Wegmans LPGA Championship Preview & Discussion Thread

This week the LPGA moves to Rochester, New York for the playing of the Wegmans LPGA Championship. This will be the year's fourth major championship.

http://www.tonyslpgareport.com/2014/08/wegmans-lpga-championship-preview.html

Wag-mans?

Oh, Wegmans.

Sorry about that.

Seems like the LPGA has lost a bit of steam lately. They were cranked up pretty high when non-Koreans were winning, and hit a peak when Michelle Wie won and that 7 year old qualified for the US Open.
The LPGA needs a good scandal or some public catfighting between top players, preferably attractive one. I know it's going on, but it must be being suppressed by the higher ups. Name one other situation where a bunch of 20 something women are competing where there isn't catfighting. Look at women's tennis. They hate each other.

Maybe some hidden camera video of cunnilingus in the Ladies Locker Room post-round would put some fizz back in the soda.

The pairings for the first 2 rounds are now posted:

http://www.tonyslpgareport.com/2014/08/wegmans-lpga-championship-preview.html

This is so exciting I can barely contain my enthusiasm. I think I'm going to have an enthusigasm, oh oh oh!

Nope, false alarm. Just a fart. Actually, I think I almost sharted myself. That one felt kind of humid. It smells really awful, damn I need to open a window.

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The event sponsor, Wegmans, is an upstate New York-based grocery store chain. All the yuppies in my neck of the woods will drive 45 minutes farther from their nearest neighborhood super markets to buy their stuff. The food should be good at this event.

Wow, what a lively discussion Tony has presented here. I can barely wait to see what he post next...

Here are the leaders after round 1:

T1 Meena Lee -6
T1 Lexi Thompson -6
T3 Lisa McCloskey -5
T3 Brittany Lincicome -5
T3 Jennifer Kirby -5
T6 Shanshan Feng -4
T6 Cristie Kerr -4
T8 Emma Jandel -3
T8 Angela Stanford -3
T8 Eun-Hee Ji -3
T8 Catriona Matthew -3
T8 Ilhee Lee -3
T8 Mirim Lee -3
T8 Anna Nordqvist -3
T8 Brooke Pancake -3

For full scoreboard:

http://www.tonyslpgareport.com/2014/08/wegmans-lpga-championship-preview.html

FreakOfNature wrote:This is so exciting I can barely contain my enthusiasm. I think I'm going to have an enthusigasm, oh oh oh!

Nope, false alarm. Just a fart. Actually, I think I almost sharted myself. That one felt kind of humid. It smells really awful, damn I need to open a window.

For more info, check out my blog at :

www.shartandsweet.com

I'm so excited about this I just shit my pants. I would change but I'm probably just going to think about it and shit my pants again so why bother?

Considering that men value women based on hotness and most potential fans of golf are male, in reality the LPGA is nothing more than a beauty contest. Yes, it's politically incorrect to be frank about this.

Without better tang the LPGA will become increasingly irrelevant. There needs to be a scaling of scores so a woman who's a 10 doesn't need to shoot the lowest score to win. Under my rules a homely LPGA golfer would need to break 60 to have any chance of winning. Wheras a smoking hot babe wearing a tight low cut top might win shooting in the 90-s.

Fans wouldn't know who won until after the tournament following the judges' vote. If televised maybe viewers get a collective vote. This formula would catapult the LPGA from an irrelevant drudgefest to front page stuff.

Innovative suggestion. Sort of reminds me of the card reading psychic experiment scene in "Ghostbusters".

Lorenzzo wrote:

Considering that men value women based on hotness and most potential fans of golf are male, in reality the LPGA is nothing more than a beauty contest. Yes, it's politically incorrect to be frank about this.

Without better tang the LPGA will become increasingly irrelevant.  There needs to be a scaling of scores so a woman who's a 10 doesn't need to shoot the lowest score to win. Under my rules a homely LPGA golfer would need to break 60 to have any chance of winning. Wheras a smoking hot babe wearing a tight low cut top might win shooting in the 90-s.

Fans wouldn't know who won until after the tournament following the judges' vote.  If televised maybe viewers get a collective vote. This formula would catapult the LPGA from an irrelevant drudgefest to front page stuff.

