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Post by bobawiefan on Oct 2, 2014 22:07:10 GMT -5
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Post by bobawiefan on Nov 18, 2014 11:58:14 GMT -5
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Post by bobawiefan on Dec 3, 2014 20:55:41 GMT -5
A Historic Season December 3 2014, Nicklaus Parker Excerpt:Only five months into the 2014 LPGA season, Golf Digest’s John Strege said, “The LPGA hit the jackpot again, with another marquee winner, in a year-long succession of them.” It was just getting started at that point. If given the task, it would have been difficult for a script writer to pen a season as poignant and enthralling as 2014 was for the LPGA. Every story one could ask for was there and seemingly topped the previous one. From Paula Creamer’s ‘Putt Heard Around the World’ to kick off the year to Mo Martin’s splendid eagle at the Ricoh Women’s British Open to encapsulate the ultimate underdog story to the teenage phenom closing out everyone in the inaugural Race to the CME Globe to end the year, the 2014 LPGA season was easily one of the most memorable stories this Tour’s ever written. We saw a renaissance of American women’s golf, with Americans taking 11 of the first 17 tournaments. Then, we saw South Korea recapture their mojo after going winless the first five months of the season by reeling off 10 victories over the last seven months of the year. We saw the inaugural International Crown, a thrilling global showcase that had players from eight different countries saying they were as nervous as they’d ever been on the first tee of a golf course, with Spain capturing the first Crown in dominant fashion on Sunday as they swept their singles matches. We saw TV ratings explode. We saw major championships evolve and grow with the support of global companies like KPMG and ANA, forging new partnerships to create the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and the ANA Inspiration in 2015. And we saw four players reign supreme throughout – Stacy Lewis, Michelle Wie, Lydia Ko and Inbee Park. Wie, for her part, transcended the golf world not once but twice in 2014. First, she snapped a four-year winless drought with a victory in her home state of Hawaii in April to show this year was going to be different for the former childhood prodigy. Then in June, on the grandest stage of all, playing a week after the men on the same golf course for the first time in history at the U.S. Women’s Open, Wie made sure the world was focused on women’s golf. On Sunday, all eyes were on Wie as she held off a furious late rally from Lewis to win the coveted U.S. Women’s Open title. That wasn’t the only piece of hardware connected with legends that she etched her name into either this year, winning the inaugural Annika Major Award for the most consistent performance in the season’s majors. That’s what Wie’s year was all about in 2014: Consistency. Unlike past seasons that featured many ups and downs for Wie, she was as consistent as anyone on Tour this season with 13 top-10s, including a stretch of five in a row, in only 23 starts. Link to Article:www.lpga.com/golf/news/2014/12/season-recap.aspx
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