopsided that it would be downright embarrassing.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

I'd take that bet.

[Rendclaw 0]

I'd take that bet.

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with all of those kids trying to make spectaluar plays so that they can jump right to the NBA after one year of college at the most? I would take that bet too.

[Bored 0]

I've wondered how will Michelle Wie's swing be effected as her boobs get bigger...and thus that's the amount of time I actually have spent thinking about women's golf.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Can't happen soon enough. She's going to get foxy with some years.

[Slayer 0]

Well, some Asian chick won.

 

Just not the Asian chick everyone wanted to win.

[Crimson Platypus 0]

I'd take that bet.

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with all of those kids trying to make spectaluar plays so that they can jump right to the NBA after one year of college at the most? I would take that bet too.

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I'd take it against both of you.

 

What woman would get one single rebound that wasn't a long bounce out? How many blocks do you think the HS players would have. Seriously this game would be insanely lopsided.

[iggymcfly 0]

This is why I think that it would be such a great event to bet on. There are millions of people out there that don't realize the talent gap between the men's and women's game. In a typical year, at most, one women's player dunks in a college game.

 

Meanwhile, on a typical D-1 mens team, there are at least three of four players that dunk reguarly whenever they get an open lane to the basket. Multiply that by 320 teams, and there are approximately 1000 men playing college basketball that can do things that only one woman can. If you watch women's basketball, it's hardly even the same game as the one the men play.

 

Basically, the women would have to set screens, pass it around the horn, and hope to hit threes, but they still wouldn't shoot as well as a lot of the high school players. If the HS players played hard, and they played a 40 minute game, the score would be something like 101-62.

 

If the HS players treat like a fun exhibition while the women treat it as a struggle to prove the worthiness of their gender, it would be a little closer, but the HS players would probably still take it by a score of something like 97-75.

[Vern Gagne 0]

When you bet on an LPGA event can you just say I bet on the Asain Chick and get the Field?