P&G NW Arkansas – Epilogue
The Tour is still being stupid about Jiyai Shin's career victory total. From the Final-Round Notes and Interviews page at LPGA.com:
[It was] her third official victory, and matched her win total from 2008 when she won three times as a non-member.
Back in March, we got confirmation from Connie Wilson at the Tour office that all of Shin's 2008 victories were official and count towards her Hall of Fame point total. She's won six times over the last 13 months and some anal individual is still splitting hairs over this. It's junk like this "official victory" wording that makes it unnecessarily tougher for people to follow the LPGA.
As JogginFrog said in the comments, the Player of the Year race is about as wide open as it has ever been. With 30 points awarded to the winner of each event (and double points for the season-ending event), anybody within 60 of the lead still has a very good chance to win the award. With seven events remaining, 13 other players are within 60 points of Shin's leading total of 127. By the way, Jiyai is now also the leading money winner for 2009 with nearly $1.5 million earned and now has a stranglehold on the Rookie of the Year race.
Kudos to Taylor Leon for her sixth-place finish but she gets edged out for the Big Surprise Award because it was her second Top 10 of 2009 (but her first since the season-opening SBS Open). Becky Morgan hadn't finished better than T20 this year until her solo ninth-place showing yesterday. It was her first Top 10 since last year's Corning Classic. UPDATE: I just noticed that both Shi Hyun Ahn and H.J. Choi collected their first Top 10s of the year as well so I must give them each a share of the Award.
The Big Disappointment is impossible for me to determine. Everybody in my Top 12 picks made the cut. Brittany Lincicome was the only member of my Top 30 to miss the cut but she wasn't playing well coming in. If forced to choose I would say Vicky Hurst (T54) but "officially" speaking (I can do that too, guys!), this week's BD is vacant.
Have you noticed M.J. Hur? She's followed up her Safeway win with finishes of T16 and T14. If she keeps that up, that victory won't be going onto the Fluke chart.
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What a fantastic round on Sunday. Nice seeing Shin play that well again – especially with that great threeway playoff.
Ok – let me get this straight – her wins last year are “official” for the HoF – but not for the LPGA, still leaving her in contention for the ‘09 RoY AND PoY awards. All those wins last year – and she wasn’t allowed to attend the party at the ADT.
What a system.
Almost makes as much sense as Steve Stricker getting Comeback PoY two years in a row.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
by courtgolf on Sep 14, 2009 10:01 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
She could throw her own party, eh?
Looks from the post-victory celebration she has plenty of friends on tour from all over the world!
by The Constructivist on Sep 14, 2009 10:38 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

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