Founders Cup - Epilogue
by hound dog on Mar 21, 2011 8:10 AM PDT
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Beginning with her rookie season in 1996, Karrie Webb won multiple events in a season every year through 2002 - the first seven seasons of her career. She won five times in 2006 and her victory on Sunday gave Karrie her ninth multi-win season. These are the players who have more multi-win seasons than Webb:
Patty Berg (15), Kathy Whitworth (15), Sandra Haynie (13), Betsy Rawls (13), Annika Sorenstam (13), Joanne Carner (12), Nancy Lopez (12), Louise Suggs (12) pictured above with Karrie, Mickey Wright (12), Betsy King (10), Patty Sheehan (10)
Only two of those players (King and Sheehan) have fewer career wins than Webb. In case you were wondering - Hall of Famer Juli Inkster, who is now playing in her 28th full season, has eight multi-win seasons. Karrie has one more multi-win season out of 16 attempts.
Have you ever noticed that the LPGA is the only sports entity where a player already officially designated a Hall of Famer can prevent other players from attaining that lofty honor? Webb denied three players with legitimate aspirations to earn a HOF point yesterday. Paula Creamer still has 10 points at age 24, Cristie Kerr has 16 points at age 33 and Brittany Lincicome is stuck on four points (a long shot, for sure) at age 25.
Kerr did overcome her five-shot deficit to Angela Stanford on Sunday (for the third time in four tries by my count) but it wasn't quite enough to beat out Webb, Creamer and Lincicome. Stanford definitely has a variation of the Suzann Pettersen/Song-Hee Kim mental block I described in their player profiles last off-season. While Angela has broken through it four times, like Pettersen that block is still obviously in effect on Sundays.
Finally an Epilogue and finally an opportunity to present my weekly awards! Mindy Kim finished alone in sixth place for her second career Top 10, earning the first Big Surprise Award of 2011. Jee Young Lee missed the cut by four shots, making her my Big Disappointment.
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And now Karrie's back in the Top 10...
she’s #8 in the World Rankings. Creamer also jumped back up to #9, and Kerr back to #3 (although she’d have had to play pretty badly not to pass Choi and Pettersen since their points were so close).
Kerr finally shaved a couple of tenths off her deficit to Tseng, although she’s still almost 2 points back. Karrie’s nearly 4 points back, Creamer 4.5. They’ve got their work cut out for them… but they were both over 5 points back just last week. Clearly it takes a win or a 2nd to make up any real ground.
Lincicome also jumped into the Top 20 (#18). Stanford moved up 1 place to #24. Do you think they have any realistic hopes of cracking the Top 10?
Also, although there aren’t many stats up at LPGA.com, the birdie leader chart appears to be up-to-date… and after 11 rounds the four leaders are Webb (58), Tseng (54), Creamer (49), and Kerr (43). Would you have guessed that before the season started, HD?
Mike Southern
www.ruthlessgolf.com
Rolex loves wins, especially major wins. Lincicome and Stanford must win at least once to make the Top 10 before say, mid-summer. Did you see how f’d-up the scoring average list was this morning? They gave all the players who missed the cut this week an extra round played so their averages were like 49.0! Keep in mind those stats (even the correct ones) only include the Founders Cup as the first two events did not track the minor stats like fairways hit and putting.
to clarify a bit, they do figure in the numbers like scoring average and Top 10 percentage but the counting stats like fairways hit, driving distance, etc. were not tallyed in the Asian events.
I hope they get that fixed soon...
I really liked being able to “quick check” stats. Especially during the tournament!
Mike Southern
www.ruthlessgolf.com
by Ruthless Mike on Mar 22, 2011 8:50 AM PDT up reply actions
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