This is a great idea but the only potential flaw I see is opening it up to audience vote. Home viewing voters like SoonerBS may skew results by incorrectly voting for the homely LPGA golfer shooting sub 60. This will lead to unfair inconsistencies in the results. I think only a hand picked team of properly qualified and vetted judges can be relied upon. Maybe audience vote can be used to separate two hotties in a countback but all votes for the homely LPGA golfer would need to be filtered from the results. Perhaps an electronic algorithm can be developed to achieve this?

If the LPGA is to maintain it's credibility it's essential that the scoring scoring system is seen to be fair, consistent, transparent and unbiased.

Kiwigolfer wrote:

Lorenzzo wrote:

Considering that men value women based on hotness and most potential fans of golf are male, in reality the LPGA is nothing more than a beauty contest. Yes, it's politically incorrect to be frank about this.

Without better tang the LPGA will become increasingly irrelevant.  There needs to be a scaling of scores so a woman who's a 10 doesn't need to shoot the lowest score to win. Under my rules a homely LPGA golfer would need to break 60 to have any chance of winning. Wheras a smoking hot babe wearing a tight low cut top might win shooting in the 90-s.

Fans wouldn't know who won until after the tournament following the judges' vote.  If televised maybe viewers get a collective vote. This formula would catapult the LPGA from an irrelevant drudgefest to front page stuff.

This is a great idea but the only potential flaw I see is opening it up to audience vote. Home viewing voters like SoonerBS may skew results by incorrectly voting for the homely LPGA golfer shooting sub 60. This will lead to unfair inconsistencies in the results. I think only a hand picked team of properly qualified and vetted judges can be relied upon. Maybe audience vote can be used to separate two hotties in a countback but all votes for the homely LPGA golfer would need to be filtered from the results. Perhaps an electronic algorithm can be developed to achieve this?

If the LPGA is to maintain it's credibility it's essential that the scoring scoring system is seen to be fair, consistent, transparent and unbiased.

Yap, you're onto something.  Couch interviews with questions about shafts, better ball, etc.  would be in order.  Slow play could be penalized with spankings on the next tee box. Michelle Wie's putting style would be worth a couple of strokes coming in or out.  Hell, this could turn into something I could get behind.

Kiwigolfer wrote:

Lorenzzo wrote:

Considering that men value women based on hotness and most potential fans of golf are male, in reality the LPGA is nothing more than a beauty contest. Yes, it's politically incorrect to be frank about this.

Without better tang the LPGA will become increasingly irrelevant.  There needs to be a scaling of scores so a woman who's a 10 doesn't need to shoot the lowest score to win. Under my rules a homely LPGA golfer would need to break 60 to have any chance of winning. Wheras a smoking hot babe wearing a tight low cut top might win shooting in the 90-s.

Fans wouldn't know who won until after the tournament following the judges' vote.  If televised maybe viewers get a collective vote. This formula would catapult the LPGA from an irrelevant drudgefest to front page stuff.

This is a great idea but the only potential flaw I see is opening it up to audience vote. Home viewing voters like SoonerBS may skew results by incorrectly voting for the homely LPGA golfer shooting sub 60. This will lead to unfair inconsistencies in the results. I think only a hand picked team of properly qualified and vetted judges can be relied upon. Maybe audience vote can be used to separate two hotties in a countback but all votes for the homely LPGA golfer would need to be filtered from the results. Perhaps an electronic algorithm can be developed to achieve this?

If the LPGA is to maintain it's credibility it's essential that the scoring scoring system is seen to be fair, consistent, transparent and unbiased.

Hey...the last thing that makes sense is to give the general public control over anything If avoidable. The voting would be there to validate the concept that women are not men, they'll never be men no matter how political they might try to be in non-political situations and they're valued for different things. Like blow jobs.

Would you rather see a dozen virtually indistinguishable overweight Asians battle it out or a hottie blowing a trophy like in Poe's photo following female wrestling to settle a tie?

But most serious things are enhanced by comic relief so a few contestants for Sooner would be a good thing. Think Melissa McCarthy swinging and missing in a tight skirt. It would give her a chance to be funny for the very first time.