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Written by Jeff Ritter
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Friday, 04 May 2007 |
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Photo by Action Images/Reuters/Mike Blake © Action Images
 It wasn’t too long ago when Casey Watabu was making plans for a life without competitive golf. As an undergraduate on the University of Nevada, Reno golf team, Watabu struggled mightily through his first two seasons and barely cracked the varsity team’s starting lineup. Forced to at least consider a Plan B to a golf career, he carefully selected a major, eventually opting for biology. He thought he might go to pharmacy school after graduating. Then a funny thing happened: Casey Watabu got good. He got really good.
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Written by Eric Fleming, Editor of www.SeoulSisters.com
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Friday, 04 May 2007 |
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Photos by REUTERS/Danny Moloshok © Action Images
From left to right: Shi Hyun Ahn, Jee Young Lee and Jin Joo Hong at the 2007 LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship golf tournament in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
  
There are only three ways to earn an LPGA Tour card: The first, and most common method is to finish in the top 15 at the LPGA Qualifying School.
Another way is to play well on the Duramed FUTURES Tour—the top-five players on the tour’s money list earn LPGA exempt cards at the end of the year.
The third, and most difficult route is to win an LPGA event as a non-member. In the past 10 years, only three women have succeeded in earning a tour membership this way:
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Written by Jeff Ritter
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
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Photo courtesy of Jim Mandeville/Nicklaus Design
The Nicklaus-designed Chapelco Golf Club & Resort, located in Neuquén, Argentina.
Tiger Woods adds his name to the list of PGA Tour pros who have launched golf course design companies, but Jack Nicklaus is still the gold standard.
Tiger Woods is serious about following in Jack Nicklaus’s footsteps—and not just when it comes to chasing after the golf legend’s career record for major championship titles.
In November, Woods announced the formation of his new golf course design company, Tiger Woods Design. With this move, Woods is poised to compete with Nicklaus’s vastly successful golf course design business, Nicklaus Design.
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Written by Diane Yamazaki
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
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Photo by Rick Scuteri
At 21, Anthony Kim leaves the collegiate circuit to tackle professional golf as one of the youngest players on the PGA Tour.
If you haven’t heard of Anthony Kim, here’s your chance to get ahead of the name-dropping game.
Last fall at the PGA WEST Stadium Golf Course in La Quinta, Calif., 21-year-old Kim became the youngest player to earn a PGA Tour card for the 2007 season. He claimed one of 40 spots in the final round of the qualifier, tying for 13th place and beating 163 contenders.
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Written by Eric Fleming
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Thursday, 01 February 2007 |
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Photo by REUTERS/Brian Snyder (c) Action Images.
Meet the Korean women trying to qualify for the LPGA Tour in 2007.
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