TITLE FIGHT TONIGHT!

These Two have been Boxing it out - Stroke for Stroke All Weekend.

Only One will Survive the Final Round Today. 

KO came on Tour 2 Years Ago - at 15 Years of Age

Recently Voted one of the Worlds Top 100 Most Influential People.

I Personally Can't Stand Stacey Lewis.

Hope the Kid Kicks her Ass. 

Whomever you Root For - Worth a Watch!

 4PM (PST) TODAY GOLF CHANNEL

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AFTER NINE HOLES
 ALL SQUARE

PAR 4 10TH
Lydia KO (-10)
Tees Off on 10 with a Casual Stroke and Workman Like Efficiency
She Drives the Fairway
She grabs her tee and Moves aside
Its as if she Doesn't Even have to Think About it.   
At 17 This is Already Instinctual for Her.

Approach

Through the Green - onto Rough in Front of Bleacher

Chip

15 Feet Past

Put

6 Inches Left

BOGIE

(-9)

Stacey Lewis (-10)
The Cocky Veteran. Hooks it Left and Drops her Club Behind her. 

In the Rough.

Approach

In Greenside the Bunker 

Chip

15 Feet Short

Put

2 Feet Left

BOGIE

(-9)

PAR 4 11TH
Lydia KO (-9)

Approach

Inside 20 Feet

Put

Curves into Hole - But stops 2 inches Short

PAR

(-9)
Stacey Lewis (-9)
Approach 

Inside 15 Feet

Put

Just Right

PAR 

(-9)

PAR 3 12TH

Lydia KO 

    PAR    

(-9)

Stacey Lewis
PAR
 (-9)

PAR 4 13TH

Lydia KO 

Fairway

Approach

Green Inside 10 Feet

Put

Birdie!

(-10)

Stacey Lewis

Bunker

    Approach 

Short of Green

Chip 

5 Feet Short

Put

Missed Left

BOGIE! 

(-8)

PAR 5 14TH

Lydia KO (-10)

Fairway

Approach

On the Green in 2!
20 Feet

Eagle Put

1 Foot Short 

BIRDIE

 (-11)

Stacey Lewis (-8)

Fairway

Approach

On the Green in 2!
10 Feet

Eagle Put

1 Foot Left

BIRDIE(-9)

PAR 3 15TH

Lydia KO (-11)

Approach

Inside 20 Feet

Birdie Put

1 Foot Past
Stacey Lewis (-9)

Approach

Inside 20 Feet

Birdie Put

2 Feet Past

PAR 4 16TH

Lydia KO (-11)

Bunker 
Approach

Fringe 20 Feet

Birdie Put

4 Inches Short
PAR
(-11)
Stacey Lewis (-9)

Fairway 
Approach

Inside 3 Feet!

Birdie Put

BIRDIE
(-10) 

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PAR 4 17TH

Lydia KO (-11)

Bunker 
Approach

Through the Green 30 Feet- Rough

Birdie Chip

Long Hooking toward Pin - 1 Foot Short
PAR
(-11)
Stacey Lewis (-10)

Fairway 
Approach

Inside 15 Feet

Birdie Put
Short Right

PAR

 FINAL HOLE!

PAR (5) 18TH

Stacey Lewis (-10)
TeeShot 
FAIRWAY (Beside KO)
Shot 2

FAIRWAY
Shot 3
INSIDE 4 FEET!
Shot 4
IN THE HOLE!
(-11)

Lydia KO (-11)

 TeeShot
FAIRWAY (Beside Lewis)
Shot 2

LEFT ROUGH
Shot 3
INSIDE 6 FEET!
Shot 4
IN THE HOLE!
 (-12)

KO WINS! 

 Keep in Mind - She's 17!
Held the lead and Closed on 18
Post Interview:
"Someday I want to be a Great Golfer like Stacey"
Think that day has Come.

Tiny Bubbles for Michelle Wie

Windy Conditions and Rough Start in Hawaii

On Sunday 4 Shots Back

Michelle Threw Darts and Made One 10 foot Put after another to Catch the Leader.

 Local Hero

 

Congrats Michelle!

THE MASTERS

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Longshots in the Championship Tonight

Post Game

They had a chance to win. In Football Terns - they choked in the Red Zone. 
Missing Freethrows is what everyone talks about.
For me it was not playing as a team on offense. One guy got the ball and drove to the Hole - No passing - No play - often with little success. So yeah, 5 more Freethrows or 3 Offensive scores and they win.

To the Kentucky coaches credit - in his on court interview - right after the loss - he did not throw his players under the bus - He took all the blame and credited his players. We need more of that in sports.

Congrats Uconn!
Napier is Ridiculous!

Pre Game 

Let’s keep this short and sweet.  Kentucky was 50-1 and UConn was 100-1 to win this whole thing.

I am proud of my prediction that the Kentucky Wildcats would be one of the last standing and am holding a ticket at 35-1 having bet on only 3 teams.

It would be less than honest if I did not confess at this 11^th hour that I believe UConn will hoist the trophy tonight.  They have the single best player on the court and how many times can Kentucky continue to squeak by with last second heroics?

I TRULY want to be wrong and have these diaper dandies take it all the way to the house.

Enjoy what I think will be an incredibly exciting contest perhaps similar to the last second win by Duke over Butler a few years ago.

Michelle Wie Tied for 1st - Now you have to watch!

 Update - Wie Leads at Nabisco!

2pm Today Golf Channel

Imagine if Tiger Woods left the game for a while at 17

Then came back in his early 20s - and was leading a tourney on Sunday.  

With a Chance to win for the first time in years!

Would you watch? 

Well here's your chance!


She excelled like Woods at the tender age 10 - as the youngest player ever to qualify in a USGA amateur.  At 15, Michelle Wie turned pro and was anointed as the next golf superstar. She has Maybe the most "perfect" golf swing ever, on any tour. She even Tee'd it up on the men's tour at the John Deer in 2006.

She was also beautiful - she did not look like a kid and was under a very adult spotlight. Like Tiger - she was a big draw for the tour. But unlike Tiger she did not dominate on tour and has been absent from the top of leaderboard for years - a has been or might have been at 24.

Michelle Wie never left the game. She decided to go to college. 
She is still a big name. You might have seen her a year ago in the KIA commercials. 

Today for the first time in years - she may be back as the most popular and potentially most important woman on the LPGA tour. If she starts winning - ticket sales and media coverage explode.

She is tied with Lexi Thompson - a blonde, Midwestern, girl next door, child prodigy - who successfully campaigned for membership on the LPGA at 16 just a few years ago. 

Between those two and Jump into Poppies pond for the winner - This one is a can't miss for any sports fan. 

Perfect Game

It not every day you see someone pitch a perfect game. Lexi Thomson almost did exactly that on Sunday at Nabisco. From the Tee - Wie - Center Fairway. Thompson - Center Fairway - 40 Yards Farther.  On Approach - Wie - Inside 15 Feet. Lexi - inside 10. On the Green - Wie - Misses just Right. Lexi - from the left - In the Hole. 

This was a coming Home party for Michelle Wie - Coming home to the Top of the Leaderboard. Something she hasn't done for years. 

Instead - it became a First for Lexi Thompson - Winning her First Major at 19.
Also the First Flip Performed during the Winners Jump into Poppie's Pond. 

Great Expectations.
The Media and Myself made this Final Round the End All Be All for Wie. But it wasn't. It was not her last Rodeo. If she becomes a regular at the top of leaderboards - it will be a Game Changer for the LPGA. That remains to be seen. As for Sunday. As it should be. Two young women under a glaring spotlight - looked more like girls walking in the Mall- Rather than Opponents at the years First Major. It is just a game after all - and Michelle Wie has a life outside that game. 

-Rick Jansen

Kentucky Baby!

I don't even like basketball, but the 2nd half of last nights Kentucky game had me shouting and fist pumping. 

Mike called it - young enthusiastic team coming together at the right time. You think? 
My God! I tuned in for the 2nd half to see a true team effort - a miss followed by a tip in. and then more of the same. Guys were getting brick walled inside- shoving shots straight up in the air and still scoring as a team.  Just minutes into the 2nd half - a 4 point deficit turned into 12 unanswered Blue Devil scores.

We got this now I thought. Me knowing nothing about Wisc. Then Swish. Swish, Swish.
The Badgers responded with drives executed to perfection and a Hail Storm of 3 pointers. These guys aren't human. I thought cloning was still illegal? 

Lead Gone Now what?
Well. Kentucky hadn't even attempted a 3 point shot in the 2nd half. We score 2 - they score 3. 
Impossible scenario. Guess were done. With 15 seconds left - one last drive - down by 2.
Kentucky takes it down - denied inside - time running down - pass to the outside - Harrison from for 3 - hits the rim - BUT IT'S IN! 

5.7 left - Wisc drives - Miss - It's Over!

1 Game left - thanks to Mike (kinda) I have Kentucky for $350 tomorrow night
Win or lose - I got my $10 worth at 35-1. 
I was told picking a winner instead of just game by game was for morons.  
We'll see - so far - ignorance is bliss.

Guess this game is worth watching. That was sick!

My favorite part was the Kentucky player interviewed right after they won. 

The anouncer asked him some dumb question

He smiled and Replied: 

"Did you see what just happened?

Don't Forget The Girls

UPDATE!
Michelle Wie is Back!
After being absent from the leaderboard for years.
The Beautiful Child Prodigy is leading the Tournament
(T2) After the 2nd Round.
(In Purple Below)
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Even is you Hate Golf

There are 2 Minutes of it on the LPGA You Don't Want to Miss. 

Once a year - the winner of the Kraft Nabisco jumps in Poppy's Pond.

Tune in Golf Channel - Starts 2pm Sunday (PDT)

Just Good Clean Fun

(Now that they chlorinated the Pond.)

 If That's Not Enough to Get you to Watch

These Two Will be Playing

Wet Tshirt Contest?

You NFL Fans Made me Stoop to this.

No that's Not Photo-Shopped

The suit was Painted on for Sports Illustrated 

To Avoid sounding Sexest. 

I'll Remind you men that any of these women

 could hand you your ass on the golf course any day of the week.

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